UCLA CarbonBuilt Team, Led by Professor Gaurav Sant, Wins $7.5 Million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
The UCLA CarbonBuilt Team, led by Professor Gaurav Sant, has become the first university team to win the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition grand prize. Read the full article: Team led by UCLA professor wins $7.5 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
Wyoming Public Radio Episode Features C&EE’s Iman Mehdipour
Wyoming Public Radio recently published an episode and article about technology developed at UCLA called CO2Concrete, which uses flue gas from power plants to make cement. Iman Mehdipour, UCLA project scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering...
C&EE Professor Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng Receives NSF CAREER Award
C&EE's Professor Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research careers. Read about the award and Professor Zheng's research: UCLA...
C&EE Professor Henry Burton Wins 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives Award
UCLA will host two of 15 MRPI projects, with civil and environmental engineering professor Henry Burton being the lead principal investigator on California Informatics for Equitable Disaster Response and Recovery. Professor Burton will lead a project to develop better...
UCLA Research Team Proposes Strategy to Reduce Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
A UCLA team has proposed a concept called single-step carbon sequestration and storage, or sCS^2, in a paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. It involves extracting carbon dioxide from seawater, which would enable seawater to absorb more...
Engineering Faculty Part of UCLA Team that Wins Nearly $1 Million to Tackle Rising Heat in Los Angeles
The Heat Resilient L.A. project consists of UCLA faculty members, including UCLA Samueli School of Engineering professors. The team has received a $956,000 award in the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Sandpit competition. Read the full article: Engineering Faculty Part...
CEE PhD Student Nicholas Johnson wins Battelle Paper Competition
Congratulations to Nicholas Johnson, a Ph.D. student from Professor Shaily Mahendra’s group, who is one of two winners of the 2021 Battelle Combined Chlorinated and Bioremediation Conference Student Paper Competition with his paper entitled “Improved Adsorbent...
Professor Mathieu Bauchy receives National Science Foundation CAREER award
Professor Mathieu Bauchy has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early part of their careers. The award includes a five-year, $500,000 grant to support his research and teaching in the field of...
Researchers receive Department of Energy grant to transform carbon dioxide into construction materials
A UCLA research team led by Professor Guarav Sant has received a two-year, $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support development of a process that can convert carbon dioxide emissions into construction materials. Read more at...