News
Oct 08, 2012
CEE Student Brian Beck Awarded National Scholarship
Congratulations to Civil Engineering senior Brian Beck who recently received an American Institute of Steel Construction Education Foundation Scholarship!
Oct 04, 2012
NSF Highlights Ganguly's Work
Civil Engineering Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly’s is featured in the October edition of NSF’s Current newsletter for his work in showing how climate change will effect the world’s water supply.
Oct 01, 2012
CEE Student Wins National WEF Paper Competition
Nelya Meystelman, a Civil Engineering middler, has won the national Water Environmental Federation Undergraduate Student Paper Competition.
Sep 21, 2012
Prof. Hellweger Researches Toxic Algal Blooms
Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger and collaborators from three other universities have received a new research grant for $2M from the National Science Foundation to study theecology of cyanbacteria.
Aug 10, 2012
New Research Grant on Offshore Wind Farms
CEE Assistant Professor Andrew Myers,Professor & Chair Jerry Hajjar, and Sanjay Arwade, Associate Professor at UMass Amherst, have received a new $325K research grant from NSF on Reliability-based Hurricane Risk Assessment for Offshore Wind Farms.
Aug 02, 2012
Professor Ganguly Discusses Droughts
Inspired by the current drought, which has left countless counties across the U.S. to be considered "natural disaster areas" by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly sheds light on drought conditions, the difficulties involved in predicting droughts, and precautionary measures to limit their potential damage.
Aug 01, 2012
New Faculty Spotlight: Matthias Ruth
Matthias Ruth joined the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as a Professor […]
Aug 01, 2012
New Faculty Spotlight: Steven W. Cranford
Steven W. Cranford joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering during the Fall 2012 semester as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Cranford received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Memorial […]