STARKVILLE, Miss.— A Bagley College of Engineering doctoral candidate has earned a fellowship that will take her to Capitol Hill. Jennifer Sloan Ziegler has earned a 2014 National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. She is one of 10 in the group of 50 that will serve as a legislative…
René Alexander Camacho-Rincón is a graduate assistant in the department of civil and environmental engineering. He is working towards a doctoral degree with a focus in water resources. In 2012, he was the first graduate student accepted to the American Society for Civil Engineers task committee on total maximum daily load. Camacho-Rincón says he has…
Edith Martinez Ortiz placed 2nd in the Innovative Idea Oral Presentation Category at the 11th Annual MSU Graduate Students Research Symposium. Her research title was “Algal Biodiesel Production using Novel Methods”.
The STRIDE Regional Center Poster Competition hosted by the University of Florida was at the 92nd Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Conference. The theme of the competition was improving transportation sustainability. Jay Shannon presented his poster titled “Improving Transportation System Sustainability Using Portland-Limestone Cement”. The competition included 30 graduate students from schools in the southeast. Each…
Congratulations to Rene Camacho, a PhD Student in CEE on being selected, following a committee vote, for full membership in American Society of Civil Engineers/Environmental and Water Resources Institute’s Task Committee on Total Maximum Daily Load, analysis and modeling. He was also selected for membership in a technical subcommittee. This is the first time that…
John J. Ramirez-Avila won first place in the Northern Gulf Institute’s (NGI) Annual Conference Poster Competition. Ramirez-Avila’s poster titled “Assessment and prediction of streambank erosion rates in the Town Creek watershed” provides a synopsis of the final results of his doctoral research performed within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE). 22 graduate research posters…
Doctoral student, John J. Ramirez-Avila was awarded first place in the ASCE EWRI Student Technical Paper Competition for his paper titled, “Suspended Sediment Transport in a Southeastern Plains Watershed. His paper was presented at the EWRI World Congress meeting in Providence, RI in May.