Graduate students Ye Cao and Xiaozhen Liu, who are working with Professor Chris Frey, have received Student Travel Awards from the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) to attend the Society's Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, December 6-9, 2009.  Ye Cao received the Student Merit Award from the Exposure Assessment Specialty Group of SRA for her paper on "Evaluation of the Modeling of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) in the SHEDS-PM Model."

Graduate research assistants in Dr. Frey's group have won numerous awards in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA), held June 16-19, 2009 in Detroit, Michigan.  Brandon Graver, Ye Cao, and Xiaozhen Liu received Student Travel Awards from the Research Triangle Park (RTP) Chapter of A&WMA to attend the Annual Meeting.  Ye Cao won an A&WMA Young Professional Best Paper Award in the area of Environmental Management.  Brandon Graver won first place in the A&WMA Student Poster Competition at the Master's level.