Women of Color magazine will recognize two U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center scientists.

Cynthia Banks and Victoria Moore will be honored at the magazine’s 14th annual Women of Color Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Conference, set for October in Dallas.

Banks, a research biologist in the Environmental Laboratory, will receive the Special Recognition Award, and Moore, a computer scientist in the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, will receive the Technology Rising Star Award.

Banks began her career at ERDC in 1995. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s in hazardous materials management from Jackson State. She has authored several publications.

Moore has been an ERDC employee for seven years. A Port Gibson native, she has a dual bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science from Alcorn State and a master’s in computer science with an emphasis in software engineering from Mississippi State.