Environmental awards Winners of the 1987 Graduate Student Awards in Environmental Chemistry
The ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry is in the second year of its program of awards for graduate students. Ronald A. Hites, chairman of the awards committee and professor of public and environmental affairs and of chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington announced the winners earlier this year. The 1987 awards committee also included Alan W. Elzerman of Clemson University in Clemson, S.C.; Herbert E. Allen of Drexel University in Philadelphia; Steven J. Eisenreich of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; and Stanton S. Miller of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. J. Donald Johnson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986 chairman of the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry, says the number of candidates more than doubled for this year’s awards and that he is looking forward to next year’s program of awards. The awards are in the form of oneyear memberships in the division and one-year subscriptions to Environmental Science & Technology. The following 22 graduate students are the 1987 winners. We extend congratulations to each of them.
Morton A. Barlaz of the University of Wisconsin in Madison is an environmental engineer working on the process of refuse decomposition in sanitary landfills. Barbara A. Bates is an environmental and occupational health scientist at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her work is on a groundwater contamination profile of chlorinated hydrocarbons that leach through a soil column system. John Borrazzo of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh is an environmental engineer working on models of indoor air quality and measurements of the adsorption rates of volatile organic 334 Environ. Sci. Technol., Voi. 21, No. 4, 1987
pollutants onto indoor surfaces. Andrea M. Dietrich of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is an environmental chemist working on mass spectrometry applied to the analysis of nitroarenes and nitroarene-induced DNA adducts. Talbert N. Eisenberg of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville is an environmental engineer working on sensitized photooxidation for wastewater disinfection and detoxification. Julia E. Fulghum of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is an analytical chemist working on the use of new surface analytical techniques to characterize inorganic anion adsorption onto aquatic particles. Nancy J. Hayden of Michigan State University in East Lansing is an environmental engineer working on the retention and release of sulfate by soils in response to acidic precipitation. George B. Jarvis of lhfts University in Medford, Mass., is a physical chemist working on applications of remote fiber optic fluorescence spectrometry. Judy S. LaKind of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is an environmental chemist whose work involves the oxidation of phenolic pollutants by iron oxides. Cheryl Matthias of the University of Maryland in College Park is an environmental and analytical chemist working on the determination of ultratrace concentrations of butyltin compounds in water. Janet A. Mayernik of the University of Pittsburgh is an environmental biochemist working on the detection of nucleic acid adducts that result from exposure of biological samples to certain chemicals. John E McCarthy of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., is an air pollution scientist working on the contribution of tobacco smoke to indoor levels of particulate matter. Lyn M. McIlroy of Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., is an environmental chemist working on a mathe-
matical model that integrates the major processes of watershed acidification to predict changes in soil conditions and surface water chemistry in response to episodic events. Mark Milke of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh is an environmental engineer working on models of the variability of metals in groundwater systems. J. William Munger of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., is an environmental engineering scientist working on fog and cloud water chemistry projects. Meridith Newman of Clemson University in Clemson, S.C., is an environmental chemist working on the enhanced transport of selected chemical species in groundwater systems. Stephen G . Pedersen of the University of Pittsburgh is an environmental engineer working on the alteration of in-situ redox potential to enhance microbial dechlorination of PCBs. Mukund Ramamurthi of the Institute for Environmental Studies in Urbana, Ill., is an environmental scientist working on the detection and measurement of radiolytic ultrafine particle distribution in indoor air. Ann E. Shemeld of the University of Maryland in College Park is an atmospheric chemist working on receptor modeling of particulate organic matter in the atmosphere. Susan Stipp of Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., is an aqueous geochemist working on kinetics and thermodynamics of solid solution in the Ca-Cd-C02-H20 system. Paul G . Ratnyek of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo., is a geochemist working on the effect of redox potential on the abiotic reduction of methyl parathion in anaerobic model systems. Wanjia Zhang of Oregon State University in Corvallis is an environmental analytical chemist working on the adsorption of anionic, cationic, and neutral surfactants on sediments and soils.
