2014-15 Graduate Scholarships in Water Announced

Friday, January 23, 2015
The Water Institute received 28 applications from across five faculties for the five scholarships that were offered in the Water Instutite graduate scholarship competition. It was a very competitive field with many outstanding applications. The applications were judged on several criteria including academic excellence, water research impact, and leadership ability.
The Water Institute is pleased to announce the following scholarship recipients for 2014-2015:

Golder Associates Graduate Scholarships in Water Research
Colin McCarter, PhD candiate, Department of Geography and Environmental Management
Determining the transport dynamics of wastewater in subarctic fen peatlands 
Supervisor: Jonathan Price

Maricor Arlos, PhD candidate, Department of Biology
Degradation of representative organic micropollutants and their associated biological activity using titanium dioxide photocatalysis
Supervisors: Mark Servos and Susan Andrews (UofT)

AECOM Graduate Scholarship in Water Research
Kai Liu, MSc candidate, Depatment of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Use of Fe isotopes to trace the movement of cyanobacteria in lake systems and thus shed light on the formation mechanism of toxic cyanobacterial bloom
Supervisor: Lingling Wu

Gregory Lui, PhD candiate, Department of Chemical Engineering
Fabrication of novel photocatalytic nanomaterials for wastewater treatment
Supervisors: Aiping Yu and Michael Fowler

The Water Institute Graduate Scholarship (Stantec)
Ye Zhou, MASc candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Improving the Estimation of Cryptosporidium Removal by Rapid Granular Filtration
Supervisors: Peter Huck and Bill B. Anderson