Rowan engineers take home environmental conference awards
May 23, 2006

Three Rowan University civil and environmental engineering students took home awards at the recent 91st Annual New Jersey Water Environment Association Conference in Atlantic City. The students won these awards based on their research on environmental topics. Walter Walker, a 23-year-old graduate student from Vineland, won the Louis Fontanelli Graduate Student Research Excellence Award for his paper titled “Feasibility of Wastewater Reuse in Southern New Jersey.” He also took first place in the graduate student research poster competition with the same topic.

Danielle Scrivani, a 21-year-old junior from Vineland, won the Daniel Bigler Undergraduate Research Award for her research on “Wastewater Reuse in New Jersey.”

Matthew DeNafo, a 24-year-old senior from Braddock, working along with Nate Vizzi (23, junior, of Blackwood), Kristen Bacher (23, senior, of Sewell) and chemical engineering student John Kalosy (22, junior, of Newton), presented and won first place in the undergraduate student poster competition for a poster titled “Arsenic Removal by Bacteria and Plants.”