Archives: Monthly Archives: April 2021
Meet the Researcher: Sita Nyame, School of Engineering, Eversource Energy Center
Sita Nyame ’18 (CLAS), today an environmental engineering major at UConn, is working with the Eversource Energy Center at UConn Tech Park to develop a prediction model for wildfires, the start of a promising research career. Nyame spent her childhood in Ghana, an area that is particularly vulnerable to the effects of global climate change. “When I was young, […]
EPA Selects UConn to Receive $1 Million in Funding to Deliver Assistance to Brownfield-Impacted Communities
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of six organizations nationwide to receive a total of $11 million in grants to provide training and technical assistance to communities across the country under the Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Program. UConn Civil and Environmental Engineering will be receiving $1,000,000, over the course of five […]
April 2021 Book Suggestions
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates “This first book is an amazing read. In summary, it is a letter written to the authors teenage son on what it means to be black in the United States and what does it mean to live within a black body. He goes through his educational experience […]
Diversity in Structural Engineering Scholarship
NCSEA Diversity in Structural Engineering Scholarship Please visit http://www.ncsea.com/awards/scholarship/ to apply. The NCSEA Foundation established the NCSEA Diversity in Structural Engineering Scholarship in 2020 to award funding to students who have been traditionally underrepresented in structural engineering (including but not limited to Black/African Americans, Native/Indigenous Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and other people of color). Multiple scholarships up to $5,000 each will be presented […]
