News
Sep 10, 2020
Faculty and Staff Awards 2020
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2019-2020 academic school year.
Sep 02, 2020
New Faculty Spotlight: Julia Hopkins
Julia Hopkins joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2020 as an Assistant Professor.
Aug 28, 2020
Defending Against Mother Nature
While Hurricane Laura was the strongest storm to hit Louisiana in 160 years, CEE Professor Qin Jim Chen worked with local officials to best prepare for and predict the damage caused by the storm.
Aug 25, 2020
Air Quality and Human Health: Decreasing the Climate Penalty Through Pollution Control
In a new paper published in Nature Climate Change titled, “Weakening Aerosol Direct Radiative Effects Mitigate Climate Penalty On Chinese Air Quality,” CEE Professor and Distinguished Fellow Yang Zhang and her former visiting scholar and paper lead author Dr. Chaopeng Hong study how changes in Chinese government policies towards air pollution will affect human health.
Aug 25, 2020
CEE Capstone Students Named 2020 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge Finalists
Five students from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Class of 2020 won a finalist spot in the 2020 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge.
Aug 19, 2020
Can Real-Time Microbial Monitoring Advance Microalgal Wastewater Treatment?
In a new $2M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto is collaborating with researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Buffalo, a municipality, and private industry to study the use of algae in purifying wastewater and biofuel production.
Aug 10, 2020
Cloud Physics Conundrum: Finetuning Climate Models Using Machine Learning
CEE PhD student Nishant Yadav won the Best Student Paper Award by the AI Foundation For Good’s Fragile Earth Workshop for his paper “Machine Learning for Robust Identification of Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Applications to Earth Systems Modeling.”
Aug 04, 2020
Patent for Saliva-based Glucose Monitoring System for Diabetes
CEE Professor Ming Wang was awarded a patent for “Saliva glucose monitoring system”.