Upcoming Event: ISWA-SWIS 2017 Winter School

ISWA-SWIS Winter School 16 - 27 January 2017 on Landfill & Landfill Mining, Arlington & CIty of Denton - Texas / USA

The ISWA-SWIS Winter School 2017 on Solid Waste Management: Landfill & Landfill Mining takes place in Arlington & City of Denton - Texas / USA from 16 - 27 January 2017. It is a two-week full-time course with 50% theory and 50% hands-on learning, organised by leading authorities on and managers of sustainable landfill sites from the University of Texas and the City of Denton.

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Registration for the Winter School is still open - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Congratulations Scholarship Winners!

Results: Winter School 2017 - Essay Competition

The Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Texas, USA is pleased to announce the “2017 ISWA-SWIS Competition on Sustainable Waste Management Essay” results. We would like to thank all the participants for their interest and participation in the essay competition. Most of you did an excellent job writing essays on many interesting topics.

This year, we have received many applications and essays from both students and solid waste professionals. Therefore, we have divided the scholarships into two categories and the funding levels are different for both categories:
(1) Student’s Scholarships and (2) Professional's Scholarship

After extensive review and consideration, we have finalized the list of candidates for the 2017 ISWA-SWIS Winter School Scholarship winners:

Student Scholarship Winners:
1. Anwesha Borthakur – Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India
2. Arda Isildar – Institute for Water Education, UNESCO-IHE, Turkey
3. Asma Qazi – Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan
4. Fabiana Tornese – Università del Salento, Italy
5. Galuh Sekar Arum – Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia
6. George Ralak – University of Nairobi, Kenya
7. Kazi Akib Bin Asad – North South University, Bangladesh
8. Maria Burgstaller – Technical University Munich, Germany
9. Taher Abunama – University of Malaya in Malaysia, Palestine
10. Tang Jidan – Xiamen University, China
11. Youssef Frikha – National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia

Professional Scholarship Winners:
1. Ahimbisibwe Alfred – Kabale Municipal Council, Uganda
2. Ankita Rathor – CTARA, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India
3. Basem Abu Sneineh – Jordan University for Science & Technology (JUST), United Arab Emirates
4. Denis Kutsyi – Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Ukraine National Academy of Science / SEC Biomass Ltd., Ukraine
5. Isaac Monney – University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
6. José Alejandro Martínez S – Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Colombia
7. Md. Shoriful Alam Mondal (Jewel) – Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh
8. Monica Rodriguez – Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Puetro Rico
9. Nathalia Lima – Giral Viveiro de Projetos, Brazil
10. PierreGeorges Verdieu – Université des Antilles in Guadeloupe, Haiti
11. Taif Hossain Rocky – BUET, IBA, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
12. Vishwas Vidyaranya – Institute for Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management (ISAH), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; India

Congratulations to the winners and see you in January 2017. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

MD. Sahadat Hossain, Ph.D., P.E.
Director, Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS)
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Box 19308
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019
Tel - (817) 272-3577
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