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Nancy Love

Nancy Love named the 2019 Kappe Lecturer by AAEES

This award recognizes a leader in the environmental engineering field whose excellence in research and professional service will inspire students. |Short Read
TRB Annual Meeting 2019

CEE faculty and students attend TRB’s Annual Meeting

CEE faculty and students traveled to Washington D.C. to learn about innovations in mobility. |Short Read
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Cryptocurrency innovation: U-M to establish FinTech Collaboratory

New funding model will drive innovation and could help close the infrastructure finance gap.|Medium Read
Power plant on the water. Getty Images.

Global CO2 Initiative announces advisory board

A diverse group of leaders in technology, research, policy, and industry assemble to drive development of a critical climate solution.|Medium Read
Gallimore, Glotzer and Sarter were among the 2019 NAE members.

Three professors inducted into NAE

The new inductees join 33 other University of Michigan members.|Medium Read
Tap Water

PhD student Katherine Dowdell receives IIE scholarship

PhD student receives scholarship for her research work in how the use of disinfectants in drinking water treatment influences opportunistic pathogen populations in tap water.|Short Read
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Smart infrastructure financing: Why data could be the answer

A Q&A with the professor who is exploring new ways to finance infrastructure, with help from a blockchain company.|Medium Read
Gaang Lee, Civil Engineering PhD Student, helps attach a sensor to Phyllis Quint, a research participant and resident of Clark East Tower, an independent living senior care housing facility, in Ypsilanti, MI on September 6, 2018. Photo: Joseph Xu

Smart wearables to improve elderly mobility and infrastructure

With people aged 65 and older outnumbering children in the U.S. by 2035, infrastructure changes should be made for the growing demographic.|Short Read
Portraits of Herek Clack, Ann Jeffers, Branko Kerkez, and James Wight

Four CEE faculty receive awards from the College of Engineering

CEE faculty honored for excellence in research, teaching, leadership and service|Short Read
Brian Ellis

Brian Ellis selected for CEE Department Excellence Award

Assistant Professor Brian Ellis has been selected by the CEE Honors and Awards Committee to receive the 2019 Department Excellence Award.|Short Read
View from inside a car as it rains outside

How connected vehicles’ wipers could help prevent flooding

We’ve been promised all kinds of benefits from a future of connected vehicles, but flood control? |Short Read
Carol Menassa, CEE Professor, and Baddu Mantha, CEE PhD Student, test an environmental data collection robot their research. Photo: Joseph Xu

Is there a better way to control room temperature?

Researchers are working toward a future where furnaces and air conditioners could respond in real time to occupants' needs.|Medium Read
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