UNLV repeated their first place win in racquetball for Corporate Challenge. Congratulations to the team! Erica Marti (Civil & Environmental Engineering and Construction) - 1st place, women's singles; Venki Muthukumar (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Sid Raich (Social and Behavioral Health) - 1st place, men's doubles; Adam Koebke (…

Juliana Byzyka (CEEC, Transportation Research Center) has been appointed as a Planning Committee Member of the 2024 Nevada Asphalt Conference: Sustainable and Resilient Pavement. The conference will be held at the South Point Hotel and Casino, and Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada, between October 29 to 31. The conference aims to bridge the gap between…

Juliana Byzyka (Transportation Research Center; Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) accepted a three-year appointment to the Standing Committee on Pavement Maintenance — AKT30 of the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board (TRB). Members of a TRB standing committee contribute with…

Juliana Byzyka (Transportation Research Center; Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) presented "A Study of Electric Vehicles Ecosystem in Nevada" during the FISTS 2024: 4th IEEE Forum for Innovative Sustainable Transportation Systems held Feb. 26-28 at the Bourns Technology Center in Riverside, California. This is an…

Holmes Scholars Adjoa Mensah (Teaching and Learning) and Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) were presenters at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) annual 2024 conference. Through an NSF Grant project headed by PI’s Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) and Erica Marti (Civil and…

Juliana Byzyka (Civil Engineering) and co-authors Amjad H. Albayati, Aliaa F. Al-Ani, Mazen Al-Kheetan and Mujib Rahman published their research paper, "Enhancing Asphalt Performance and Its Long-Term Sustainability with Nano Calcium Carbonate and Nano Hydrated Lime," in the Sustainability journal. This publication is an international…

A million dollars is a lot of money, and Adjoa Mensah and Mayra Marquez-Mendez (both Education) are determined to make the most out of every penny. The two experienced teachers-turned doctoral students stepped up, helping assistant professor Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) and associate professor Erica…

Shashi Nambisan (Transportation Research Center and Civil Engineering) presented "A Preliminary Analysis of the Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure in Nevada" during the 2023 Fall Transportation Conference held on Nov. 1-2 at the Tuscany Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The presentation summarized the state of the charging infrastructure…

Prosun Roy (Mechanical Engineering), Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), Yi-Tung Chen (Mechanical Engineering), Sajjad Ahmad, Eakalak Khan (both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction), and Mark Buttner (Environmental and Occupational Health) published an article on "Pollen Dispersion and …

Godson Ebenezer Adjovu (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was selected as one of the fellows for Purdue University's Trailblazers in Engineering (TBE) workshop, which took place on the Purdue University campus in West Lafeyette, Indiana, on July 24-27, 2023. "TBE is a workshop to preparefuture outstanding engineering…

Godson Ebenezer Adjovu, Haroon Stephen, Sajjad Ahmad, and David James (all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) have published an article titled, "Measurement of Total Dissolved Solids and Total Suspended Solids in Water Systems: A Review of the Issues, Conventional, and Remote Sensing Techniques," in Remote Sensing.

Godson Ebenezer Adjovu, Haroon Stephen, and Sajjad Ahmad (all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published an article titled, "A Machine Learning Approach for the Estimation of Total Dissolved Solids Concentration in Lake Mead Using Electrical Conductivity and Temperature," in Water.