Jane Yates, a senior in environmental engineering at Missouri S&T, has received the 2025 Undergraduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. 
 
The society’s Division of Environmental Chemistry presents the award each year to recognize the accomplishments of full-time undergraduate students in chemistry, environmental engineering and related programs. 

Yates, of Knob Noster, Missouri, was nominated by Dr. Joel Burken, an S&T Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Mathes Endowed Chair of environmental engineering.  
 
In his nomination, Burken cited Yates’ work through National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she surveyed streams, monitored water quality and assessed erosion across multiple sites. 
 
He also highlighted her leadership as president of S&T’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Last year, Yates traveled to Awasi, Kenya, to help plan a future water system for a local school. 
 
Yates is a past president of S&T’s chapter of Society of Women Engineers and a member of the S&T Concrete Canoe Team. 
 
For more information about Missouri S&T’s environmental engineering programs, visit care.mst.edu.

About Missouri S&T

Missouri University of Science and Technology is a STEM-focused research university of over 7,000 students located in Rolla, Missouri. Part of the four-campus University of Missouri System, Missouri S&T offers over 100 degrees in 40 areas of study and is among the nation’s top public universities for salary impact, according to The Wall Street Journal. For more information about Missouri S&T, visit www.mst.edu.