Maribel Castillo
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Congrats to Maribel Castillo for receiving the 2023 UC Berkeley ALIANZA Latinx Staff Award! Castillo assists with managing and answering questions regarding CEE Graduate admissions, maintaining the Academic Admissions Office (AAO) email to respond to inquiries, and overseeing GSI/Reader hiring. This award intends to recognize and celebrate the achievements, contributions, and talents of Latinx-identifying staff within UC Berkeley. This recognition aims to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion by acknowledging these individuals' unique experiences and leadership of these individuals and their impact on the University.
As the campus' first annual Latinx Staff Award, the goal is to recognize exceptional commitment to making UC Berkeley a better place to work, learn, and belong by giving back to the university community. Certificates of recognition were distributed to each awardee at Alumni House on Thursday, October 12, recognizing their accomplishments.
CEE Alum Juan Carlos Muñoz Gives Fireside Chat
The Institute of Transportation Studies hosted a fireside chat on Wednesday, November 15th, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm in the Toll Room, Alumni House with CEE alum Juan Carlos Muñoz, the Secretary of Transport and Telecommunications of Chile, to celebrate the signing of an MOU with the Government of Chile!
Kenichi Soga Delivers Keynote Speech at the Fourth International Symposium on Machine Learning & Big Data in Geoscience
CEE Professor Kenichi Soga presented a keynote titled "Smart Geo-Infrastructure - From Sensing to Machine Learning" during the fourth International Symposium on Machine Learning & Big Data in Geoscience, held in Cork, Ireland. The symposium's theme was data-centric solutions for reshaping the next-generation geo-industries, and the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering hosted the symposium.
Jack Moehle Elected to National Academy of Construction
CEE Professor Jack Moehle was elected to the National Academy of Construction (NAC) for his work as an "influential researcher, author, and academician with transformative contributions in global building codes, particularly for concrete systems and seismic design for reinforced concrete buildings."
Berkeley Fire Chief Gives Lecture in CE170 class on Wildfire Preparedness
As part of their coursework for the CE170 Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling class, taught by Professor Kenichi Soga, students performed traffic simulations of wildfire evacuations from Berkeley Hills.
CEE Sponsors 9th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference
The 9th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference was held from October 11 through October 15 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The theme of this conference was looking back to move forward, Sankofa.
Two EPA Grants To Mitigate Landfill Methane Emissions Awarded to Dimitrios Zekkos and Tina Chow
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $4.6 million in grant funding to five institutions for research to quantify and mitigate emissions from municipal solid waste landfills.
CEE Undergraduate & Graduate Programs Ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report ranked CEE's graduate & undergraduate programs in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering as number 1 nationwide for 2024.