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Women in Engineering Leadership Summit, May 3-5, 2004
The University of Connecticut campus will host the first "Women in Engineering Leadership Summit" May 3-5, 2004. The Summit, co-sponsored by the Women in Engineering Leadership Institute (WELI) and the School of Engineering, will bring together various professional organizations, academicians and key industry supporters with the goal of developing effective cooperative strategies for working together to increase the number of women in leadership roles in both industry and academia. The premise of the Summit is that greater integration of women into the higher echelons of engineering leadership - as managers, executives and deans - will result in benefits to industry, a more female-friendly culture in undergraduate engineering programs, and greater success at the high school levels in encouraging and retaining female students in science and math.
For more information please visit: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/SoE/soe_future_events.htm.
Dr. Guiling Wang (MIT, 2000), whose expertise is in hydroclimtaology, joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department as an assistant professor. Dr. Wang's primary areas of expertise include hydrology, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, vegetation dynamics, land surface and climate system modeling, climate teleconnection and its application in hydrologic forecast. Prior to joining UConn, Dr. Wang held positions as an assistant research scientist at NASA-UMBC's Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center (2001-2002), as a research associate at Princeton University (2000-2001) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999-2000).
Dr. Dani Or (Utah State Univ. 1990) whose expertise in environmental physics, joins the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department from Utah State University where he held a position of professor of soil and environmental physics with adjunct professor appointment in biological and irrigation engineering. Dr. Or’s primary areas of expertise include: vadose zone hydrology; pore scale flow processes; electromagnetic methods in ENVE; modeling soil structural dynamics; flow in fractured and structured media; swelling soils; and physical-microbiological interactions in the vadose zone. Dr. Or is the recipient of the 2001 Soil Physics Kirkham award.
Dr. Amvrossios Bagtzoglou is a civil engineer specializing in probabilistic numerical modeling of environmental processes in a variety of media ranging from fractured, unsaturated volcanic rock to the estuarine waters around Manhattan in the city of New York. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-Greece (1985), a MS in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology (1987), and a PhD in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering from the University of California (1990).
Before joining academia, he has held research and development positions as a post-doctoral associate for the University of California under funding from the US DOE (1990-91), and as a research engineer (1991-1993), and senior research engineer (1993-96) for Southwest Research Institute under funding from the US NRC. He has served as Assistant Professor of Water Resources and Geoenvironmental Engineering at Columbia University (1997-2002) and recently joined the University of Connecticut as Associate Professor of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering.
Professor Bagtzoglou has published extensively in archival journals, book chapters, conference proceedings, and technical reports. He has held Associate Editor positions for the journals Groundwater (1994-97) and Water Resources Research (1999-2001) and currently serves as member of the editorial board for Environmental Forensics while serving a second term as Associate Editor for Water Resources Research. On top of his editorial duties, Professor Bagtzoglou reviews papers and research proposals regularly for 15 technical journals and several funding agencies. He is a member of several national and international professional organizations, the AGU Hydrology Section Groundwater Technical Committee, the ASCE Groundwater Hydrology Committee, and the IAEG Commission 14 (Underground Disposal of Waste).
Congratulations to our Environmental Engineering undergraduate, Wojciech Krach, who received a $2000 scholarship from the Federated Garden Club of Connecticut, Inc., P.O. Box 854, Branford, CT 06405-0854.
Dr. Allison A. MacKay was awarded a grant from the USDA
and NSF to investigate factors controlling antibiotic sorption
to soils. Her research is entitiled "Factors Controlling
Veterinary Antibiotic Sorption in Soils."
Factors Controlling Veterinary Antibiotic
Sorption in Soils
Funded by USDA
Accurate fate models are required to assess the environmental impacts and risk associated with the discharge of veterinary antibiotic-containing animal wastes to soils, sediments and surface waters. One key process that determines whether antibiotics will be mobile and bioavailable in environmental systems is sorption, or the distribution between solid and aqueous phases. The objectives of this research project are to determine the soil parameters that control the sorption of veterinary antibiotics to soils and to propose potential pharmaceutical-soil interaction mechanisms. Important soil parameters will be assessed by measuring solid-water sorption coefficients for agricultural soils characterized by a range of soil parameters, such as organic matter, clay and oxide content. Ultimately, research findings will be used to direct the development of appropriate fate models for veterinary pharmaceutical mobility and bioavailability in the environment
Dr. Emmanouil N. Anagnostou was awarded the 2002 Plinius Medal of the European Geophysical Society. Please see the following web site for more information on the award: http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/egs_info/award6w.htm.
Dr. Emmanouil Anagnostou, a hydrology and natural hazards expert, has brought a specialized radar unit to Horsebarn Hill to collect rainfall and other data on severe weather, and train students in flood prediction. the equipment is part of Anagnostou's NSF CAREER Award.
Please visit http://www.advance.uconn.edu/ for the article in the University of Connecticut Advance.
