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News Articles Date Article 8-Oct-2009 NEES@UCLA Earthquake Research Facility Funding Extended Facility is managed by CEE faculty Wallace (PI), Stewart, and Nigbor (co PIs) 21-Sep-2009 Professor Zhang wins Teaching Award Award was presented at Nov. 6 2009 HSSEAS Awards Dinner 28-May-2009 Professor Terri Hogue wins prestigious NSF CAREER Award Project Title: CAREER: Investigation of Regional Land-Atmosphere Interactions in Semi-arid Cities Using the WRF-Noah-Urban Canopy Model 10-Apr-2009 Professor Stewart leads L'Aquila Italy earthquake reconnaissance team Team deployed April 10-18 2009. Report published May 6, 2009 and updated September 4 2009. 11-Mar-2009 ASCE Student Chapter hosts Popsicle Stick Bridge Contest 28 high schools represented at annual ASCE event 9-Feb-2009 Professor J. W. Wallace and collaborators win Best Paper Award in Earthquake Spectra 15-Nov-2008 Media appearance of Professors J.P. Stewart and J.W. Wallace illustrates earthquake hazards Appearance on KCET highlights vulnerability of nonductile concrete buildings to earthquakes 1-Aug-2008 Professor J.W. Wallace elected NEES President 10-Jul-2008 Professor Stewart and Colleagues Perform Reconnaisance in Greece after June 2008 Earthquake Near Patras 25-Jun-2008 UCLA Concrete Canoe Team Places 9th at National Competition in Montreal 10-Jun-2008 The Economist Technology Quarterly Features In-Depth Exploration of Water Desalination 10-Jun-2008 Professor Hoek Presents American Water Works Association Webcast on Environmental Nanotechnology 9-May-2008 Professor J.W. Wallace receives outstanding paper award from Tall Buildings Journal 11-Mar-2008 Professor Taciroglu serves as an Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering 9-Feb-2008 Professor William W-G Yeh Elected to National Academy of Engineering We are pleased to announce that William W-G Yeh, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering on February 8th, 2008. Congratulations Bill !!! 4-Feb-2008 Professor Jonathan P. Stewart receives the 2008 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize 3-Feb-2008 Professor Tom Sabol receives the 2008 ASCE George Winter Award 1-Feb-2008 nees@UCLA project featured in Civil Engineering Magazine. nees@UCLA measured construction vibrations during pile driving to quantify impacts on an arcaeological site containing native American artifacts. See pages 32 and 33. 18-Jan-2008 ASCE Concrete Canoe Featured in Daily Bruin The ASCE at UCLA student chapter's concrete canoe team was feature in a front page story in the Daily Bruin on January 18, 2008. 15-Oct-2007 Environmental Engineers of the Future - MS Student Funding See engineeringmastersfunding.org for more information. 9-Oct-2007 Profs. Hogue and Jay Study Mercury Pollution from Wildfires 1-Oct-2007 Environmental Engineers of the Future MS Student Funding 18-Sep-2007 Prof. Eric Hoek Featured in Podcast: "Plenty of Clean Water on the NanoFrontier" 18-Sep-2007 Researchers Study Bacteria at Beaches--Tests Show Presence of Sand Microbes 28-Jun-2007 In Memoriam: Tung-Hua Lin (1911-2007), Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1-May-2007 nees@UCLA Team Measures Construction Vibrations at Archeological Site 14-Mar-2007 Professor J. S. Chen serves as the Editor-in-Chief of a new Journal “Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics: an International Journal (IMMIJ)” 14-Mar-2007 Professor J. S. Chen Serves as Editor-in-Chief of New Journal “Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics: An International Journal (IMMIJ)” 13-Mar-2007 Professor Jonathan Stewart Serves as Editor in Chief of Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 15-Nov-2006 Professor J.S. Chen honored by UCLA and International Association for Computational Mechanics 12-Nov-2006 UCLA Engineers Develop Nanotech Water Desalination Membrane 24-Aug-2006 UCLA Engineers Demolish Full-Scale Bridge Foundation for Earthquake Safety Research 13-Jul-2006 Professor Jenny Jay Discusses Bacteria Levels at L.A. Area Beaches in News Broadcast 11-May-2006 Spring 2006 Department Newsletter 31-Mar-2006 UCLA Hosts Seismic Competition for Undergraduate Students 23-Feb-2006 Assistant Professor Taciroglu Wins NSF CAREER Award 25-Nov-2005 Fall 2005 Department Newsletter 11-Nov-2005 Professor Michael Stenstrom Wins Regional Water Quality Award 15-Oct-2005 UCLA forms Water Technology Research (WaTeR) Center to Address Escalating Water Scarcity 1-Oct-2005 Professor Jenny Jay Recipient of Prestigious PECASE Award 10-May-2005 Professor Stolzenbach Wins UCLA Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award 4-May-2005 Spring 2005 Department Newsletter 28-Jan-2005 Dam Safety 2008 - Call for Abstracts The Association of State Dam Safety Officials is holding their 2008 Dam Safety Conference in Indian Wells on September 7-11, 2008. 7-Dec-2004 Fall 2004 Department Newsletter 5-May-2004 Spring 2004 Department Newsletter 1-Dec-2003 Fall 2003 Department Newsletter 17-May-2003 Spring 2003 Department Newsletter 16-Dec-2002 Fall 2002 Department Newsletter

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