CEES graduate student, Ms. Melisa Stewart received the first place award for her oral presentation (Carbon Capture with a Novel Solid Adsorbent of Polyethyleneimine Impregnated Titanate nanotubes) at the Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) held February 25-27 in Washington, DC. The conference is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and National Science Foundation (NSF) mainly for graduate and undergraduate student researchers. She received first place in Ecology, Environmental and Earth Sciences subject area. She is an advisee of Dr. Raghava R. Kommalapati in the Energy and Environment group and works closely with Dr. Hongbo Du, Post-Doc Researcher on a Department of Energy (DOE) funded project on carbon capture. She is pursuing her MS in Engineering degree with Environmental Engineering Concentration.