Category: environmental engineering
Emmanouil Anagnostou Elected AAAS Fellow
Emmanouil Anagnostou Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Eversource Energy Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering Director, Eversource Energy Center Applied Research Director, Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation SoCEE is proud to announce that Dr. Emmanouil Anagnostou has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
SoCEE Undergrad Jacob McCormick Awarded NASA CT Space Grant Scholarship
Jacob McCormick Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Abi Lawal Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud to announce that Environmental Engineering undergraduate Jacob McCormick has been awarded a NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (CTSGC) Undergraduate Scholarship for Fall 2025. The highly competitive scholarship, funded through NASA’s National Space Grant College and […]
SoCEE Researchers Advance Energy Resilience Research
SoCEE Contributors Emmanouil Anagnostou Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Director, Institute of Environment and Energy Shah Saki Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Engineering As extreme weather events grow more frequent and intense, they increasingly occur in combination, creating compounding stresses on the nation’s power grid. New research from UConn’s Outage Prediction Modeling (OPM) team shows that these […]
Emmanouil Anagnostou is Elected as an American Meteorological Society Fellow
Emmanouil Anagnostou Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Eversource Energy Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering Director, Eversource Energy Center Applied Research Director, Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation We are excited to share that Emmanouil Anagnostou, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Eversource Energy Endowed Chair of Environmental Engineering, has been named a Fellow of […]
Dr. Guiling Wang’s Research Group Featured as a Cover Story in BAMS
A new paper by Dr. Guiling Wang and Ph.D. researcher Koushan Mohammadi has been selected as a cover story in the September 2025 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). The feature includes a two-page research highlight summarizing their article, “Impact Matters: Detection and Early Warning of Agriculturally Impactful Flash Droughts,” followed […]
Drs. Wang and Lei Named 2025-2026 Morico Sustainable Environmental Resources Faculty Fellows
Guiling Wang, Professor Dr. Fangni Lei, Assistant Research Professor The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud to announce that Dr. Guiling Wang and Dr. Fangni Lei have been selected as recipients of the 2025–2026 Morico Sustainable Environmental Resources Faculty Fellowship. Established by UConn CEE alumna Kris Morico, the fellowship supports full-time College of […]
Incoming PhD Student Ziqi Guo Awarded Impact Scholars Fellowship to Advance Climate Research
Positive environmental change requires both passion and science—a philosophy that drives Ziqi Guo, an incoming Ph.D. student in UConn’s Environmental Engineering program. Guo has been named an Impact Scholars Fellow, a prestigious award granted to incoming doctoral students who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership potential, and a commitment to creating positive societal change. Guo’s research focuses […]
