Assistant Professor Etienne Benson was awarded the 2015 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize at the recent Envirotech meeting held at the American Society for Environmental History Conference, held in Seattle, WA. The prize is for his article, "Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid," Environmental Humanities 6 (2015): 103-130.