Byung Joon Lee, a third year Ph.D. student won the L.G. Rich Fellowship. His advisor is Dr. Mark Schlautman.

Students from EES 486/686 Pollution Prevention and Industrial Ecology wrote a successful proposal for $10,000 to the EPA People, Planet and Prosperity program to address the solid waste management problem of waste tires on the island of Dominica. Dr. Shelie Miller served as principal investigator for the team of students consisting of Jim Chamberlain (PhD, EEES), Roger Flynn (PhD, Policy Studies) and Laurie Robbins, (MS, Construction Management). The team received Honorable Mention at the 2008 EPA People, Prosperity and Planet National Sustainable Design Expo held in Washington DC on Earth Day.

For more information about Clemson's graduate programs in environmental engineering and science, please visit: www.grad.clemson.edu/programs/EnviroEng/index.php.

The award was created 40 years ago, and more than 500 young professors have received the recognition. In total, more than $42 million in grants have been awarded to these professors around the world.

Yang will receive a grant of $25,000 per year for three years and is invited to meet with members of the DuPont Fellows Forum to present her work in a seminar. She may use the grant money to obtain matching funds through the National Science Foundation or other organizations.

Yang received her doctorate in environmental engineering from Tsinghua University (China) in 1996. She is focused on environmental biotechnology with a particular interest in microorganisms relevant to the degradation of hazardous substances and treatment of water and waste.

The DuPont Young Professors program was designed to provide unrestricted startup assistance to promising young professors. A member of the DuPont technical staff, who agrees to serve as the contact between DuPont and the faculty member, nominates each faculty member. The decision for making the awards resides with the DuPont Fellows Forum, which includes the top scientist at DuPont.

For more infomation about Clemson's graduate programs in environmental engineering and science, please visit http://www.grad.clemson.edu/programs/EnviroEng/index.php.

"Earning ABET ASAC accreditation has increased the prestige of the Clemson degree for incoming students in addition to the program's alumni. Employers looking for health physics grads have indicated that they plan to target recruiting efforts at accredited programs," said Dr. Tim DeVol, EHP program coordinator.

The origin of the EHP focus area dates back to 1980, and it is fully integrated with other focus areas within the graduate-only department. It is designed to address broad environmental issues associated with anthropogenic and natural radioactivity. The objective of the curriculum is to provide students with knowledge and training needed to protect human health and the environment from ionizing radiation. Integral to this focus area is assessing risk associated with the radiation. Research areas include low-level radiation detection, radiochemistry, analytical techniques to quantify stable elements utilizing radiation, environmental monitoring, radionuclide transport, radioactive waste management and risk assessment.

For more information about Clemson's environmental health physics program, contact Tim DeVol at devol@clemson.edu.

Ying Hong, doctoral alumnus of Clemson, was recently honored by the American Water Works Association (AWWA) with the Academic Achievement Award. Ying's work, entitled Exploring the Pathways of Dihalogenated Acetic Acid (DXAA) Formation During Chloramination, won first place in the doctoral dissertation category of the award.

Ying will be recognized at AWWA's annual meeting and will be presented with $3,000 and a commemorative plaque. Dr. Tanju Karanfil, Ying's major advisor, will also be awarded a plaque at the meeting. As an additional part of the award, Ying's dissertation will be recommended for publication in the Journal AWWA.

A ten-person committee representing utilities, regulatory agencies and academe evaluated each award entry based on originality, practical application, significance to the water-supply field, potential value as a reference and presentation clarity. The award competition was open to any university graduate student pursuing a masters or doctoral degree who had written a thesis or dissertation of great value to the water supply industry.

The Graduate School would like to congratulate Ying and Dr. Karanfil on this prestigious honor and thank them for being such great representatives of Clemson University.

For more information about the Academic Achievement Award from AWWA, please visit www.awwa.org/about/oandc/awards/AWARDDES.cfm