CEE Associate Professor Amy Pickering has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health titled "Multi-component chlorination intervention to reduce neonatal infections in rural health facilities." Maternal and neonatal mortality remains high in sub-Saharan Africa, and infections are a leading cause of death.
Understanding how water moves and changes worldwide is more important than ever due to climate change, but monitoring inland water in the tropics is not easy. Most satellites are optical and take photos of surfaces. They cannot see through the thick cloud cover and dense vegetation that conceal the rivers, lakes, and wetlands below.
Congratulations to CEE Assistant Professor Maria Laura Delle Monache on being named ITS Faculty of the Year! Delle Monache was nominated for her research, teaching, and service excellence within the ITS community. The Institute of Transportation Studies will present awards on August 21 at the Richmond Field Station (RFS).
Congratulations to CEE doctoral students Emin Burak Onat, Shangqing (Albert) Cao, Xuan Jiang, and CEE Professors Mark Hansen and Raja Sengupta for winning the best paper award in the Trajectories and Networks track at ICRAT! This conference marked the 11th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, held last week.
CEE Professor Jack Moehle was inducted as an Honorary Member of the Architectural Institute of Japan during a special ceremony held in Tokyo on May 30th. The honor recognizes his contributions to earthquake engineering and collaborative activities between Japan and the United States. Since its founding in 1886, only seven non-Japanese members have received this honor.
How do you enable robots to share the sidewalk and avoid other pedestrians? That's what Samuel Bobick, a student at UC Berkeley, has been working on at KTH all summer. He is one of six from the San Francisco Bay Area on a research internship exchange between KTH and UC Berkeley.
