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Clean up waste and support gender equity
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Phoebe Edalatpour, a student in the Master’sSustainable Development Program, has won the 2022 Acara Challenge for her project to transform waste and catalyze gender equity in Sierra Leone. She developed a plan to bring a plastics recycling plant to remote villages of Sierra Leone, where she once worked as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Salomeh Rostami benefited from and now runs peer mentoring program
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Salomeh Rostami’s first year in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering was harder than she expected. One of the things that got her through her freshman year was the peer mentor she found through CSE Ambassadors.
News Digest - Spring 2022
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Spring 2022 - News from faculty, alumni, and students of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Two Geoengineering Students find their place in CEGE
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The U is a big place, but two students discovered a small community within their college. Ellie Longar and Madison Haydn-Myer are both juniors in geoengineering and plan to graduate spring 2023.
Henryk Stolarski: A Balanced Life
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Professor Henry Stolarski has learned something about life. "Something that has been true throughout my life is that mathematics is a skill useful for almost everything. Yet there must be balance. Mathematics is a useful and wonderful thing, but it is painful, too. To learn it sometimes you must struggle. Success is one thing in life, but some sort of enjoyment is also important."
Justin Babcock, Civil Engineering Major
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Justin Babcock, a CIVIL ENGINEERING MAJOR WITH A CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT MINOR, will be graduating in May 2022. He likes to be involved in a lot of activities, like ASCE and the Steel Bridge Team.
Martha Burket, Environmental Engineering Major
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It was working in Bill Arnold’s lab that helped Martha Burket determine she really wanted to do something to help the environment. Martha Burket, an ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MAJOR WITH A GIS MINOR and an HONORS STUDENT, plans to graduate this May.
Paige Novak will be the new department head
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Professor Paige Novak has been announced as the new head in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, effective in July 2022.
Qizhi He joins CEGE
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The Department of Civil, Environmental, an Geo- Engineering welcomes Assistant Professor Qizhi He. He conducts research at the intersection of computational mechanics, materials modeling, and scientific machine learning, with a focus on developing computational tools that synergize physics-based and data-driven approaches for modeling and forecasting of multiscale multiphysics processes. Qizhi He will be teaching Applied Structural Mechanics in fall 2022. He also would like to develop a new course titled Scientific Machine Learning for Engineering Science.
Ten Years: Mission, Milestone, Memories
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Joe Labuz, the Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, announced that he will be stepping away from his leadership role at the end of June, returning his focus to teaching and research.