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    WDAC Research Highlights Differences in NYS Waste Streams

    Waste Data and Analysis Center (WDAC) researchers (Yiyi Wang, Firman Firmansyah, Hailey Lee, Shizhe Li, Krista Thyberg, and Elizabeth Hewitt) and a former member (Griffin Walker), have published a new research article examining the compositional differences between different waste sources in the journal Waste.  The paper, titled “Exploring Compositional Differences…

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    Maeen Md Khairul Akter Receives 2026 EREF Scholarship Award

    Maeen Md Khairul Akter, a PhD candidate in the Department of Technology, AI and Society and a research assistant at the Waste Data and Analysis Center (WDAC), has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) Scholarship Award. This highly competitive scholarship provides $16,000…

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    Dr. Firmansyah Awarded National Educational Data Science Fellowship

    Dr. Firman M. Firmansyah, Research Manager at the Waste Data and Analysis Center (WDAC), has been selected for the Data Science for Education (DS4Edu) Fellowship, a competitive one-year program supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). He will work directly alongside leading data and learning…

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