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Veterans John Temple and Mike Anderson in one of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering server rooms. The pair now provide information technology support to the School's students, faculty and staff. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

Staff who served share thoughts on Veterans Day

11 November 2016

New External Advisory Board members Jim Anderson, John Kelley, Edward Metzger, Stephen Mulva, Frank Rucker and Deborah Staudinger.

Leaders in construction, law, social media among newest members of School’s External Advisory Board

08 November 2016

Yang Wang and students in his research group install sensors on a bridge in Bartow County, Georgia, in July 2016. Wang, Francesco Fedele and Rafi Muhanna in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering will use data from instruments like these to feed a new interval-based optimization approach to assess structural systems and detect damage. (Photo Courtesy: Yang Wang)

Dealing with uncertainty: New NSF project will create more accurate, faster interval-based approach to assessing structures for damage

04 November 2016

Sierra Magazine story about the explosion at a gas pipeline in Alabama.

Tien: Pipeline blast reminds us of our dependence on a few key infrastructure systems

03 November 2016

Screen shot of Ph.D. student Simon Berrebi's interview with WSB-TV in Atlanta about his group's effort to crowdfund trash cans for East Point bus stops.

WATCH: MARTA Army crowdfunding trash cans at East Point bus stops

02 November 2016

WTA Atlanta scholarship winners Xiaodan Xu, Stephanie Amoaning-Yankson and Cindy Bledsoe.

Georgia Tech students sweep WTS Atlanta scholarships

02 November 2016

G. Wayne Clough with National Academy of Construction President Hugh Rice. Clough was inducted into the academy's 2016 class of new members Oct. 20. (Photo Courtesy: National Academy of Construction)

Clough elected to National Academy of Construction

01 November 2016

Ph.D. student Stephanie Amoaning-Yankson.

Amoaning-Yankson wins Society of Women Engineers leadership scholarship

01 November 2016

Ocean Science and Engineering webpage screenshot

Georgia Tech launches Ph.D. in ocean science and engineering

27 October 2016

Ph.D. student Osvaldo Broesicke, right, with Latinos in Science and Engineering President Will Davis. Broesicke won the organization's highest honor for students, the Padrino Scholarship and Medalla de Plata, or silve medal. (Photo Courtesy: Osvaldo Broesicke)

Broesicke honored with highest student award from Latino STEM group

26 October 2016

Ph.D. student Chloe Johansen meets with her TI:GER program group in October 2016 to talk about their project. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

Failing infrastructure: We can’t fix it all, so Chloe Johansen’s research will help us prioritize

20 October 2016

Ph.D. student Fikret Atalay will be part of a five-student delegation from the United States at next year's International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference in South Korea.

Atalay picked for 5-member U.S. delegation to young geotech engineers conference

17 October 2016

Ph.D. student Sangy Hanumasagar will attend the International Research Association on Large Landslides meeting in China this month for two weeks of workshops and high-level courses on landslides.

Hanumasagar selected for ‘landslide school’ with some of world’s top scholars

13 October 2016

SEC Country website screen shot of a story looking at the effects of major hurricanes on college football stadiums.

Hurricanes vs. Stadiums: Stewart explains why the massive structures can withstand storms

10 October 2016

The Taj Mahal (Photo: Michael Bergin)

Burning trash in India major cause of Taj Mahal discoloration, leads to hundreds of premature deaths

07 October 2016

Reginald DesRoches, the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Karen and John Huff School Chair

Haiti engineers honor DesRoches for his work on disaster recovery, serving the community

07 October 2016

Hermann Fritz, right, talks with people in Haiti on one of his research trips after an earthquake wreaked havoc on the island nation in 2010. Fritz told public radio's Marketplace the temporary communities that have since sprung up on the country's hillsides are now at risk from flooding and landslides in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. (Photo: Jean Vilmond Hilaire, Université de Quisqueya)

AUDIO: Hurricane Matthew compounds problems for Haiti’s infrastructure

05 October 2016

The city of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and Bluefields Bay. Environmental engineering undergraduate Kelsey Eichbauer spent eight weeks this summer working in this community with the nonprofit blueEnergy. She helped design and build simple water-filtration systems to reuse so-called "greywater" — all the semi-clean wastewater that comes from everywhere except the toilet. (Photo: Kelsey Eichbauer)

Eichbauer learns simple sometimes works best during summer water project in Nicaragua

30 September 2016

A global engineering leadership essay

Professor Paul Mayne

Mayne to deliver Croatia’s signature geotechnical engineering lecture

26 September 2016

In fall Hyatt lecture, Montanye says relationships, curiosity, business skills key to a fulfilling engineering career

20 September 2016