Lometa native Michael Hardy won an award for an environmental poster. Michael Hardy, a doctoral student at Montclair State University in New Jersey, recently won a $150 award in the student poster competition at the Hudson Delaware Chapter meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

This year's meeting was held in April at Bear Mountain, N.Y.

Hardy was recognized for his poster, "Removal of heavy metals from shipyard storm water using residuals of drinking water treatment."

A Ph.D. candidate in the environmental management program under the supervision of Dr. Dibs Sarkar, Hardy is conducting re- search focused on environmental quality and remediation.

Hardy also is one of two graduate students to recently receive a graduate student research grant from the Geological Society of America. Awards recognize both the high quality of the graduate students and the research conducted in the environmental management Ph.D. program.

Hardy is the son of Les and Barbara Hardy of Lometa, and the grandson of James and Ruth Hardy of Lometa, and Ted Brown, and the late Annabel Brown of San Saba.