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Professor Love selected as a 2015 AEESP Fellow

Civil and Environmental Engineering
April 1, 2015
The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Board of Directors selected Professor Nancy Love as one of the 2015 AEESP Fellows.| Short Read

AEESP Fellows are selected based on their accomplishments in environmental engineering research, teaching and professional service, with emphasis on service within the AEESP. Selection is for life, or throughout the duration of membership within the AEESP.

Love was also recently selected as the 2015 AEESP Foundation Distinguished Lecturer.

Love is a Fellow of the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association. Her research focuses on environmental biotechnology and water quality with an emphasis on the interplay between chemicals of concern and microbial community structure and function in engineered treatment systems; nutrient management; and resource recovery from wastewater.

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