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Cover design for the new National Academy of Engineering report, "Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century: Address Grand Challenges." It features the Earth in the center with photos around the circumference of a child drinking water from a spigot, a piece of glacier breaking off, a bulldozer atop piles of trash, a city skyline, and professional-looking people gathered around a laptop.

Clough, Crittenden co-author National Academy report on grand challenges in environmental engineering

16 January 2019

Frederick R. Dickerson Chair Srinivas Peeta (Photo: Luke Xinjing Xu)

India’s top engineering college honors Peeta as distinguished alumnus

10 January 2019

Assistant Professor Emily Grubert

New faces: Grubert blends engineering, social science to help us make decisions about our infrastructure systems

03 January 2019

Winners of 2018 Eisenhower Fellowships: Ph.D. student David Ederer, Ph.D student Atiyya Shaw and master's student Andreas Wolfe.

Newest Eisenhower fellows designing better models, improving rural transit, fixing unsafe roads

20 December 2018

Karen and John Huff School Chair Donald Webster. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Webster elected a sustaining fellow of international aquatic sciences society

17 December 2018

Visitors consider the artwork created by students in Francesco Fedele's Visual Arts and Geometry course at the Kai Lin Gallery Dec. 11. The drawings hung for one night at the gallery to celebrate the students' work in the class, which connected advanced geometry with art through the lenses of Einstein and Picasso.

Art and geometry: Exhibition features student art inspired by Einstein and Picasso

12 December 2018

An autonomous Waymo Chrysler Pacifica drives around Los Altos, California. (Photo Courtesy: Dllu via Wikimedia Commons)

Op-Ed: Will driverless cars make our traffic problems worse?

12 December 2018

Screenshot of BBC News story about new data collected by Hermann Fritz and his colleagues after the tsunami in Indonesia in September.

Fritz, colleagues find surprising clue to severity of Indonesia tsunami

11 December 2018

Silver dipoles are arranged across the folds of a Miuri-Ori pattern to create a radio frequency filter that’s tunable. By adjusting the dimensions, the filter can block a wide range of frequencies. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Shape-shifting origami could help antenna systems adapt on the fly

11 December 2018

Ph.D. student Atiyya Shaw, who is the student of the year for the Center for Teaching Old Models New Tricks.

Shaw picked as national student of the year for US DOT-funded research center

10 December 2018

Downtown Atlanta skyline with the Downtown Connector and the eastern edge of Georgia Tech's campus. (Photo: Fitrah Hamid)

Tien picked to help lead working group for Atlanta’s ‘roadmap to resilience’

07 December 2018

Professor Arash Yavari, who has been elected a fellow of the Society of Engineering Science. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)

Yavari elected a fellow of the Society of Engineering Science, only the 2nd from Tech

06 December 2018

2018 CEE Awards Winners: Shelly Zhang, Phanish Suryanarayana, Anna Nord, Jorge Laval, Jamia Luckett, Susan Jin, Shauna Bennett-Boyd, Billy Plum, Cong Luo, David Scott, and Melisa Hubbs. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)

Awards honor leadership, teaching excellence, impactful research for 2018

05 December 2018

The BAMM Engineering senior design team won top prize among the 18 civil and environmental engineering groups at the fall 2018 Capstone Design Expo Dec. 4. Team members with Buzz at the expo awards ceremony: Michael Nieman, left, Bailey Little, Andrew White and Matthew Gruba. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)

Safer approach to I-20 project wins top civil and environmental engineering prize at fall Capstone Design Expo

04 December 2018

Professor Emeritus Samuel Martin, who died Nov. 14. Faculty members and colleagues remembered Martin as a dedicated mentor, colleague and friend.

Remembering Professor Emeritus Sam Martin

03 December 2018

Sam Coogan, who is the new Demetrius T. Paris Assistant Professor.

Coogan appointed to Paris early career professorship

29 November 2018

The global amount of recoverable fecal waste harbors risks, such as water contamination, but also opportunities to harvest natural resources. A new study from Carlton S. Wilder Assistant Professor Joe Brown, left, and others at Georgia Tech has determined just how much of that recoverable biomass exists. Here, Brown is pictured with former student Andrew Loo. (Photo: Gary Meek)

Growing pile of human and animal waste harbors threats, opportunities

28 November 2018

The new members of the School's External Advisory Board: Raul Delgado, Fred Carlson, Art Williams, Murray Griffin and Rebecca Nease.

Family traditions, entrepreneurship link new members of School’s advisory board

26 November 2018

Alumni Jim Anderson, Andrea Hence Evans and Rick Garcia, who all studied civil engineering but have ended up in far different careers.

Where can a CEEatGT degree take you? Newest Field Notes podcast has some unexpected answers

20 November 2018

These five School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students won scholarships from the Intelligent Transportation Society of Georgia for their essays about the ways intelligent transportation systems and technology could help the United States eliminate roadway deaths and serious injuries by 2025. From left, Ph.D. students Somdut Roy, April Gadsby and Cibi Pranav; undergraduate Katie Popp; and Ph.D. student Hanyan "Ann" Li. (Photo Courtesy: Intelligent Transportation Society of Georgia)

ITS Georgia awards Shackelford scholarships to 5 students for their ideas using technology to eliminate roadway deaths

19 November 2018