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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 […]
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 […]
Haimanti Bala Receives Bridgette Beato Leadership Legacy Scholarship from WTS-CT
We are thrilled to announce that Haimanti Bala, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut, has been awarded the Bridgette Beato Leadership Legacy Scholarship by the Connecticut Chapter of WTS (Women’s Transportation Seminar). This scholarship recognizes outstanding graduate students pursuing careers in transportation or related fields […]
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 […]
Kay Wille Appointed Director of the UConn School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SoCEE) at the University of Connecticut is proud to announce that Dr. Kay Wille will officially assume the role of Director in August 2025, following a year of service as interim director. Since joining UConn in 2010, Dr. Wille has become a cornerstone of the School’s research and […]
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 […]
