11:30am: Reception & Poster Session- Levitt Center Atrium

12:30pm: True Distinguished Lecture- Levitt Center Auditorium, 3rd floor

Greg Lowry is a Hamershlag University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is an executive and associate editor of the ACS Journal Environmental Science & Technology. His environmental nanotechnology and chemistry research aims to improve the efficiency and resilience of crop agriculture, environmental remediation, and water treatment.

Lowry holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California at Davis, an M.S. in civil and environmental engineering from University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University. He was a postdoc at Stanford in the Geological and Environmental Sciences Department.

He has published over 230 scientific articles and is a “highly cited” scientist (top 1%) in the area of ecology and environment. He has received research awards from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (Science Award), American Society of Civil Engineers (Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Award), Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (Malcolm Pirnie/AEESP Frontiers in Research Award), and from his University (Casasent Outstanding Research Award). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.

https://engineering.cmu.edu/lowry-lab/directory/index.html

Through their philanthropy Doug and June True support the faculty and students of the University’s Department of Chemistry in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Doug was a UI administrator for many years. Upon his retirement the entrance atrium of the Chemistry Building was named in his honor.

It is a particular privilege for Doug and June to endow this annual distinguished lecture series through gifts to the UI Center for Advancement.