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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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    Maeen Md Khairul Akter Awarded NYSASWM and the SWANA Scholarships in 2026

    Maeen Md Khairul Akter, a PhD candidate in the Department of Technology and Society and Graduate Research Assistant in the Waste Data and Analysis center (WDAC), has been awarded the Christiansen-Roller-White-Miles Founders’ scholarship by New York State Association of Solid Waste Management (NYSASWM) and the Robert Stearns Graduate Scholarship by…

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