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Three School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students have won National Science Foundation graduate fellowships. Hannah Greenwald, left, is a graduating senior. April Gadsby, middle, and Rebecca Nylen are in the early stages of the graduate studies. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Gadsby, Nylen, Greenwald earn coveted NSF graduate fellowships

17 April 2017

Reginald DesRoches, chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will become dean of Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering effective July 1. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

School Chair Reginald DesRoches named dean of engineering at Rice University

13 April 2017

Joe Brown won the 2017 Women in Engineering Teaching Excellence Award April 11 for the postitive impact he's had on the lives of Georgia Tech's female engineering students. Two faculty members are recognized each year based on a survey of undergrad women in the College of Engineering. (File Photo)

Students say Joe Brown is among best engineering teachers at Tech

12 April 2017

Hannah Greenwald poses for the traditional senior photo with the Georgia Tech Ramblin' Reck. Greenwald has won the top honor for Tech engineering students, the Davidson Family Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Cup. (Courtesy: Hannah Greenwald)

Greenwald named Tech’s top engineering undergrad, receives Tau Beta Pi Cup

10 April 2017

Christopher Pappas is this year’s recipient of the Leadership Award for Outstanding Corporate Reinvention from the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Marketing and Economics group. (Courtesy: Business Wire)

Pappas wins American Chemical Society leadership award

07 April 2017

Despina Tsementzi has won the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Dissertation award for 2017. (Courtesy: Despina Tsementzi)

Tsementzi wins Sigma Xi Best PhD Dissertation award for her widely published work in environmental microbiology

06 April 2017

Members of the ASCE steel bridge team put together their design at the Carolinas Regional Conference for student chapters April 1. The team, led by Colin Martin and Mihai Mavrodin, won first place and advance to national competition in May. (Photo: Thomas S. Teichmann)

ASCE student chapter wins steel bridge competition at regional conference, moves on to nationals

04 April 2017

The cover of "The Connector" in "Atlanta" magazine featuring the MARTA Army. (Courtesy: "Atlanta" magazine)

MARTA Army helping first-time users in wake of I-85 collapse, featured in Atlanta magazine

03 April 2017

Lauren Stewart talks with WSB-TV's Tom Regan about the Interstate 85 bridge collapse in Atlanta. Stewart said coordinated investigationsof the cause, cleanup of the site, and reconstruction of the highway will likely take months. She was among a handful of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering researchers who offered their engineering expertise to Atlanta and national media in the wake of the disaster. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

National media tap Tech structural engineering, transportation expertise after I-85 bridge collapses

31 March 2017

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