The cover story in Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) features the research of Professors Allen Goldstein and William Nazaroff.  

In the article, "What's in the air in our homes?," Goldstein and Nazaroff are among the atmospheric chemists who are moving indoors to analyze chemicals in the air we breathe—given that most people spend as much as 90% of their time indoors.

Indoor emissions come from many sources--stoves, cleaning products, furnishings, and even people. 

Jack Moehle, the Ed and Diane Wilson Presidential Professor, is the recipient of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's most prestigious award: the George W. Housner Medal.

The medal is awarded for extraordinary and lasting contributions to public earthquake safety through the development and application of earthquake hazard reduction practices and policies.

CEE graduate students Casey Finnerty and Gabriel Lobo were selected to attend Tsinghua University's  first Student Forum on Climate Change.  

Based on essays submitted by students from the 12 universities that form the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC),Tsinghua selected (through a blind two-stage referee process) these two students.

Results from the Oliver Wyman Forum’s inaugural Urban Mobility Readiness Index: How Cities Rank on Mobility Ecosystem Development  — a joint research effort with the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California, Berkeley — were unveiled at the Oliver Wyman Forum: Data-driven Coalitions for Smart Mobility in Paris Nov. 26-27, 2019.

The NHERI SimCenter will host a workshop, “Simulation and Data Needs to Support Disaster Recovery Planning,” to engage stakeholders, users, and researchers to exchange ideas about simulation tools, data, and results needed for regional risk assessments. The workshop is on Jan. 30-31, 2020, 8:30-5:30 at UC Berkeley.

Jonathan Bray, Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence, delivered the 1^st Geotechnical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series at the University of Nevada Reno on Nov. 22, 2019.

He spoke on "Estimating Liquefaction-Induced Building Settlement." (see flyer pdf)
 

Professor Ashok Gadgil and his research team have devised a novel way to protect the millions of people who at risk from water pipes that leach lead.

The team found that when a low voltage power source, about 1V, is connected to a lead pipe filled with a harmless phosphate solution and to a conductive wire within the pipe, an insoluble lead phosphate layer rapidly forms on the inside surfaces of the pipe.

CEE PhD student Jes Parker, working in the lab of Professor Steve Glaser, is part of a team that is taking research on uneven areas on a fault (asperities) to a new level, studying fault mechanics at the nanoscale.

See At Fault (Berkeley Engineering, 10.25.19)