Recent grad wins paper competition
Ms. Dang Thi Ngoc Ha, who graduated 24 May from the School of Environment, Resources and Development, won the best student paper award from the West Coast Section of the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA). The paper has been written from her master's thesis research and was sent to the judging panel in April. The paper is called 'Determination of Atmospheric Deposition Fluxes of Air Pollutants onto the Earth Surface' (Dang Thi Ngoc Ha and N. T. Kim Oanh).
The award is associated with 1,250 USD for the student to attend the AWMA 99th annual meeting in New Orleans, USA, 20-23 June 20-23 to participate in the student poster competition of the AWMA.
The Air & Waste Management Association is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional organization that provides training, information, and networking opportunities to more than 9,000 environmental professionals in 65 countries. The association's goals are to strengthen the environmental profession, expand scientific and technological responses to environmental concerns, and assist professionals in critical environmental decision making to benefit society. Currently, the association has more than 32 regional sections, 68 local chapters, and 50 student chapters.
The West Coast Section includes several professional chapters, and student chapters including three in Asia (Singapore, Indonesia and AIT) and other student chapters in the universities on the West Coast of the United States. The AIT student chapter was established in 1999 and Dr. Kim Oanh from Environmental Engineering and Management has been the faculty in charge of the chapter since the establishment.
Each year the WCS AWMA organizes the student paper competition to select the best papers written from research of both master's and Ph.D. student categories for the award.