UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Gaurav Sant Featured in the Daily Beast
Professor Gaurav Sant was recently mentioned in an article by the Daily Beast titled "How to Weaponize Our Dying Oceans Against Climate Change" From the article: Another proposal for using the ocean as a sponge for carbon involves inducing electrolysis (splitting...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Michael Stenstrom Quoted in L.A. Daily News
Professor Michael Stenstrom was quoted recently in the L.A. Daily News article titled "Hyperion Sewage Spill Caused By Systems Failure, Human Error, Official Report Says" From the article: “It would have been better for (Hyperion) if that had happened,” said Michael...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Students Receive Multiple ASCE Scholarships
Photo courtesy of William Goodin The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), through their Los Angeles Younger Member Forum (YMF), awarded a number of scholarships to several UCLA Samueli civil and environmental engineering students. The students were chosen based...
UCLA Institute for Carbon Management receives $21 million from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Founded in 2018 at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, the Institute for Carbon Management focuses on developing technologies to reduce carbon emissions and accelerate their commercialization. The institute's director is Gaurav Sant, a professor of civil and...
UCLA Civil Engineering Alumnus Receives Editor’s Choice Award by Leading Geophysical Journal
Water Resources Research, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Geophysical Union, awarded Sarfaraz Alam, Ph.D. ’21, the 2020 Editor’s Choice Award. Alam, who is the lead author of the paper, has been featured by the publication previously. The...
UCLA Civil Engineering Alumnus Featured in Leading Geophysical Journal on Groundwater Storage Recovery
Sarfaraz Alam, Ph.D. '21 was recently featured in the Water Resources Research journal published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Entitled “Estimating Post-Drought Groundwater Storage Recovery in California’s Central Valley,” the piece highlighted a new study...
UCLA CEE Alumni Awarded by ASCE San Francisco Section
Two UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering alumni were recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) San Francisco Section for their outstanding contributions to the community. Maxwell Armenta (BS '17) received the Outstanding Civil Engineer in...
UCLA PhD Student awarded NASA Fellowship
A little over half of the total runoff per year has its origins in snowpack from regional mountain ranges in the western United States. Seasonal snowpack, also referred to as a natural water tower as it stores winter precipitation and releases it as snowmelt, provides...
C&EE Professor Bauchy and Research Group Show New Path to Make Glass as Tough as Metal
A research group, led by Professor Mathieu Bauchy, has used atomic-level computer simulations to suggest a path toward developing stronger, more ductile glass. The study was published in Materials Horizon in February 2021. About the findings, Professor Bauchy said,...