ASCE has honored Teresa B. Culver, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Margaret S. Petersen Award for her selfless dedication to preparing and mentoring future civil and environmental engineers and to serving the professional community through service and leadership.
Culver is an associate professor of civil engineering in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment at the University of Virginia (UVA), specializing in environmental and water...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Lewis N. Lloyd; G. Michael Fitch; Tony S. Singh, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE; and James A. Smith, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Wesley W. Horner Award for the paper “Characterization of Environmental Pollutants in Sediment Collected During Street Sweeping Operations to Evaluate Its Potential for Reuse,” published in the February 2019 issue of the Journal of...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Mongkolaya Rungvetvuthivitaya, Aff.M.ASCE; Rengao Song; Mark Campbell, A.M.ASCE; Eric Zhu; Tian C. Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE; and Chittaranjan Ray, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Samuel Arnold Greeley Award for the paper “Decay Kinetics of Chlorite Under Simulated Distribution System Conditions,” in the April 2019 issue of Journal of Environmental Engineering.
In the selected work, the...
ASCE has honored the writing team of S. C. Chen; Y. T. Sheu; Rao Y. Surampalli, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, Hon.D.WRE, F.EWRI, Dist.M.ASCE; Tian C. Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE; and Jimmy Chih-Ming Kao, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Rudolph Hering Medal for the paper “Application of Microbial Transformation to Remediate Hg-Contaminated Water: Strain Isolation and Laboratory Microcosm Study,” published in the...
ASCE has honored Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2021 Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award and Lecture for his extraordinary accomplishments in using fundamental scientific principles and current research findings to solve the most challenging environmental problems.
As an outstanding administrator/researcher/educator, Alvarez has made significant contributions to our professional society. He is one of the world’s foremost experts in environmental...
David D. Dee Jr., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, a water resources and civil engineer with WSP USA Inc. who has over 32 years of experience in the field, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
With WSP USA itself for over three decades, Dee has been assistant vice president, senior supervisory engineer, and senior project manager. His experience comprises design and project...
Rosanna La Plante, P.E., F.ASCE, a division manager with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), Regulatory Services Division, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
La Plante shares responsibility for the federally mandated pretreatment program and enforcement of the WSSC Plumbing & Fuel Gas Code. Prior to that she worked for Baltimore City Department of Public Works, where she led and managed...
Thomas P. O’Connor, P.E., F.ASCE, an environmental engineer with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
O’Connor has over 22 years with EPA. He currently works for the National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Water Systems Division, Water Resources Recovery Branch at the Edison Environmental Center (EEC) in Edison, New Jersey....
Jeanette A. Brown, P.E., D.WRE, BCEE, F.ASCE, F.WEF, currently a research assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Manhattan College, has been honored by ASCE with inclusion in its 2019 class of Distinguished Members for exemplifying the role of the engineer in society through mentoring, research, leadership in multiple organizations, services, and encouragement to others to similarly serve and develop...
