We congratulate UCSB’s CMES affiliated PhD student Alex Schultz (History of Art & Architecture Dept) for successfully completing and presenting her dissertation “Living and Dying in Water: Fluid Infrastructure Disruptions in Urban Egypt (1870-1935).” Her (very impressed) committee members are Nuha Khoury, Swati Chattopadhyay, Paul Amar, and Michael Provence (UCSD).