Friday February 26th - Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Graduate Seminar
"Microbial and Electrochemical Pathways for Waste Resource Recovery"
Appreciating the abundant carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous and other resources that are embedded in bio-waste, traditional wastewater treatment have evolved to water resource recovery processes. In addition, the abundant and low-cost renewable electricity brought new opportunities to convert “electrons to molecules”. How to use cheap renewable energy to maximize waste and CO2 valorization has become an emerging direction. In Zhiyong Jason Ren this talk, I will share some recent progress in identifying the synergy between renewable energy and waste management, such as electroactive membrane electrodes, microbial photoelectrochemical processes, and novel wood-based membranes for energy and water applications. I will also discuss some new directions on wastewater decarbonization.
Bio: Z. Jason Ren (@zjasonren) is a professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. He currently serves as the center's acting director and associate director for research. His research focuses on water-energy nexus especially in areas of energy and resource recovery during environmental processes such as wastewater treatment and reuse, water desalination, remediation, and decarbonization (https://ren.princeton.edu). He has received various recognitions with most recent being a recipient of the 2020 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize. Ren received his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Penn State University.
Honors Experiential Tracks-Applications for Fall 2021 are due Feb 28
Honors Experiential Tracks ·are designed to:
• Focus your last two years in Honors around a topic that excites and motivates you.
• Gain priority access to opportunities, courses, and events
• Develop real-world skills through meaningful experiences
Scholarship/fellowship applications for Fall 2021 / Spring 2022- Deadline extended through March 1st
You will be asked to upload your resume, transcript, and a short essay after answering some yes/no questions. The deadline to apply has been extended through March 1st, 2021. Please submit your documents as a PDF file.
SAVE THE DATE - Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Lecture
The University of Nebraska Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Student Chapter is pleased to be hosting Dr. Sissy Nikolaou (Earthquake Engineering Group Leader for the Materials and Structural Systems Division - NIST) for a VIRTUAL guest lecture on “Functional Recovery – the new Frontier in Earthquake Design” through the Friedman Family Visiting Professionals Program of EERI. In this lecture Dr. Nikolaou will discuss the emerging concept of Functional Recovery,: a holistic basis for earthquake-resistant design incorporated in the recently released NIST-FEMA report to the Congress. This report includes recommendations that, if acted upon, may greatly improve the resilience of communities across the nation. All Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) students, Architectural Engineering (AE) students and/or academics/professionals in these fields and disaster management areas are particularly encouraged to attend this lecture. REGISTRATION IS FREE.
DATE & TIME: March 2, 2021 from 12:00-1:30 PM CST (including Q&A session)
TO REGISTER: Please go to https://eeri.swoogo.com/2021ffvp/792711
and when prompted, please select University of Nebraska Student Chapter Member regardless if you are a Student Member or not. Please reach out to eeri.unl@gmail.com with any questions.
SPEAKER BIO: Dr. Sissy Nikolaou serves as the Earthquake Engineering Group Leader for the Materials and Structural Systems Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She has over 25 years of global experience in buildings and infrastructure systems, with emphasis on geotechnical and structural engineering, performance-based design, soil-structure interaction, seismic hazard analysis, liquefaction evaluation and mitigation, multi-hazard risk assessments of critical facilities; and emergency and action preparedness planning for communities. Nikolaou earned her 5-year Civil Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece with emphasis on Structural Engineering M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo with focus on geotechnical and earthquake engineering. Nikolaou has served as Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Applied Technology Council (ATC), and is currently a Governor of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) where she holds the Fellow status, and she is an advisory member of GEER. Nikolaou has led reconnaissance missions of major natural disasters of earthquakes and hurricanes around the world, including Hurricane Sandy in NYC, and Mineral-VA, Cephalonia-Greece, Muisne-Ecuador and Puebla-Morelos Mexico earthquakes; and has played a key role in the development of new generation guidelines and codes for extreme events. She is active in seismic codes development and has been the chair for the seismic committee for the NYC Building Code since 2014. For her contributions in earthquake engineering, Dr. Nikolaou was invited to the White House to participate in the Earthquake Resilience Summit of 2016. Her recognitions include the Prakash Prize for Excellence in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, the 2017 ACEC-NY Principal of the Year, and Board-Certification in Earthquake Engineering by the Academy of the Geo-Professionals (AGP).
