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Looking up at several levels of highway bridges and overpasses stretching across roads with blue sky above. (Photo Courtesy: Drriss & Marrionn via Flickr)

TRB highlights Ashuri’s work with GDOT on alternative project delivery as research that has paid off

02 November 2018

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Professor Kimberly Kurtis, who is the newest member of the ASCE Foundation's Council of Trustees. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Kurtis takes seat on ASCE Foundation trustees council

01 November 2018

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A pilot project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will use wastewater nutrients to grow produce on Georgia Tech’s campus to test a model for decentralizing production of vegetables such as these.

Pilot project will use campus wastewater to grow vegetables

30 October 2018

USDA awards $5M for proposed hydroponics system, its largest-ever grant to Tech

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Assistant Professor Jorge Macedo and Professor Paul Mayne.

Editor’s Choice: Geotechnical journals feature studies from Macedo, Mayne

29 October 2018

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Environmental engineering Ph.D. student Victoria Dean.

Dean wins Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship for her work to improve health and equity in marginalized communities

26 October 2018

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Closeup of an origami structure created through Digital Light Processing 3D printing. (Photo: Christopher Moore)

Origami, 3D printing merge to make complex structures in one shot

22 October 2018

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This image from software developed by NASA shows air traffic across the United States. Assistant Professor Sam Coogan has received funding from the U.S. Air Force to use new techniques to understand and manage how physical networks with interconnected components function. His work applies to all kinds of systems, like roads, airspace, water systems and factories. (Image Courtesy: NASA)

Coogan wins Air Force Young Investigator award to improve roads, pipes and other physical networks

17 October 2018

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Professor of the Practice Eric Marks

Students say Marks is one of Tech’s best teachers

12 October 2018

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Microbes in soil can break down nitrous oxide, N2O, into harmless nitrogen, N2, but they don't always do a good job, according to Professor Kostas Konstantinidis. He has a new grant from the National Science Foundation to understand why. The problem is that the nitrous oxide is a powerful and damaging greenhouse gas. The study will focus on agricultural land, where nitrogen is often added to soil as fertilizer, and tropical forests. (Image Courtesy: Kostas Konstantinidis)

NSF funds two new projects to understand greenhouse gas emissions from soil, expand microbial big-data analysis tools

09 October 2018

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Wassim Selman, a triple alumnus of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, delivered the fall 2018 lecture in the Kenneth Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series Oct. 2. Selman focused on the importance of keeping people in the equation — and even presented his own equation for how to do that. (Photo: Qiusen Huang)

Hyatt speaker Wassim Selman offers his one key factor for success: Always keep people in the equation

02 October 2018

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Assistant Professor Lauren Stewart in the Structural Engineering and Materials Lab. (Photo: Gary Meek)

Stewart one of the ‘New Voices’ who will bring ideas, perspectives to National Academies

01 October 2018

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An illustration depicting chemical catalysis on surfaces and nanostructures. A new $2.8 million study led by School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Phanish Suryanarayana will harness the power of future supercomputers to understand the interactions that take place in these kinds of chemical reactions. (Image Courtesy: Andrew Medford)

Suryanarayana leads new $3M project to unlock the power of tomorrow’s supercomputers for understanding chemical phenomena

27 September 2018

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Fourth-year civil engineering student Schayne Fox, left, said mentor Mary Shinners has become her go-to person for questions about everything from class schedules to preparing for the Fundamentals of Engineering exams. Schayne and Shinnners, who finished her bachelor's in civil engineering in 2014 and her master's in 2015, met this summer through the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's GOLD Mentoring Program. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

Latest Field Notes podcast answers the question, what can you get out of mentoring?

19 September 2018

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Amanda Wall Vandegrift, BSCE 2012, MSCE 2013, one of Mass Transit magazine's Top 40 Under 40 for 2018. (Photo Courtesy: InfraStrategies LLC)

‘TranspoNerd’ Vandegrift one of Mass Transit mag’s 40 Under 40

17 September 2018

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Professor Kostas Konstantinidis, who will attend the 2018 Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine at the invitation of the National Academy of Science. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

National Academy invites Konstantinidis to join young leaders at Arab-American Frontiers symposium

13 September 2018

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The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's undergrad civil program is No. 2 in the nation and environmental is No. 4, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2019 survey (graphic includes photo of the Ramblin' Reck).

Extending history: Civil and environmental undergrad programs remain among nation’s elite program in new U.S. News rankings

10 September 2018

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Ph.D. student and Sandia National Labs intern Rebecca Nylen kneels next to blasted steel cylinders, some of her handy work as a computational shock physicist. (Photo: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories)

Shocking experiences keep Nylen going back for more

07 September 2018

Grad student returns to Sandia Labs each summer for love of community, mountains and explosions

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Srinivas Peeta, the Frederick R. Dickerson Chair in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Photo: Luke Xinjing Xu)

Peeta delivers public transportation keynote at global mobility summit

06 September 2018

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Power poles stretch into a bright sun with mist hovering just above the ground.

How much water is used to fulfill the energy needs of the US?

05 September 2018

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Graduate student Cynthia Lee, left, and Assistant Professor Iris Tien with their first-place infrastructure paper aware at Resilience Week 2018. (Photo Courtesy: Iris Tien)

Tien, Lee win top paper award at Resilience Week 2018

04 September 2018

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