Chemical Engineering Senior Takes 3rd Prize at WAESO Conference with Bioremediation Project

Erica Vanover (Photo: by José L. Muñoz)

Erica T. Vanover, a senior majoring in chemical engineering, was awarded third prize in the 2018 Student Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunity Conference poster competition in Tempe, Arizona, March 2.

Vanover is an undergraduate research assistant working alongside professors Reyes Sierra and Jim Field. In her presentation, “Remediation of Insensitive Munitions Compound 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO),” she addressed bioremediation of soil contaminated by toxic munitions compounds.