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Featured Stories

Close up of foam canoe mold half covered in concrete.

Watch the ASCE Concrete Canoe team pour 2026 competition boat

Aerial photo of winding river in mountain valley.

E-FRESH application improves river management collaboration

Woman in white hardhat speaks with students also wearing hardhats.

Alumna earns national career award for work merging civil engineering and sociology

Two students discuss hydraulic structure with the back of the shirts reading "Hydraulics Laboratory".

Hydraulics Lab large-scale dam project featured in SOURCE undergraduate research special report

Man stands by car surrounded by wildfire wreckage.

Saving lives with AI: Jana embraces technology to improve community resilience

Agricultural irrigation.

AI for water innovation: 3 ways OWSI harnesses the power of artificial intelligence

In The Media

Neil S. Grigg

Grigg responds to storm drain dangers after Florida child injured

ABC7 Sarasota

Reporter interviewing Sharvelle via remote connection.

Sharvelle explains fit-for-purpose water and smart water reuse

CBS

Nelson explains flooding impact of hydrophobicity in burn scars after recent storms

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Announcements and Awards

Jarrett receives Gurthet Teaching Faculty Award from AISC

Jarrett named 2026 ASCE Structural Engineering Institute Fellow

Woman in white cardigan leans against rock wall.

Mallipudi receives staff award from WSCOE Dean’s Staff Advisory Council

Woman in head covering stands at research poster.

Graduate students share research in fall showcase

Men inspect machinery.

ERC Machine Shop: More than 50 years of engineering solutions

Shackelford inducted as distinguished alumni at UT Austin

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Recent Publications

Neil S. Grigg

Grigg discusses the role of states in water governance in new article

Karan Venayagamoorthy

Venayagamoorthy uses CFD simulations to provide insights on vehicle crashes caused by wind

Meira Neto and collaborators publish work on groundwater-river interactions across Brazil

Bailey publishes White River Valley groundwater recharge study

Sharvelle and Arabi publish findings on human waste contamination in stormwater

Harshit and Venayagamoorthy publish new research on the turbulent viscosity parameter