Amy Childress
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University of California, Los Angeles (MS)
University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)Amy Childress | |
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| Occupations | Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Maryland (BS)
University of California, Los Angeles (MS) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Sub-discipline | Desalination, water treatment, and water reuse |
| Institutions | University of Southern California |
Amy Childress is an American professor. She is Dean's Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, Director of USC's ReWater Center and Academic Lead for the Water Reuse Consortium.[1][2] Childress is recognized for her work on membrane technologies used for desalination and wastewater reuse and her ability to translate research results and other scientific and engineering knowledge into guidance on implementation of advanced water projects in the U.S. and abroad.[3][4] She is a Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science professors (AEESP)[5] and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar.[6] In 2024 Childress was named the Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize Laureate by the National Water Research Institute (NWRI).[4]
Childress graduated from the University of Maryland in 1992 with a B.S. degree in civil engineering.[2][1] A paper based on her undergraduate research at the USDA Agricultural Research Service Hydrology Laboratory[7] won the Journal of the American Water Resources Association William R. Boggess Award in 1994.[8] Upon graduation, Childress was awarded a fellowship from the University of California, Los Angeles where she earned a master's degree and PhD in civil and environmental engineering.[1] Her PhD research on the characterization of nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes was carried out under the supervision of Professor Menachem Elimelech.[9][10] A paper from this research was awarded the 2012 AEESP Outstanding Paper Award as a "landmark environmental engineering and science paper that has withstood the test of time and significantly influenced the practice of environmental engineering and science."[11]
