Courtney Sakry
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Article ItemVirginia Tech hosts National Student Steel Bridge Competition , article
The university welcomed hundreds of engineering students from across North America to its Blacksburg campus May 27-28 for the event at the Beamer-Lawson Indoor Practice Facility.
Date: Jun 23, 2022 -
Article ItemMaryam Shakiba receives NSF CAREER award to study microplastics pollution in oceans , article
Shakiba's resulting project will investigate how macroplastics degrade into microplastics in oceans under the highly coupled effects of weathering and mechanical stresses.
Date: Apr 07, 2022 -
Article ItemU.S. Geological Survey and Virginia Tech to partner on national water-loss program , article
Sunil Sinha, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, hopes the program will give water utilities guidance on how to improve efficiencies in supply and revenue recovery.
Date: Apr 07, 2022 -
Article ItemTeam of researchers led by Virginia Tech seeks to mitigate flu and other respiratory viruses for children in indoor environments , article
Linsey Marr is leading a team of researchers that hopes to understand how behavioral and environmental factors affect transmission rates of the flu in order to identify the most effective interventions.
Date: Mar 03, 2022 -
Article ItemLandon Marston receives NSF CAREER award to advance water sustainability and economic resilience , article
His project will use an integrated systems approach to uncover the drivers of industrial water use, water infrastructure dependencies within the U.S. economy, and water scarcity risks and opportunities.
Date: Mar 02, 2022 -
Article ItemResearcher explores how proliferating data centers affect water supply in the United States , article
Data centers are using an increasing amount of water and energy as streaming services become more popular. According to Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty member Landon Marston, this usage is putting a strain on communities where these data centers are located.
Date: Feb 02, 2022 -
Article ItemResearcher works with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to strengthen military and civilian earthen structures , article
Civil and environmental engineering faculty member Sherif Abdelaziz has received funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for two projects related to the use of biopolymers to improve soils.
Date: Jan 10, 2022 -
Article ItemLinsey Marr receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor , article
Marr is one of fewer than 12 worldwide experts on aerosol transmission of viruses and one of only a handful in America. She has been working with airborne viruses for the past 13 years, but her expertise became widely known during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: Jan 07, 2022 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech leads team to assess the processes and vulnerabilities of groundwater self governance , article
Virginia Tech researcher Landon Marston leads a multi-institutional team aiming to advance theory on self-governance of groundwater commons and create new tools that can benefit the entire nation. The effort is funded by a $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Date: Jan 05, 2022 -
Article ItemMichael J. Garvin inducted into National Academy of Construction , article
Garvin was chosen for his proven leadership in alternative project delivery and contracting methods, public-private partnerships, project finance, and significant research for major transportation and infrastructure projects.
Date: Dec 02, 2021 -
Article ItemGraduate student looks to inform coastal communities on how to respond to hurricanes , article
Since 2019, civil and environmental engineering graduate student Nick Brilli has participated in the U.S. Coastal Research Program’s During Nearshore Event Experience project in Duck, North Carolina, to help develop better methods for characterizing the erodibility of coastal sediments.
Date: Oct 05, 2021 -
Article ItemIn memoriam: Antoine Hobeika, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering , article
Hobeika served at Virginia Tech for 43 years, teaching courses in transportation infrastructure and systems engineering before retiring in 2016. He died on Sept. 20, 2021.
Date: Oct 04, 2021 -
Article ItemGabriel Isaacman-VanWertz receives NSF CAREER Award, Department of Energy grant to study atmospheric gases , article
“The picture we have in our mind of air pollution is black smoke billowing out of a smokestack or tailpipe,” said Isaacman-VanWertz, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. “But the truth is that it is much more complicated.”
Date: Jun 14, 2021 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech Concrete Canoe team breaks a 16-year streak in regional competition , article
Each year, the Virginia Tech Concrete Canoe team takes on the challenge of making something easily sinkable float.
Date: Jun 10, 2021 -
Article ItemEric Jacques selected by the Office of Naval Research for its Young Investigator Program , article
Jacques, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering, serves as the director of the Shock Tube Research Facility, a space equipped with a large-scale gas-detonation blast simulator, where he and his team study structural and non-structural components subject to extreme blast loads.
Date: Jun 04, 2021