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To detect COVID-19 outbreaks by neighborhood, UW CEE researchers are working to introduce a new testing system that utilizes wastewater samples from pump stations.

A CEE-led research team has uncovered what's killing coho salmon in Puget Sound’s urban streams: A chemical that preserves tires.

Alumna Madison Smith advances climate change research as part of the largest polar expedition in history.

Thanks to a summer internship, CEE undergraduate Bailey Griffin gained hands-on experience working on light rail construction efforts in Bellevue.  

To better assess the structural integrity of reinforced concrete buildings in the aftermath of earthquakes, UW CEE researchers are working to advance newer data collection and analysis methods.

CEE Ph.D. student William Pollock will soon release a first-of-its-kind map that predicts landslide risk throughout the city.