Recent News
Monday, December 8, 2014
Richard Luthy, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, has received the Gordon Maskew Fair Award for 2015 from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists. The award recognizes his substantial contributions to the field of environmental engineering and...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Monterey Bay is often smooth as a mill pond, but this surface tranquility cloaks a dynamic environment where physical oceanography and marine biology intersect in fascinating ways. Teasing out the individual forces and their effects is challenging, but Stanford Civil and Environmental Engineering...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
With almost all of our graduate programs ranked in the top five nationally, Stanford seems to have an incredible repertoire of graduate curricula. However, one program is glaringly missing: a graduate school for architectural design. While many elite schools like Harvard and Yale have had graduate...
Monday, November 10, 2014
In 2004, Stanford President John Hennessy launched a new interdisciplinary institute for the environment – the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
In the decade since, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment has brought together researchers from all seven Stanford schools to...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
In many of the world’s overcrowded urban slums, residents must choose between open defecation, crowded public toilets or expensive private pit latrines that can’t be emptied safely. A Stanford team working on a sustainable solution recently won a $15,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection...
Friday, October 17, 2014
Civil engineering Professor Anne Kiremidjian was idling at a traffic light near the Stanford campus at 5:04 p.m. on Oct. 17, 1989, when she felt a sudden jolt and thought her car had been rear-ended.
"I looked up, but there was nothing behind me in the mirror," she recalled on the 25th anniversary...
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Civil engineering Professor Anne Kiremidjian was idling at a traffic light near the Stanford campus at 5:04 p.m. on Oct. 17, 1989, when she felt a sudden jolt and thought her car had been rear-ended.
"I looked up but there was nothing behind me in the mirror," she recalled on the 25th anniversary...
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Stanford engineers have built and tested an earthquake-resistant house that stayed staunchly upright even as it shook at three times the intensity of the destructive 1989 Loma Prieta temblor 25 years ago.
The engineers outfitted their scaled-down, boxy two-story house with sliding "isolators" so it...
Monday, October 13, 2014
What goals should a bank have? Safety and profitability to be sure, but what about sustainability? Two scholars from Stanford’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have joined with a prominent Silicon Valley banker to create a new template for banking that factors in sustainability....
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Electrical grids are balky beasts, and nobody knows that better than Stanford Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ram Rajagopal. He grew up in Brazil, where no one took electricity for granted. Brownouts were an unavoidable – and sweltering – fact of life.
No surprise, then,...
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