The CEE graduate student committee in the spirit of taking a more active role in graduate student life this year will be planning more social and professional development events. As the first event of the year, the group organized a hiking trip to Sourland Mountain Preserve located in Hillsborough township for Saturday, October 24th.

The department is pleased to announce that Professor Maria Garlock is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award which is presented annually by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).

This summer, Corrie Kavanaugh '17 and Michelle Chang '16 interned at Bridges to Prosperity, an international NGO that provides rural communities with access to health care, education, and economic opportunities by building footbridges over impassable rivers.

The department is pleased to announce that graduate student, Qi Li, won a student presentation award at the joint 9th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC)/12th American Meterological Society (AMS) Symposium on the Urban Environment.

A mysterious vial of mud taken from a New Jersey swamp may end up offering a solution to several obstinate forms of water pollution.

Four CEE graduate students have been selected to join the Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars Program (PEC) for the 2015-2016 academic year. They are Victor Charpentier, Ryan Edwards, Levi Golston, and Julio Herrera-Estrada.

The Princeton Engineering Office of Graduate Affairs is pleased to announce that two of the department's graduate students, Bo Quo and Qi Li, have each received a Wu Prize for Excellence.

Graduate student Xinwo Huang has received the Siebel Scholar Award for his final year of graduate studies.

The department is pleased to announce that Professor Sigrid Adriaenssens and her co-authors have been awarded the Tsuboi Award for the most outstanding paper presented and published in the Proceedings of the 2014 Annual International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium held in Brazil.

A special session to honor the career of Professor Michael Celia was held at the 2015 Conference of the International Society of Porous media (Interpore) held in Padova, Italy, in May 2015.