A CSU civil engineer has received a U.S. Department of Energy grant to help solar trackers – the structures that enable solar panels to follow the path of the sun – withstand high winds and wind-related natural disasters.
NSF has awarded CSU Assistant Professor Ryan G. Smith a $328,981 grant to study how subsidence, or the sinking of land area from the removal of groundwater, affects long-term water availability in southwest Utah.
Professor Hussam Mahmoud has been awarded a three-year, $2.7 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for expanding his model predicting wildfire progress through a community.