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May 2025 - Ian wins the 2025 Excellence in Mentoring Award of the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science.


December 2024 - Xiaojin Zheng wins the 2024 Warren Huff Clay Science Pathway Award. This new award of the Clay Minerals Society aims to "recognize the next generation of clay scientists".


November 2024 - Caridad Estrada wins the top prize of the 2024 Amentum Scholarship. This prize recognizes influential contributions, profound leadership, and academic promise during her summer internship work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.


October 2024 - Physics professor sheds light on chemical dynamics behind environmental contamination. The Hoya, Georgetown University.


July 2024 - Zhanar Zhakiyeva is one of three recipients of the Honorable Mention of the 2024 Innovandi Nanocem PhD Prize. As part of her application, she recorded a five-minute video summary of her research on water in the C-S-H phase of cement.


May 2024 - Amélie wins the top undergraduate awards of the Princeton CEE Department and the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). Amélie receives the Mack Angas Prize from the CEE Department and the James Hayes-Edge Palmer Prize in Engineering from SEAS.


April 2024 - Can 'forever' chemicals become less so? This senior thesis works toward smarter cleanup of PFAS. Princeton Office of Engineering Communications and Office of Undergraduate Research.


April 2024 - Xiaohan Li is a winner of the 2024 Ellen Gonter Graduate Student Research Paper Award. This is the highest award given to students by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS).


May 2023 - Amélie Lemay is one of four Princeton Undergraduate students to receive the 2023 Goldwater Scholarship.


July 2022 - Ian is promoted to Associated Professor with tenure.


January 2021 - Zhanar Zhakiyeva wins the Best Young Researcher Presentation award at the ERICA-CASH conference.


January 2021 - Carbon-chomping soil bacteria may pose hidden climate risk. Princeton Office of Engineering Communications and Office of the Dean for Research.


April 2020 - Jennifer Willemsen receives a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship from the Princeton Graduate School. This honorific fellowship recognizes "outstanding performance and professional promise."


April 2020 - Prof. Ian Bourg receives Howard B. Wentz, Jr. award. Princeton Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.


September 2019 - Bastien Wild wins the 2019 Young Researcher OZCAR award. The award is bestowed by the French Critical Zone Observatory Network (OZCAR), which federates >50 sites over five continents.


April 2019 - Emily Wei-Hsin Sun is awarded a graduate fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).


March 2018 - Prof. Ian Bourg receives NSF CAREER award. Princeton Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.