Former student Karol Kowalski received the award of the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure for his PhD dissertation titled "The Influence of Mixture Composition on the Noise and Frictional Characteristics of Flexible Pavements" which he completed at the Superpave Center in 2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland.  The award will be presented during the formal ceremony on December 22nd in Warsaw.