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The World Water Day of 2023 is definitely special to us, as our first lead-PI project was selected by DOE NAWI for funding. This is a 2-year, multi-institute project led by our team at Auburn, with collaborators from LBNL, Rice, EPRI, and the Water Tower. With this grant, we will be able to hire a second postdoc to join our lab!

This project is primarily based on preliminary results obtained by our current lab members, including Dr. Ao Xie, Zilan Yang, and Jason Zhao. Let’s keep up the good work!

https://www.energy.gov/eere/amo/doe-awards-9-million-12-projects-advance-desalination-and-water-reuse-technologies-across

DOE Awards $9 Million to 12 Projects to Advance Desalination and Water Reuse Technologies Across the U.S.

This year, about 140 engineering students attended the Graduate Engineering Research Showcase (GERS) to share their research ideas across a broad audience. Among them, 17 students are recognized by the multidisciplinary judges from the College of Engineering, including 8 college-level awards (top 3 awards plus 5 honorable mentions) and 9 department-level awards.

Zilan Yang from our group presented the electrochemical selenium removal research work and received an Honorable Mention at the College of Engineering level. Congrats!

https://eng.auburn.edu/news/2021/11/method-to-detect-cancer-in-early-stages-wins-research-competition.html

Our incoming group member, Ms. Zilan Yang, receives the Walt and Virginia Woltosz Fellowship from the College of Engineering. Zilan will join this summer and start as a Ph.D. student in the Zou lab. Congrats!

More information about the College of Engineering fellowships can be found here: http://eng.auburn.edu/future-students/graduate/fellowship-program/index.html

I finally passed my Ph.D. defense today. So now I can officially call myself Dr. Zou!

Many thanks to all my committee members, friends, and family members for their love and support through these four years!

After six semesters, I have finally completed all five modules of the Engineering Futures Programs. This afternoon, I received the package containing my certificate from Tau Beta Pi. What a surprise!!

I’m appointed as a Via Teaching Scholar this semester at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Thrilled to have the opportunity to teach CEE3104 “Introduction to Environmental Engineering”! Looking forward to this journey with 38 undergrads in my class.

The leadership of WER wants to thank the top reviewers of the last year. The academics listed below have contributed the most outstanding reviews in 2017.Thank you for your service to the journal!

• Daniel Cassidy
• Guangbin Li
• Hanzhuo Fu
• Xiaojin Li
• Charles Bleckmann
• Jongmin Kim
• James Pratt
• Murat Eyvaz
• W.J. Huang
• Hao Chen
• Chih-Ming Kao
• Khalid Elwakeel
• Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet
• Tian Zhang
• Yi He
• Grant Goedjen
• Norma Beltran
• Ashley Pifer
• Ningshengjie Gao
• Gaoke Zhang
• Hamidreza Sharifan
• Jaret Johnson
• Murthy Kasi
• Thomas O’Connor
• Shiqiang Zou

Original link for this news:  https://www.wef.org/wer

This is my second time attending Graduate Student Assembly Research Symposium, and it’s amazing that I won the Gold Prize in oral presentation!

Link: http://www.cee.vt.edu/ewr/2017/04/26/ewr-excels-at-gsa-symposium/