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CBEE Students Win Poster Competition at CSAWWA Spring Meeting

The Chesapeake Section of the American Water Works Association's (CSAWWA) 2026 Spring Meeting took place on May 7, 2026, in Baltimore, MD, and two CBEE students were among the three winners of the student poster competition. 

Marylia Duarte Batista (PhD student, Lee Blaney) took first place with her poster: Hybrid anion-exchange resins improve the uptake and selectivity for (ultra)short-chain PFAS in drinking water

Marylia Duarte Batista at CSAWWA spring meeting

Maaike Swaters (BS student, Lee Blaney) took third place with her poster: Optimizing membrane selection to decrease ion pair effects on nutrient recovery by Donnan dialysis

Maaike Swaters at CSAWWA spring meetingJacob Craft, (BS student, Lee Blaney) also attended the event and presented his poster. 

Jacob Craft at CWASSA spring meeting

Congrats, Marylia and Maaike! More information about the event can be found here: https://www.csawwa.org/spring-meeting.html

Posted: May 8, 2026, 1:18 PM

CBEE Students as the CSAWWA Spring Meeting