Shideh Dashti News
CEAE's Shideh Dashti received a Fulbright award to study combined seismic and rainfall geohazards at Chile's Pontificia Universidad Catolica.
Associate Professor Shideh Dashti highlights how land subsidence from excessive groundwater extraction for farming threatens Iran's critical infrastructure, like transportation and pipelines. The rapid land sinking adds to earthquake risks, compounding the danger.
Associate Professor Shideh Dashti received the 2025 EERI Distinguished Lecture Award for her groundbreaking work in geotechnical earthquake engineering.
CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers Shideh Dashti and Shawhin Roudbari discuss how 75 percent of Colorado prisons and jails face climate risks—like extreme heat, wildfires and floods—disproportionately impacting incarcerated individuals, especially Black and Latino inmates.
In this 9NEWS article, Associate Professor Shideh Dashti highlights the need for prison infrastructure to prioritize inmate well-being rather than solely containment, urging updates like evacuation plans and improved facilities to address extreme conditions and poor air quality.
In a new paper, drawing on accounts from nearly three dozen previously incarcerated people, CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers reveal a disturbing story of how prisons and jails in Colorado have failed to provide humane protections from growing environmental hazards brought on by climate change.-
CEAE's Shideh Dashti won a Green Faculty Award for leading RISE, a research initiative on climate resilience and environmental justice.
Seventy-five percent of incarceration facilities in the state are vulnerable to climate-related hazards, such as wildfires, extreme heat, floods or landslides, and many are ill-equipped to handle them, new research by Geotechnical Engineering Professor Shideh Dashti suggests.
In this interview with Shideh Dashti, an associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, Dashti shares her thoughts on the recent and devestating floods in Libya and earthquake in Morocco, what engineers can learn from these events and how countries can build resilient cities.
