News: CEE

Linda Nozick has been reappointed as Director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2022. She has served as Director of CEE since 2015, and she was previously the Director of Cornell’s Systems Engineering program, which she co-founded in 1999. Linda's expertise is in the development of mathematical models for managing complex systems and with a particular interest in systems that can be represented mathematically as networks, including transportation and logistics systems, civil infrastructure networks and project networks. Her research... Read more

A new study co-authored by CEE researchers warns that the benefits from partnerships between water utilities and irrigation districts could become unevenly distributed. Read more

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Environmental Defense Fund collaborate on four Innovation for Impact Fund (IIF) awards to foster creative collisions that provoke large-scale, long-term change. Read more

Engineering professor Emeritus Wilfried Brutsaert received the prestigious prize from Swedish academy for his groundbreaking work in quantifying environmental evaporation. Read more

Students from 28 fields across six different schools gathered at the fourth annual Digital Agriculture Hackathon, March 11-13, to find solutions to global food system issues while competing for cash prizes. Read more

Join us on Cornell Giving Day, March 16th! Make a gift to CEE. The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is so grateful for the many esteemed and generous alumni who support our school. Help our students gain the skills to help make the world a better place.

By examining earthquakes in a fresh way, a modeling revelation discovered in the lab by Cornell engineers helps science inch closer to accurate quake forecasts. Read more

Dr. Qi Li, assistant professor, The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded a prestigious NSF Early CAREER award for her project titled, “Multi-Scalar Transport and Similarity in the Urban Boundary Layer.” According to their website, the NSF CAREER Award supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Li is interested in physical dynamics of the lower atmosphere and hydrologic processes in the built environment. She develops and... Read more

Samitha Samaranayake, an assistant professor in Cornell's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a graduate field faculty member in Systems Engineering, the Center of Applied Mathematics and the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, has received an NSF CAREER Award for his work with demand-responsive transit systems. Read more

To help the Ithaca Water Treatment Plant, engineering students have created a way to help predict concentrations of manganese in the city’s reservoir. Read more