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Aug 05, 2019
Matthew Schomacker Wins Parsons Brinckerhoff/Jim Lammie Scholarship
Matthew Schomacker, a class of 2021 BS/MS Civil Engineering student, received the 2019 Parsons Brinckerhoff/Jim Lammie Scholarship from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA).
Aug 05, 2019
Myers Receives $899K NSF grant to Optimize Thin-Walled Tube Towers
CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers, in collaboration with John Hopkins and Vestas Wind Systems, was awarded an $899K NSF grant for “Optimization of Infrastructure-Scale Thin-Walled Tube Towers including Uncertainty.”
Aug 05, 2019
Students Learn Materials Science in Mayan Mesoamerica
First Year Engineering Associate Teaching Professor Joshua Hertz led a group of students on a new Dialogue of Civilizations trip to Belize, where they explored how ancient civilizations produced materials.
Aug 01, 2019
Eckelman Selected for ES&T and ES&T Letters Early Career Scientists Virtual Issue
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research Matthew J. Eckelman was selected by the journals Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) and Environmental Science & Technology Letters (ES&T Letters) for inclusion in their Early Career Scientists Virtual Issue.
Jul 30, 2019
Larese-Casanova, Alshawabkeh, Fernandez Awarded DoD SERDP Grant
CEE Associate Professor Philip Larese-Casanova (PI), Assistant Professor Loretta Fernandez, and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education Akram Alsahwabkeh were awarded a $760K grant from the DoD’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) for “Electrochemically-Induced in situ Degradation of Legacy Munitions and Insensitive High Explosives in Manufacturing Wastewater.”
Jul 30, 2019
Investigating if Sunlight Degrades Microplastics
COS/CEE Associate Professor Aron Stubbins, in collaboration with Kara Lavender Law from the Sea Education Association (SEA), is leading a $420K NSF grant for “The role of sunlight in determining the fate and microbial impact of microplastics in surface waters”.
Jul 24, 2019
Ganguly Awarded Patent for Recovery of Networks from Disruption
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly was awarded a patent for creating a “System for networking and analyzing geospatial data, human infrastructure, and natural elements”. Abstract Source: USPTO A method and system […]
Jul 15, 2019
Ganguly co-PI on NSF Conference on Urban Resilience
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly is a Co-PI on an NSF grant for a conference on “Challenges to and Opportunities for Resilience in Rapidly Developing Urban Corridors”.