CEE Alumnus Farhang Ostadan receives ASCE's Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Energy Award

CEE alumnus Dr. Farhang Ostadan was selected by ASCE's Energy Division to receive the Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Energy Award for "significant contributions to practice, research and codification activities for advancing soil-structure-interaction analysis and seismic analysis in the energy industry, in particular the nuclear power industry."

Slav Hermanowicz appointed Outreach Associate Co-Director of the Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Inst.

Professor Slav Hermanowicz has been appointed a new Associate Co-Director for Outreach of the Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI).

TBSI is a joint venture between two premier universities to conduct research and graduate education on both campuses.

It has now 67 faculty and over 350 graduate students in three centers:  Environmental Science & New Energy, Data Science & Information Technology, and Precision Medicine & Healthcare Center.

In the news: Gadgil & team's system for removing arsenic from drinking water in India

Millions of people in India are at risk of consuming drinking water with high arsenic content.Lifelong consumption of drinking water with arsenic can result in cancer and skin lesions.

Professor Ashok Gadgil and his research team have set up a very efficient and cost-effective system called Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) for removing arsenic contamination from drinking water.