March 2, 2016
Cassidy Laird, a member of Clemson University’s Tiger Band, helped football fans celebrate touchdowns the past four years by playing Tiger Rag on her alto saxophone. Now the senior from Fleming Island, Florida, has another reason to cheer. Laird has won the Roger R. and Laura M. Yoerger Preprofessional Engineer of the Year Award from […]
January 25, 2016
EEES doctoral student Mahmut Selim Ersan and his advisors (Professors David Ladner and Tanju Karanfil) were recently honored by having their research featured on the cover of Environmental Science & Technology Letters. The citation for the article is listed below. Congratulations on your excellent work. Ersan, M.S.; Ladner, D.A.; Karanfil, T. “N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) Precursors Leach […]
January 5, 2016
Will Nading earned his M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering and Science in 2010. This was noteworthy because his undergraduate degree was in financial analysis. Will worked hard to take all of the necessary courses to gain admission to the EES Master’s degree program, in which he followed the Process Engineering focus area. After graduation, Will […]
December 29, 2015
Professor Fred Molz served as one of three invited speakers at the Chapman Conference entitled “The MADE Challenge for Groundwater Transport in Highly Heterogeneous Aquifers: Insights from 30 Years of Modeling and Characterization at the Field Scale and Promising Future Directions.” Chapman Conferences are sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and are designed to […]
December 28, 2015
Dr. Stephen Moysey received the 2015 Philip Prince Award for Innovation in Teaching at Clemson University. Named after Clemson President Emeritus Philip Prince, this prestigious award recognizes professors who utilize and synthesize creative and unique teaching methods for their students. Dr. Moysey received the award at the Faculty Convocation on August 18, 2015. Dr. Moysey […]
November 25, 2015
John Sivey, who received his Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Science in 2005, and went on to pursue his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, was recently appointed the Jess and Mildred Fisher Endowed Professor for 2015—2018 at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. Sivey received his Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Science […]
November 25, 2015
Becca Kiekhaefer, an M.S. candidate in the Hydrogeology program, was selected by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) as one of this year’s winners of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. NAGT recognizes outstanding teaching assistants in geoscience education with up to 30 awards annually. Both undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants are eligible for the […]
November 25, 2015
Dr. Brian Looney, an adjunct professor in EEES, received the Donald A. Orth Lifetime Award of Merit from the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). During his tenure at SRNL, Looney developed and deployed numerous environmental characterization, remediation, and monitoring technologies. He has advanced a conceptual framework that defines environmental target zones based on their chemical […]
November 25, 2015
CU’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders wins CU Organization of the Year The Clemson University chapter of Engineers Without Borders (CU-EWB), advised by Dr. Mark Schlautman, was awarded Clemson University Organization of the Year by ODK. ODK is a national honors society that places an emphasis on leadership, and the Clemson chapter each year gives […]
November 24, 2015
Dr. James Castle in EEES, along with his colleague Dr. John Rodgers in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, will let the politicians and interest groups fight over the efficacy of extracting oil from tar sands while they and their graduate students toil away in a basement laboratory solving a much more vexing problem: […]
