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Why Earn your PhD in Earth & Environmental Engineering at Columbia?

Columbia gives you a rigorous Ivy League education in the heart of a vibrant global city for unmatched opportunities and impact.

As a student, you’ll benefit from:

New York City
Join top talent in one of the world’s most exciting and influential cities. Students choose Columbia Engineering over MIT, Berkeley, and others because of the New York City ecosystem of research and enterprise that can’t be found anywhere else.
Faculty Who Are Leaders in the Field
Department faculty are active scholars pioneering research in areas like energy-efficient desalination, resource recovery from waste materials, and AI-empowered climate modeling.
Diverse Multidisciplinary Research Opportunities
Solving the challenges related to a sustainable future requires input from many disciplines. Join experts from other fields in research institutions like Earth Engineering Center, The Earth Institute, Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, and more.
Columbia University
With a PhD from Columbia, you’ll join one of the world’s most international, accomplished networks of researchers and alumni. Your Ivy League credential will open doors wherever you go and the relationships you build here will accelerate your career.

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Retiring Faculty Honored

Highlights from the Event

retiring faculty event — L to R: Irving Herman, Marc Spiegelman, Shree Nayar, Cliff Stein, Ponisseril Somasundaran, Emanuel Derman, Dean Shih-Fu Chang, Peter Allen, Luca Carloni, Helen Lu, Dan Steingart, Mary Boyce, Y. Lawrence Yao, Jim Hone, and Richard Longman (front, center).

retiring faculty honored — Cliff Stein (left), chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) with Emanuel Derman, professor emeritus of professional practice in the IEOR department.

retiring faculty member speaking — Ponisseril Somasundaran, Lavon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering

retiring faculty — Irving Herman (left), Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics, with Marc Spiegelman, chair of the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Richard W. Longman — Richard W. Longman, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and of civil engineering and engineering mechanics

retiring faculty — Peter K. Allen (right), professor emeritus of computer science

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