Investigator/Staff/Student Awards

ICT congratulates its investigators, staff, and students on the following recent awards:

Leslie Elble (Assistant to the ICT Director) was presented with the annual Civil and Environmental Engineering Staff Award for Excellence.

Barry Dempsey (Professor Emeritus and PI for numerous IHR projects) has won the ASCE Horonjeff Award, which will be presented at the 87th Annual TRB meeting.

Larry Fahnestock (Co-PI on ICT 27-70) was awarded the ASCE Reese Prize for his paper titled "Seismic Response and Performance of Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames."

Jerry Hajjar (PI on 27-SP12 and Co-PI on 27-70) won the ASCE Shortridge Hardesty Award which recognizes his substantial contribution in applying fundamental problems in the field of structural stability.

Youssef Hashash (PI on 27-SP16) was promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor. Hashash also won the 2009 Xerox Award for Faculty Research in recognition for his outstanding research accomplishments during the past five years.

James LaFave (Co-PI on 27-70) was elected a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) in recognition of his contributions to the work of the ACI.

Zhen Leng (student researcher for 55) was awarded the Yee Memorial Fund Fellowship from the UIUC College of Engineering.

Scott Olson (PI on 27-25 and 27-55; Co-PI on 27-SP12) was presented the 2009 Collins Award for Innovative Teaching from the UIUC College of Engineering.

Yanfeng Ouyang (PI on 27-20, 27-22, 27-43, 27-34, 27-18, and 27-67; Co-PI on R27-SP4 and R27-13) was elected as the Treasurer of the Railway Applications Section (RAS) of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS).