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Georgia Tech, China partnership wins $1M to improve sustainability of China’s...

A group of Georgia Tech researchers led by the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's John Crittenden has won a four-year grant to improve the environmental sustainability of the Chinese steel...

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Using nature’s roadmap: Frost helps lead new NSF center that could change the...

An $18.5 million investment from the National Science Foundation will help researchers at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech — along with colleagues at Arizona State, New...

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NSF funds $12M research network to build the healthy, sustainable, livable...

How will we build the cities of the future in a sustainable way? A new National Science Foundation-funded research network will connect scientists at nine universities with infrastructure groups,...

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DesRoches joins NSF’s engineering advisory committee

School Chair Reginald DesRoches will join the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Engineering this fall. Engineering Directorate officials invited DesRoches to serve a three-year term...

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Tien wins NSF funding to improve reliability of our interdependent...

The National Science Foundation has awarded Iris Tien $499,920 for a three-year project that will develop new computer models of infrastructure systems and the connections between them. The idea is to...

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Arson, Suryanarayana win sought-after CAREER awards from NSF

Two assistant professors in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering have won one of the nation’s premiere grants and the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior...

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Geary, Mast win NSF graduate fellowships

Two School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. students have secured National Science Foundation fellowships, some of the most competitive and prestigious funding for the nation’s graduate...

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New model explains how soil erosion affects the amount of carbon in Earth’s...

A high-resolution model of how soil erosion impacts the carbon cycle of a small South Carolina watershed may help explain an apparent imbalance in the world’s carbon budget. Explaining that apparent...

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Dealing with uncertainty: New NSF project will create more accurate, faster...

The National Science Foundation has funded a new collaboration between three School of Civil and Environmental Engineering researchers that could make finding damage in bridges or buildings easier and...

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Building healthier cities: 10 questions with Ted Russell

Tech Environmental Engineering Professor Armistead “Ted” Russell has traveled the world, including China, India and Minneapolis, studying air quality and its impacts on urban life. He is also part of a...

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Danger in the air? Brown wins NSF CAREER grant to find out

When Joe Brown went to India last summer, he was hoping to collect samples that could help answer some questions he’d been thinking about for a while. His years studying sanitation and global health...

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Gadsby, Nylen, Greenwald earn coveted NSF graduate fellowships

Three School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students are among the winners this year of prestigious graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Two of the students,...

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Coogan wins CAREER grant to build mathematical foundation for modeling and...

Samuel Coogan says we have an unprecedented opportunity in the coming years to reshape how we operate our transportation systems. With the support of the National Science Foundation, he's going to take...

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Missing or invisible? Inclusivity conference is first step in NSF project to...

Four Georgia Tech faculty members want to challenge the existing culture in engineering and promote inclusivity and diversity in schools across the country. With the help of a grant from the National...

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NSF awards graduate fellowship to Francisco for work helping people...

If we tell people how they’re using energy, can we encourage them to conserve and change their behavior? That question drives School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student Abby Francisco,...

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Silence to sound: Looking at Twitter posts from 2017’s Hurricane Harvey shows...

With another hurricane season beginning June 1 — and some forecasters predicting another busy one — researchers in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering are working on a tool to help...

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The next frontier in renewable energy: Dai aims to generate clean power from...

In the next two decades, the world faces a yawning gap in the energy we produce and the energy we consume. The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Sheng Dai is working with the National...

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NSF funds two new projects to understand greenhouse gas emissions from soil,...

Kostas Konstantinidis has received two new grants from the National Science Foundation that promise to help researchers better understand some of the tiniest organisms on the planet.Tuesday, October 9,...

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Better water purification without the byproducts of using chlorine

What if there was a way to reliably decontaminate water without using chlorine and generating the resulting disinfection byproducts?Thursday, March 7, 2019

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NSF workshop sets out to define ‘bio-inspired geotechnics’ and lay groundwork...

A melting pot of experts with research interests as diverse as geotechnical engineering, termite burrowing, tree physiology, granular physics and soft robotics trickled in from around the world in late...

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