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Associate Professor Bill Wright is in the initial stages of a new study, funded by the Transportation Research Board, to identify critical members in steel bridges that need to be protected from failure by fracture. The funding includes the development of an improved method to determine the structural consequence if brittle fracture occurs. 
Professor Glenn Moglen has spent years studying the issue of limiting impervious surfaces such as pavements that act as impenetrable materials to water. He has called for planners "to allow a safety margin when regulating land based on imperviousness, to steer development to already urbanized locations and away from relatively undisturbed locations, and to take advantage of situations that mitigate the deleterious effects of imperviousness on stream ecology." 
Associate Professor Russell A. Green was named a 2012 Visiting Erskine Fellow by the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. As an Erskine Fellow, Dr. Green will spend two months (June – August 2012) at the Department of Civil and Natural Resource Engineering, University of Canterbury, giving a series of lectures. As opposed to previous years where Erskine Fellowships were awarded to academics from a range of disciplines, the 2012 Fellowships were designated for professors whose research focuses on various aspects of earthquake engineering, with the goal of fostering increased collaborations between the Fellows and the faculty at the University of Canterbury. 
Peter Vikesland, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, will pursue an innovative global health research project, titled "Inkjet Imprinted Paper for Poliovirus Detection and Differentiation." For this research, he will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges. 200 Patton Hall,
Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061,
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