Below is information about available AEESP donation and award opportunities. Please download the associated PDF file, complete donation form and return as instructed to give to one of these worthy awards.
Paul V. Roberts - AEESP Outstanding Dissertation Award
We are very pleased to announce that the AEESP is prepared to officially establish The Paul V. Roberts - AEESP Outstanding Dissertation Award to reward a rigorous and innovative doctoral thesis that advances the science and practice of water quality engineering for either engineered or natural systems. Special consideration will be given to physical-chemical process research and/or research that especially supports under-served communities, environmental awareness, or sustainable solutions.”
A Steering Committee has worked with Paul’s family and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Foundation to establish the Paul V. Roberts - AEESP Outstanding Dissertation Endowment Fund. This fund is currently at more than 2/3 of its final required amount of $75,000 and, importantly, the AEESP has agreed to match the final third of contributions to help reach the $75,000 goal. We are thus less than $12,500 away from finalizing the award, assuming $12,500 of eventual AEESP match. The final fund will support an annual prize that can honor and reward a doctoral student at a consistent level with all other AEESP Outstanding Dissertation Awards, while also providing similar levels of support to promote the travel of both the student and advisor to the AEESP conference where the award will be given. At this time, the AEESP is joining with our steering committee to solicit general contributions to this endowment fund.
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We are very pleased to announce that the AEESP has officially established the following new award:
The Charles R. O’Melia Distinguished Educator Award recognizes the significant contributions of Professor O’Melia to environmental engineering education. Nominees for this award must be AEESP members who meet all of the following criteria: 1) a record of teaching excellence in the classroom and through graduate student advising; 2) significant research achievements that have contributed to environmental engineering knowledge; and 3) an outstanding record of influence through mentoring of former students and colleagues.
To make this award possible, a steering committee of three of Charlie’s former PhDs from the University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University worked with the AEESP Foundation to establish an Endowment Fund that will support the award in perpetuity. Now that this fund has established more than 2/3 of the minimum necessary funding ($62,500), the AEESP and AEESP Foundation have officially endorsed the award’s establishment – see September 2010 AEESP Newsletter. In addition, AEESP will be providing a total of $11,250 toward this award, in the form of 1:1 matching donations for the final $22,500.
Professor Charles R. O’Melia has had a major role in the education of hundreds of students who studied environmental sciences and engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the University of North Carolina, and Johns Hopkins University. He is a preeminent teacher, and is considered one of the leading researchers in water and wastewater treatment, aquatic colloid chemistry, and modeling of natural and engineered systems. Professor O’Melia’s former students recognize him not only for his excellent teaching and research contributions, but also for his truly inspirational mentoring that impacted their professional careers and their personal lives. He had great influence on his faculty colleagues at Georgia Tech, Harvard, University of North Carolina, Johns Hopkins, and at other universities throughout the United States and throughout the world through his high academic and professional standards, philosophy, and dedication. As a result of his excellenstudents and colleagues, Professor O’research of his former students.
At this time, the AEESP and AEESP Foundation ask you to PLEASE CONTRIBUTE to help make this award happen for the coming academic year.
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