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Mon, 12/08/2025

Giving, simplified

Alumni voices and clear answers to common giving questions this season.

Purple balloons with a W on them.

Mon, 12/08/2025

Honors & awards

Congratulations to students and faculty who have received awards, scholarships, promotions and other honors.

Dorothy Reed

Mon, 12/08/2025

Dorothy Reed retires from CEE

Dorothy Reed retires from CEE after four decades of teaching, research and national service in wind engineering.

Bart Nijssen

Mon, 12/08/2025

Message from the chair

Chair Bart Nijssen on record enrollment, funding shifts and concrete ways to support and partner with CEE this year.

Dan Evans stands amongst UW's cherry blossoms.

Mon, 12/08/2025

Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professorship announced

A new CEE professorship honors Daniel J. Evans and bolsters faculty recruitment and retention in service of the public good.

Rocky Mountain landscape near Crested Butte, Colorado.

Mon, 11/24/2025

From field to film, measuring “missing snow”

UW hydrology team quantifies snow lost to the air and shows the work behind the numbers in a short film.

Students walk on an outdoor pathway with a fountain in the background on the UW campus.

Wed, 11/19/2025

CEE sees strong enrollment gains

CEE welcomes 223 juniors, up from 146, as outreach and industry demand draw more students to the department.

A hillside ablaze at night during a wildfire in California.

Wed, 11/05/2025 | San Francisco Chronicle

Learning from California’s earthquake legacy

CEE’s Joseph Wartman writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about how California’s approach to earthquake safety could guide its wildfire preparedness.

Group of people in a lab examining concrete samples

Mon, 10/27/2025

A day in CEE’s construction materials lab

Undergrads mix, test and break concrete to learn how materials behave in the real world.

A sign for Seattle's tram that shows the 1 line and symphony stop.

Fri, 10/17/2025 | KNKX

What's in a station name

Ryan Avery of the Washington State Transportation Center on how Sound Transit names its light rail stops, and why local riders shape the final choice.