Congratulations to 2nd year Master’s student Pardis Ghahramani, Prof. Ahmed ElDyasti, and Prof. Siu Ning (Sunny) Leung for winning the Best Paper Award in the 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) ANTEC conference (Thermoplastic Materials and Foams Session), which is the largest, most respected, and well known international conference in the plastics industry. Their research in protected biofilm growth in microporous polyvinylidene fluoride carriers for biological organic removal from municipal wastewater has drawn a lot of attention from researchers and industry representatives from the plastic industry.