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Dear Stanford Civil & Environmental Engineering Alumni, Friends, and Community,
Our fall quarter is now well underway. We welcomed over 200 new graduate students and newly declared undergraduates into our department, bringing our total student community to over 540 students.
In addition to the news below, I am pleased to announce several professional and personal milestones. Professor Hae Young Noh was recently promoted to full Professor, Professor Sarah Fletcher was reappointed to Assistant Professor, and Professor Mike Lepech and his wife Joanne welcomed their first child!
This fall will be Professor Anne Kiremidjian’s last quarter on the faculty as she will be retiring from Stanford on January 1, 2026. Professor Kiremidjian has been at Stanford for over 50 years and spent 47 years on our faculty. She was the first woman to be appointed as an Assistant Professor in Stanford’s School of Engineering, to receive tenure, and go on to future promotions. She has been a pioneer in so many ways, and we wish her all the very best in her retirement.
It is with deep sadness that I must also share the news that our beloved colleague, Professor Dick Luthy passed away unexpectedly on October 6th. His Stanford obituary is linked below. Professor Luthy was an extraordinary member of the Civil & Environmental Engineering community for decades. His academic achievements and contributions beyond Stanford were immense. He was kind, brilliant, and dedicated to his students, colleagues, and most of all to his own family. We are heartbroken by this loss. A memorial in 2026 will be announced on our department webpage and through a future department newsletter.
I encourage you to stay connected with us throughout the year, including through the School of Engineering’s ongoing 100th anniversary celebrations. We truly appreciate your support and your ongoing participation in the Stanford Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) community.
With gratitude,
Sarah Billington
UPS Foundation Professor and Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Professor Richard Luthy
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Most U.S. households can save money and weather blackouts with solar plus storage
A new study, co-authored by Ram Rajagopal, associate professor of CEE, and Arun Majumdar, dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, indicates that most U.S. households could reduce their electricity costs and comfortably endure power outages by installing rooftop solar panels and battery packs.
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Pipe Dreams
Wastewater is 99.9% water, but the last 0.1% contains valuable energy, materials, nutrients, and information. The most recent issue of Stanford Magazine delves into the multidisciplinary research on wastewater led by several CEE faculty, including Richard Luthy, William Mitch, Alexandria Boehm, Meagan Mauter, and William Tarpeh, as well as Professor Emeritus Craig Criddle.
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The Woods Institute for the Environment announced the 2025 Environmental Venture Projects and Realizing Environmental Innovation Program awards, which will fund proposals from several CEE faculty members.
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s Accelerator program announced its first grants for Water research. The focus of this effort is to ensure availability, resiliency, sustainable management, and equitable access to clean water for all people, agriculture, industry, and ecosystems while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. CEE faculty members will lead several of the projects.
A research team including faculty and students from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and CEE has created a new model that projects emissions, society-wide economic costs, and consumption of energy resources for California to reach net-zero emissions by 2045. CEE PhD student Joshua Neutel is the study’s lead author.
CEE Professor Mark Jacobson designed and built his own home, described as a “zero net energy house,” which he believes is a blueprint for a more sustainable future. It is all-electric with no gas on the property, it generates as much energy as it consumes, and all the energy generated is clean and renewable, with no polluting fossil fuels.
A team of Stanford researchers, led by William Tarpeh, assistant professor of chemical engineering and, by courtesy, of CEE, has developed an innovative new system that harnesses urine to generate valuable fertilizer, offering solutions for sanitation and energy in resource-limited regions.
Earth System Science Professor Leif Thomas leads numerous researchers investigating the journey of microplastics in our environment and their effects on human health, while developing practical solutions to mitigate their impact. CEE Professors William Mitch and Richard Luthy contribute to an FAQ section following the linked article.
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Sarah Fletcher
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Sarah Fletcher, assistant professor of CEE and center fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, has been honored with the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award for her impactful research on water use planning and affordability.
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Beverly Choe
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Beverly Choe, lecturer in CEE and associate director of Stanford’s Sustainable Architecture + Engineering program, has been selected as one of the 2025-26 artsCatalyst Fellows. The program brings course instructors together each year to develop bigger ideas around art in teaching and research across wide-ranging academic disciplines.
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Akshay Rao
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Akshay is a PhD candidate in the Water & Energy Efficiency for the Environment Lab. His work uses computational techniques broadly to understand strategies for industrial decarbonization using machine learning.
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Edward Apraku
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Edward is a PhD candidate and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Edward’s research focuses on advancing sustainable water treatment through resource recovery.
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Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke
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Juliet is a PhD candidate in the Urban Informatics Lab. Her research aims to help designers of the built environment integrate sustainability-oriented performance metrics into their design processes.
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Faculty & Student Spotlights
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Professor Bob* Street
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With the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 1962
Professor Bob* Street is a legendary Stanford figure whose diverse roles, groundbreaking research, and devoted mentorship have profoundly shaped engineering and academia.
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Sofie Roux
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Undergraduate - Sustainable Architecture + Engineering
CEE undergraduate Sofie Roux’s vision of architecture – one as much sustainable as it is human-centered – is rooted in her lifelong passion for both art and science, and her deep commitment to people and the planet.
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Caitlin Mueller
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MS '08
Caitlin Mueller describes an academic journey in Structural Engineering that led to a faculty position at MIT and a return to Stanford CEE as a visiting faculty member this fall.
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Michael Whitaker
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BS ’01, MS ’03
Michael Whitaker describes his professional journey in sustainable urban development as well as charting the professional and social impacts of AI on younger professionals.
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Sagar Tripathy
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MS '24
Sagar Tripathy, a recent master’s alum, shares happy memories of time on the Farm and the professional journey that followed graduation.
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This year’s theme is Civic Futures in a Changing World — a chance to explore the value of public service in today’s rapidly changing political, technological, and social landscape. Your participation will help students discover diverse career pathways, strengthen their sense of civic purpose, and hone their networking skills.
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Tim Tsung
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I’ve always felt a connection to Stanford. Both of my parents worked here as researchers in the School of Medicine, so the campus and community were a big part of my life growing up.
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CEE alumni, share what you've been up to for a chance to be featured in our upcoming newsletter.
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