The Third International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation on Sept. 14-16 will take place at the Indiana Government Conference Center in downtown Indianapolis. The three-day conference is organized by Purdue University's School of Civil Engineering and the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council and hosted by the Indiana Department of Transportation.

Congratulations to Ayesha Shah, winner of the College of Engineering's Professional Achievement Award.

ETA/Cuisenaire, the nation's leading provider of hands-on supplemental products for math, science and literacy education, has appointed CE Alumnus Jude Rake as President.

Congratulations to Michelle Dojutrek and Gary Sahi for being selected to receive the Institute of Transportation Engineers 2011 Edward J. Cox Memorial Scholarship.

Congratulations to Sanjiv Kumar, a Ph.D. student in hydraulics and hydrology, for winning the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the American Geophysical Union's 2010 Fall Meeting.

The new Lyles Family Ideas to Innovation Laboratory will be dedicated at 3:30 p.m. Friday (April 8) in the Civil Engineering Building (G150).

This two-part seminar on 4/5 & 4/14 is a joint effort between structural engineering teams at Purdue University and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Congratulations to Amit Varma and Venkatesh Merwade for being recognized as ASCE 2010 Outstanding Reviewers.