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Four CEGE Students with China Connections Receive Hsiao Shaw-Lundquist Fellowships
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Four CEGE graduate students will be supported in 2021 by the Hsiao Shaw-Lundquist Fellowship. Recipients include Svetlana Baranova, a mathematics and geomechanical engineering student advised by Sofia Mogilevskaya; Xiating Chen, a water resources engineering student advised by Xue Feng; and Tianyi Li (advised by Raphael Stern) and Te Xu (advised by Michael Levin), who both study transportation engineering.
Svetlana Baranova’s award highlights connection to China
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Svetlana Baranova has been selected as a recipient of a Hsiao Shaw-Lundquist Fellowship.
Olutooni Ajayi awarded a PEO International Peace Scholarship
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Olutooni Ajayi, a graduate student in the first year of her doctoral studies in CEGE, has been awarded a PEO Internationa Peace Scholarship
Quinn Whiting develops NMR spectroscopy method to track fluorine
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Quinn Whiting (MS Civil Engineering 2020, advised by Bill Arnold) was awarded one of only two 2021 Master’s Thesis Awards from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). Whiting’s thesis, “Fluorinated Photoproduct Formation from Photolysis of Fluorinated Pharmaceuticals and Phenols,” contributes a new method of tracking fluorine during reactions of pollutants.
Xue Feng Receives NSF Career Award
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Feng’s research has two main goals—to discover new ways that water shapes the ecosystem response to climate change, and to use that new knowledge to advance modeling of Earth systems and climate predictions.
The 2020 Simon and Claire Benson Award
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Alisha Radstake received the 2020 Simon and Claire Benson Award. With this award, CEGE recongnizes the most outstanding student of the graduating class. Alisha Radstake was chosen unamimously from among several highly deserving candidates. She is graduating with a major in Civil Engineering and a minor in Urban Studies.
Gulliver Honored with Hunter Rouse Award
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Professor John Gulliver received the Hunter T. Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award from the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute. The award honors Gulliver’s long service to the field: bringing water quality into the field of hydraulic engineering, educating engineering students, authoring prominent textbooks and handbooks, and serving engineering practice.
Anndee Huff Recognized for Research and Leadership
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Anndee Huff, a Ph.D. student advised by Paige Novak, has received a Women in Leadership Scholarship and a Moos Graduate Research Fellowship. Huff and Novak are working on removing nitrogen from wastewater. They are targeting a microorganism that can remove nutrients more efficiently than traditional treatment processes can.
Best Dissertation: Mirko Musa
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Mirko Musa (Ph.D. 2019) has won the 2020 Best Dissertation Award in Physical Sciences and Engineering awarded by the University of Minnesota Graduate School. Musa’s research addresses generation of renewable energy using wind-turbine-like devices in rivers. Experiments conducted at Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) suggest that turbines can be placed strategically and could be used to protect stream banks from erosion. Hydrokinetic turbines could become part of stream restoration projects that support and sustain the ecological function of the river channel while producing clean renewable energy.
ASCE-MN Awards CEGE Students
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Due to the Covid-19 quarantine, the annual Awards Banquet of the Minnesota Section of ASCE was not held. Jia-Liang Le, President of ASCE-MN, published a special announcement acknowledging the Spring 2020 awardees. Le noted in his message that "The award banquet is the single most important event of our section. Our student members are the future of ASCE."