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Protecting Clean Water: Faculty awarded $2.1 million to study opportunistic pathogens and disinfection byproducts in US drinking water systems
Posted May 25, 2023
Pathogens (i.e., microorganisms that can make people sick) and disinfection byproducts (DBPs; potentially toxic chemicals formed when disinfectants like chlorine are added to water) are two classes of contaminants that are of concern in public water systems. Hozalski, et al., will examine opportunistic pathogens or OPs and contaminants that occur as byproducts of disinfection.
Tapping into Random Motion: Art in Engineering
Posted May 25, 2023
Vaughan Voller taps dance troupe to communicate about his research into patterns of movement in nature.
To disinfect or not to disinfect, is that the question?
Posted May 16, 2023
A recent (May 2023) article by several researchers, including CEGE’s own Bill Arnold, raised a warning about overuse of disinfectants. The use of disinfectants went way up during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue has garnered interest from the media. Is this widespread use doing more harm than good?
Vaughan Voller's Research Inspires Dance Performance
Posted April 10, 2023
A dance performance to be debuted in the Twin Cities in May features a very special collaboration between KMD2 Dance company and UMN Professor Vaughan Voller from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering. Random Motions in Nature and Dance: Dust, Carpet, Motion, Flight, and Bloom, illuminates patterns that emerge from random motions.
Kimberly Hill Studies Particles That Can Bring Down Mountains
Posted March 29, 2023
Dramatic landslides can capture popular attention. Kimberly Hill’s work helps us understand the physics behind such dramatic slides and, more importantly, how we might improve prevention efforts and mitigate the consequences.
Nahum Yelizarov, BCE + Research Led to a Master's Degree
Posted March 27, 2023
"Getting involved in research with various professors let me explore my interests and opened a door to a Master’s degree. Taking higher level design and theory classes in structural engineering, as well as doing a thesis, allowed me to get a better technical understanding and taught me to how educate myself on topics I don’t know.”
Student Leaders Take on Multiple Roles
Posted March 27, 2023
The largest professional engineering group for CEGE students is the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter. The group offers fun, connection, knowledge, competition, study help, and exposure to engineering professionals and companies. The students who step up to lead this dynamic group are themselves dynamic. This year the President of the University of Minnesota Student Chapter of ASCE is Anthony (AJ) Tabura, and Chandler Lallak serves as the Vice President.
Postiglione Scholarship Supports Environmental Engineering Students and Our Planet
Posted March 27, 2023
The EDITH (EDIE) AND GARY POSTIGLIONE SCHOLARSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING in the College of Science and Engineering was established to help the environment by teaching future generations to care for it.
Judy Yang Receives NSF CAREER Award
Posted February 23, 2023
Judy Yang's research will shed light on the fundamental mechanisms that govern the interactions among microbes, fluid, and particulates. The results of the research will guide erosion restoration projects for coasts and rivers, and will support prediction and control of the spread of biofilm-bound particulate contaminants.