Category: award
SoCEE Students Awarded 2025-26 Moles Scholarship
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering proudly congratulates Max Wolff and Benjamin Shatzel on being selected as recipients of the prestigious 2025-26 Moles Scholarship from The Moles, an organization dedicated to advancing the heavy construction industry through education and professional development. Max Wolff, a civil engineering student, is currently employed at Wolff Engineering, a firm […]
Xingyu Wang Receives 2025 CAPEES-Elsevier Best Doctorate Dissertation Award
We are proud to announce that Xingyu Wang, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Connecticut School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 CAPEES-Elsevier Best Doctorate Dissertation Award. This prestigious honor, presented by the Chinese-American Professors in Environmental Engineering and Science (CAPEES) in partnership with Elsevier, recognizes […]
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 […]
Marina Astitha and Sarira Motaref Honored with C.R. Klewin Teaching Award for 2024-2025
We are proud to announce that Marina Astitha (Environmental Engineering) and Sarira Motaref (Civil Engineering) have been awarded the C.R. Klewin Teaching Award for the 2024-2025 academic year. This annual award honors outstanding faculty who demonstrate a sustained commitment to excellence in engineering education and student success. Dr. Marina Astitha is an Associate Professor […]
Aagya Dahal Awarded “Faculty for the Future” Fellowship Renewal for 2025-26
The UConn School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud to celebrate Aagya Dahal, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who has been awarded a renewal of the Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year. This prestigious international fellowship supports women from developing and emerging […]
UConn Ph.D. Student Oluwaseun Akinola Moses Earns Prestigious NASA and Team-TERRA Honors
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SoCEE) is proud to celebrate the remarkable achievements of Ph.D. student Oluwaseun Akinola Moses, who has recently been selected for two competitive honors: a 2025 NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Graduate Mentorship and the 2025–2026 Team-TERRA Fellowship. Mentorship with NASA SARP Oluwaseun will serve as a Graduate […]
Celebrating SoCEE’s Summer Doctoral Fellowship Recipients
We’re thrilled to share that five outstanding Ph.D. students from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering have been awarded the UConn Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. This competitive $2,000 fellowship is designed to support students as they work toward completing their dissertations. Congratulations to: Quinn Packer Oluwaseun Olufowobi Haimanti Bala Maxwell Wondolowski Israt Jahan Each […]
