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Lyman A. Ripperton Environmental Educator Award


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The Lyman A. Ripperton Award, established by resolution of the Board of Directors on November 13, 1980, is for distinguished achievement as an educator in some field of air pollution control. It is awarded to an individual, who by precept and example, has inspired students to achieve excellence in all their professional and social endeavors. It recognizes the abilities that only a few in the education profession possess - to be able to teach with rigor, humor, humility, and pride.  The recipients of this award are representative of the educators we would have chosen if we had a choice. They are known by the accomplishments of their students.

The recipients of this award are representative of the educators we would have chosen if we had a choice. They are known by the accomplishments of their students.

Lyman A. Ripperton (1921-1978) was a practitioner in education and research for the control of air pollution during his entire professional career. He left the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District in 1958 to assume a teaching and research assignment in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program in air pollution education he initiated at UNC developed into one of the foremost in the United States. His students numbered in the hundreds, and they assumed positions in every segment of the air pollution control profession. The Lyman A. Ripperton Award may be awarded to members and nonmembers of the Association.
 

Year Award Recipient(s)
2021 James Blando
2020 Peter Koutrakis; Chung-Shin (Jonathan) Yuan
2019 Peter J. Adams
2018 Joshua S. Fu
2016 Gediminas Mainelis
2015 Chang-Yu Wu
2014 Gale F. Hoffnagle
2013 Susan J. Masten
2012 H. Christopher Frey
2011 Kumar Ganesan
2010 Mark J. Rood
2009 William M. Auberle
2008 Peter A. Scheff
2007 John D. Spengler
2006 Karl B. Schnelle
2005 Daniel P.Y. Chang
2004 Robert B. Jacko
2003 Ashok Kumar
2002 C. David Cooper
2001 Viney P. Aneja
2000 Edward S. Rubin
1999 Larry G. Anderson
1998 Mackenzie Davis
1997 Timothy C. Keener
1996 Louis Theodore
1995 Dale A. Lundgren
1994 Kenneth E. Noll
1993 August T. Rossano *
1992 Thomas J. Overcamp
1991 Arthur C. Stern *
1990 Wayne T. Davis
1989 Joseph J. Soporowski, Jr.
1988 Richard W. Boubel *
1987 Mel W. First *
1986 Howard Hesketh *
1985 Eileen G. Brennan *
1984 Harold Cota
1983 Raymond M. Manganelli *
 
* Deceased