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UAH student team wins $100K EPA grant for safer drinking water research

Oct 09, 2023

A student team from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won $99,998 in research grant funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop a low-cost household water filter that removes per- and polyfluoroal...

UAH coastal resiliency researcher Abdullahi Salman chosen as Early-Career Research Fellow

Oct 11, 2022

University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) coastal resiliency researcher Dr. Abdullahi Salman has been named to the 2022 cohort of Early-Career Research Fellows in the Environmental Protection and Stewardship track by the Gulf Research Program (GRP)...

$505,000 NSF CAREER grant aims to improve community severe weather resilience

Sep 07, 2022

Improving overall hurricane and severe weather resilience of coastal communities is the goal of a five-year, $505,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant awarded to a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). ...

Community hurricane resilience research earns doctoral student ASCE fellowship

Jun 08, 2022

Research on the effects of climate change on the destruction wrought by hurricanes and how to aid community resilience through mitigation has earned Babak Salarieh, a doctoral student in civil and environmental engineering at UAH, a 2022 American S...

UAH concrete canoe team is second overall

Apr 20, 2022

Duct tape to save the day! Despite having to repair a cracked canoe, the student concrete canoe team from UAH Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering won second place overall in concrete canoe competition at the recent American Society of...

CEE Spring 2022 Newsletter

Feb 14, 2022

Read the Spring 2022 issue of the UAH Civil & Environmental Engineering Newsletter. ...

UAH achieves top level R1 rank in Carnegie research classifications

Feb 07, 2022

UAH has achieved the highest research activity rating in the current, 2021 update of the Carnegie Classification of Institutes of Higher Education. ...

Functionally graded material resistant to blasts and fire in buildings, UAH research says

Jan 31, 2022

When a bomb goes off or fire breaks out, a building constructed or retrofitted with an engineered composite currently confined to special applications could buy the surviving occupants extra time to get out, according to new research at UAH. ...

CEE Fall 2020 Newsletter

Oct 13, 2021

Read the Fall 2020 issue of the UAH Civil & Environmental Engineering Newsletter. ...

Researchers developing glass fiber drinking water monitor with EPA grant

Jan 07, 2021

A novel sensor network using glass fibers to safeguard drinking water supplies is being developed under a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant in a cross-campus collaboration at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the Uni...

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