Hesham Bekhit Receives 2003 Guinn Environmental Fellowship

Hesham Bekhit, a Ph.D. student in the University of Nevada, Reno Hydrologic Sciences Program, has been awarded the Kenny Guinn Environmental Fellowship by the Desert Research Institute, DRI President Stephen G. Wells announced. Wells said that Sprint has agreed to underwrite the annual $15,000 fellowship, which was established by DRI in 2001 to acknowledge Governor Guinn's Millennium Scholarship Program.

Bekhit will use his fellowship to conduct laboratory experiments on the potential of colloids-liquids containing undissolved solids in suspension, such as the milk fats suspended in whole milk-to retard or mitigate the movement of pollutants in ground water. Bekhit is completing his course work at UNR this semester and will conduct his experiments at DRI's Las Vegas research facility under the guidance of Dr. Ahmed Hassan, assistant professor in DRI's Division of Hydrologic Sciences.