MCEER Honors, Awards and Recognitions

Honors and Awards

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Honors, Awards and Recognitions showcase the achievements of individual MCEER team members, including investigators, partners, committee members and students, who have been recognized by their peers with various honors and awards. Where available, links to MCEER Bulletin articles or other information are provided.

2008

Andre Filiatrault, Professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering and Director of the University at Buffalo’s Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL)

received the 2008 State University of New York Research Foundation Outstanding Researcher/Scholar Award

Mehdi Saiidi, MCEER investigator and Professor of Civil and Environmental engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR)

was named a fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in February 2008

Gilberto Mosqueda, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo

was given the 2008 Rising Star Award from the State University of New York Research Foundation
has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF’s most prestigious award for new faculty members, the highly competitive CAREER Program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century

2007

George C. Lee, MCEER Special Tasks Director and Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering; former MCEER Director and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Buffalo

was among 11 people to receive the 2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from President George W. Bush in a ceremony at the White House | Bulletin article

Tarek Abdoun, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Associate Director, NEES-NSF Geotechnical Centrifuge Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

is the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Shamsher Prakash Research Award for Excellence in the Practice of Geotechnical Engineering

Christian Renschler, MCEER Remote Sensing Institute team member and Associate Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo

received the 2007 Soil & Water Conservation Young Scholar Award from the Division of S06-Soil & Water Conservation of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Ronald T. Eguchi, President and CEO of ImageCat, Inc. and team leader of MCEER’s Remote Sensing Institute

will be EERI’s 2008 Distinguished Lecturer. During EERI’s 60th Annual Meeting in February in New Orleans

Several Ph.D. candidates involved in MCEER research were honored by the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) at the University at Buffalo in May 2007.

Michael Pollino, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) at the University at Buffalo and President of the MCEER Student Leadership Council

received the CSEE Chair’s Recognition Award

Hongbo Wang, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) at the University at Buffalo

received the University at Buffalo Engineering Graduate School Ambassador Award

Seda Dogruel, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) at the University at Buffalo

won an honorable mention for her poster during the the first annual University at Buffalo Engineering Graduate Research Day and Open House

Mehdi Ahmadizadeh, a graduate research assistant in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo

won the top prize in EERI’s 2006 graduate student paper competition with his paper, “A Comparison Between Passive and Semi-Active Structural Control Systems Using Viscous Fluid Dampers.”

Ron Eguchi, President of ImageCat Inc. and MCEER investigator

has been appointed Research Associate Professor in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Andre Filiatrault, MCEER Deputy Director and Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo

Filiatrault Co-Authors Book on Passive Energy Dissipation and Base Isolation Systems

George C. Lee, MCEER Special Tasks Director and Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering; former MCEER Director and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Buffalo

Named Distinguished Professor by the State University of New York Board of Trustees

Sissy Nikolaou, who received her master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Department at the University at Buffalo, where she studied under MCEER investigator George Gazetas, and is currently an associate with Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers

has been named one “40 Under 40” by Building Design & Construction magazine.

Mark Pitman, of the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) at the University at Buffalo

has been awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service from the State University of New York.

Andrei Reinhorn, longtime MCEER investigator, Clifford C. Furnas Eminent Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB) and Director of the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) at UB

has been awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities from the State University of New York