Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences at Notre Dame

Happy Halloween!

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The University of Notre Dame’s Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support research projects led by Notre Dame faculty and help recruit prominent poverty scholars to Notre Dame. Kyle Bibby, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, is leading a research effort that aims to understand how pervasive poverty interacts with water insecurity to exacerbate health disparities in Africa’s urban slums and to develop interventions to address these intertwined challenges. Bibby is joined by co-principal investigators Ellis Adjei Adams, an associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs; Elizabeth Wood, an associate professor of the practice in the Eck Institute for Global Health; Matthew Sisk, an associate professor of the practice in the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society; and Santosh Kumar, an associate professor in the Keough School.

I enjoyed my recent visit to LSU after many years to deliver Timoshenko Lecture entitled " Exploring the Influence of Turbulence, Noise, Damping and Correlation in Taming Dynamic Systems: A Harmonic Oscillator Perspective." GeorgeV and ChaoS were great hosts. This is the closest I can come to one of the pillars of mechanics whose books enlightened my education in mechanics.

This past Friday, we hosted the third of three Career Options Days. We want to thank sincerely the following professionals and companies for presenting career opportunities to our students in person and then hanging around for lunch to meet with our students afterwards: - Suzanne Provanzana from Buro Happold - Dominique Madrid and Eric Herbert, P.E., S.E. from Westwood Professional Services - Daniela Lugo, PE from Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) - Audrey Bentz, P.E. from Ghafari Associates - Edward M. DePaola from Severud Associates - Jared Huss and Dan Delgado from Lawson-Fisher Associates P.C. - Robert F. Wachter III, EIT, CERPIT from WSP - Jim Walsh from SCS Engineers - Finnian Cavanaugh, EI from Lochmueller Group - Hodge Patel and Martin Rivas, P.E. from Abonmarche - Lillian Rodriguez from SmithGroup came to the lunch at the spur of the moment to also meet some of our alumni and students. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Great repurposed space

Awesome work, once again, by Hannah Spero and her team!

#BarakaBouts Another year of boxing, another fundraising spree! Baraka Bouts boxers train and fundraise vigorously for St. Joesph's Hill Secondary School and Lakeview Secondary School in Uganda. All efforts culminating to a three-night tournament where we showcase our skills and have our biggest fundraiser of the season! This is my second year being a part of this wonderful organization, please rally with me to help make miracles happen! Any amount helps! All support, (even a repost) is welcome!

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Simple math, keep building in harm’s way, the destruction will be inevitable. We worry about the potential of higher severity or frequency of storms but never discuss the land management in these low lying areas that are ready to be inundated with few inches of rain even before the storm arrives. Open exposure adds to wind impact. Perfect storm brews with vulnerable structures, their exposure and location are no match for even a Category 1 hurricane.