Two faculty members win prestigious NSF CAREER awards
This year, the College of Engineering and Applied Science has , with seven junior faculty earning this prestigious honor. Two of them – assistant professors Shideh Dashti and Fernando Rosario-Ortiz – are from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering.
Dashti plans to use her award to create a new approach for evaluating the behavior of clusters of buildings on liquefiable ground during earthquakes, and pave the way toward designing mitigation measures that improve building performance at a system level.
Rosario-Ortiz aims to understand the impact of wastewater effluent organic matter on photochemical processes within wastewater-dominated surface waters, focusing on the formation of reactive intermediates and their ultimate reactivity in aqueous media.
Congratulations to Shideh and Fernando!