Category: Student Awards

Danielle Larsen, Evan Groome, Curtis McClelland, and Danny Greene are the national winners of the annual WEFTEC student design competition. The 2021 graduates of Clemson’s Environmental Engineering program used their Capstone Design project as the basis of their WEFTEC entry. The project entitled “F. Wayne Hill Water Resources Center Solids Processing Upgrades,” was focused on […]

With support from numerous former graduate students, the Benjamin Clay Dysart III Environmental Engineering Fellowship Endowment was formally launched at a ceremony on July 9, 2021 in the Watt Center.  Dr. Dysart was a professor in EEES (then named Environmental Systems Engineering) from 1968-1990. This fellowship was created to honor his contributions through generous donations […]

Cody McMechen and Reid Williams were selected as recipients of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Outstanding TA Award.  This award honors undergraduate and graduate students who have demonstrated excellence as Teaching Assistants. Cody and Reid were nominated by Dr. Alan Coulson based on their service as TAs for the GEOL 1030 laboratories, which […]

A team of four seniors in Environmental Engineering took the top prize in an annual competition hosted by the Georgia Association of Water Professionals (GAWP), in April 2021.  The winning team consisted of Danny Greene, Evan Groome, Danielle Larsen, and Curtis McClelland.  Their project involved a detailed engineering design study of alternatives methods to treat […]

Evan Patrohay, a senior in Biosystems Engineering, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.  This placed Evan as one of just 12 students nationally to be granted this opportunity.  As a Fulbright Scholar, Evan will be traveling to Tromso, Norway, a town high above the Arctic Circle, to study the effects of climate change on the […]

Abdullah Al Mamun, a Ph.D. student in Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Clemson University, was honored as the second-place winner of the outstanding student presenter award at the fall 2020 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).  Abdullah presented his paper in the session on the Environmental Vadose Zone Hydrology. According to Dr. Yusong […]

The Graduate School is promoting research at Clemson by sponsoring an annual competition among graduate students who present their results in a three minute talk (3MT).  The winner for 2021-2022 in the doctoral student category is Brennan Ferguson.  The title of Brennan’s presentation was “Uranium Phosphate Remobilization Across Scales.”  She will now represent the University […]

Kelli McCourt, a Ph.D. student in Biosystems Engineering, has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation.  McCourt was one of seven students at Clemson University to win the NSF Fellowship this past year. 

Emma Ressler, a rising senior studying environmental engineering, was awarded a $2500 Capital District Scholarship from the Water Environment Association of South Carolina (WEASC). WEASC is dedicated to preserving and enhancing the water environment of South Carolina. This scholarship helps to support students who are in a degree program with an environmental emphasis. Ressler recently finished a virtual […]

Megan Hoover and Mara Watson, Ph.D. students in Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Clemson University, have been selected to receive scholarships from the American Nuclear Society (ANS). These scholarships are awarded to students entering the field of nuclear science and engineering. Their awards are recognized on the ANS website. Megan Hoover is the recipient […]