WASHINGTON—Thomas Boundy, a doctoral student in metallurgical and materials engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, has won the 2016 National Scholarship from the Recycling Research Foundation.
The RRF, a non-profit organization closely associated with the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, awards the $5,000 scholarship annually to a graduate student in a field that supports the scrap processing and recycling industry as a whole, ISRI said in a press release.
Boundy, a summa cum laude graduate in chemistry from Pepperdine University, is performing graduate research on developing a flow sheet that would enable the economical recycling of indium, a rare metal crucial to solar panel manufacturing, from cell phones, computer monitors and television screens.