Ongoing research by Dr. Andrew Whelton and his team into wildfire recovery, adaptation, and long-term health impacts was presented this month at meetings of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as the National Hazards Center.

A team of Purdue faculty and students including Professor Sam Labi and members of the Purdue Polytechnic Institute competed at the 3rd Annual Artificial Intelligence Maritime Maneuver Indiana Collegiate Challenge (AIMM-ICC) held April 17-18 at Pokagon State Park in Angola, Indiana.

Congratulations to CCE student athletes Hugh Jacobsmeyer, member of the Purdue men's track & field team, and Nia Wilson, member of the Purdue women's track & field team, for earning Academic All-Big Ten accolades in the spring 2026 sports season. To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten, students must carry a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.

The Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering hosted the 2026 annual National AKS Competition held at the Purdue Grand Prix track in West Lafayette, May 18-22, 2026.

Research co-authored by Gaia Cervini (MSCE 2022, PhD 2026), Lavan Teja Burra, and CCE faculty Jinha Jung & Nadia Gkritza on the effect of environmental conditions on battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption has been published in Sustainable Mobility and Transport, a Nature partner journal.

Assistant Professor Nusrat Jung has earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, NSF's most prestigious honor for early-career faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and their integration.

Dr. Zhi (George) Zhou, Associate Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering and Sustainability Engineering and Environmental Engineering, has received the Robert G. Wetzel Award for Water Quality from the American Institute of Hydrology.

Dr. Nusrat Jung, Assistant Professor in Purdue University’s Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, has been elected Treasurer-Elect of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), the world’s leading scientific society dedicated to indoor environmental quality research.

Brian H. Magnuson, a Ph.D. student in Associate Professor Brandon E. Boor's research group in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue University, has received a 2026–2027 Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

View photos from the 63rd annual CCE Open, held on May 15th at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex.

Dr. Zhi (George) Zhou, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, ENV SP, F.ASCE, associate professor at the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering and the School of Sustainability Engineering and Environmental Engineering at Purdue University, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.

Two Los Angeles-area donors see so much value in expertise provided by Purdue University professor Andrew Whelton and his team after the January 2025 wildfires that they are investing in it.

Congratulations to Dr. Dongjun Mah, LSCCE and Herrick Labs graduate, who will start as tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas in July 2026.

Kendahl Klatt, M.S., and Owen Hodges, EIT, graduate researchers in the Troy Lab, earned a 4th-place finish in the 2026 Moonshot-Labs Analyst Jam for the Intelligence Community (MAJIC) Challenge, a month-long, national level collegiate competition focused on solving real-world intelligence and national security problems.

Jordan Cross, a Ph.D. student in Assistant Professor Nusrat Jung's research group in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue University, has been awarded a 2026–2027 Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).

Congratulations to all the Spring 2026 graduates of the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering!

A project team, led by Ayman Habib, has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation to generate digital twins, model how fire spreads, and conduct resilience studies for preventing and mitigating wildfires at the wildland-urban interface.

63 members of Purdue's Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers attended the annual IN-KY student symposium, held April 9-11 in Lexington, KY. The symposium was co-hosted by the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, with 14 schools in attendance. This was Purdue's third consecutive year placing first overall in the symposium, winning a total of 18 awards.

A research project led by Dr. Zhi (George) Zhou bridging environmental engineering and machine learning to advance sustainable biofuel production is the winner of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists 2026 Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Awards Competition.

This year's annual Bridge Bust competition, organized by the Purdue University student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), took place March 6 at the Cordova Recreational Center on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette.