CEE Department Scores Two New Grants to Expand on Neurodiversity Programs

Portrait of Arash Zaghi, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., a man with short, dark hair and a gray suit jacket, and Alexandra Hain, Ph.D., a woman with straight blonde hair and a dark shirt. Two new grants from the National Science Foundation, totaling just shy of $1M, have been awarded to Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty Alexandra Hain and Arash Zaghi for work they will carry out in undergraduate research opportunities and new programs for graduate students, who both fall in the neurodiversity spectrum. The grants focus on the talents of students with ADHD and dyslexia in STEM fields. Read the full article on UConn Today.