News Archives for Monthly Posts for March 2026

Surendra Bhatta and Aagya Dahal Named Graduate Student Leadership Initiative Awardees

Aagya Dahal Civil Engineering PhD Student Surendra Bhatta Civil Engineering PhD Student The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SoCEE) is proud to recognize Surendra Bhatta and Aagya Dahal as recipients of support through the school’s Graduate Student Leadership Initiative. This initiative is designed to recognize, motivate, inspire, and support graduate students who excel not […]

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Alexander Agrios & Sarira Motaref Named 2026 Commencement Marshals

The School of Civil & Environmental Engineering (SoCEE) is proud to announce that Dr. Alexander Agrios and Dr. Sarira Motaref have been selected by the senior class to serve as the 2026 Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering Commencement Marshals. This honor recognizes their exceptional dedication to students, contributions to engineering education, and commitment to mentorship. […]

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SoCEE Graduate Students Earn Top Honors in College of Engineering Poster Competition

SoCEE is proud to celebrate outstanding achievements by its graduate students at the recent College of Engineering Graduate Poster Competition, where students from both Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering earned recognition at the departmental and college-wide levels. In the first round of judging, Ana Carolina Vieira Rocha and Dahye Kim were selected as departmental winners […]

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SoCEE Ph.D. Candidate Shah Saki Receives AMS Student Award

Shah Saki Environmental Engineering PhD Candidate Shah Saki, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Connecticut School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received Second Prize for Oral Presentation in the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Energy and Renewable Energy Committee Student Award Competition. Saki earned the award for his presentation titled “Projecting Power Outage Risk […]

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Ph.D. Student Aagya Dahal Receives SEI Futures Fund Student Scholarship

Aagya Dahal Civil Engineering PhD Student Aagya Dahal, a Ph.D. student here in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected to receive a Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Futures Fund Student Scholarship to attend Structures Congress 2026, which will be held in Boston from April 29 to May 1, 2026. The scholarship provides […]

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