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Charles "Wick" Moorman

Railroad veteran Moorman tapped to lead Amtrak

22 August 2016

Ph.D. student Christine Dykstra in her lab.

Dykstra wins highly competitive Canham Scholarship from Water Environment Federation

16 August 2016

Assistant Professor Kari Watkins added the title of Frederick L. Olmsted Junior Faculty Professor this summer, becoming the first faculty member to occupy the newly created position. Watkins studies multi-modal and sustainable transportation as well as using technology to improve transportation systems. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Watkins appointed the first Olmsted Junior Professor

11 August 2016

Reginald DesRoches stands with the ruptured cinder block wall one of his Ph.D. students destroyed while testing different kinds of masonry infill designed to strengthen similar structures in the Caribbean. DesRoches will draw on decades of earthquake research like this for the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering distinguished lecture he'll deliver in September. (Photo: Rob Felt)

‘From Haiti to California’: DesRoches to deliver UC Davis distinguished lecture

10 August 2016

Researchers Liz Robertson from the University of Southern Denmark and Josh Manger from the University of California, San Diego, ready a sample collector off Mexico's Pacific coast. They’re part of a research team that discovered bacteria making oxygen minimum zones in the ocean even deader by sucking up all life-giving nitrogen molecules. (Photo: Heather Olins)

Global warming, a dead zone and mysterious bacteria

08 August 2016

Climate change focuses research on ocean areas depleted of oxygen, leading to discovery that topples tough doubts

Col. Tom Rickard, BSCE 1990, assumed command of the U.S. Army’s Fort George G. Meade August 4. During the change of command ceremony, Rickard passes the garrison colors to Command Sergeant Major Rodwell L. Forbes.

Civil engineering grad takes command of Army’s Fort Meade

08 August 2016

A neighborhood on the Westside of Atlanta, an example of the premise that has been stuck in Iris Tien's mind recently: how the infrastructure civil and environmental engineers build — or the lack thereof in areas like this — influences the surrounding community. (Photo: Iris Tien)

Tien: What we build builds communities

28 July 2016

Screen shot of Perimeter Center traffic solutions story featuring Michael Hunter.

Hunter: No ‘magic bullet’ for traffic tangles in Atlanta’s Perimeter area

26 July 2016

Water Resources Research editors say Bras’ work some of the year’s most significant

26 July 2016

Young person driving

Will millennials transform the future of transportation? Maybe not as much as we thought

25 July 2016