The C. Ellen Gonter Awards, designed to encourage and reward outstanding graduate students working towards degrees in environmental chemistry and engineering, are supported and administered by the ACS Environmental Chemistry Division.
Student: Feiyang Mo: “Elevating Electrode Durability in Locally Enhanced Electric Field Treatment (LEEFT) for 4 Long-Term Water Disinfection with a Robust Stainless-Steel Brush.” School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (CEEatGT), Atlanta, GA, USA. Advisors: Profs Xing Xie and Nian Liu. Student: Jason Hua, EIT: “Widespread emissions of polychlorinated biphenyls from building materials in Vermont schools.” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, The University of Iowa – College of Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. Advisor: Prof. Keri C. Hornbuckle.
Student: Jiahao Chen: “Kinetics and Mechanisms of Solar UVB Disinfection of Vesicle-cloaked Murine Norovirus Clusters and Free Noroviruses.” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The George Washington University – School of Engineering & Applied Science, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. USA. Prof. Danmeng Shuai.
Student: Katharine A. Fabe: “Revealing organofluorine pollution in effluents and surface waters with complementary analytical approaches: 19F-NMR and LC-MS/MS.” University of Minnesota Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, USA. Advisor: Prof. Bill Arnold Student: Nanyang (Stephen) Yang: “Understanding Mechanisms and Kinetics: Piezoelectric Ball Milling for Comprehensive PFAS Degradation at Ambient Conditions”. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, USA. Advisor: Prof. Yang Yang.
Student: Zhao Liu: “Combining group contribution method and semi-supervised learning to 1 build machine learning models for predicting hydroxyl radical rate 2 constants of water contaminants.” Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. Advisor: Professor Judy Huichun Zhang.
Student: Zixi Fan: “Micelle-Mediated C-F Bond Activation by Hydrated Electron for Efficient PFAS Mineralization.” Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati – College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA. Advisor: Prof. Michael Bentel
Congratulations to awardees, and many thanks to Kevin O’Shea and awards Committee members for their hard work.