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Equipment Donation for Construction Engineering Education
Construction engineering students are gaining valuable hands-on experience with modern heavy equipment thanks to a major industry partnership supporting the future of sustainable construction education. On April 23, representatives from UConn Engineering, Tyler Equipment Corporation, and the Connecticut’s Local 478 Operator’s Union gathered outside the Castleman Building to celebrate the donation of a […]
Dr. Anagnostou Receives NASA Honor Group Achievement Award
Emmanouil Anagnostou, Ph.D. Environmental Engineering The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud to congratulate Emmanouil Anagnostou on receiving a 2024–2025 NASA Honor Group Achievement Award for his contributions to the BioSCAPE Airborne Remote Sensing Observations Team. The prestigious NASA honor recognizes outstanding teamwork, dedication, and scientific contributions in support of NASA Earth […]
Meshach Ojo Wins First Place in 2026 Three Minute Thesis STEM Ph.D. Competition
Meshach Ojo Civil Engineering Ph.D. Candidate On April 8, graduate students from across the University gathered at the Dodd Center for Human Rights for UConn’s annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition—an event that challenges participants to distill years of complex research into a compelling three-minute presentation. Among the standout competitors was civil engineering Ph.D. […]
Celebrating This Year’s Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Recipients
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is proud to recognize five doctoral students who have been awarded the Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the UConn Graduate School. This competitive fellowship provides important support to Ph.D. candidates as they focus on completing their dissertation research during the summer months. By helping ease financial pressures, the […]
Emmanouil Anagnostou Elected AAAS Fellow
Emmanouil Anagnostou Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Eversource Energy Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering Director, Eversource Energy Center Applied Research Director, Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation SoCEE is proud to announce that Dr. Emmanouil Anagnostou has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of […]
Ph.D. student Xingyue Wang Receives Brigette Beato Leadership Legacy Scholarship
Xingyue Wang Civil Engineering Ph.D. Student, Transportation & Urban Engineering SoCEE is proud to announce that Ph.D. student Xingyue Wang has been selected as a recipient of the Brigette Beato Leadership Legacy Scholarship, awarded by the Connecticut Chapter of WTS. The scholarship was presented at the WTS Connecticut Annual Awards & Scholarship Banquet, held […]
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 […]
