Archives: Monthly Archives: June 2025
Davis Chacón-Hurtado Receives National ASCE Teaching Award
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud to share that Dr. Davis Chacón-Hurtado, Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Co-Director of the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative, has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, presented by the American Society […]
Ph.D. Student Devin Rhoads Receives Outstanding Graduate TA Fellowship
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud to announce that Devin Rhoads has been selected as the recipient of the CEE Outstanding Graduate TA Fellowship for Spring 2025, based on exemplary student feedback from course evaluations. Devin’s commitment to student learning and success has made a strong impression across the department. He is […]
UConn SoCEE 2025 Senior Design Award Winners
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering proudly celebrates the achievements of our undergraduate students who showcased their capstone work at the annual Senior Design Demonstration Day on May 2, 2025. This culminating event highlights a year of collaboration, research, and innovation as students tackle real-world engineering challenges alongside industry sponsors. Outstanding projects were recognized […]
Ph.D. Student Samuel Rothfarb Wins National Award for AI-Driven Materials Research
Samuel Rothfarb, a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut and advisee of Professor Baikun Li, has been awarded the prestigious NVIDIA GPU Award for Outstanding Research and Poster Presentation at the 2025 Machine Learning in Chemical and Materials Science (MLCM) Conference in Santa […]
Haimanti Bala Receives Bridgette Beato Leadership Legacy Scholarship from WTS-CT
We are thrilled to announce that Haimanti Bala, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut, has been awarded the Bridgette Beato Leadership Legacy Scholarship by the Connecticut Chapter of WTS (Women’s Transportation Seminar). This scholarship recognizes outstanding graduate students pursuing careers in transportation or related fields […]
Dr. Marina Astitha Named Eversource Energy Professor in Environmental and Sustainability Education
Astitha (right) at the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting Astitha (left) at the AGU 2024 Fall Meeting in Washington DC SoCEE is proud to announce that Dr. Marina Astitha has been selected as an Eversource Energy Professor in Environmental and Sustainability Education. This distinguished three-year appointment, conferred by the UConn College of […]
