2006 Faculty Awards: Suidan Earns Research Title
The internationally acclaimed research of Makram Suidan focuses on breakthroughs in cleaning up hazardous waste and assuring safe drinking water.
With over 240 peer-reviewed publications to his credit, Dr. Suidans work has made an exceptional impact through lower-cost and more effective water quality and toxic waste treatments. Since his arrival at the College of Engineering in 1990, Suidans research awards have totaled more than $30 million.
In 2003, he received the universitys doctoral mentoring award, awarded each year at doctoral hooding.
Most recently, Professor Suidans laboratory received funding from the U.S. EPA as the leader of an interdisciplinary team that developed a treatment system to successfully remove from groundwater at a site in New England a gasoline additive that is a suspected carcinogen.
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