Susan Jablonski, graduate student in environmental and water resources engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, received the 2008 Richard S. Hodes, M.D. Honor Lecture Award. The award recognizes an individual, company or organization that contributed in a significant way to improving the technology, policy or practices of low-level radioactive waste management in the United States. Jablonski, who currently serves as director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s Radioactive Materials Division, manages Texas’ regulatory programs for the disposal of commercial radioactive material, source material (uranium) recovery, and commercial radioactive waste storage and processing.
As the award recipient, Jablonski will present a lecture during the Waste Management ’09 Symposium.
Jablonski’s supervising professor is Dr. Randall Charbeneau, professor of civil engineering.
