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Civil & Environmental Engineering Newsletter: August 2024

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Civil & Environmental Engineering Newsletter: August 2024

Message From the Chair

Welcome to the August issue of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Newsletter! This month we share news of multiple NSF awards for our faculty and take a look at an innovative method of PFAS mitigation that one of our professors published in a sister journal of Nature. We also review some honors for our students, faculty and the University. Please enjoy reading this news from our department, where we believe our students and faculty can design a better world for future generations through enriching experiences and groundbreaking research.

— Steven Wojtkiewicz, Professor/Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Rapid-Setting Cement

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Assistant Professor Robert Thomas has been awarded a nearly $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) for research on the long-term durability properties of belitic calcium sulfoaluminate (BCSA) cement, which has a lower carbon footprint than Portland cement, and sets and gains strength quickly.
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Arctic Research

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Assistant Professor Suguang Xiao has received a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Initiation award to study deep structural foundations in permafrost. The $200,000 grant will fund research on how vibrations from earthquakes impact pile foundations, which are being affected by changes in soil properties from increasing temperatures.
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Sensor for Harmful Algal Blooms

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Assistant Professor Siwen Wang has been awarded a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Initiation grant to develop a rapid and sensitive biosensor for harmful algal blooms (HABs). HABs caused by cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) exhibit enormous threats to human health, animals and aquatic ecosystems. The economic impact of HABs is also significant.
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Innovative PFAS Mitigation

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Assistant Professor Yang Yang has published research in Nature Water, a sister journal of Nature focusing on water sustainability. Yang's team developed an innovative non-thermal, cost-effective method of near-complete defluorination and mineralization of PFAS in various types of wastewater.
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Center for Advanced Materials Processing Newsletter: August 2024

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Center for Advanced Materials Processing Newsletter: August 2024

Message From the Director

In this month's Center for Advanced Materials Processing Newsletter, we report on our 2024 CAMP Annual Technical Meeting, held this spring in nearby Clayton. We are also pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Jihoon Seo will lead the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journal of Solid State Science and Technology in publishing an issue honoring S.V. Babu. As well, we share news and honors for our CAMP-affiliated faculty. I hope you enjoy reading about CAMP, one of 15 New York State-funded Centers of Advanced Technology that make it their mission to assist industry with technological challenges.

— Devon Shipp, Director of CAMP, Professor of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science

Annual Technical Meeting

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The CAMP Annual Technical Meeting hosted more than 120 scientists, industry leaders, state economic development representatives and students. It featured presentations on aerospace and defense, colloidal materials, sustainable building materials, and emerging topics on computational modeling, as well as a research and technology showcase.
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Journal Issue Honoring Babu

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Prof. Jihoon Seo will lead the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journal of Solid State Science and Technology in publishing a focus issue honoring Professor Emeritus S.V. Babu. Seo will lead a team of guest editors from companies like Intel, Micron, Applied Materials, Ebara and Entegris in the focus issue, which will be published to celebrate Babu’s 80th birthday.
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Innovative PFAS Mitigation

Shoulders-up close-up of Yang Yang in light blue open-collared shirt.

Prof. Yang Yang has published research in Nature Water, a sister journal of Nature focusing on water sustainability. Yang's team developed an innovative non-thermal, cost-effective method of near-complete defluorination and mineralization of PFAS in various types of wastewater.
Read About This Research

Deep Tissue Imaging

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Prof. Xiaocun Lu has been awarded an Engineering Research Initiation grant from the National Science Foundation, supporting his pioneering research to develop advanced biophotonic technology for deep tissue imaging. The technology could overcome the limitations of traditional imaging methods such as MRI, CT, and ultrasound imaging.
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