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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

A photomicrographic view of Bacillus anthracis bacteria taken from heart blood and processed using a carbol-fuchsin stain. (Image Courtesy: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Genomic study of 412 anthrax strains provides new clues about why some strains are more virulent than others

29 August 2018

Associate Professor Yong Cho with his Distinguished Professor award from the Construction Industry Institute. (Photo Courtesy: Construction Industry Institute)

Cho is construction group’s distinguished professor of the year

28 August 2018

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

Our autonomous transportation future: New Dickerson Chair Srinivas Peeta and the human-vehicle-infrastructure connections to make that future a reality

23 August 2018

Assistant Professor Jorge Macedo

New faces: Macedo driven to understand geotechnical risks and make cities more resilient, sustainable

22 August 2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Kaiser. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

New faces: Kaiser combines ground-, space-based data to understand air pollution

21 August 2018

Michael Rodgers, principal research scientist in the school and now a Regents Researcher. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

USG names Rodgers a Regents Researcher

20 August 2018

Hermann Fritz helping install the Volcanic Tsunami Generator at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University earlier this summer. (Photo: Angela Del Rosario / Courtesy: Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure)

LISTEN: Studying volcano eruptions deep underwater with Hermann Fritz

17 August 2018

New school chair talks about the future in the second-season debut of Field Notes podcast

15 August 2018

Ph.D. student Sangy Hanumasagar, who has won a 2018 fellowship from the Geosynthetic Institute.

Geosynthetics Institute picks Hanumasagar for 2018 fellowship

08 August 2018

Susan Burns, the new associate chair for administration and finance, and Kevin Haas, the new associate chair for undergraduate programs.

Burns named associate chair of admin and finance, Haas takes over leadership of undergrad programs

03 August 2018

Karen and John Huff School Chair Donald Webster, who will be part of the inaugural year of the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Leaders Network. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Webster selected for inaugural ACC leadership program

01 August 2018

Ph.D. student Jianfeng Zhou, who has won a fellowship from the National Water Research Institute.

NWRI fellowship boosts Zhou’s work on non-chlorine approach to water disinfection

26 July 2018

Geothermal plant. The Next Frontier in Renewable Energy: Hot rocks combine with water to create power. (Graphic: Sarah Collins)

The next frontier in renewable energy: Dai aims to generate clean power from the earth’s heat

24 July 2018

Army Lt. Col. Kate Sanborn, the new commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District. (Photo Courtesy: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

Ph.D. finished, Sanborn takes over Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District

23 July 2018

Screenshot of WABE-FM website featuring Randall Guensler and Daniel Walls explaining their simple wheelchair-based system for cataloging sidewalk conditions.

LISTEN: Guensler, Walls show WABE how they’re tracking Atlanta’s sidewalk problems

20 July 2018

Professor Hermann Fritz

Fritz wins teaching award, fellowship to enhance student learning

19 July 2018

Two samples of the super-absorbent polymer beads Xing Xie is developing to improve diagnostic tests on biological samples in far-flung places. These beads, roughly half a millimeter in size, have been dyed so they're easier to see. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Xie wins grant to help extend shelf life of biological samples

16 July 2018

Environmental engineering senior Megan Haynes, center, with her mechanical engineering collaborators Andrey Gunawan, left, and Shannon Yee. Haynes has been doing research on desalination that recently won her second place in an American Society of Mechanical Engineers paper competition. (Photo Courtesy: Megan Haynes)

Haynes combines environmental and mechanical engineering in award-winning undergrad research

10 July 2018

Kostas Konstantinidis, the new Maulding Faculty Fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Konstantinidis named Maulding Faculty Fellow

09 July 2018