Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) recently funded Mills Scholarships to 10 Texas A&M University graduate students — six of them from the Dwight Look College of Engineering — for the 2009-10 academic year to pursue water-related research.

Engineering students receiving the scholarships are:
• Hannah Childress and Di Long — Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
• Chandana Damodaram, Celso Moller Ferreira, Marcio Hofheinz Giacomoni and Sanjay Tewari — Zachry Department of Civil Engineering

TWRI’s Mills Scholars Program, an endowed fund that supports research in water conservation and management, provided the $1,500 scholarships to the students to use for education-related expenses.

TWRI uses the Mills Scholars program to encourage and assist current and prospective Texas A&M University graduate students addressing priority water resource issues facing Texas.

Some of this year’s Mills Scholars’ research topics include examining the effects of land use, using the hydrologic footprint model to model best management practices and determine downstream effects, investigating the use of green roof technology to mitigate stormwater runoff, and using UV light disinfection to reduce the concentration of tetracycline-resistant genes.

Mills Cox, a former chairman of the Texas Water Development Board, funded the W.G. Mills Endowment, which provides the scholarships.

For more information on the Mill’s Scholarship Program or to learn more about the students’ projects, contact Cecilia Wagner, TWRI project manager, at 979.458.1138 or cawagner@ag.tamu.edu or go to http://twri.tamu.edu/mills.php.

The Texas Water Resources Institute, part of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas AgriLife Research, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, provides leadership to stimulate priority water resources research and educational programs for AgriLife Research and AgriLife Extension as well as throughout Texas.

Submitted by Leslie Jordan, LHJordan@ag.tamu.edu

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