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DRI Academic Vice President Jack Hess, left, presents a plaque acknowledging the 1997 George Burke Maxey Fellowship award to graduate student Eric Harlow, right. Harlow's UNR advisor, Professor Wally Miller, center, is chairman of UNR's Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences. |
Derek Sloop, a DRI graduate research assistant who is pursuing a master's degree in water resources management at UNLV, was recognized for his paper, "Equilibrium Sorption of Pb(II) and Sr(II) Cations by Zeolitized Tuffs from the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada." The $1,000 awards are given each year to UNR and/or UNLV graduate students for competitively selected research papers on subjects related to water science and engineering.
The award was established through the generosity of family, friends, and former students of Dr. George Burke Maxey and his wife, Jane C. Maxey. George Maxey was director of DRI's Water Resources Center from 1967 until his death in 1977.
Winners of two of the Institute's
most prestigious graduate student
competitions were recently announced. The $15,000, three-year Sulo and
Aileen Maki Hydrology/Hydrogeology Fellowship was awarded to Rina
Schumer, a Ph.D. student in hydrogeology at the University of Nevada,
Reno (UNR). Schumer, who earned a master's degree in hydrogeology from
UNR, said she plans to "emphasize course work in applied mathematics to
better describe groundwater flow, solute transport, and the numerical
methods used to model these processes."
The one-year, $10,000 George Burke Maxey Hydrology/Hydrogeology
Fellowship established by Elizabeth West Stout, DRI Research Foundation
trustee emerita, was awarded to Eric Harlow for his research proposal,
"Soil Nutrient Transport in a Lake Tahoe Watershed." He is pursuing a
master's degree in hydrology from UNR and received a bachelor's degree in
geology from Michigan State University.
Approximately 55 graduate students pursuing degrees at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and UNR are employed by DRI on various research projects.
F. John Case, DRI's assistant vice president and controller, has received
a three-year appointment to the fundamentals workshop
faculty of the National Council of University Research Administrators
(NCURA). NCURA is a major national professional organization advocating standards and procedures for research administration at American universities. NCURA's workshops provide advanced professional development training for campus research administrators.
Case joined DRI in September 1995 from his position as research program manager in the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester in New York. He is responsible for the financial tracking of more than 140 ongoing research projects at DRI and for the Institute's general accounting.
Nevada's Office of Historic Preservation presented Dr. Colleen Beck with
a 1997 Preservation Award. The deputy director of
DRI's Quaternary Sciences Center, Beck was honored for her "contributions
to the preservation of the state?s heritage." Nevada
State Historic Preservation Officer Ron James added; "As former president
of the Nevada Archaeological Association, Colleen
Beck has done much to help educate the public and publicize archaeology
in southern Nevada."
Joseph Licciardi, a Ph.D. candidate in geology at Oregon State University, received the Jonathan O. Davis Scholarship in Quaternary Sciences. He was awarded the scholarship on the basis of his dissertation research, "Towards Developing a Numerical Chronology of Late Pleistocene Glaciation in the Wallowa Mountains, OR, Ruby Mountains, NV, and Yellowstone Plateau, WY, Using Surface Exposure Dating Methods."
The scholarship is the result of an endowment established by the colleagues, family, and friends of Jonathan O. Davis after he died in a car accident. Davis, a DRI faculty member from 1980 until his death in 1990, was a prominent geologist and geoarchaeologist.
If you live in northern or southern Nevada and your group is looking for an interesting speaker, contact the DRI Speakers Bureau program. Just call John Gardner in Las Vegas (702-895-0408) or Tonya Drake in Reno (702-674-7555).
