Professor Franco Zunino Receives NSF CAREER Award

Berkeley Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Assistant Professor Franco Zunino has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project, “CAREER: Revealing the Initial Chemical Reactions in Blended Cements to Strengthen Domestic Cement Supply Chains.”Funded through the NSF’s Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI) program, part of the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI), the five-year award was secured on his very first submission.

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Graham H. Powell (1937–2026)

Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and Friends,
 
It is with deep sorrow that we share the news that our esteemed colleague, mentor, and friend, Professor Emeritus Graham H. Powell, passed away on June 15, 2026.
 
Graham was born on April 27, 1937, in New Zealand. He received his B.E. (hons.) and his PhD degrees in Civil Engineering in 1958 and 1964 respectively from the University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand. 

ACerS Cements Division Presents Beyond the Bulk: Shifting Paradigms to Fundamentally Understand SCM Reactivity

ACerS Cements Division Presents Beyond the Bulk: Shifting Paradigms to Fundamentally Understand SCM Reactivity featuring Professor Franco Zunino

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
ACerS member: no cost
ACerS GGRN and Material Advantage student member: no cost
Non-member: $30
Non-member student: $15

Register here: https://myacers.ceramics.org/NC__Event?id=a0lUe00000RuG2XIAV

Congratulations Class of 2026

UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Class of 2026 celebrated over three commencement ceremonies this May, honoring more than 2,000 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree recipients. Family, friends, faculty, and staff gathered to recognize graduates as they completed their Berkeley journeys and prepared for the next chapter. The CEE community was especially proud to see two members of the CEE family recognized as keynote speakers for this year’s ceremonies.

Professor Kenichi Soga Receives ASCE Ralph B. Peck Award and Delivers Geo-Congress Lecture

Professor Kenichi Soga received ASCE Ralph B. Peck Award this year and delivered the Ralph B. Peck Lecture at Geo-Congress 2026 in Salt Lake City. Ralph B. Peck Lecture is one of the notable invited lectures in geotechnical engineering, recognizing major contributions to the field and providing a platform for leading researchers to share perspectives on engineering practice, innovation, and future challenges.

Researchers from UC Berkeley's CED and CEE Win the 2025 IASS Tsuboi Award

Researchers from UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED) Department of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's (CEE) Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials (SEMM) program have received the 2025 Tsuboi Award from the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) for the most outstanding paper presented at the IASS Annual Symposium in México City.

Professor Amy Pickering contributes to Environmental Science & Technology's 60th anniversary special issue

Professor Amy Pickering contributes to Environmental Science & Technology's 60th anniversary special issue, sharing her opinions in a viewpoint entitled, “A New Era for Global Environmental Surveillance of Infectious Disease,” in which she argues that now is the time to invest in leveraging new molecular biology methods to track population trends in disease through environmental sampling. 

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