News
Sep 01, 2017
Pinto Awarded $330K NSF Grant
CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto was awarded a $330K NSF grant for “Deciphering the role of comammox bacteria in nitrogen removal systems”. Dr. Pinto, whose research interests include microbial ecology and physiology, drinking water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment and more, is revolutionizing the way water is treated for nitrogen.
Sep 01, 2017
New Faculty Spotlight: Samuel Munoz
Samuel Munoz joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in September 2017 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Marine and Environmental Sciences.
Aug 15, 2017
Furth Received ITE's Innovation in Education Award
CEE Professor Peter Furth received an Innovation in Education Award by the ITE's Transportation Education Council.
Jul 24, 2017
Gu Selected as WEF Fellow
CEE Professor April Gu has been selected as a Water Environment Federation Fellow, for her professional achievement, stature and contributions to the preservation and enhancement of the global water environment.
Jul 24, 2017
Patterson, Fernandez, & Helmuth Awarded $300K NSF Grant
COS/CEE Professor Mark Patterson, CEE/COS Assistant Professor Loretta Fernandez, and CEE affiliated Professor Brian Helmuth were awarded a $300K NSF grant for "Tide gate modulation of wetland function: decision support through engineering best practices".
Jul 13, 2017
PhD student & Ganguly Receive Runner-up Best Paper Awards
Interdisciplinary PhD student Thomas Vandal and CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly were awarded the Runner-up for the KDD 2017 Best Paper and KDD 2017 Best Student Paper for their paper on "DeepSD: Generating High Resolution Climate Change Projections through Single Image Super-Resolution".
Jul 11, 2017
CEE Student Sevillano-Rivera’s Research Recognized at AEESP
CEE PhD student Maria Sevillano won the "Best Student Presentation" award at the AEESP Research and Education conference for her presentation titled "Incidence of antimicrobial resistance genes in municipal drinking water samples from the United Kingdom”.
Jun 28, 2017
Young Scholar Program Provides Experience-Based Learning for Future Scientists and Engineers
The Center for STEM Education kicked off its 2017 Young Scholars Program on June 26, 2017, with 26 budding scientists and engineers from high schools at a variety of cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.