Category: environmental engineering
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 […]
Call for Abstracts: ICISR 2026
The 2nd International Conference on Iron-Sulfide Reactions in Concrete (ICISR 2026) will take place May 13-14, 2026, at the Mystic Hilton in Mystic, Connecticut. Building on the success of the 2024 event, the upcoming conference will further advance our collective understanding of sulfide-induced deterioration, with an expanded emphasis on standardization, mitigation strategies, sustainability, and effective […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ph.D. Candidate Meshach Ojo Awarded Prestigious ACI Charles Pankow Foundation Fellowship
SoCEE is proud to announce that Meshach Ojo, a Ph.D. candidate in our program, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025–2026 Charles Pankow Foundation Fellowship, a distinguished award granted through the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation. This national honor is reserved for students demonstrating exceptional potential to advance the field of concrete materials […]
Diego Cerrai Receives NSF CAREER Award for Power Outage and Restoration Modeling
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering proudly announces that Dr. Diego Cerrai, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Interim Director of the Eversource Energy Center (EEC), has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in support of his research into storm impact modeling and infrastructure resilience. Cerrai’s work focuses on understanding […]
UConn EERI Student Chapter to Host Industry Expert Dr. Erik Bishop
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is excited to announce that the UConn chapter of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) has been selected to participate in the 2024–2025 Friedman Family Visiting Professionals Program. This prestigious national program brings top professionals in earthquake engineering to university campuses to share expertise, promote career exploration, and […]
