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Junior Arjun Bir’s work to improve lives in his native India and in the developing world has earned him the 2017 Alvin M. Ferst Leadership and Entrepreneur Award from Georgia Tech.

Bir wins Ferst Award for leadership, entrepreneurship

28 March 2017

Alumnus Falak Shah has been named to a select group of young leaders who represent the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ next generation, the Young Professionals Ambassadors. (Photo Courtesy: Falak Shah)

Shah joins young professional leadership of Chicago Council on Global Affairs

22 March 2017

Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy (Photo: Zonglin "Jack" Li)

Kennedy keynotes University of Toronto E-week research day

22 March 2017

Yannis Dialynas defended his Ph.D. thesis in January and hasn’t even celebrated his graduation. Yet he’s been working on the second State of the Carbon Cycle Report’s soils chapter, contributing insight from his doctoral research on the influence of soil erosion and carbon burial on the global carbon cycle.

Dialynas just finished his PhD, now he’s contributing to a national carbon cycle report

21 March 2017

Art Williams talks with students at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's first scholarship and fellowship lunch. Williams and his family created the F. Everett Williams Scholarship for civil engineering students. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

Students meet the families making their studies possible

17 March 2017

Screenshot of GPB web page featuring the March 16 segment on self-driving cars that included Michael Hunter.

Hunter tells GPB many more questions remain about self-driving cars

17 March 2017

Laurence J. Jacobs, associate dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering, will serve as interim dean of the College of Engineering starting July 1.

Jacobs appointed interim dean of College of Engineering

16 March 2017

The Eno Center for Transportation has selected Stephanie Amoaning-Yankson for its 2017 class of fellows. The fifth-year Ph.D. student will attend the center's Future Leaders Development Conference this summer to hear from federal officials, transportation policymakers, and business leaders. (Photo Courtesy: Stephanie Amoaning-Yankson)

Amoaning-Yankson invited to leadership conference as an Eno Fellow

16 March 2017

CEE's graduate civil engineering program is No. 2 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2018 survey. Graduate environmental engineering ranked No. 7. (Image: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

U.S. News: Georgia Tech civil and environmental programs among the nation’s best engineering grad schools

14 March 2017

Team TruePani reacts after they're announced as the People's Choice Award winners at the 2016 InVenture Prize finals. The team designed an antimicrobial cup and water storage device that makes drinking water safer. Shannon Evanchec and Samantha Becker have been working full-time for the last year to turn their winning invention into a viable business. (Photo: Fitrah Hamid)

One year later, InVenture team has turned idea into startup

10 March 2017

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering researchers have found that bacteria present in only small numbers in freshwater systems contain key genes that help the broader microbial community respond to environmental changes such as pollution or oil spills. The team used water from Lake Lanier northeast of Atlanta to test how microbial communities respond to common organic compounds. (Photo Courtesy: PBT1981 via Wikimedia Commons)

Study sheds light on key role for ‘rare’ aquatic microbes in dealing with pollution, balancing ecosystems

06 March 2017

Professor Emeritus Bruce Ellingwood

Ellingwood wins ASCE lifetime achievement award

27 February 2017

Assistant Professor Joe Brown has won an Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. These so-called CAREER grants recognize promising young faculty with funds to help them establish the research director of their careers. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Danger in the air? Brown wins NSF CAREER grant to find out

24 February 2017

Suzanne Shank delivers the spring 2017 lecture for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Kenneth Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series. (Photo: Zonglin "Jack" Li)

In Hyatt lecture, Shank says leadership is about connection, not isolation

21 February 2017

Marc and Kate Sanborn are working on doctorates in civil engineering with Lauren Stewart. The couple, married since 2012, are majors in the U.S. Army and need advanced degrees to continue their careers teaching at the U.S. Military Academy. (Photo: Missy Jurick)

Balancing military service, marriage, grad school: Two Army majors pick Tech to advance their careers

17 February 2017

Michael Rodgers

Rodgers, Watson win ASEE Evans award for paper on concept maps

16 February 2017

Kari Watkins and Phanish Suryanarayana, who have earned tenure and will be promoted to the rank of associate professor this summer. (Photos: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Suryanarayana and Watkins earn tenure, four others promoted to full professor

14 February 2017

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents recently named Kim D. Jones a regents professor. (Photo: Texas A&M-Kingsville)

Alumnus Kim Jones named a regents professor at Texas A&M-Kingsville

14 February 2017

Headphones and a sound board before a recording for the first edition of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's new "Field Notes" podcast. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

New podcast debuts with insider help for future civil and environmental engineering students

09 February 2017

Georgia Power Distinguished Professor Susan Burns

Burns honored as one of Tech’s most effective teachers

02 February 2017