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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…

Matthew Sima wins the New Jersey Water Environmental Association (NJWEA) John J. Lagrosa Award.
June 27, 2024

Matthew Sima, a 5th year Ph.D. candidate has been selected as a 2024 recipient of the prestigious John J. Lagrosa Award by the New Jersey Water Environment Research (NJWEA). The award includes a check for $3,000 and recognition at the NJWEA 107th John J. Lagrosa Annual Conference. Matthew was selected based on his outstanding academic…

Princeton hosts international conference on modeling and securing Earth’s groundwater
June 3, 2024

Leaders in groundwater research and management are convening at Princeton University next week for the world’s largest water modeling conference. Experts from academia and industry, students and policymakers will share strategies for understanding and securing the global supply of groundwater, which represents about…

CEE Assistant Professor Reza Moini receives Howard B. Wentz, Jr., Junior Faculty Award
May 23, 2024

Prof. Moini has received the Howard B. Wentz, Jr., Junior Faculty Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. This award was established to recognize the most talented junior faculty members I the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. The award recognizes his exceptional research in the creation and…

Professor Paulino and His Team Land the Cover of PNAS
May 17, 2024

CEE Professor Glaucio Paulino and his team's research article "Modular multi-degree-of-freedom soft origami robots with reprogrammable electrothermal actuation" has been published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) May 14, 2024 issue.  Link to full article: