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CEE Student receives NSF-AEESP paper award

Civil and Environmental Engineering
August 7, 2009
CEE student, David Berry, won the NSF-AEESP paper award for his paper on waterborne disease.| Short Read

David Berry has won the 2009 National Science Foundation – Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (NSF-AEESP) Grand Challenge Student Paper Award.  Congratulations David!

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CEE students receive awards at the Engineering Graduate Symposium

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PhD Student Houtan Jebelli Awarded the Charles M. Eastman Top PhD Paper Award

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“Acoustic fields are unexpectedly richer in information than is typically thought.” | Medium Read
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Research News
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A new lead on a 50-year-old radiation damage mystery

A U-M-led team of researchers developed the first atomic-level simulation that produced a mysterious defect. | Medium Read

Combining the real and virtual worlds improves driverless vehicle testing | Medium Read

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Campus & Community
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Faculty and staff rewarded for promoting Michigan Engineering values

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Embracing changing landscapes: autonomy, space exploration and diversity | Medium Read

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Faculty Perspectives
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The web really isn’t worldwide – every country has different access

Users from certain countries can’t visit certain websites because a corporation halfway around the world has made a decision to deny them access. | Medium Read

How recycling more steel and aluminum could slash imports without a trade war | Medium Read

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In the News
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Online censorship in Saudi Arabia soared after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
Censored Planet, an internet censorship project lead by EECS-CSE research assistant professor Roya Ensafi, detected a sharp uptick in censorship following the killing of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi.
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Scientific American asks Robert J Vlasic Dean of Engineering and AERO professor Alec Gallimore to weigh in on new plane with no moving parts.
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