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2007 Student Paper/Poster Contest Winners
2007 student paper/poster winners: (back row, from left)
Tony van der Vooren, A&WMA President; Wally Qiu; Aisha
Tzillah; Sang-Sup Lee; Brooke Anderson; Cash Fitzpatrick;
Brad Waldron, Student Program Coordinator; (front row, from
left) Nagaveena Raman; Lindsay Yee; Prachi Nimse; and
Zaher Hashisho.
Undergraduate
1st Place (US$500)
Wally Qiu, University of Alberta, The Southern Prairie Ammonia
Measurement Network (SPAM): Improving Our Understanding of
Atmospheric Ammonia in the Canadian Prairies
2nd Place (US$300)
Cash Fitzpatrick, California Polytechnic State University, Use
of aermod, surfer, and google earth to Assess Impacts
of Air Quality on a Community: Alaskan Case Study
3rd Place (US$200)
Lindsay Yee, University of California, Riverside, Ozone and
Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Formation from Agricultural
Pesticides
Master’s
1st Place (US$500)
Nagaveena Raman, University of Toledo, Derivation of
Equations for Maximum Concentration Using the AERMOD
Dispersion Equations
2nd Place (US$300)
Prachi Nimse, University of Toledo, Sensitivity of Various
Parameters on the Individual Source Attribution of Visibility
Impairment for Class I Areas Using the CALPUFF Model
3rd Place (US$200)
AishaTzillah,UniversityofCincinnati,TheEmissionsofCriteria
Air Pollutants from Biodiesel Fuel Usage
Doctoral
1st Place (US$500)
Zaher Hashisho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
A Novel Approach to Dampen ConcentrationFluctuations Upstream
of Biofilters and Oxidizers
2nd Place (US$250 tie)
Brooke Anderson, Yale University, A National Study of Weather-
Related Mortality
Elisabeth Gilmore, Carnegie Mellon University, The Air
Quality and Human Health Effects of Using Installed Backup
Generators for Meeting Peak Electricity Demand
Sustainability
1st Place (US$500)
Elisabeth Gilmore, Carnegie Mellon University, The Air
Quality and Human Health Effects of Using Installed Backup
Generators for Meeting Peak Electricity Demand
2nd Place (US$300)
Sang-Sup Lee, University of Cincinnati, Control of Mercury
Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants Using a Novel Sorbent
3rd Place (US$200)
Prachi Nimse, University of Toledo, Sensitivity of Various
Parameters on the Individual Source Attribution of Visibility
Impairment for Class I Areas Using the CALPUFF Model
A&WMA’s Student Chapter Awards recognize
outstanding achievement by a student chapter. The
2006–2007 winners were announced at the Honors
& Awards Luncheon held during the 100th Annual
Conference & Exhibition in Pittsburgh, PA.
Large Institution:
University of Florida
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Chang-Yu Wu
Accepting the award for the
University of Florida was Ying Li.
Medium Institution:
University of Cincinnati
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tim Keener
Accepting the award for the
University of Cincinnati was
Aisha Tzillah.
Small Institution:
Western Washington
University—Huxley College
of the Environment
Faculty Advisor: Ruth Harper
Accepting the award for Huxley
College was Kathryn Spaulding.
Honorable Mention for a new chapter:
Asian Institute of Technology
emassociation news
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&WMA congratulates the winners of the Student
Paper/Poster Contest held during the 100th Annual
Conference & Exhibition in Pittsburgh, PA.
2006–2007 Student Chapter Award Winners

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A
&WMA takes pride in supporting the future
environmental leaders of our world in research,
teaching, engineering, and environmental
practice. For more than a decade, the Association has
awarded 96 scholarships totaling US$334,750 to the most
promising environmental students. This year, A&WMA is
pleased to add US$32,000 to the above total by recogniz-
ing the following 12 students chosen by the Scholarship
Awards Committee. In addition, two special Centennial
Scholarship Awards were awarded to commemorate the
Association’s 100th anniversary and to further the experi-
ence of students studying in innovative fields.
In recognition of excellence in innovation and providing a
forward approach to improvement for the next 100 years:
Heather Wright, Ph.D., Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Michigan
Technological University—US$10,000
Centennial Scholarship Award
Robert Cameron, Ph.D., Horticulture,
Center for Green Roof Research, Penn State
University—US$7000 Centennial
Scholarship Award
In recognition of excellence in air quality research and
study:
Samar Moussa, Ph.D., Chemistry, University
of California, Irvine—US$8000 and the
Milton Feldstein Memorial Scholarship
Yu-Mei Hsu, Ph.D., Environmental
Engineering, University of Florida
—US$6000
Nicholas Ashley, Ph.D., Chemical
Engineering, Louisiana State University
—US$2000
Ying Xu, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Virginia Technological
Institute—US$2000
2007–2008 A&WMA Scholarship Award Recipients
In recognition of excellence in waste management research
and study:
Tanapon Phenrat, Ph.D., Environmental
Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University—
US$4000 and the Jacqueline Shields
Memorial Scholarship
Bryan Staley, Ph.D., Civil, Construction, and
Environmental Engineering, North Carolina
State University—US$2000
In recognition of excellence in environmental manage-
ment/policy research and study:
Obidimma Ezezika, M.S., Forestry and
Environmental Studies, Yale University
—US$2000
Conor Reynolds, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary
Studies, University of British Columbia
—US$2000
In recognition of excellence in sustainability research and
study:
Chi Hoang, Ph.D., Civil, Architectural, and
Environmental Engineering, University of
Texas at Austin—US$2000
Rachel Wagner, Ph.D., Environmental
Engineering, Penn State University
—US$2000
Full-time graduate students who are pursuing courses
of study and research leading to careers in air quality, waste
management, environmental management, and/or sustain-
abilitycanobtainascholarshipapplicationforthe2008–2009
academic year by visiting A&WMA’s Web site at www.awma.
org/education or by calling A&WMA Member Services at
1-800-270-3444. Scholarship applications must be submitted
online by 5:00 p.m. Eastern, January 11, 2008. Awards will
be announced in March 2008.
IfyouareinterestedinmakingadonationtotheA&WMA
Scholarship Endowment Trust Fund please visit www.
awma.org/education to download a Scholarship Donation
Brochure, or contact A&WMA Member Services at 1-800-
270-3444. Contributions are tax deductible.