Student Awards

Charles “C.J.” Spellman is a fifth year PhD student in the Civil & Environmental Engineering program at the University of Rhode Island and is expecting to graduate this August. CJ is a member of the Water for the World research lab at URI. His research focuses on innovative iron-based water and wastewater treatment technologies, with specific aims of bringing these technologies closer to full scale implementation. CJ earned a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Saint Francis University and a Masters in Civil & Environmental Engineering from URI. A primary focus of his graduate studies has been the active co-treatment of mine drainage in municipal wastewater treatment plants. This research has resulted in several peer reviewed publications, an article in the Water Environment Federation trade journal, and a presentation award at a prior ASRS conference. CJ has also used this research to expose undergraduate students to mine reclamation topics, a field of study generally overlooked and not discussed in most New England college engineering curriculums.