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Einara Zahn Wins 2023 Lorenz G. Straub Award
Dec. 3, 2024

The Lorenz G. Straub Award, is given annually to a PhD student with an especially meritorious dissertation in the area of hydraulic engineering or a closely related area.

Einara was selected for her 2023 dissertation:

Outstanding G1 Student Award
Nov. 26, 2024

The Graduate School at Princeton University recognizes Caridad Estrada as the ‘Outstanding G1 Student’ awardee. This award recognizes a first-year student who has made an incredible impact in a short amount of time.  

Caridad is now a G2 in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and is part of the Interfacial Water Group…

Caridad Estrada wins 2024 Amentum Scholarship
Nov. 26, 2024

The Amentum Scholarship program selects twelve students nationwide, awarding eleven (11) prizes and one (1) top prize to those who make influential contributions during their internship, demonstrate profound academic leadership, and show academic promise. CEE Graduate Student Caridad Estrada was awarded the top prize.

Cardad's worked over…

2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Professor Branko Glisic
Oct. 30, 2024

Congratulations to Professor Glisic for his contributions to the fields of Smart Structures and Materials and Nondestructive Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring. 

This award is given by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, to recognize and celebrate the…

Moriah Hughes received 2024 SEAS Award for Excellence
Oct. 9, 2024

CEE graduate student Moriah Hughes is a recipient of the 2024 School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Award for Excellence. “This prestigious honor is awarded to advanced graduate students within SEAS who have performed at the highest level as scholars and researchers.”

Moriah’s research is in the field of historical preservation…

Christine Blackshaw received 2024 SEAS Award for Excellence
Oct. 2, 2024

CEE Ph.D. student Christine Blackshaw has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Award for Excellence. This prestigious honor is awarded to advanced graduate students within SEAS who have performed at the highest level as scholars and researchers..

Christine’s research is on compound…

Moini Lab Made the Cover of Advanced Functional Materials
Sept. 27, 2024

In article number 2313516, Reza Moini, Shashank Gupta, and Hadi S. Esmaeeli engineer tough Nacre-like tabulated cementitious-polymeric composites inspired by the brick-and-mortar arrangement of mollusk shells using laser processing and lamination. Interlayer deformation, tortuous crack…

The Jerome M. Paros Scholarship has been awarded to Vladislav Sevostianov
Sept. 24, 2024

The Jerome M. Paros Scholarship in Geophysical Instrumentation supports graduate students with a demonstrated interest in geophysical instrumentation and precise field measurements in seismology, atmospheric sciences, or ocean sciences. Three students are selected each year to help build a solid pool of talent working on geophysical…

A Robotic Twist, That Makes Concrete To Crack Resist: Moini Lab Study of Tough Concrete Inspired by a Fish Scale and Enabled by Robotic Additive Manufacturing Makes the Nature Communications
Sept. 9, 2024

CEE Moini lab members Arjun Prihar, Shashank Gupta, and Hadi S. Esmaeeli recently engineered a tough concrete inspired by nature and enabled by robotic additive manufacturing in an Article published in Nature Communications in August 2024. Concrete is a quasi-brittle material…

Wallace Memorial Fellowship Awarded to Matthew Sima
June 27, 2024

Matthew Sima has been awarded the Wallace Memorial Fellowship for the 2024-2025 Academic year by the Faculty Committee on the Graduate School. Founded in 1930 by the bequest of Bonnie Wallace LeClear, this fellowship acknowledges his distinguished work in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The Wallace Fellowship consists of…