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“Part of it is the practicality. We learn all about theory, but we don’t actually see it put into practice,” says Esteban Orellana, a senior civil engineering student, “this was a good opportunity to actually see it for ourselves.”

Satish Nagarajaiah, who received his PhD in Civil Engineering from UB in 1990, was elected to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) earlier this year.

One undergraduate and two graduate students in environmental engineering presented research at the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) conference, last month.

Panagiotis Ch. Anastasopoulos, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering and director of the Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics has been named a 2019 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.

Nirupam Aich, an assistant professor of environmental engineering, received the 2019 Emerging Investigator Award from the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO).

Ramla Qureshi, a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, earned a research Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

“Later in my career, I want to apply these concepts and take this retrofit methodology and apply it to buildings that are out there now,” says Sina Basereh, a PhD student in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.