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scientist and director of graduate stud- ies of CEGE’s highly-rated master’s and doctoral degrees.
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ROGER ARNDT was honored at the 90th Anniversary of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division with a specially designed medal and certi cate for his contributions to the science and prac- tice of uids engineering.
THEODORE GALAMBOS received the Lynn S. Beedle Distinguished Civil
and Environmental Engineering Award from his alma mater, Lehigh Univer- sity. The award, named after Lynn S. Beedle, is given to a graduate or faculty member for outstanding achievements in civil and environmental engineering. The honor was last awarded nearly a decade ago. Galambos was honored
in April as part of Lehigh’s 150 year celebration.
MIKE SEMMENS traveled to Padua, Italy, in March 2016 to teach and assist in water related research at the Uni- versity of Padova. Semmens taught in this international program in 2013 and returned this year to teach a graduate class on Water Supply and Treatment in the Department of Civil and Envi- ronmental Engineering. He returned to Minnesota at the end of August.
as well as the second largest rm of its kind in Minnesota. He served on the Minnesota Governor’s Advisory Committee on suburban problems and on the Minneapolis-St. Paul Area Metropolitan Planning Commission. Bonestroo was a strong supporter
of CEGE throughout his lifetime. He endowed scholarships, fellowships,
and a faculty award; he also endowed scholarships for high school students. He was a member of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Minnesota, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the College of Science and Engineering’s Alumni Society. In 2007, Bonestroo was honored with the University’s Outstanding Achievement Award. We are thankful for his work. His spirit and memory will live on through
all he has done for engineering and to prepare engineers of the future.
CHANLAN CHUN (Ph.D. 2006) is a civil engineering professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She has a joint appointment to lead a new geomicrobi- ology program at UMD’s National Resources Research Institute (NRRI), which is partially funded by the Universi- ty’s MnDRIVE program. This position, which Chun started in 2015, allows her to interact with students and apply scienti c ndings to solve real world problems.
MICHAEL F. DONNINO, (BCE 1976, pictured right) Senior Vice President and Large Projects Division Manager of Granite Construction Inc., received the 2016 Supervision Award from Beavers, Inc. & Beavers Charitable Trust a heavy engineering construction association that recognizes individuals for career achievements in the heavy construction industry.
Four Ph.D. students in the area of geomechanics have recently been hired as assistant professors in departments of civil and environmental engineering at prestigious research universities: EGOR DONTSOV (Ph.D. 2012) at the University of Houston, JAMES HAMBLETON (BCE 2005, MS 2006, Ph.D. 2010) at North- western University, FATEMEH POURAH- MADIAN (Ph.D. 2016) at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and ROMAN MAKHNENKO (Ph.D. 2013) at the Uni- versity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Another graduate ALI EBRAHIMIAN (Ph.D. 2015, advised by John Gulliver) has taken a position as a Post-Doc- toral Associate at the Villanova Center for
the Advancement of Sustainability in Engineering, Villanova University. You can read about his research in last fall’s issue of CEGE magazine (Fall 2015).
ALUMNI
OTTO G. BONESTROO, a great friend of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering,
has died. Bonestroo
received both a bach- elor’s (1949) and a master’s degree
(1950) in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota. He was one
of the founders of Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik & Associates, Inc., a highly respected engineering rm in the region
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