Awards and Honors
Faculty
September 2008: M. Gordon "Reds" Wolman has been honored by the Irvine Nature Center with its Olivia Irvine Dodge Conservation Award. Dr. Wolman was selected for his legacy of work teaching about and advocating for Maryland's Waterways.
September 2008: Charles O'Melia has been named a "Legend in Environmental Chemistry" from the Environmental Chemistry Division of American Chemical Society, and was also appointed as a member of the "Peer Committee" of the Civil Engineering Section of the National Academy of Engineering. This committee is charged with recommending individuals for membership in the Civil Engineering Section of the NAE.
June 2008: Eugene Shchukin has been awarded the Gold Medal "For Achievements in Science" from the Russian Academy of Education.
June 2008: Ed Bouwer, Chair of the Department of Geography and Envrionmental Engineering, has been named the Abel Wolman Professor of Environmental Engineering, succeeding Charlie O'Melia. Professor Wolman was one of the most highly respected leaders in the field of sanitary engineering, having contributed significantly to the development of municipal water supply plans and the standardization of drinking water chlorination. He was also one of Hopkins Engineering's first four graduates, earning his BS in 1915. He was a member of the faculty for over 50 years, from 1937 until his death in 1989.
May 2008: Peter Wilcock has received the 2008 Hans Albert Einstein award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for his contributions to research in sediment transport in gravel-bed rivers.
May 2008: Kai Loon Chen, who will be joining the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor late this summer, has received the Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize for exceptional research in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University for his doctoral research.
May 2008: Prof William Ball received the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising from the Whiting Shool of Engineering, JHU.
November 2007: Prof. Grace Brush received the Estuarine Research Federation's Odum Award for Lifetime Achievement. Grace will receive this award at the ERF November 2007 meeting in Providence, RI.
May 2007: Prof. Hedy Alavi is honored with the Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award http://www.epp.jhu.edu/pdfs/news/2007/hedy-alavi.pdf
December 2003: Prof. Charlie O'Melia has been selected for the 2004 ASCE Award for Achievement in Environmental Engineering Education.
September 2003: Prof. Grace Brush is awarded the Mathias Medal. The Medal is to recognize the contributions of outstanding environmental researchers who have contributed to informed policy in the Chesapeake Bay region.
February 2002: Prof. M. Gordon Wolman has been chosen as the recipient of the 2002 Nevada Medal of the National Academy of Engineering.
Prof. Charles O'Melia (May 2000) has been awarded the Clarke Prize. This award is presented annually for demonstrated excellence in the fields of water science and technology.
Prof. David Harvey (November 1999) has been selected to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden.
Prof. M. Gordon Wolman (October 1999) has been chosen as the recipient of the Penrose Medal by the Geological Society of America. The Penrose Medal recognizes outstanding original research, contributions, or achievements that mark a decided advance in the science of geology.
Prof. Bill Ball (May 1999) has been selected to receive the 1999 Rudolph Hering Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Hering medal "is awarded to the author of authors of the paper which contains the most valuable contribution to the increase of knowledge in, and to the advancement of, the environmental branch of the engineering profession. The award will be presented at the July Environmental Engineering Conference in Norfolk Virginia.
Prof. Lynn Roberts (May 1999) has been chosen to receive a Student Council Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Prof. M. Gordon Wolman (January 1999) has been named the recipient of the Robert E. Horton Medal by the American Geophysical Union. The medal, established in 1974 in honor of Robert E. Horton's contributions to the study of the hydrologic cycle, recognizes outstanding contributions to the geophysical aspects of hydrology.
Prof. Edward Bouwer (October 1998) and his former PhD advisor, Prof. Perry McCarty of Stanford University, have been awarded the 1998 Association of Environmental Engineering Professors (AEEP) Outstanding Paper Award for a "landmark paper that has withstood the test of time". Their 1982 paper (in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 16, pages 836-843) is entitled: “ of Trace Chlorinated Organic Compounds by Activated Carbon and Fixed-Film Bacteria.”
Prof. David Harvey (July 1998) was elected a Corresponding Member of the British Academy (the humanities version of the Royal Society in Britain).
Prof. Charles O’Melia (July 1998) has become the first recipient of the Department’s Abel Wolman Chair of Environmental Engineering.
Prof. Erica Schoenberger (July 1998) received the “ book of the year” award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Labor Studies Division for her book “ Cultural Crisis of the Firm”.
Dr. Hedy Alavi (May 1998) received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Part-Time Program in Engineering and Applied Science, G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering.
Prof. A. Lynn Roberts (April 1998) was nominated for an Undergraduate Teaching Award by the Hopkins Undergraduate Student Council.
Students
Kristen Downs, MS(Fall 2008) is the recipient of the 2008 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship.
Pearl Zheng, PhD(Fall 2008) is the recipient of the Public Safety Canada Research Fellowship in honor of Stuart Nesbitt White, and also won third place in the 2008 Chesapeake Water Environment Association (CWEA) student paper competition.
Stefanie Falconi, MS (2008) was the recipient of a JHU Center for Global Health 'Framework in Global Health Grant'. The grant allowed her to conduct a feasibility study in irrigation and water for food security and poverty alleviation in HIV/AIDS and violence affected areas in South Africa. She has been advised by DoGEE faculty Bill Ball and Erica Schoenberger for this project.
Zhi Shi, PhD(Summer 2008) received The Best Student Presentation award at the ACS Meeting in Philadelphia.
John Sivey, PhD(2008)has been awarded the Maryland Water Resources Research Center Summer Fellowship and the 2008 EPA STAR Graduate Research Fellowship. In 2007, he was awarded the American Water Works Association Abel Wolman Fellowship.
Jan Kleissl, PhD(July 2002) received a student paper award at the AMS-Boundary Layers and Turbulence meeting for his presentation "Statistical analysis of subfilter-scale model coefficients from field-experimental data"
Lisa Koch, PhD(December 2000) received an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the AGU Fall Meeting for her presentation on "Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Flow in Porous Media".
Bill Arnold (June 2000) Received the AEESP/CH2M Hill Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis entitled "Kinetics and Pathways of Chlorinated Ethylene and Chlorinated Ethane Reaction with Zero-Valent Metals", supervised by Prof. Lynn Roberts. Bill will receive a plaque and a check for $1000 from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.
Bill Arnold (January 1999) received a Graduate Student Award from the Environmental Chemistry division of the American Chemical Society.
Roberta Brown (May, 2000) Received a 2000 EPA STAR Fellowship for a project entitled "The Role of Black Carbon in Organic Sorption by Soils." The fellowship includes tuition and stipend renewable for 3 years.
Felicity Callard (May 2000) Awarded a Newcombe Fellowship
Richard Carbonaro (May 2000) Received a 2000 EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship for his research on "Transformations of Co(III) and Cr(III) Complexes in Heterogeneous Media." The fellowship includes tuition and stipend renewable for 3 years.
David Cwiertny (May 2000) Awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship
Lisa Kim Davis (May 2000) Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship
Sentho Kagbo (May 2000) was awarded a GEM Fellowship
Katrice Lippa (January 2000) received a Graduate Student Award from the Environmental Chemistry division of the American Chemical Society.
Katrice Lippa (November 1999) was named first-place winner of the 2000 ACS Agrochemicals Division Young Scientist Predoctoral Research Award for her work on abiotic transformations of chloroacetanilide herbicides (supervised by Prof. Lynn Roberts). Katrice presented her research at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco in March, 2000 at a special symposium honoring the work of young doctoral researchers. After her presentation, she was presented a plaque and a check for $500.
Timothy Strathmann (August 2000) Received the Procter& Gamble Company Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for completion of his Ph.D. thesis work on the reduction of oxime carbamate agricultural chemicals by transition metal ions. Timm was also named recipient of a Graduate Student Paper Award by the Environmental Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society for his paper entitled "Abiotic Reduction of the Pesticides Oxamyl and Methomyl by Fe(II): Reaction Kinetics and Mechanisms" (co-authored by Prof. Alan Stone). Timm received a certificate and a check for $500 at the ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC. This is the highest award conferred to graduate students by the Environmental Chemistry Division of ACS.