UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Scott Brandenberg Receives 2022 Middlebrooks Award from ASCE
Civil and environmental engineering professor Scott Brandenberg is the senior author on a paper recognized with the 2022 Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The paper presents a novel mechanism for seismic failure of...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Student Awarded NSF Fellowship
Photo courtesy of K. Chhour Kristida Lavy Chhour, an undergraduate student advised by assistant professor Sanjay Mohanty, has been awarded the 2022 Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Chhour’s research for the NSF aims to determine...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Invited by the LAWACTH to Speak for Earth Day
Photo courtesy of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering website Kevin Clack, Ph.D. student advised by professors Eric Hoek and Shaily Mahendra, has been invited by the Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall (LAWACTH) on Earth Day, April 22. Clack will be...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Gaurav Sant Receives 2022 Huber Award from ASCE
Screenshot from the ASCE website Gaurav Sant is set to receive the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for 2022. The award is being given by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for “his pioneering work in decarbonization of cement and concrete...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Postdoctoral Scholar Receives Award from industry leader American Concrete Institute
Photo courtesy of S. Abdullah Dr. Saman A. Abdullah, a postdoctoral scholar under civil and environmental engineering professor John Wallace, was awarded the prestigious American Concrete Institute (ACI) Young Member Award for Professional Achievement. The honor was...
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Appointed Inaugural Pritzker Chair in Sustainability at UCLA
Gaurav Sant, professor and director of the Institute for Carbon Management, has been appointed the first Pritzker Professor of Sustainability at UCLA. The Pritzker Foundation, founded by longtime UCLA supporters Tony and Jeanne Pritzker, pledged to give $2 million to...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Students Receive Multiple ASCE Scholarships
Photo courtesy of William Goodin The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), through their Los Angeles Younger Member Forum (YMF), awarded a number of scholarships to several UCLA Samueli civil and environmental engineering students. The students were chosen based...
UCLA Institute for Carbon Management receives $21 million from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Founded in 2018 at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, the Institute for Carbon Management focuses on developing technologies to reduce carbon emissions and accelerate their commercialization. The institute's director is Gaurav Sant, a professor of civil and...
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus John Dracup
Civil and environmental engineering professor emeritus John Dracup, who specialized in hydrology and water resource engineering and taught at both UCLA and UC Berkeley for more than half a century, died Dec. 20 at his home in Santa Monica with family at his side. He...