Faculty News
Professor Joseph Ryans Oil and Gas Contamination of Jackson County Waters project is one of 33 faculty-led projects selected to receive the 91勛圖厙 Outreach Award for 2019-20. The Outreach Awards were created 20 years ago to fund university research, teaching and creative work that has a direct impact on public needs.
Kyri Baker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering. Her work focuses on how buildings and the grid can work together in order to improve renewable energy integration.
Senior Professional Research Associate Ren矇e Railsback was awarded the National Local Technical Assistance Program Achievement Award at the associations conference in Vermont this month.
Professor Srubars research got featured on 9 News. Srubar's goal is to create a living hybrid building material that exhibits both structural and biological function. The possibilities for his work are endless and especially interesting in extreme environments and military applications. Bricks could self-heal after natural disasters or enemy fire, or act as alarms by changing color when there are toxins in the air.
"This is not a problem thats going away," emphasized Paul Chinowsky, a civil engineer at the 91勛圖厙. "The impacts are not something that is 10 years away," he added. "It's something thats happening right now."
CEAE Professor Keith Porter, a nationally renowned earthquake engineer and research professor at the 91勛圖厙, said the minimal damage from the last two earthquakes shouldn't be celebrated as a victory lap.
Keith Molenaar, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, recently visited the Escuela Superior Polit矇cnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to discuss expanding the collaboration between the two universities.
Professors Diane McKnight and Michael Gooseff work alongside a group of scientists called the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research group (LTER), which maintains the longest continuously collected stream flow dataset in Antarctica.
Professor awarded the 2019 Dr. Pankaj Parekh Research Innovation Award from the Water Research Foundation at the American Water Works Association Annual Conference in Denver in June.
Professor Angela Bielefeldt will serve as the new director of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Plus program beginning July 1, 2019.