Civil & Environmental Engineering

An image of a person's hand taking a sample of wastewater for analysis

May 24, 2022

Q&A: Tracking COVID infections through wastewater

Environment, Health Issue #138

Bleached and healthy coral patches spread in shallow water of an island.

May 6, 2022

Is your sunscreen killing corals?

Environment, Health Issue #137

May 4, 2022

Wastewater monitoring for public health

Health, Technology & Society Issue #136

Mar 25, 2022

Stanford Engineering announces the winners of its annual staff awards

School News

Photo of building exteriors with reflection of the sun.

Mar 22, 2022

A data-driven approach to cooling

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society Issue #134

Aerial view of wastewater treatment facility.

Mar 2, 2022

Researchers turn wastewater into a valuable resource

Energy, Environment Issue #132

Feb 18, 2022

Stanford faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering

School News

Electric train track

Feb 14, 2022

A scholar explores global electricity use during COVID

Energy Issue #131

Collage of sustainable planet held by a hand.

Jan 6, 2022

Martin Fischer: AI and virtual reality can help society build better

Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Materials Issue #130

Nov 30, 2021

John Barton: Running the architecture program was a literal dream

School News

Graduate students at Stanford School of Engineering

Sep 30, 2021

“Graduate school is one of the most exciting times in life”

School News

New analytic methods that could help desalination engineers weigh the many factors that go into building a desalination plant. | Stocksy/Jesse Morrow

Sep 17, 2021

New research looks to lower the high cost of desalination

Environment, Technology & Society Issue #122

Seeking a safer, fairer, and more just America. | Adobe Stock/Alex, Unsplash/Tingey Injury Law Firm, and Drea Sullivan

May 6, 2021

Data science takes on racial bias

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #116

Our existing system of massive power plants and huge networks of high-voltage wires is giving way to a much leaner system. | iStock/Sundry Photography

Apr 22, 2021

Ram Rajagopal: How the grid is becoming more human-centric

Energy, Technology & Society

Treasure every drop. | Adobe Stock/Q

Apr 22, 2021

Meagan Mauter: How freshwater supply is becoming more circular

Environment Issue #115

California will experience increased floodwater from both heavier rain patterns and earlier snowmelt due to warmer temperatures. | iStock/Michael Vi

Apr 22, 2021

Could floodwaters be used to weather droughts?

Environment Issue #116

Harness the wind | Reuters Pictures/Issei Kato

Apr 15, 2021

Catherine Gorle: How cityscapes catch the wind

Energy, Environment Issue #116

The money for clean energy solutions often flows to certain communities and not others. | Stocksy/Rowena Naylor

Apr 7, 2021

Anthony Kinslow: How to close the clean-energy divide

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society

Wind generation doesn’t just hold its own through the coldest days, but actually rises to the moment when it is needed most. | Photo by Getty Images

Mar 17, 2021

Research shows that as the weather turns coldest, wind power heats up

Energy, Environment Issue #114

Diversity in engineering will be a key driver to achieving social justice and economic equality. | Photo by Christophe Wu

Mar 12, 2021

How do we make the field of engineering more diverse?

Technology & Society Issue #112

Leaders in the Monterey-Salinas region have taken a waste-not, want-not approach to supplying water for farms and faucets. | Adobe Stock/Dreamframer

Feb 19, 2021

One California community shows how to take the waste out of water

Energy Issue #111

Stanford researcher Ryan Searcy collects water samples from a tide pool at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, in Moss Beach. | Photo by Meghan Shea

Jan 29, 2021

Researchers develop a new way to forecast beach-water quality

Environment Issue #109

People in the developed world take plumbing for granted. Research suggests it could save women and girls hours of drudgery. | Flickr/Oxfam East Africa

Jan 20, 2021

How water piped to homes promotes gender equality in rural Zambia

Health, Technology & Society Issue #108

Wastewater surveillance could help alert decision-makers about potential outbreaks days before individuals recognize symptoms of the virus. | Adobe Stock/Visual Generation

Dec 7, 2020

Wastewater can help identify changes in community COVID-19 infections

Environment, Health Issue #107