UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Yousef Bozorgnia Receives Watanabe Award
Photo courtesy of Y. Bozorgnia Yousef Bozorgnia, professor and director of the multidisciplinary and multi-institutional Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3), received the V. M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award from the UCLA Samueli School...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Jonathan Stewart Appointed to Committees that Impact Seismic Risk Policy in the US
Professor Jonathan Stewart has been appointed or re-appointed to several committees that set or impact policy related to the identification or mitigation of earthquake risk. He was recently reappointed as a member of the University of California Seismic Advisory...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Student Receives Scholarship from AWWA
Onja Davidson Raoelison, a Ph.D. student advised by assistant professor Sanjay Mohanty, is one of the recipients of the 2022 American Water Works Association (AWWA) Academic Scholarships for Water Studies. Raoelison receives the Arcadis Scholarship, a $5,000 award...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Student Receives AMTA/ Reclamation Fellowship
Photo courtesy of J. Wu Jishan Wu, Ph.D. student advised by civil and environmental engineering professor Eric Hoek, is one of the recipients of the 2021 AMTA/ Reclamation Fellowships for Membrane Technology. The fellowships are a joint venture of the American...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Student Group ASCE Places First Overall at PSWS
Photo courtesy of ASCE at UCLA The student group American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE at UCLA) won first place overall at the 2022 Pacific Southwest Symposium (PSWS) last April. The symposium, hosted by the University of California in San Diego, was a four-day...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Scott Brandenberg Receives 2022 Middlebrooks Award from ASCE
Civil and environmental engineering professor Scott Brandenberg is the senior author on a paper recognized with the 2022 Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The paper presents a novel mechanism for seismic failure of...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Student Awarded NSF Fellowship
Photo courtesy of K. Chhour Kristida Lavy Chhour, an undergraduate student advised by assistant professor Sanjay Mohanty, has been awarded the 2022 Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Chhour’s research for the NSF aims to determine...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Invited by the LAWACTH to Speak for Earth Day
Photo courtesy of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering website Kevin Clack, Ph.D. student advised by professors Eric Hoek and Shaily Mahendra, has been invited by the Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall (LAWACTH) on Earth Day, April 22. Clack will be...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Gaurav Sant Receives 2022 Huber Award from ASCE
Screenshot from the ASCE website Gaurav Sant is set to receive the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for 2022. The award is being given by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for “his pioneering work in decarbonization of cement and concrete...