EVEN Professor Mark Hernandez's Student Nicollette Laroco is the recipient of two new Scholarships:
The Colorado Environmental Management Society 2018 Scholarship:
The Colorado Environmental Management Society (CEMS) is a non-profit organization created in 1985 to provide a forum for the exchange of information concerning technologies, laws and regulations, and other current environmental issues. CEMS membership consists of technical and legal professionals from environmental organizations, government agencies, academia, industry and the private sector. Its mission statement is to provide a mechanism for professional enhancement of its members with respect to environmental and health and safety (EHS) management. In addition, CEMS seeks to serve government, industry, environmental organizations and individuals in the development and use of prudent EHS management practices in the State of Colorado. It is the intent of the Society to be the premier non-profit professional EHS management organization in Colorado.
Nicollette will be attending the CEMS meeting in August 2018 to be recognized and honored for the scholarship.
Society of Women Engineers 2018 Past Presidents scholarship:
For more than six decades, SWE has given women engineers a unique place and voice within the engineering industry. The organization is centered around a passion for our members' success and continues to evolve with the challenges and opportunities reflected in today's exciting engineering and technology specialties. The SWE Scholarship Program provides financial assistance to women studying baccalaureate or graduate programs, in preparation for careers in engineering, engineering technology and computer science. Forty-three presidents and countless milestones later, SWE's presidents have each played a vital role in our history. The past Presidents scholarships recognizes and honors these leaders.
Nicollette Laroco is a graduate student in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering department at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016 and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. Her interest in the environmental field stems from her research and industry experiences at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Carollo Engineers, and most recently in Bihar, India where she assisted a local NGO to design and build sanitation facilities and energy recovery systems to eliminate open defecation and its associated health and environmental externalities.
Her experience in India led her to pursue a graduate certificate in Engineering for Developing Communities and further research in optimizing anaerobic digestion systems under the guidance of Dr. Mark Hernandez.
She believes the skills and expertise that reside within the field of environmental engineering are fundamental to achieve much broader range of SDGs (UN Sustainable Development Goals) that include energy, sanitation security, economic development, and reduction of poverty and inequalities. Her future goal in the environmental engineering sector is to research and develop sustainable technologies that improve environmental impacts and energy recovery in both developed and developing economies, improving water-energy and human-environmental systems worldwide.