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By Bob and George Koerner
The GSI Board of Directors has made its selections for the GSI Fellowship Awards for academic year 2014-2015. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students researching geosynthetics. The following were selected from 12 new proposals and three renewals.
| No. | Name | University | Advisor | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-14 | Asli Yalcin Dayioglu | University of Maryland | Ahmet Aydilek | Clogging behavior of recycled concrete aggregate in geotextile systems |
| 2-14 | Michelle (Mingyan) Deng | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
Ronaldo Luna | Reliability based optimization design of geosynthetics reinforced embankment slopes |
| 3-14 | Yonggui Xie | Oregon State University | Ben Leshchinsky | MS wall abutments: An analytical solution for evaluating service state deformations with geosynthetic reinforcement |
| Class 7(a)-1st year funding at $10,000 per student. | ||||
| 3-11 | Felix Jacobs | RWTH Aachen University | Martin Ziegler | Laboratory and numerical investigation of geogrid reinforced soil in biaxial compression tests |
| Class 5(c)-3rd year funding at $5,000 per student. | ||||
Requests for proposals (RFPs) for the eighth year of the program-academic year 2015-2016-will be announced this winter. To be eligible, students must focus on a geosynthetic topic, have passed their doctorial candidacy examination, and be recommended by their advisor.
Please contact Jamie Koerner at jrkoerner@verizon.net for additional information on the students and their respective projects or visit the GSI Fellowship Award Program web page for a complete history.