Alumni Kioumars Afshari (Ph.D., ’17) and Christine A. Goulet (Ph.D. ,’08) receive best paper award
The Earthquake Spectra Editorial Board and the EERI Board of Directors have selected the paper “Non-Ergodic Site Response in Seismic Hazard Analysis,” Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 1385-1414, by Jonathan P. Stewart, Kioumars Afshari, and Christine A. Goulet,...
Paul Lee, CEE ’15, has been recognized by ASCE as one of the new faces of civil engineering for 2019
Recent alumni, Paul Lee, CEE ’15, has been recognized by ASCE as one of the new faces of civil engineering for 2019. “In college, I really wanted to do sustainability. And it was around the time that climate change issues were starting to become a big deal, and people...
Professor Yousef Bozorgnia awarded 2019 Bolt Medal
Professor Yousef Bozorgnia has been honored by COSMOS, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and the Seismological Society of America with the 2019 Bruce Bolt Medal. The Bolt Medal recognizes the work of individuals who promote strong-motion instrumentation...
Professor Shaily Mahendra receives major international honor
Professor Shaily Mahendra has received a prestigious international award which recognizes Indians living outside the country who have a distinguished record of outstanding service, achievements, and contributions.
Professor Ju honored for career studying damage mechanics
Jiann-Wen “Woody” Ju has received the Lifetime Achievement Medal at the ICDM3 held in July, 2018 at Tongji University in Shanghai.
Three CEE Alumni Recognized by ASCE
2018 ASCE Metropolitan Los Angeles Branch (MLAB) Awards Winners announced, and three CEE Alumni were recognized.
Professor Mathieu Bauchy Developing Tougher Glass
Professor Mathieu Bauchy, a computational materials scientist and Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received three major federal grants totaling $1.3 million to develop tougher glass that can safely immobilize nuclear waste, as well as new types of glass that are more resistant to breaking and scratching.
Megyn Rugh awarded fellowship from National Water Research Institute
National Water Research Institute (NWRI) has selected Megyn Rugh to receive an NWRI-Biolargo Graduate Fellowship to support her research project on antibiotic resistance genes in stormwater biofilters. Megyn will also investigate metal co-selection for antibiotic...
ASCE at UCLA Wins National Award for Most Outstanding Student Chapter
For the first time in ASCE at UCLA's 59 year history, the American Society of Civil Engineers deemed UCLA the winner of the prestigious ASCE Robert Ridgway Award, given to the most outstanding chapter out of 347 domestic and international student groups. ASCE at UCLA...
