The Story Exchange announced the winners of its second annual Women In Science Incentive Prize. This grant program recognizes innovative female scientists working on solutions to our time's most pressing environmental issues. CEE Professor Sunni Ivey was among the prize recipients for her work using supercomputers and wearables to monitor air pollution.
CEE Professor Dimitrios Konstantinidis received the 2021 Best Paper in Analysis & Computation Award from the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering for the article “Integrated Structural-Nonstructural Performance-Based Seismic Design and Retrofit Optimization of Buildings"! Check out the full list of structural engineering papers that received awards here!
Congratulations to CEE Professors Scott Moura and Dimitrios Zekkos for receiving the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) 2022 Seed Awards! Their research proposals examine battery health degradation for electric off-road vehicles and using uncrewed aerial systems (UAVs) or drones to collect data and monitor methane emissions from landfills.
A big congratulations to Aqshems Nichols on being named the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) Student of the Year! CSCRS selected Nichols as its outstanding student as part of a U.S. Department of Transportation program.
Congratulations to the 11 UC Berkeley Engineering, CEE, ITS, and College of Environmental Design students who received Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) fellowships for the coming year!
Ph.D. students Camila and Mao test the behavior of isolated bridges with tall piers utilizing hybrid simulation in the Structures Lab in Davis Hall! A portion of the test is conducted physically, while the remainder is conducted numerically. Camila's research focuses on the intersection between the seismic behavior of bridges and hybrid simulation.
CEE Professor Paolo D'Odorico was recently featured in an article from The Daily Californian discussing UC Berkeley's history of engaging in research efforts with global professionals as a world-class higher education research institution
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $2.5 million to an interdisciplinary, multicampus University of California research team, partnering with Bay Area agencies and community organizations to help residents respond to natural disasters more efficiently.
Led by CEE Professor Kenichi Soga, the researchers will use the grant to create an interdisciplinary framework simulating wildfire evacuation methods in Bay Area communities, Marin County, and the city of Oakland in Alameda County.
CEE researchers co-authored a paper describing the process of developing a novel model quantifying PM2.5 exposure impacts from operating and maintaining paved roads in the San Francisco Bay Area. The paper was co-authored by Postdoctoral Associate Fiona Greer (Ph.D., CEE 2021), ECIC Ph.D. student Ahmad Bin Thaneya, and Professors Arpad Horvath and Joshua Apte in Environmental Research Letters.
