Category: Awards and Honors

Congratulations to ESSIE’s Dr. Timothy Townsend for receiving a 2018 University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) professorship. The UFRF professorship was created to recognize faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to distinction in their field. Towsend is a Jones Edmunds Professor of Environmental Engineering in […]

Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE) alumnus and repeated Gator 100 nominee, Jay Conroy, will take on another prestigious affiliation this weekend-this time as the University of Florida’s Outstanding Young Alumnus. Conroy is no stranger to success in business. In the fifth grade, he developed and effectively led his own “candy cartel,”, buying […]

Four ESSIE students have recently received fellowships through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP). NSF-GRFP is an annual grant awarded by NSF to approximately 2,000 students pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in the natural, social and engineering sciences at U.S. institutions Congratulations to each of these students for earning this prestigious […]

Three students from ESSIE’s Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida will be recognized at Spring 2018 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Commencement Exercises. Congratulations to the following students: Gator Engineering Dean Earle Award Estenia J. Ortiz Carabantes– Environmental Engineering Gator Engineering Dean Weil Award Naomi Senehi– Environmental Engineering Spring 2018 Gator Engineering […]

Congratulations to ESSIE civil engineering alumna Dr. Jeremy Waisome for receiving the the 2017-2018 Golden Torch Award for the Mike Shinn Distinguished Member of the Year (Female) at the National Society of Black Engineers’ (NSBE) ceremony on March 24th during the organization’s 44th national convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Golden Torch Award is a NSBE […]

Henry L. Upjohn, Chief Executive Officer of Special-Lite, Inc.-a leading manufacturer of flush doors-and longtime supporter of the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE) at the University of Florida (UF), was recognized on Wednesday, March 21st with the Distinction of Honorary Alumnus Award. A reception was held in Upjohn’s honor at ESSIE’s Powell […]

Concrete canoes that float. Steel bridge models that hold 2,500 pounds. Over a thousand civil engineers in one place. This is how Becca Kiriazes, University of Florida (UF) student and conference coordinator, described this year’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Southeast Regional Conference. Months of planning and teamwork helped to prepare the UF ASCE […]

Please join us in congratulating the six outstanding 2018 ESSIE Poster Symposium winners who were recognized by CDM Smith, Jones Edmunds, Koogler & Associates, NCASI, SCS Engineers, TRC and Zefon International. Graduate Awards: 1st: Thanachart Subgranon 2nd: Ash Omidvar 3rd: Deja Jackson 4th: Fernando Daniel Garcia de Oliveira & Sun Shiqi Undergraduate Award: 1st: Joshua […]