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Contents: Winter 2000/Spring 2001 
Volume 15, Number 1

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• Raising Earthquake Awareness in the Eastern United States, by George C. Lee, Director
• Three MCEER Core Institutions Receive NEES Awards: University at Buffalo, University of
• Highway Seismic Research Council (HSRC) Meets to Review Seismic Retrofitting Manual
• ASCE Seminar Features MCEER Investigator & Partners
• EQNET Features Resources on Recent Earthquakes 
• New Seminar Series at the University at Buffalo
  • Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Water Supply Lifelines, presented by Thomas D. O’Rourke, Cornell University
  • Mitigation: A Framework for Analysis, presented by William J. Petak, University of Southern California
  • A Simple Method for the Design of Optimal Damper Configurations in MDOF Structures, presented by Diego Lopez Garcia, University at Buffalo
• MCEER Offers Short Short Course for Teachers at Expanded Annual Teacher Seminar
• MCEER Holds Second Workshop on Mitigating Earthquake Disasters Through Advanced Technologies 
• Recent Events 
• Student Spotlight: Diego Lopez Garcia, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo
• NYCEM/MCEER Help Discovery Channel Examine Earthquakes in New York City 
• Student Leadership Council Activities
• NSF/MCEER Offers Year 2001 Research Experiences for Undergraduates
• MCEER Welcomes New Committee Members
• Kudos:
  • Diego Lopez Garcia, 2001 EERI Graduate Student Paper Award
  • Patricia Grossi, NEHRP Graduate Fellow in Earthquake Hazard Reduction
  • Joseph Penzien, ASCE Ernest E. Howard Award
  • James E. Roberts, ASCE Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award
  • Sarah Billington, NSF ARC Career Award
  • M. Saiid Saiidi, 2000 Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award, University of Nevada, Reno
   
• MCEER Seeks Senior Program Officer for Transportation Research
• Thanks for Your Interest in our Web Site!
• MCEER Staff News
• The 921 Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake of 1999 Collection on CD-ROM
• EQNET – Portal to Earthquake Information
• New MCEER Technical Reports
  • A Risk-Based Methodology for Assessing the Performance of Highway Systems
  • Effect of Spatial Variation of Ground Motion on Highway Structures
  • Experimental Evaluation of Seismic Performance of Bridge Restrainers
  • Dynamic Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Analyses of Large Caissons
  • Development and Evaluation of Simplified Procedures for Analysis and Design of Buildings with Passive Energy Dissipation Systems
  • Proceedings of the First MCEER Workshop on Mitigation of Earthquake Disaster by Advanced Technologies (MEDAT-1)
• Upcoming Events

 

Some of the material reported herein is based upon work supported in whole or in part by the National Science Foundation, the State of New York, the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other sponsors. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of MCEER or its sponsors.