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Team SEVEN Engineering with Buzz and Associate Professor Kari Watkins after they won for the best project among civil and environmental engineering teams at the spring 2017 Capstone Design Expo. Kemeria Abdella and Sharani White, middle, designed a full site development plan for a proposed medical office building in Cobb County, Georgia, along with Cathy Wong and Ming Yang. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Team SEVEN Engineering wins top prize among record 7 CEE teams competing at Capstone Expo

25 April 2017

Professor Kimberly Kurtis has been named interim chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, effective July 1, when current chair Reginald DesRoches departs for Rice University. Kurtis has been associate dean for faculty development and scholarship in the College of Engineering since 2014. (File Photo: Gary Meek)

Kimberly Kurtis named interim chair, effective July 1

21 April 2017

Students learn about a rainwater collector in the El Campo community from a local engineering during their Spring Break research trip to Bolivia. The trip, part of the Environmental Technology in the Developing World class, included days of collecting water samples and surveying residents as well as days learning how rural communities have developed their own water systems. (Photo: Donald Smith)

Changed: Students just back from Bolivia research trip talk about how it shifted their thinking in latest podcast

20 April 2017

Winnie Zambrana took home a Georgia Tech Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher award April 18 for her work with Joe Brown's research group. (Courtesy: Brown Water Group on Twitter)

Zambrana wins undergraduate research award

19 April 2017

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