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The next generation of transportation engineers: Ben Rosenblad
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Starting at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering, Benjamin Rosenblad (BCE 2023) was not even aware that transportation was a specialty within Civil Engineering. Four years later, he found himself heading off to graduate school to study Next Generation Transportation Systems with the benefit of a competitive and highly prestigious fellowship from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP).
Kimberly Hill Studies Particles That Can Bring Down Mountains
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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.
Student Leaders Take on Multiple Roles
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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.
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.
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.
Sherry Van Duyn: Fated to Clean Up Our Environment
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Sherry Van Duyn (PE, CHMM, BCE 1987) is a co-founder and president of Landmark Environmental, LLC, a small, women-owned engineering firm that specializes in delivering environmental solutions.