Accomplishments and Awards

2021

ESE Faculty Member Featured by Purdue University

Dr. Roshi Nateghi is featured by Purdue University in an article about reducing your environmental footprint during virtual meetings.

2019

ESE Student Receives the 2019 NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST)

Alka Tiwari received the 2019 NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship award to pursue her research work. The FINESST fellowship is a highly competitive program, and Alka is the only recipient this year from Purdue University.  Alka is a finishing her first year as an ESE student and is partnering with the Civil Engineering department.  Congratulations Alka!  Read more about Alka in this article.

ESE Faculty Member Featured by Purdue University

Dr. Bill Hutzel was featured by Purdue University for his Biowall research project. "The Biowall is an eco-friendly air filtration system that can be used in residential buildings to improve air quality," said Bill Hutzel, a professor of mechanical engineering technology in Purdue's Polytecnic Institute, who leads the research team.  "We combine Purdue expertise in building design, engineering, and agriculture to help with the home of the future."  Read additional information regarding Biowall and Dr. Hutzel's research online.

ESE Faculty Member Featured by Purdue University

Dr. Sylvie Brouder was featured by Purdue University as her research aligns with Purdue's Giant Leaps celebration, acknowledging the university’s global advancements made toward a sustainable economy and planet as part of Purdue’s 150th anniversary. Dr. Brouder’s goal is to assist farmers in getting the most out of their fields while reducing the potential for environmental harm. Her work focuses on carbon and nitrogen cycling in soil, carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and water quality impacts of farming.  Read more in this article: “How to feed the world and preserve the environment.”

ESE Students Collaborate on Ideas Festival

ESE students collaborate with other campus groups to create an Ideas Festival for Purdue’s Giant Leaps Sesquicentennial Celebration.  Their ESE Symposium will be a part of this Ideas Festival, and will include Katharine Hayhoe, a world-renowned climate communicator, as a keynote speaker, as well as other workshops, panels, and events to explore and promote various ways to communicate science through both academia and art.  Read more in this article.

2018

ESE Faculty Member Leads Flint Study

Dr. Andrew Whelton leads study on how Flint, Michigan dealt with water bottle waste after lead contamination.  Read more in this article.

ESE Student Wins First Place at 2018 ASA Competition

Congratulations to Paula Welikhe, who won 1st place at the 2018 Agronomy Society of America (ASA) Nutrients and Environmental Quality Community oral presentation competition!  Her talk was on "Development and Evaluation of Phosphorus Sorption Capacity - Based Environmental Indices."  You can read the abstract here.

ESE Student Achievement Award Winners

Ehsan Vahidi Movassagh received ESE’s 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student in Research Award. Corey Lacey received ESE’s 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student in Teaching Award.  Congratulations to Ehsan and Corey! They were recognized at ESE’s Spring Celebration in April 2018.  They were honored with a plaque and a monetary award, and shared some of their research and teaching experiences with the ESE community.  Click here to find out more about ESE’s Student Achievement Awards.

ESE Students Receive D. Woods Thomas Memorial Fund Awards

Four ESE student received D. Woods Thomas Memorial Fund Awards - Congratulations to Dante Francomano, Jason Hawes, Laura Jessup, and Rebecca Nixon!  They were four of six total award winners in 2018.  Read additional information online.

ESE Faculty Member Featured by Purdue University

Dr. Jeff Dukes was featured by Purdue University as his sustainability research aligns with Purdue's Giant Leaps celebration, acknowledging the University’s global advancements made toward a sustainable economy and planet as part of Purdue’s 150th anniversary. This is one of the four themes of the yearlong celebration’s Ideas Festival, designed to showcase Purdue as an intellectual center solving real-world issues. Read more in this article.

ESE Faculty Member Receives 2018 Agricultural Research Award

Dr. Marisol Sepúlveda is the recipient of the 2018 Agricultural Research Award.  The award presentation, along with Dr. Sepúlveda’s seminar on “My Research Career as an Environmental Toxicologist" was held Friday, October 12, at 3:00 p.m. in PFEN 241.

ESE Student in Bridge Program

First year ESE student Rasul discusses his research and expereience in summer Graduate Bridge Program.

ESE Faculty Receives Teaching Award