Industry Fellowship Awarded to UW-Madison Student

 

Paul E. Check, a UW-Madison Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. candidate, has received a Clack Corporation / Sea Grant Industry Fellowship.

The fellowship will be funded for three years by a grant received from the National Sea Grant College Program and matching funds from Clack Corp. of Windsor, Wis.

Check will work with Sea Grant researcher Marc Anderson, professor of water chemistry at UW-Madison, on developing a photocatalytic reactor capable of oxidizing toxic and carcinogenic organic compounds and removing heavy metal contaminants from drinking water. The research will result in household countertop filters that provide safe drinking water.

Check earned a management degree from Madison Area Technical College, a B.S. in chemical engineering, and an M.S. in environmental engineering from UW-Madison. He has created and managed manufacturing production lines and researched and developed filter media for drinking water treatment systems at Clack Corp. since 1989.

The Sea Grant Industry Fellows Program works to strengthen ties between the nation’s top scientists and engineers and their industrial counterparts.

 

- John Karl

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