CEE graduate student William Pennock has been awarded a 2014 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Pennock completed his undergraduate studies in 2013 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he was named the CEE Department’s Outstanding Senior. At Cornell, Pennock has been involved with the AguaClara student project team. Pennock’s research proposed is entitled “Developing a Predictive Model of Turbulent Flocculator Performance” and it will be carried out with Senior Lecturer Monroe Weber-Shirk and Professor Leonard Lion.
The NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program helps “ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions.”