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UConn Alum Sinha Kumares Gives Back
Dr. Sinha Kumares started his long career in Transportation Engineering at UConn, where he receives his MS and PhD degrees in 1966 and 1968. After six years at Marquette University, he joined the faculty at Purdue University, where he has been the Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering since 1998. […]
Future Leaders Internship Night
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Internship Night organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter took place on February 8th, with great success! ASCE officers Max Raha, Zachary Marshall, Gavin Berger, Rocco Veneruso, Jacqueline Torlai, and Jonathan Bustamante put together a professional event, featuring 11 of the best companies in the industry, […]
CEE Alum Returns to Industrial Advisory Board
UConn Civil and Environmental Engineering is happy to announce Megan Coleman as a new member of the CEE Advisory Board. Megan is a young professional with 5+ years of experience in the public sector, with a focus on sustainable built infrastructure and translating sustainability project objectives into grant funding. Using the Envision infrastructure framework, she […]
UConn CEE to Host Inclusive Teaching Summer Institute
Join us this May for the Include Project’s Neuroinclusive Teaching Summer Institute for STEM faculty. The Summer Institute is a 1.5-day professional learning opportunity aimed at supporting and empowering faculty to build inclusive STEM learning environments that allow neurodiverse learners to thrive. Dates: May 22 – 23, 2024 Location: In-person at the University of Connecticut Registration […]
Crumbling Concrete Foundations Project Receives $4M in Funding From NIST
The Crumbling Concrete Foundations Project has received $4 million in funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to support their research concerning the source of concrete degradation and possible solutions. For this project, CEE Professor Kay Wille is the principal investigator, joined by co-PIs CEE Department Head Marisa Chrysochoou and CTI Associate […]
Olin Green Awarded CEE Outstanding TA Award
Congratulations to Olin Green for the well-deserved CEE Outstanding Graduate TA Fellowship for the Fall 2023 semester! The Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) Fellowship was established to recognize graduate students that demonstrated excellence in supporting the educational mission of the Department. The TAs are evaluated by the undergraduate student cohort […]
Neurodiversity in Engineering Learning Community
Join us for our learning community, UNIV 1810-078: Neurodiversity in Engineering, this Spring 2024! It will be a low-intensity, 1-credit course held on Mondays from 1:25 pm to 2:15 pm. In this course, you’ll learn more about yourself and be able to join other neurodivergent students at UConn while fostering a sense of belonging and […]
Four CEE faculty appear on Stanford’s list of top 2% researchers for 2023
Professors Kay Wille, Manos Anagnostou, Baikun Li, and Jeongho Kim have been ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists in 2023, according to the Scientist’s List by Stanford University, which lists the most widely cited scientists in various disciplines. The prestigious ranking is based on a database that includes more than 200,000 researchers from […]
5th National Climate Assessment Released
The most recent National Climate Assessment Report (NCA5) was released earlier this week, and two of UConn’s faculty – Dr. Guiling Wang and Dr. Zhe Zhu – are among its authors. In particular, the two worked on the sixth chapter of the report, Land Cover and Land-use Change. “[The] NCA5 was written to inform a […]
Laying the Foundation for Carbon Dioxide Reduction
Environmental engineering professor Baikun Li and her 12-person team have been researching electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction, and their findings were recently published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Energy and Environmental Science Journal. Their work aims to understand the mechanisms of this chemical reaction, its potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and more. “The broad […]
