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Professor Rumana Riffat Nominated for Two Medals

The Water Environment Federation has nominated Professor Rumana Riffat, of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, for two medals for papers she published in its journal, Water Environment Research. She has been nominated for the Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal for the 2008 publication of "Influence of Source Characteristics, Chemicals and Flocculation on Chemically Enhanced Primary Treatment." The medal is awarded for research that makes a vital contribution to existing knowledge of the fundamental principles or processes of wastewater treatment. The paper is coauthored by her graduate students Dilli Neupane and Marija Peric. She was also nominated for the George Bradley Gascoigne Medal for the 2008 publication of "Denitrification with Carbon Addition - Kinetic Considerations." The medal is awarded to the author(s) of an article that presents the solution of an important and complicated operational problem within a full-scale, operating wastewater treatment plant. The paper is coauthored by her graduate students Yalda Mokhayeri, Adam Nichols, and Jeneva Hinojosa.

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