President Amy Parsons interviewed Prof. Sybil Sharvelle during an Instagram Live about her work at the Water TAP lab at the CSU Spur Campus.

Two civil and environmental engineering faculty are authors on a recent journal article “Bringing Social Justice Context into Civil Engineering Courses for First-Year and Third-Year Students” which was named an ASCE Editor’s Choice selection in the Journal of Civil Engineering Education this month. The article advocates for integrating considerations of societal impact into technical civil engineering…Read more

After the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday, experts are trying to make sense of the catastrophe. Several media outlets have referred to the expertise of Professor Hussam Mahmoud in comparing the safety measures and deficiencies of other major U.S. bridges with those of the Key bridge. Bridges are often…Read more

We will host Dr. Beth Parker on Tuesday, April 2 as part of the Dr. Arthur T. Corey Distinguished Lecture Series.

Chávez gives keynote address at Irrigation International Symposium in Uruguay Earlier this month, Professor José L. Chávez delivered a keynote address at an International Irrigation Management Symposium in Colonia, Uruguay. The symposium was a gathering of experts in irrigation and agriculture sharing innovations for improving irrigation water management in Latin America and the Caribbean. Chávez spoke…Read more

This week, the American Chemical Society selected Associate Professor Tiezheng Tong for a Super Reviewer Award for Environmental Science & Technology. Of 7,350 total reviewers worldwide, only eight were given the Super Reviewer Award. In addition to his exceptional service as a peer reviewer, Tong is also a prolific researcher. Tong is the leading author…Read more

In July, PhD student Yiqun Yao attended the International Water Association’s 10th Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in St. Louis, Missouri. Advised by Associate Professor Tiezheng Tong, Yao’s research focuses on developing novel electrodialysis desalination technology for brine treatment and the design of antiscalants for membrane desalination. Yao…Read more

Associate Professor Peter Nelson co-authored two papers in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface on the role of bedrock riverbed roughness in the formation of sediment patches. Nelson provides a model for riverbeds with both bedrock and alluvial segments to determine how the texture of the riverbed and the presence or absence of sediment…Read more

Mahmoud describes the impact of climate change on the lifespan of U.S. bridges in new Yale Climate Connections radio piece.

In a new WIRED article entitled “The city of tomorrow will run on your toilet water,” Professor Sybil Sharvelle describes uses for recycled wastewater and the fatty acids generated by the microbes in wastewater.