Junior Julianne Chan Wins Udall Scholarship, Rutgers’ First Recipient Since 2004
May 3, 2024
Julianne Chan has focused her time at Rutgers on finding ways to improve the environment.
A junior majoring in environmental engineering at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Chan worked on projects studying plastic pollution and is involved in a collaboration with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection on a project analyzing the prevalence of microplastics in wastewater. She extracts and analyzes the microplastic concentrations from different stages of wastewater treatment to assess the efficiency of treatment plants to remove microplastics before they reach the environment.
It is this dedication to the environment that earned Chan a Udall Undergraduate Scholarship, an honor which identifies future leaders in the environmental, tribal public policy or Native American health care fields.