Rebecca Veto, a junior in civil engineering, is one of four area students to receive a $1,000 scholarship this year from the Concrete Council of St. Louis. Veto will receive her scholarship at the council’s annual awards dinner on Nov. 9 at the Missouri Athletic Club. …
Robert B. Pless, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, will receive the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award. Pless will be recognized at an awards ceremony to be held on Sunday, Nov. 19 at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton, Mo. The award is given by the Emerson Electric company. …
Daniel Giammar, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil engineering, has been awarded $149, 999 from the American Water Works Association for his research titled “The Influence of Water Chemistry on the Dissolution and Transformation Rates of Lead Corrosion Products.” …
Brian Allan and Brian Langerhans, graduate students in biology in Arts & Sciences, were honored at a Washington, D.C., congressional reception for being named Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellows, Sept. 25, 2006. EPA’s STAR graduate fellowship program is the only federal program designed exclusively for students pursuing advanced degrees in environmental sciences. Since 1995, EPA has funded over 1,200 STAR fellows. The STAR program is very competitive with only seven percent of applicants being awarded fellowships.