Stories about Civil and Environmental Engineering

Photograph of a stone gothic university building and green trees on a sunny day.

Lehigh Researchers Earn 2 DOE Genesis Mission Funding Awards

Lehigh engineering faculty secure funding to advance efforts in tackling the nation’s real, complex science and technology challenges.

A colorful illustration of people walking on and alongside a path through green grass and giant flowers. The people are wearing gas masks.

Human Behavior, Climate Risk and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Y.C. Ethan Yang works with a team of researchers incorporating data on human behavior into a climate-risk modeling framework to improve resilience of critical water, food and energy systems.

A house submerged in floodwaters following a hurricane

A Sharper Focus on Catastrophe Modeling

Paolo Bocchini, Daniel Conus, Brian Davison and their colleagues leverage their collaborative experience in probabilistic modeling to sharpen their focus on catastrophe modeling, a discipline not traditionally explored in academia.