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Alexander Brand receives NSF CAREER award to discover the mechanisms that make concrete work , articleThe assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering will research ways to establish future directions for concrete materials.
Date: Aug 22, 2023 -
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Zooming in on microplastics , articleThese tiny particles are creating big challenges worldwide and are at the core of emerging fields of study for researchers, including many at Virginia Tech.
Date: Jul 19, 2023 -
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Graduate research empowers homeowners to gauge copper levels in their drinking water , articleRecent Virginia Tech graduate Rebecca Kriss worked with two West Coast residents to test guidance for addressing high copper levels in residential drinking water. These residents faced many challenges, including green hair and suspected pet health issues, as a result of excessive copper in their homes.
Date: May 16, 2023 -
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Engineering and political science students collaborate on real-world water issues , articleCivil and environmental engineering students and political science students came together to brainstorm ways to help communities overcome challenges to provide clean and accessible water to residents.
Date: May 05, 2023 -
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In memoriam: Siegfried Holzer, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of civil and environmental engineering , articleSiegfried M. Holzer, an Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, turned his passion for teaching into an award-winning 30-year career at Virginia Tech.
Date: Apr 17, 2023 -
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Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz earns Fulbright scholarship to study pollution in the Amazon rainforest , articleIsaacman-VanWertz will be living in Ecuador to study emissions in the Amazon rainforest that can lead to global pollution.
Date: Mar 03, 2023 -
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Kyle Strom builds innovative camera system to track muddy snowflakes in the Mississippi River , articleStrom developed an innovative camera system to track muddy sediment in the Mississippi River as a way to predict and reverse land loss in coastal areas of Louisiana.
Date: Mar 01, 2023 -
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Amy Pruden speaks at Global Leaders Group meeting on antimicrobial resistance , articlePruden was invited to speak with the group to help identify sustainable health outcomes for people and ecosystems.
Date: Mar 01, 2023 -
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Civil engineering alumnus welcomes chance to improve campus experience , articleKyle White, a civil and environmental engineering alumnus, is the project manager on a two-part renovation project on the university’s Blacksburg campus that is slated to be completed when students return from spring break in March.
Date: Feb 17, 2023 -
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Linsey Marr named to National Academy of Engineering , articleMarr, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for her advancement of fundamental knowledge of transport, removal, and mitigation of airborne pathogenic viruses.
Date: Feb 09, 2023 -
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Susan Hotle works to increase flight efficiency and decrease delays , articleHotle recently created a tool to improve the efficiency of taxiing time for airplanes. The Taxi Event Extractor parses key metrics and events from flight radar data to improve estimates of unimpeded taxi times at airports.
Date: Jan 27, 2023 -
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Bowman gift of $5 million strengthens students’ path to sustainable land development design , articleThe growth of the Bowman Sustainable Land Development Program will go far beyond making engineers simply aware of sustainable land development. It will provide more experiential learning opportunities, such as field trips and practitioner-led workshops, guest lectures, product exhibitions, and networking events.
Date: Sep 30, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech chosen as one of the leading institutions of the new Build America Center , articleFunded by a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the center will offer educational programs, information, and resources for transportation agencies in all areas of alternative and innovative project financing and delivery.
Date: Aug 01, 2022 -
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Erich Hester awarded fellowship for work in hydropower energy , articleHester will develop low-impact hydropower, promote environmental sustainability, and support grid reliability.
Date: Jul 15, 2022 -
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Hosein Foroutan receives NSF CAREER Award to understand how plastic particles are aerosolized , articleAccording to Foroutan, microplastics are one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. He'll use the award to investigate air-sea interaction as a source of atmospheric microplastics and nanoparticles.
Date: Jul 05, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech hosts National Student Steel Bridge Competition , articleThe university welcomed hundreds of engineering students from across North America to its Blacksburg campus May 27-28 for the event at the Beamer-Lawson Indoor Practice Facility.
Date: Jun 23, 2022 -
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Maryam Shakiba receives NSF CAREER award to study microplastics pollution in oceans , articleShakiba's resulting project will investigate how macroplastics degrade into microplastics in oceans under the highly coupled effects of weathering and mechanical stresses.
Date: Apr 07, 2022 -
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U.S. Geological Survey and Virginia Tech to partner on national water-loss program , articleSunil Sinha, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, hopes the program will give water utilities guidance on how to improve efficiencies in supply and revenue recovery.
Date: Apr 07, 2022 -
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Team of researchers led by Virginia Tech seeks to mitigate flu and other respiratory viruses for children in indoor environments , articleLinsey Marr is leading a team of researchers that hopes to understand how behavioral and environmental factors affect transmission rates of the flu in order to identify the most effective interventions.
Date: Mar 03, 2022 -
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Landon Marston receives NSF CAREER award to advance water sustainability and economic resilience , articleHis project will use an integrated systems approach to uncover the drivers of industrial water use, water infrastructure dependencies within the U.S. economy, and water scarcity risks and opportunities.
Date: Mar 02, 2022 -
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Researcher explores how proliferating data centers affect water supply in the United States , articleData centers are using an increasing amount of water and energy as streaming services become more popular. According to Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty member Landon Marston, this usage is putting a strain on communities where these data centers are located.
Date: Feb 02, 2022 -
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Researcher works with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to strengthen military and civilian earthen structures , articleCivil and environmental engineering faculty member Sherif Abdelaziz has received funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for two projects related to the use of biopolymers to improve soils.
Date: Jan 10, 2022 -
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Linsey Marr receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor , articleMarr is one of fewer than 12 worldwide experts on aerosol transmission of viruses and one of only a handful in America. She has been working with airborne viruses for the past 13 years, but her expertise became widely known during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: Jan 07, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech leads team to assess the processes and vulnerabilities of groundwater self governance , articleVirginia Tech researcher Landon Marston leads a multi-institutional team aiming to advance theory on self-governance of groundwater commons and create new tools that can benefit the entire nation. The effort is funded by a $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Date: Jan 05, 2022 -
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Michael J. Garvin inducted into National Academy of Construction , articleGarvin was chosen for his proven leadership in alternative project delivery and contracting methods, public-private partnerships, project finance, and significant research for major transportation and infrastructure projects.
Date: Dec 02, 2021 -
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Graduate student looks to inform coastal communities on how to respond to hurricanes , articleSince 2019, civil and environmental engineering graduate student Nick Brilli has participated in the U.S. Coastal Research Program’s During Nearshore Event Experience project in Duck, North Carolina, to help develop better methods for characterizing the erodibility of coastal sediments.
Date: Oct 05, 2021 -
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In memoriam: Antoine Hobeika, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering , articleHobeika served at Virginia Tech for 43 years, teaching courses in transportation infrastructure and systems engineering before retiring in 2016. He died on Sept. 20, 2021.
Date: Oct 04, 2021 -
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Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz receives NSF CAREER Award, Department of Energy grant to study atmospheric gases , article“The picture we have in our mind of air pollution is black smoke billowing out of a smokestack or tailpipe,” said Isaacman-VanWertz, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. “But the truth is that it is much more complicated.”
Date: Jun 14, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech Concrete Canoe team breaks a 16-year streak in regional competition , articleEach year, the Virginia Tech Concrete Canoe team takes on the challenge of making something easily sinkable float.
Date: Jun 10, 2021 -
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Eric Jacques selected by the Office of Naval Research for its Young Investigator Program , articleJacques, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering, serves as the director of the Shock Tube Research Facility, a space equipped with a large-scale gas-detonation blast simulator, where he and his team study structural and non-structural components subject to extreme blast loads.
Date: Jun 04, 2021