Mining Feature: NIOSH Mining Mechanical Engineer Wins Robert M. Peele Memorial Award
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
A video screen capture from the awards presentation depicting the award plaque with Jennica Bellanca in an inset photo.
NIOSH Mining's Jennica Bellanca, a mechanical engineer who conducts research on using virtual reality for mine safety and health training, was honored with the 2020 Robert M. Peele Memorial Award. The award was presented during the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME)'s annual MINExchange Conference and Expo March 1-5, 2021, held virtually this year.
The award recognizes the best paper or series of papers in an SME publication within the previous two-year period that has a first author under 35 years old at the time the paper is submitted. The honored paper, Developing a Virtual Reality Environment for Mining Research, was written by Jennica Bellanca, Tim Orr, William Helfrich, Brendan Macdonald, Jason Navoyski, and Brendan Demich.
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