CE News & Spotlights
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Research team awarded $7.5 million Department of Defense award
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April 21, 2014
Associate Prof. Pablo Zavattieri and his collaborators selected for $7.5 million grant to study more than 20 organisms to develop strong, tough materials based on their design structures.
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Greg Miller elected AGCI President
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April 21, 2014
CE Alumnus Greg Miller, President of Diamond Construction Company located in Quincy, was elected as President of the Associated General Contractors of Illinois at the 107th AGCI Annual Convention held in Springfield. Miller served last year as the First Vice President and previously as the Second Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer.
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Bowen, Dudley bike 150 miles for MS society
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April 18, 2014
CE alumni Bill Dudley and Bob Bowen rode 153 miles in the 2014 BP MS-150 from Houston to Austin (Texas) on the Bechtel Cycling Team to support the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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Purdue ITE wins district "Traffic Bowl"
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April 15, 2014
Steven Lavrenz (JTRP), Pulkit Parikh, and Vinay Varadarajan represented Purdue in the regional Traffic Bowl competition sponsored by Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) on April 14, 2014 in Indianapolis.
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Alumni honored at 21st annual Achievement Awards ceremony
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April 10, 2014
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2013-2014 CE Alumni Achievement Awards: Gordon R. Archibald, Robert P. Elsperman, M. Janet Everett, Keith A. London, Charles A. Miller, and Joseph C. Sanders.
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54th Annual CE Open
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April 10, 2014
The 54th Annual CE Open will be held on Friday, May 16, 2014 at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex! Join us for lunch, golf, and dinner - registration is still open!
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Purdue Road School - Celebrating 100 Years
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April 2, 2014
The 100th Purdue Road School was held March 11-13 2014. Civil Engineering Professors Darcy Bullock and John Haddock served as co-chairs of the conference that included 160 sessions attended by approximately 2,330 transportation professionals.
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Professor Jason Weiss named recipient of the 2014 Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
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March 28, 2014
Congratulations to Jason Weiss, the Jack and Kay Hockema Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Pankow Materials Lab, who has been named a recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Memory of Charles B. Murphy.
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Cary Troy receives Exceptional Early Career Award
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March 25, 2014
Assistant Professor Cary Troy has been named the recipient of Purdue's new Exceptional Early Career Award. The award was created by the Office of the Provost and the Murphy Award selection committee to recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching among Purdue's early career, tenure-track faculty.
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G.A. Leonards Lecture and PGS Workshop
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March 24, 2014
On April 26, 2014, Prof. Lyesse Laloui of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology will deliver the 12th Leonards Lecture on "Advances in the Analysis of Thermo-Active Foundations." The PGS Workshop "Energy Geotechnics" will be held in conjunction with the lecture.
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