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Visualizing Protein Synthesis in Wastewater
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Researchers from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota have optimized a novel technique to visualize proteins generated by microorganisms in wastewater. The method allows scientists new insights into the lifestyle of uncultured microbes (organisms that may not easily be grown in the lab) and how these microbes react and adapt to changing environmental condition in wastewater treatment plants over space and time.
Ali Daneshy and the Mysterious Underground
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Ali Daneshy (MS 1968) has devoted his career to finding creative ways to unearth hidden resources and promote a better understanding of what happens in the mysterious underground.
Three Faculty Promoted
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Faculty members Gonella, Le, and Khani promoted 2021
Four CEGE Students with China Connections Receive Hsiao Shaw-Lundquist Fellowships
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Four CEGE graduate students will be supported in 2021 by the Hsiao Shaw-Lundquist Fellowship. Recipients include Svetlana Baranova, a mathematics and geomechanical engineering student advised by Sofia Mogilevskaya; Xiating Chen, a water resources engineering student advised by Xue Feng; and Tianyi Li (advised by Raphael Stern) and Te Xu (advised by Michael Levin), who both study transportation engineering.
Structural engineering faculty help ensure safe structures
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It is often said that the work of engineers goes unnoticed until something goes wrong. In June of 2021, news was dominated by the account of a condo building collapse in Florida. The collapse of the multi-unit residence in the middle of the night caused multiple deaths. Minnesotans are still mindful of the 2007 collapse of the I-35W bridge. These dramatic incidents bring the public’s attention to the work of engineers, but the greater percentage of their work to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public takes place out of the public eye.
Engineers Mentor CEGE Students Online in Summer of '21
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Restrictions of 2020 gave rise to some creative new approaches for reaching out to students. One such program was designed by CEGE’s Industry & Pre-Major Coordinator Michelle Anderson and Shannon Wolkerstorfer, CEGE’s External Relations Officer. They designed the CEGE Career Preparation and Mentor Program to help bridge a gap in summer opportunities and internships that resulted due to COVID-19.
Lytton Kendall
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Lytton Alden Kendall (BS Mining Engineering, 1961) died of Parkinson’s disease at Evergreen Hospice House in Albany, Oregon, April 16, 2021.
Svetlana Baranova’s award highlights connection to China
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Svetlana Baranova has been selected as a recipient of a Hsiao Shaw-Lundquist Fellowship.
Olutooni Ajayi awarded a PEO International Peace Scholarship
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Olutooni Ajayi, a graduate student in the first year of her doctoral studies in CEGE, has been awarded a PEO Internationa Peace Scholarship
Quinn Whiting develops NMR spectroscopy method to track fluorine
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Quinn Whiting (MS Civil Engineering 2020, advised by Bill Arnold) was awarded one of only two 2021 Master’s Thesis Awards from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). Whiting’s thesis, “Fluorinated Photoproduct Formation from Photolysis of Fluorinated Pharmaceuticals and Phenols,” contributes a new method of tracking fluorine during reactions of pollutants.