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Researchers Liz Robertson from the University of Southern Denmark and Josh Manger from the University of California, San Diego, ready a sample collector off Mexico's Pacific coast. They’re part of a research team that discovered bacteria making oxygen minimum zones in the ocean even deader by sucking up all life-giving nitrogen molecules. (Photo: Heather Olins)

Global warming, a dead zone and mysterious bacteria

08 August 2016

Climate change focuses research on ocean areas depleted of oxygen, leading to discovery that topples tough doubts

Col. Tom Rickard, BSCE 1990, assumed command of the U.S. Army’s Fort George G. Meade August 4. During the change of command ceremony, Rickard passes the garrison colors to Command Sergeant Major Rodwell L. Forbes.

Civil engineering grad takes command of Army’s Fort Meade

08 August 2016

A neighborhood on the Westside of Atlanta, an example of the premise that has been stuck in Iris Tien's mind recently: how the infrastructure civil and environmental engineers build — or the lack thereof in areas like this — influences the surrounding community. (Photo: Iris Tien)

Tien: What we build builds communities

28 July 2016

Screen shot of Perimeter Center traffic solutions story featuring Michael Hunter.

Hunter: No ‘magic bullet’ for traffic tangles in Atlanta’s Perimeter area

26 July 2016

Water Resources Research editors say Bras’ work some of the year’s most significant

26 July 2016

Young person driving

Will millennials transform the future of transportation? Maybe not as much as we thought

25 July 2016

2016 Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship recipients Jack Cebe, Calvin Clark, April Gadsby, Alice Grossman, Janille Smith-Colin and Elliot Sperling

Federal Highway Administration awards Eisenhower Fellowships to 6 grad students

19 July 2016

Susan Burns

Burns named one of Tech’s emerging leaders

14 July 2016

Reginald DesRoches, Karen and John Huff School Chair

DesRoches to serve as Atlantic Coast Conference vice president

11 July 2016

Ph.D. student Aaron Bivins

Bivins wins EPA fellowship to study water quality in rural Alabama

06 July 2016

Jim Hamilton, BSCE 1977

Jim Hamilton’s advice for a successful merger? Talk about values, culture

05 July 2016

Ashuri receives Civil + Structural Engineer’s 2016 Rising Star Award

27 June 2016

A simulated landslide splashes into a wave basin at Oregon State University.

Understanding landslide-generated tsunamis — and predicting their impact

27 June 2016

A MARTA train in the Edgewood-Candler Park transit station.

Watkins to AJC: MARTA expansion vote will have huge effect on Atlanta

22 June 2016

A large wave towers astern of the NOAA ship Delaware II in the Atlantic Ocean in 2005. (Photo: Delaware II Crew/NOAA)

Understanding rogue ocean waves may be simple after all

21 June 2016

ShanghaiRankings Academic Program Ranking: Civil Engineering No. 7

Civil engineering program 7th in the world, 3rd in U.S. in new global rankings

21 June 2016

Professor Paul Mayne

GEOSTRATA magazine profiles ‘GeoLegend’ Paul Mayne

20 June 2016

John Kelley, BSCE 1992, at the Avalon development in Alpharetta, Georgia

Kelley finds his passion in creating places that build community

16 June 2016

The Atlanta Streetcar near the original Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Georgia Tech researchers have developed a way to improve the timing of the streetcar, eliminating the need for schedules and reducing passenger wait time. (Photo: Spmarshall42 / Wikimedia Commons)

Tracking the Atlanta Streetcar in real time

15 June 2016

Rendering of SunTrust Park, scheduled to open in spring 2017. (Image: Atlanta Braves)

Braves’ New World

10 June 2016