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NC State's Aneja Receives North Carolina's Highest Civilian Honor
Lauren Gregg, News Services, (919) 515-3470
Nov. 28, 2007
Dr. Viney Aneja, professor of air quality and environmental technology at North Carolina State University, has been awarded the prestigious 2007 North Carolina Award for Science -the highest civilian honor the state can bestow -for his pioneering contributions to environmental science.
Aneja's work deals primarily with air quality issues. His research in the Appalachian Mountains and in urban North Carolina has focused on damage to trees in the state's mountains and ozone pollution in the cities caused by acid deposition. His more recent work is concentrated on the effects of animal feeding operations on air quality, a field of inquiry of major interest to the eastern part of the state.
Aneja is a joint faculty member of both the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the College of Natural Resources. He served on the Governor's Task Force on Hazardous Materials, the N.C. Progress Board, the Technical Advisory Committee of N.C. Environmental Defense, and now serves as director of the Air and Waste Management Association. In 1998, the association presented him with the Frank A. Chambers Award, the organization's highest honor; and in 2001, he received its Lyman A. Ripperton Award for distinguished achievement as an educator. The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture appointed him as a member of the U.S. Agricultural Air Quality Task Force. He is also a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board's Environmental Engineering Committee.
Aneja has served as lead scientist for state and national government studies and has worked with colleagues and government officials on environmental issues in Australia, France, China, Germany, Japan, India, Israel, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom He has published more than 140 scientific papers, 2 books and holds 5 U.S. patents.
Aneja was born in India and earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, and master's and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering at NC State.
Created by the General Assembly in 1961, the North Carolina Awards have been presented annually since 1964. More than 200 distinguished North Carolinians have been selected as recipients by citizens' nominations from across the state.
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