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Greenguard Environmental Institute Awards Fellowship

The Institute is currently accepting applications for its 2007 fellowship program.

Chrysanthe Tenentes -- Interior Design, 12/11/2006 12:00:00 AM

Chi Phuon Hoang is the 2006 winner of the Ken Dillon Memorial Fellow, awarded by the Greenguard Environmental Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving air quality. As recipient of the award, Chi Phuon Hoang will receive a $3500 fellowship to conduct research.

Hoang, a University of Texas at Austin doctoral student, caught the jury's eye with a project proposal to study the secondary emissions of green products. He plans to research the chemistry of environmentally-sound building materials, in order to compare them to conventional building products and determine their public health implications. The Ken Dillon Memorial Fellowship is awarded annually to a graduate or undergraduate student studying indoor air and environments and their effect on human health and quality of life. The fellowship is in honor of the late Dr. Henry Kenneth Dillon, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and founding member of Greenguard's Advisory Board. He was "a humanitarian who was committed to educating students and his community on the importance of our indoor air quality and its effect on public health," remembers Carl Smith, CEO of Greenguard. Greenguard Environmental Institute, founded in 2001 to improve public health via improved indoor air quality, issues the Greenguard air quality certification to products that meet low-emissions standards. The Institute is currently accepting applications, due October 1, 2007, for the 2007 fellowship award. Call 800-427-9681 or e-mail Dillonfellowship@greenguard.org to request an application. The 2007 winner will be announced at annual green building conference and expo Greenbuild 2007, which will be held October 17-19 in Los Angeles.