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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 Graduate Students Earn Top Honors in College of Engineering Poster Competition
SoCEE is proud to celebrate outstanding achievements by its graduate students at the recent College of Engineering Graduate Poster Competition, where students from both Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering earned recognition at the departmental and college-wide levels. In the first round of judging, Ana Carolina Vieira Rocha and Dahye Kim were selected as departmental winners […]
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 […]
Ph.D. Student Aagya Dahal Receives SEI Futures Fund Student Scholarship
Aagya Dahal Civil Engineering PhD Student Aagya Dahal, a Ph.D. student here in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected to receive a Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Futures Fund Student Scholarship to attend Structures Congress 2026, which will be held in Boston from April 29 to May 1, 2026. The scholarship provides […]
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 […]
CTI Received $1.97M to Advance Smart, Connected Transportation Safety
Assistant Research Professor, Kai Wang Assistant Research Professor and Project Manager, Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud to announce that the Connecticut Transportation Institute has been awarded a $1.97 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All program. The three-year project […]
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 […]
Ryan Johns Receives Fall 2025 Outstanding Graduate TA Fellowship
Ryan Johns, M.S. Structural Engineering Student The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to recognize Ryan Johns as the recipient of the CEE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship for Fall 2025. This award is based on student feedback collected through course surveys and highlights exceptional dedication to teaching and student support. Johns has […]
SoCEE Students Earn CMAA Scholarships at Annual Awards Banquet
Two University of Connecticut Civil and Environmental Engineering students were recognized this fall by the Connecticut Chapter of the Construction Management Association of America (CT CMAA), earning competitive scholarships that highlight their academic excellence and leadership within the construction management field. The CT CMAA Annual Awards and Scholarship Banquet brought together construction management professionals, students, […]
