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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.

Cars charging at a public EV station

Mon, 09/22/2025 | UW News

Inconsistent public charging slows EV adoption

CEE study shows doubts about public-charger reliability strongly deter first-time EV buyers — overshadowing discounts, range gains and new stations.

thor konradsson headshot

Mon, 09/08/2025

Leadership on and off the jobsite

Thorvaldur Konradsson (MSCE’10) helped lead Seattle’s recent light rail expansion and remains deeply involved in mentoring young engineers.

A sign outside the Department of Energy

Tue, 09/02/2025 | CNN

Challenging DOE climate report

CEE’s Rebecca Neumann joins climate scientists in refuting a DOE report that minimizes climate change risks.

George Darkwah portrait

Mon, 08/18/2025 | UW News

Predicting river temperatures

Doctoral student George Darkwah is harnessing satellite data to help Pacific Northwest tribes restore fishing stocks.

UW researcher Huan He preparing agar plates for measuring inactivation of bacteria in disinfection experiments.

Mon, 08/11/2025 | UW News

Studying disinfectants and bacterial DNA

CEE researchers test common disinfectants to see how well they kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria and break down bacterial DNA linked to resistance.