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Spring 2004
Volume 18, Number 1

Message from the Director: New Team in Place to Ensure Continued Success
Beyond Year 10

• Deputy Director: Andre Filiatrault
• Special Tasks Director: George C. Lee
• Diversity Program Director: Makola Abdullah
• Strategic Operations Director: Thomas Anderson

2004 Annual Meeting Review Focuses on Engaging Community, Enlisting Opinion and Attaining Resilience

HSRC Meets to Review Progress

MCEER Hosts PRC-US Workshop on Special Bridges

19th US-Japan Bridge Engineering Workshop

Kinetics and Digitexx Join MCEER Family of Industry Partners

Tri-Center Meeting on Geographically Distributed Systems

MCEER's Research on Nonstructural Components Featured at ATC-29-2 Seminar

MCEER Co-sponsors Workshop on the Application of Remote Sensing Technologies for Disaster Response

MCEER SLC Holds Fourth Annual Student Retreat at Cornell

Winner of First “Best Student Article” Competition Presents Research at Annual Meeting

REU Students Share Experiences at Symposium

Student Spotlight: Darren Vian

Tri-Center Student Field Mission

New VIEWS System Detects Earthquake Damage in Bam, Iran

MCEER Participates in "Expanding Your Horizons"

Engineering Seminar and Exhibition for High School Students

National Engineers Week

Recent Events: July 1, 2003 - March 31, 2004

UB-MCEER-EERI Seminar Series

• Seismic Response of Voltage Transformer, Howard Matt
• Continuous Hybrid Simulation with Geographically Distributed Substructures, Gilberto Mosqueda
• Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Estimates in Nevada: Questionable Results and How We Might Fix Them,
  Dr. John G. Anderson
• Structural Control Technologies, Thomas Zemanek and Shubin Ruan
• Today's Structural Engineer as the Classic Master Builder, David A. Friedman

• Kathleen Tierney Heads Natural Hazards Center
• Spencer named PI of the NEES System Integration Project
• Von Winterfeldt Named Co-Director of First Homeland Security Center of Excellence
• O’Rourke Testifies on Behalf of NEHRP Reauthorization
• Tierney Testifies Before Congress on Impact of Social Science Research on Disaster Preparedness
• Shinozuka Delivers Keynote Address
• Honors and Awards
  • Tsu-Teh (Larry) Soong Named Distinguished Professor at UB
  • William Petak Receives EERI's Distinguished Lecture Award
  • George Mylonakis Receives 2002 Shamsher Prakash Research Foundation Award
• Staff News
  • Sofia Tangalos, MCEER Information Specialist
  • Sumedh Shirodkar, EQNET Webmaster

• ATC/MCEER Joint Venture Publishes New LRFD Guidelines for Bridges
• Fourth Report in WTC Series Focuses on Multi-Hazard Engineering
• Proceedings of the First PRC-US Workshop on Seismic Analysis and Design of Special Bridges
• Urban Disaster Recovery: A Framework and Simulation Model
• Behavior of Underground Piping Joints Due to Static and Dynamic Loading

The Bulletin is a free publication offering articles on Center research, cooperative ventures, reports from conferences, educational activities, upcoming events, and reviews of new MCEER publications Spring 2004