Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University junior Stuart Payton won first place in the student poster contest at the American Institute of Professional Geologists conference in Lexington.

Payton, a civil engineering major from Central City, received $50 plus a $200 certificate to be used toward books. The conference was held Oct. 9.

Payton’s poster for WKU’s Center for Water Resource Studies was titled “Utilization of GIS Technology in a Small Rural Water System Located in Central Kentucky, Greensburg, Green County Waste Water District.”

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For information, contact Center for Water Resource Studies at (270) 745-8895.