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, I saw a lot of environmental issues and didn’t understand why governments wouldn’t deal with it,” Nyame says.

This concern has followed Nyame throughout her life. When Nyame first came to UConn in 2015, she intended to major in environmental engineering, but when she took an introductory anthropology course, she fell in love with the subject. Read the full story here.

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 years, to support the Connecticut Brownfields Initiative, which has been providing brownfield remediation support to communities across the state since 2017. Principal Investigator Maria Chrysochoou says "this funding will allow us to expand our reach to all of New England and provide much needed support to communities". Read the full story here.

April 2021 Book Suggestions

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me - Middlebury College - OverDrive
"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 and the significance of going to a historically black university, and much more." - Avis Carrero, CEE Alumni
 
Unapologetic: A Black, queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements: Carruthers, Charlene: 9780807019412: Amazon.com: Books

"The second book is an amazing guide on what it means to hold a vision for social justice movements--especially when considering the compounding nature along various axes of difference. It challenges the reader to think critically about their activist praxis and commitments that we must question along the way." - Avis Carrero, CEE Alumni

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong

Amazon.com: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (9780525562023): Vuong, Ocean: Books

"The third book is a novel that can be summarized as a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. This story is centralized around the experience of a family surviving the Vietnam war and life following that in Connecticut. The author describes experiences with masculinity, race, class, and queer-ness--A very god read." - Avis Carrero, CEE Alumni

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 annually to junior college students, undergraduate students and/or graduate students pursuing degrees in structural engineering.

Deadline: April 30, 2021

Read more here.