The Chesapeake Section of the American Water Works Association's (CSAWWA) 2026 Spring Meeting took place on May 7, 2026, in Baltimore, MD, and two CBEE students were among the three winners of the student poster competition.
Marylia Duarte Batista (PhD student, Lee Blaney) took first place with her poster: Hybrid anion-exchange resins improve the uptake and selectivity for (ultra)short-chain PFAS in drinking water
Maaike Swaters (BS student, Lee Blaney) took third place with her poster: Optimizing membrane selection to decrease ion pair effects on nutrient recovery by Donnan dialysis
Jacob Craft, (BS student, Lee Blaney) also attended the event and presented his poster.
Congrats, Marylia and Maaike! More information about the event can be found here: https://www.csawwa.org/spring-meeting.html.