The 16th annual National Environmental Justice Conference (NEJC) hosted in Washington, D.C., took place March 7th - 9th at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The title of this year's conference was "Fully Integrating and Institutionalizing Environmental Justice & Equity." The purpose of the conference was to enhance communities through capacity building and technical assistance.

Professor Sanjay Govindjee is a co-author of Introduction to Mechanics of Solid Materials, a new book covering essential topics in engineering applications, including elasticity, plasticity and creep, and fracture and fatigue, with a target audience of 3rd and 4th year engineering and science students. 

CEE Professors Tina Chow and Tom Kirchstetter are collaborating on a new EPA grant led by principal investigator Neeta Thakur at UCSF to improve estimates of health impacts from wildfire smoke.

Professor Dimitrios Konstantinidis teamed up with researchers across Europe to win an ERIES transnational access grant to conduct a full-scale shake table testing campaign at the Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) in Lisbon, Portugal.