Purdue University civil engineers are working with the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to perfect the use of recycled concrete for highway construction, a strategy that could reduce material costs by as much as 20 percent.

Dr. Kathy Banks has been awarded the 2011 ASCE Margaret Petersen Outstanding Woman of the Year Award. This award is presented annually to a female member of ASCE who has demonstrated exemplary service to the water resources and environmental community.

Rebecca McDaniel, Technical Director of the North Central Superpave Center, was recently profiled in the news magazine of the Transportation Research Board.

The Purdue Geotechnical Society is pleased to announce the 9th edition of the Purdue Geotechnical Workshop and 9th Leonards Lecture that will take place on Friday April 8, 2011 on the Purdue campus.

Congratulations to Amit Varma for being named a 2011 Purdue University Faculty Scholar. The program recognizes outstanding faculty members at the West Lafayette campus who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction.

Essam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf (MSCE '80, PhD '84), the new prime minister of Egypt, is remembered as a good and honest man by the Purdue University civil engineering professor who mentored him for seven years.

Top federal and state transportation officials will kick off the 97th annual Purdue Road School, to be held March 8-10. Some 2,000 local and state transportation officials from throughout Indiana will participate in the event, sponsored by the Joint Transportation Research Program in cooperation with the Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program, both housed at Purdue.

Congratulations to Prof. Kumares Sinha on being awarded the 2011 James Laurie Prize by the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute.

CE faculty led in the development of a report summarizing the community vision for the future of earthquake engineering research. This report will be used to define the next generation of research and the role of the cyberinfrastructure and experimental facilities within the NEES network.

Congratulations to Thanos Tzempelikos, 2011-2012 recipient of the New Investigator Award by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

In August 2010, we welcomed a new addition to the Civil Engineering Building's ground floor hallway. Once housed in the Potter Engineering Building, the Purdue University Slide Rule Display proudly exhibits more than 30 slide rules from the original collection of approximately 200.

Prof. Cary Troy is working with ITaP data visualization specialists to help provide some illuminating 3-D animations of environmental fluid mechanics processes affecting the Great Lakes.