Recent Ph.D. graduate Richa Ojha has been named the recipient of the Fall 2014 CE Best Dissertation Award. Richa achieved her Ph.D. this past August in the hydraulics and hydrology area, working with Dr. Govindaraju. Her dissertation title was Scaling of Surface Soil Moisture and Solute Movement from Local-to-Field-Scales in Heterogeneous Unsaturated Soils.