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An opportunity for scholarships:
The NY Section of AWWA awards four scholarships every year, two for undergraduates, one for graduate students and one for AWWA members or their family. The deadline for filing is Monday, February 6, 2012. General information can be found at: http://www.nysawwa.org.

On the home page, go to “Students” under “Important Links and Information”.   The three available scholarships are listed near the bottom of the page. The direct link for applying is: http://fs11.formsite.com/nysawwaorg/form22/print

The Fall Manhattan College Career Fair is Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 from 12 – 4 pm at Draddy Gym. Of the 75 companies attending, at least 10 hire Environmental Engineers. Seniors and graduate students looking for jobs next year — make sure you attend.

I am on sabbatical in Fall 2011. I’ll post to document where I go and what I do. I will be back on campus full time in time for the Spring 2012 semester.

Next week (February 6-9, 2011), is the New York Water Environment Association (NYWEA) Meeting 83rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition. The is a great meeting for students to network and make contacts in the field. Any students interested in attending the meeting should contact me or the NYWEA offers, and should bring 25 copies of their resume to the meeting. The meeting is being held at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.

On Tuesday, Feb 8th, I will be co-moderating the University Forum at the NYWEA meeting where students from universities with NYWEA chapters will be presenting their research. This session is from 1:20 to 4:40 in the Wilder Room on the 4th Floor. In addition their is a Young Professionals reception starting at 4:30 which is useful to meet new contacts.

My collaborators at University of Delaware and I recently published a paper on the distribution of proton dissociation constants of natural organic matter. The paper discusses the use of SPARC (short for SPARC Performs Automated Reasoning in Chemistry to compute proton dissociation constants for model humic and fulvic acid molecules. Congrats to all involved.

On July 28, the Ciba High School Chemistry Institute visited the Environmental Engineering Labs at Manhattan College for the annual “Filter Design Competition.” The students did a great job! Check out the photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/richeql/CibaHighSchoolChemistryInstitute2008

Manhattan College graduate student Eric Sparimino is currently driving across the country in the college’s waste vegetable oil (WVO) powered Mercedes Benz. He is on his way to WEFTEC ’07 in San Diego. Check out his adventures at his blog. The car is appropriately and coincidentally green in color.