CE Senior David Truong represented Purdue & EPICS as an ambassador at the United Nations' 4th session of the World Urban Forum in Nanjing, China

The School of Civil Engineering is seeking outstanding applicants for three named professorships. The deadline for applications is November 15, 2008.

Prof. Jie Shan has recently been selected as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing, and the Assistant Editor for Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing.

Two new courses will be offered in the spring that focus on Architectural Engineering: "Intro to Architectural Engineering," and "Architecture & Technology"

Detailed maps depicting the severity of the floods that impacted southern Indiana in June 2008

CE Grad Student Heather Gall is studying environmental engineering and working on a research project that monitors hormone levels in the waters of local streams and tile drains.

Research led by Prof. Chad Jafvert suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules also appear to break down in sunlight, perhaps reducing their possible environmental dangers.

Bowen Engineering won an Aon Build America Award for its Central Energy Plant Indianapolis Maintenance Center Utility Connector, which was also recognized as Project of the Year for a new installation by trade publication Trenchless Technology. Article courtesy of Indiana Constructor magazine.

Sanjiv Kumar, a PhD Student working with Prof. Venkatesh Merwade in the Hydraulics & Hydrology area, won first prize in the Graduate Student Research Competition at TeraGrid '08.

Video of Prof. Fred Mannering debating a proposed national speed limit of 55 on the Fox News show "Fox & Friends," which aired July 10th.

A paper co-authored by Civil Engineering Professor Srinivas Peeta and Civil Engineering PhD candidate George Kalafatas won the best paper award at the 10th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation (AATT) in Athens, Greece.

A recent NY Times article on minimizing the effects of seismic activity on building stability, featuring contributions from Professors Sozen & Pujol.

Prof. Jie Shan received a grant from the NOAA Indiana/Illinois Sea Grant Program.

Congratulations to CE alumnus Narayanan Neithalath (PhD 2004), winner of the CAREER award for his work in concrete innovation.

The Wood Commons was formally opened on Saturday, October 27, 2007 during Homecoming Weekend. This area for students, faculty, staff and alumni to gather was made possible by a generous donation from Margaret Wood, widow of former faculty member and alumnus Leonard Wood.

Congratulations to Abhishek Bhargava, Ronald Davis & Daniel Ackmann, recipients of the 2008-09 Edward J. Cox Memorial Transportation Scholarship Awards.

On April 18, 2008 the Purdue Geotechnical Group hosted the 6th Leonards Lecture, offered by Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau, President of the California Institute of Technology. The topic of the lecture: "Role of the University in Education for Sustainability."

CareerBuilder.com reports Civil Engineering as one of the Top 10 fields of job opportunities for this year's graduating seniors, with a projected job growth rate of 18 percent.

Even large amounts of manufactured nanoparticles, also known as Buckyballs, don't faze microscopic organisms that are charged with cleaning up the environment, according to Purdue University researchers.

The 94th annual Purdue Road School, sponsored by the Joint Transportation Research Program, will be held on March 25-27 at the Stewart Center and will feature a number of state, federal, academic and industry transportation experts.