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PhD student awarded a NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to go to Stanford University
April 9, 2020
Cherie De Vore, Ph.D. Candidate working under Dr. Jose Cerrato, Associate Professor in CCEE, has been awarded a 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship will fund two years of Cherie’s research related to bioavailability of As from mining-impacted soil microsites governed by biogeochemical redox cycling. Cherie plans to graduate in Summer, 2020 with a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering. Her project is entitled, “Arsenic Bioavailability and Speciation controlled by Plant-Soil Microsites on Native American Lands” and she will be joining the Soil and Environmental Geochemistry Research Group at Stanford University with Dr. Scott Fendorf in Fall 2020.