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Hermann Fritz, right, talks with people in Haiti on one of his research trips after an earthquake wreaked havoc on the island nation in 2010. Fritz told public radio's Marketplace the temporary communities that have since sprung up on the country's hillsides are now at risk from flooding and landslides in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. (Photo: Jean Vilmond Hilaire, Université de Quisqueya)

AUDIO: Hurricane Matthew compounds problems for Haiti’s infrastructure

05 October 2016

The city of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and Bluefields Bay. Environmental engineering undergraduate Kelsey Eichbauer spent eight weeks this summer working in this community with the nonprofit blueEnergy. She helped design and build simple water-filtration systems to reuse so-called "greywater" — all the semi-clean wastewater that comes from everywhere except the toilet. (Photo: Kelsey Eichbauer)

Eichbauer learns simple sometimes works best during summer water project in Nicaragua

30 September 2016

A global engineering leadership essay

Professor Paul Mayne

Mayne to deliver Croatia’s signature geotechnical engineering lecture

26 September 2016

In fall Hyatt lecture, Montanye says relationships, curiosity, business skills key to a fulfilling engineering career

20 September 2016

Screenshot of Rebeeca Yoo's first-place ForeCAST Competition video, "TOHL Centers: A Sustainable approach for Rural Water Supply."

Water system sustainability, geotechnical engineering and origami win CEE video competition

16 September 2016

U.S. News and World Report ranks Georgia Tech's civil engineering program No. 2 in the nation and the environmental engineering program No. 4.

Undergrad civil and environmental programs rise in 2017 U.S. News rankings

13 September 2016

Patricia Mokhtarian, the new Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor

Mokhtarian appointed to new Pappas Professorship

08 September 2016

Donald Webster

Webster among leading engineering educators invited to National Academy of Engineering symposium

07 September 2016

Record five civil and environmental grad students receive ARCS awards

06 September 2016

Pointivo co-founder Habib Fathi, Ph.D. 2013.

How civil grad's Pointivo went from idea to disruptive startup

02 September 2016

Screenshot of Line//Shape//Space story on coastal engineering and sea level rise.

Saving coastal cities from rising seas: Clough shares his New Orleans experience

01 September 2016

Screen capture of the new leadership video.

New video showcases perspectives on leadership

31 August 2016

Iris Tien, left, with Gwinnett County middle school teacher Kathylee McElroy and Jamila Cola after Tien and McElroy won awards for their collaboration on engineering lesson plans for McElroy's science classes. They've been working together for two years through a program made possible by the National Science Foundation Partnerships for Research, Innovation, and Multi-Scale Engineering. Cola is the director of that program. (Photo Courtesy: Iris Tien)

Tien wins award for helping bring engineering concepts to middle school science lessons

29 August 2016

The International Disaster Reconnaissance Studies class on the Great Wall of China, one of their first stops during their two-week trip to China and Japan.

Two weeks in China and Japan teaches students about disaster engineering, Asian culture — and themselves

26 August 2016

Civil engineering undergrad Andrew Melissas diving during his semester studying abroad in Australia. (Photo Courtesy: Andrew Melissas)

Rethinking career and competition: Australian culture, respect for native tribes make an impression on Andrew Melissas

24 August 2016

A Mundy scholar essay

Rudy Bonparte and John Taylor, two of the new faces in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering this fall.

New year brings new faces to CEE classrooms

22 August 2016

Charles "Wick" Moorman

Railroad veteran Moorman tapped to lead Amtrak

22 August 2016

Ph.D. student Christine Dykstra in her lab.

Dykstra wins highly competitive Canham Scholarship from Water Environment Federation

16 August 2016

Assistant Professor Kari Watkins added the title of Frederick L. Olmsted Junior Faculty Professor this summer, becoming the first faculty member to occupy the newly created position. Watkins studies multi-modal and sustainable transportation as well as using technology to improve transportation systems. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Watkins appointed the first Olmsted Junior Professor

11 August 2016

Reginald DesRoches stands with the ruptured cinder block wall one of his Ph.D. students destroyed while testing different kinds of masonry infill designed to strengthen similar structures in the Caribbean. DesRoches will draw on decades of earthquake research like this for the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering distinguished lecture he'll deliver in September. (Photo: Rob Felt)

‘From Haiti to California’: DesRoches to deliver UC Davis distinguished lecture

10 August 2016