The Water Environment Federation will honor the first 17 recipients of the WEF Fellow Recognition Program during WEFTEC in Los Angeles Oct. 15-19. Approved by the Board of Trustees last July, the program honors the professional achievements, stature, and contributions of WEF members in various water fields.
“WEF takes a great deal of pride in the vast knowledge base of our members and in honor of that, we felt it was very important to provide a distinguished recognition program,” said WEF president Jeanette Brown. “We are pleased to celebrate the personal achievements of this year’s Fellows.”
The Fellow program recognizes accomplishments in the professional segments served by WEF. Areas of recognition include design, education, operations, regulation, research, and utility management and leadership. Fellow recipients will be permitted to use the WEF Fellow designation after their names in a professional capacity. The 2011 recipients are:
* Pedro Alvarez, Rice University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Houston, Texas
* Walter Bailey, DC Water & Sewer Authority, Washington, D.C.
* James L. Barnard, Black & Veatch, Leawood, Kan.
*Paul L. Bishop, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va.
* Pen-Chi Chiang, Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
* Stephan D. Frank, Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, Denver, Colo.
* Paul L. Freedman, Limno Tech, Ann Arbor, Mich.
* Thomas E. Kunetz, Metropolitant Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Ill.
* Eric R. Lecuyer, Central States WEA, Crystal Lake, Ill.
* Bruce E. Logan, Penn State University, University Park, Pa.
* Nancy G. Love, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
* Tim Madhanagopal, Orange County Utilities, South Water Reclamation Facility
Orlando, Fla.
*John T. Morris, Morris Water Resources Consultants, San Marino, Calif.
* John T. Novak, Virginia Poly Institute & State University, Blacksburg, Va.
* Krishna R. Pagilla, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
* James Tony Parrott, Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio
* Spyros Pavlostathis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
