Associate Dean Nancy Love
Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives
Dr. Nancy Love is a professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University Michigan. In September 2011, she will become Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives in the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan. Prior to 2008, Dr. Love was an Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on environmental biotechnology and water quality with an emphasis on engineered treatment systems. Her specific interests focus on the fate of stressor chemicals in these systems, the use of technologies to sense and remove these chemicals, and on resource recovery from wastewater. Dr. Love has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Systems Engineering from Clemson University. After completing her M.S. degree, she worked as a process design engineer for approximately 3 years for CH2M Hill, Inc.
Dr. Love has served or serves as major advisor for 33 M.S. students, 15 Ph.D. students, 6 post-doctoral research associates and 25 undergraduate research assistants. She has been involved with a wide range of collaborative research projects totaling over $9 million (total), and was also instrumental in securing a $3.5 million NSF Advance Institutional Transformation grant while at Virginia Tech. She has published 67 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 book chapters, 3 peer-reviewed research reports, and over 200 conference papers, abstracts, presentations, invited lectures and research editorials. She recently co-authored the third edition of the textbook Biological Wastewater Treatment with Les Grady, Glen Daigger and Carlos Filipe. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including: the NSF CAREER Award; the Paul L. Busch Award for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research; the Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal, the Rudolf’s Industrial Waste Management Medal, and the Gordon Maskew Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator from the Water Environment Federation; the Civil and Environmental Engineering (Virginia Tech) Alumni Teaching Excellence Award. She was recently selected by eminence to be a Board Certified Environmental Engineer by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and was also inducted as a Fellow of the Water Environment Federation.