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Graduate students win fellowships to fund work on radium in aquifer systems

Madeleine Mathews and Amy Plechacek, both of whom are graduate students in the lab of Assistant Professor Matthew Ginder-Vogel in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, have received fellowships to support their work.

Mathews, a PhD student from Santa Barbara, California, received a Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship through the Graduate School. Plechacek, a master’s student from Boyd, Wisconsin, landed a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Both are studying geochemical interactions of radium in the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system, which spans Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Missouri.