Farhad Nadim, an adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Waterbury Campus and senior environmental engineer at VeruTEK Technologies Inc. in Bloomfield, died on Feb. 17, 2010.
Earlier in his career, Nadim was a researcher at the Environmental Research Institute, a former UConn research center.
Nadim was an expert in the environmental remediation of contaminated soil and water, along with regional and international environmental planning.
He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental engineering from UConn in 1995 and 2006, respectively, and an M.S. from the University of New Haven in 1991.