Drummey wins 2008 Bunker Award
The Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering is pleased to announce Patricia N. Drummey (MSEE ’07, Characklis Advisor) as the recipient of the 2008 George C. Bunker Award.
Her nomination was led by Professor Greg Characklis who stated in his letter that “Tricia consistently challenged herself in the classroom, despite being engaged in a very time consuming and unpredictable research project that involved a tremendous amount of fieldwork.” He continues, “Tricia’s intellect, work ethic and personality will take her as far as she chooses to go in the professional world, or in academia, should she choose to return. She will be one of the students whose careers our Department will look on with great pride in the future.” Drummey’s research explored the role that microbial partitioning in stormwater plays in assessing detention basin effectiveness for microbial removal. Her thesis entitled “Evaluating Microbial Partitioning Throughout the Stormwater Transport Chain and its Impact on the Effectiveness of Wet Detention Ponds” will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Engineering. Drummey received her BS degree in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and her MSEE in Environmental Engineering from UNC in 2007. Drummey came to our department highly recommended by the faculty in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Notre Dame, as well as those that served with her in the in the Dominican Republic while working for the Peace Corps. The Bunker Award was established in honor of Dr. George C. Bunker, a sanitary engineer and benefactor of the University of North Carolina and is given annually by the Department to an MSEE candidate in environmental engineering who shows the most outstanding scholarship and professional promise. |
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