In the News | Events | Grants & Awards

In the News: 

• Read it here: CCEE graduate student, Paige Peters, continues to help lead conversations on our growing need for water technology solutions amid climate change. (July 2022)
• Congratulations to CCEE graduate student Paige Peters and her team at Rapid Radicals Technology for being the grand prize winners of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. (June 2022)
• Read it here: Dr. Anthony Parolari's postdoc Kun Zhang’s research aims to understand and quantify urban groundwater dynamics. His latest paper focuses on how gray-green infra. interactions impact subsurface storm flows, a critical question in urban hydrology. (May 2022)
• Read it here: Dr. Patrick McNamara talked with Scientific American about how living with lead can create antibiotic-resistant superbugs. (May 2022)
• Tune In: Dr. Brooke Mayer joined WPR's Larry Meiller Show last week to discuss her work around phosphorus sustainability. (May 2022)
• Congratulations to seniors Alondra Gonzalez, Shayden Harvey, Faviola Perez Mercado and Alondra Rodriguez for finishing first place in the Global Water Stewardship category of the Central States Water Environment Association’s student design competition! (April 2022)

• Read it here: Dr. Brooke Mayer wrote an article for Water Conditioning and Purification International Magazine about the need for innovation in water infrastructure (April 2022)
• Congratulations to the President of Marquette ASCE, Gabby Lukanus, who was a 2022 ASCE Wisconsin Section Outstanding Senior Civil Engineering Student Award Recipient! The award recognizes excellence in engineering academic achievement and service to the profession. (April 2022)
• Congratulations to MU's chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers who won the following awards from the 2022 ASCE Western Great Lakes Student Symposium: Quiz Bowl Team - 2nd overall, Steel Bridge - 4th overall and 3rd in stiffness, construction economy and cost estimation. (April 2022)   
• Congratulations to Dr. Walter McDonald for receiving a Way Klingler Early Career Award from Marquette University. Dr. McDonald’s research group seeks to develop novel methods to monitor, model, and manage urban stormwater. (April 2022)
• Read it here: Dr. Margaret McNamara discusses the Milwaukee "street transformation project", which is aimed at solving the city's reckless driving problem and saving lives. (March 2022)
• Congratulations to Dr. Patrick McNamara on receiving the 2022 OCOE Outstanding Researcher Award! This honor is given to an engineering faculty member that has demonstrated outstanding scholarly work that has an impact on the world. (March 2022)
• Congratulations to Dr. Brooke Mayer! She has has been named one of BizTimes Media's 2022 Notable Women in Engineering! (March 2022)           

Events:

• Registration now open for Anaerobic Treatment of High-Strength Industrial Wastes 2022 Short Course.
• Graduate Defenses           

Grants & Awards:

• Dr. Jaime Hernandez (PI) has received a 1-year award in collaboration with Dr. Angeli Jayme, Research Scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the project, “R27-252: Impact of Commercial Electric Vehicles on Flexible Pavement Performance.”  The sponsor is the Illinois Center for Transportation.  The total award is $412,500 and the Marquette portion is $120,000. (July 2022)
• Dr. Yong Bai (PI) has received a 6-month NSF grant in the amount of $50,000 for the project, “I-Corps: Automated As-is Facade Modeling of High-rise Buildings Using Drones and Artificial Intelligence.” (May 2022)
• Dr. Dan Zitomer (PI) has received a 1-year $50,000 award from the Lafferty Family Foundation for the project titled “Fundamental Anaerobic Biotech Improvement for Waste Treatment and Renewable Energy.” (April 2022)
• Dr. Anthony Parolari (PI), along with Drs. Brooke Mayer (Co-PI) and Allison Murray (Co-PI), have received a 1-year $50,000 award from the Lafferty Family Foundation for the project titled “Synthetic infiltration and nutrient treatment media for stormwater management.” (April 2022)
• Dr. Patrick McNamara (PI), along with Dr. Walter McDonald (Co-PI), have received a 1-year $50,000 award from the Lafferty Family Foundation for the project titled “Actively Designing Green Stormwater Infrastructure to Stop Antibiotic Resistance.” (April 2022)

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