Ange-Therese Akono, an assistant professor at in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named one of ten "2016 New Faces of Civil Engineering Professionals" by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In her research laboratory, she investigates broad societal issues like reducing the carbon footprint of the concrete industry or discovering enhanced-performance structural nano-materials by integrating applied mathematics, advanced solid mechanics and laser-precision experiments.