5/18/2020 Kristina Shidlauski
Written by Kristina Shidlauski
Megan Konar has been promoted to Associate Professor and received a 2020 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award from the Provost. Nominated by the Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure for her exceptional contributions, the award is given in recognition of the scope, quality and impact of scholarship, teaching, service and engagement efforts. Konar is one of five scholars on campus promoted to Associate Professor who received the Award.
Konar earned a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies (2002) from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.Sc. in Water Science, Policy and Management (2005) from the University of Oxford, and an M.S. (2009) and Ph.D. (2012) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University. She joined the CEE faculty in 2013 where she teaches courses in Water Resources Engineering.
Among other honors, Konar is a William J. and Elaine F. Hall Faculty Fellow and recipient of a 2019 National Science Foundation CAREER award and the American Geophysical Union Hydrologic Sciences Section Early Career Award.