Courtney Sakry
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Article ItemAlexander Brand receives NSF CAREER award to discover the mechanisms that make concrete work , article
The assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering will research ways to establish future directions for concrete materials.
Date: Aug 22, 2023 -
Article ItemZooming in on microplastics , article
These 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 -
Article ItemGraduate research empowers homeowners to gauge copper levels in their drinking water , article
Recent 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 -
Article ItemEngineering and political science students collaborate on real-world water issues , article
Civil 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 -
Article ItemIn memoriam: Siegfried Holzer, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of civil and environmental engineering , article
Siegfried 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 -
Article ItemGabriel Isaacman-VanWertz earns Fulbright scholarship to study pollution in the Amazon rainforest , article
Isaacman-VanWertz will be living in Ecuador to study emissions in the Amazon rainforest that can lead to global pollution.
Date: Mar 03, 2023 -
Article ItemKyle Strom builds innovative camera system to track muddy snowflakes in the Mississippi River , article
Strom 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 -
Article ItemAmy Pruden speaks at Global Leaders Group meeting on antimicrobial resistance , article
Pruden was invited to speak with the group to help identify sustainable health outcomes for people and ecosystems.
Date: Mar 01, 2023 -
Article ItemCivil engineering alumnus welcomes chance to improve campus experience , article
Kyle 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 -
Article ItemLinsey Marr named to National Academy of Engineering , article
Marr, 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 -
Article ItemSusan Hotle works to increase flight efficiency and decrease delays , article
Hotle 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 -
Article ItemBowman gift of $5 million strengthens students’ path to sustainable land development design , article
The 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 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech chosen as one of the leading institutions of the new Build America Center , article
Funded 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 -
Article ItemErich Hester awarded fellowship for work in hydropower energy , article
Hester will develop low-impact hydropower, promote environmental sustainability, and support grid reliability.
Date: Jul 15, 2022 -
Article ItemHosein Foroutan receives NSF CAREER Award to understand how plastic particles are aerosolized , article
According 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 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech hosts National Student Steel Bridge Competition , article
The 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 -
Article ItemMaryam Shakiba receives NSF CAREER award to study microplastics pollution in oceans , article
Shakiba'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 -
Article ItemU.S. Geological Survey and Virginia Tech to partner on national water-loss program , article
Sunil 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 -
Article ItemTeam of researchers led by Virginia Tech seeks to mitigate flu and other respiratory viruses for children in indoor environments , article
Linsey 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 -
Article ItemLandon Marston receives NSF CAREER award to advance water sustainability and economic resilience , article
His 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 -
Article ItemResearcher explores how proliferating data centers affect water supply in the United States , article
Data 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 -
Article ItemResearcher works with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to strengthen military and civilian earthen structures , article
Civil 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 -
Article ItemLinsey Marr receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor , article
Marr 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 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech leads team to assess the processes and vulnerabilities of groundwater self governance , article
Virginia 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 -
Article ItemMichael J. Garvin inducted into National Academy of Construction , article
Garvin 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 -
Article ItemGraduate student looks to inform coastal communities on how to respond to hurricanes , article
Since 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 -
Article ItemIn memoriam: Antoine Hobeika, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering , article
Hobeika 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 -
Article ItemGabriel 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 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech Concrete Canoe team breaks a 16-year streak in regional competition , article
Each year, the Virginia Tech Concrete Canoe team takes on the challenge of making something easily sinkable float.
Date: Jun 10, 2021 -
Article ItemEric Jacques selected by the Office of Naval Research for its Young Investigator Program , article
Jacques, 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