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DEPARTMENT / UNIVERSITYThe US News and World Report Rankings came out in April 2025. CEGE has a lot to brag about! Our Environmental Engineering program is ranked at 15 and our Civil Engineering is ranked 20 among programs at public institutions. Something to celebrate! For the first time, the University of Minnesota ranked first among U.S. institutions in two categories in the Times Higher Ed (THE) Impact Rankings: clean water, and health and well-being. The University of Minnesota was fifth in the U.S. overall and in the top 10% worldwide. THE evaluated 2,526 universities, comparing their teaching, research, outreach, and stewardship that support a more sustainable, equitable, and healthy future. The University of Minnesota ranked among the top five in the U.S. for its work related to Clean water (No. 1 in the U.S., tied for No. 16 in the world), Health and well-being (No. 1 in the U.S., tied for 54 in the world), Climate action (No. 3 in the U.S., tied for No. 70 in the world), Zero hunger (No. 4 in the U.S., 34 in the world), Partnerships for the Goals (No. 3 in the U.S.). Many CEGE faculty work in areas related to these points of pride and are responsible for this excellence. The staff in CEGE also embrace the value of service to our society. Administrator CHAR PSIHOS is a veteran herself and now serves as a hospice volunteer at the Minneapolis Veteran%u2019s Administration Hospital. Her work was featured in the VA hospital newsletter. SPECIAL LECTURE INVITATION: Please join the ASCE-MN SEI Chapter for a AISC TR Higgins Lecture, %u201cAchieving Excellence in Fabricated Steel%u201d with Ronnie Medlock. This lecture is free to attend and one professional development hour is available. Both students and practitioners are welcome! October 29, 2025, 4%u20135pm, Twin Cities Campus, Rapson Hall 100. Register through ASCE.FACULTYARDESHIR EBTEHAJ received a research grant from NASA in collaboration with the Goddard Space Flight Center. As the Arctic permafrost thaws, new ecological risks and opportunities emerge. His study aims to expand the short- and long-term predictability of ecohydrological transformations in North America's Arctic Boreal Zone (ABZ) under sporadic pulses heatwaves.STEFANO GONELLA was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his fundamental contributions to the field of wave propagation in architected media and elastic metamaterials. His research accomplishments include fundamental advances in phononics, and innovative engineering applications, including the use of metamaterials to program droplet motions on vibrating surfaces and the use of Lego%u00ae brick-enabled reconfigurable metamaterial prototypes to achieve intuitive demonstrations of complex wave control phenomena.What happens when engineers and artists team up? Students (in STEM and policy programs) improve their critical and creative thinking skills and are better able to work on teams. Read about this exciting approach in the open access article in Environmental Engineering Science by BILL ARNOLD and PAIGE NOVAK.CEGENEWSThe CEGE front office got a face lift over the summer. Our thanks to the Algot Johnson fund, which was established by the Al Johnson Construction Co. to maintain facilities within the Civil Engineering Building. The new space looks open, trendy, and welcoming. The space is more usable and supplies new space for faculty to meet with students for office hours, review, or study sessions. 14 CEGE | CSE.UMN.EDU/CEGE