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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Ph.D. Student Olin Green Receives El Instituto Predoctoral Fellowship to Study Transportation Safety Inequity

Olin Green, a doctoral candidate in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut, has been awarded the 2024–2025 El Instituto Predoctoral Fellowship with support from the Elizabeth Mahan Fund. This competitive award supports full-time pre-doctoral students conducting interdisciplinary research related to Latinx and Latin American communities. Green’s project, The Hidden […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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SoCEE Student Selected for NSF NHERI REU Program

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud to share that Priya Whitley, an undergraduate student majoring in civil engineering at the University of Connecticut, has been selected to participate in the highly competitive 2025 NSF NHERI Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Summer Program. Priya’s selection was made possible in part by a nomination […]

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Sajan Shakya & Israt Jahan Win First Round in UConn Engineering Graduate Poster Competition

                            The School of Civil & Environmental Engineering (SoCEE) is proud to celebrate Sajan Shakya (Civil Engineering) and Israt Jahan (Environmental Engineering) for their outstanding achievements at the 11th Annual UConn College of Engineering Poster Competition, held on March 7, 2025. With […]

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Manish Roy & Alexander Agrios Named 2025 Commencement Marshals

The School of Civil & Environmental Engineering (SoCEE) is proud to announce that Dr. Manish Roy and Dr. Alexander Agrios have been selected by the senior class to serve as the 2025 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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