Marie-Odile Fortier (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), along with collaborators and graduate students at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, published their study, "Integrated Stochastic Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-economic Analysis for Shrub Willow Production in the Northeastern United States" in the…

Rithesh Shivuni, Sabrina Moore, and Shashi Nambisan (all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) co-authored the presentation “An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Speed Feedback Signs in the City of Las Vegas." Shivuni and Nambisan presented it at the 2022 Institute of Transportation Engineers Mountain District’s annual meeting in…

Rithesh Shivuni (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), the immediate past president of the UNLV student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), accepted the ITE Mountain District’s 2022 Outstanding Student Chapter award this month at the district's annual meeting in Boise, Idaho. The district covers eight…

Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction and the Transportation Research Center) received the Institute of Transportation Engineers Mountain District’s 2022 Outstanding Educator award, which was presented at the district’s annual meeting held in Boise, Idaho, earlier this month. He was nominated for this award by…

Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) delivered a presentation at the Modular Building Institute (MBI)'s 2022 World of Modular Conference in San Antonio, Texas, last month. The presentation included some of research findings on innovative technology and approaches for modular construction, including but not…

Meena Ejjada (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) has been selected for the prestigious 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry. This year's council has selected 600 most qualified young scientists from 91 countries to participate from June 26 to July 1 in Germany. As a young scientist attending this meeting, Ejjada will…

Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) and his research on modular construction were featured in episode 38 of "Inside Modular" (the Podcast of Commercial Modular Construction) by Modular Building Institute (MBI).  

Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) received a grant from the Construction Industry Institute (CII) as principal investigator. He will develop a new modularization business case analysis tool that can determine the optimal extent of modularization for a given project considering new business drivers with his…

Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was interviewed by Zena Ryder for the Modular Building Institute. Zena interviewed him about his work and research on modular construction, and his experience in and around the modular construction industry, which is published in the latest issue (March/April 2022) of…

Shashi Nambisan (Transportation Research Center and Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering and Construction), along with Andrew Bennett, director of the Clark County office of traffic safety, was featured on Vegas PBS's Nevada Week program (season 4, episode 32) that discussed speeding behaviors of motorists on roadways in Southern Nevada…

Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with colleagues at the Iowa State University and the Australian National University published a special collection announcement paper, "Diversity and Inclusion in the Engineering-Construction Industry" in the Journal of Management in Engineering published by…

Mingon Kang (Computer Science), Ji Yoo (Medicine), Brendan Morris (Electronic and Computer Engineering), Zhaohuam Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy), Mira Han (Life Sciences), Kazem Taghva (Computer Science), and Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) were awarded National Science…