2014

December 29, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: Winners of the 2014 Stanley Merjan City College of New York (CCNY) Civil Engineering Student Scholarships were announced at the DFI Educational Trust’s 9th Annual Gala Fundraising Dinner Thursday, November 6, 2014 at Liberty House in Jersey City, NJ. Tal Azulay, originally from Israel, is in his final year at […]

December 5, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: Benjamin Turner, Ph.D., candidate in geotechnical earthquake engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the winner of the DFI Educational Trust 2014 Student Paper Competition. His winning paper, “Evaluation of Influence on Lateral Spreading Displacement Demand for Adjacent Bridges,” uses data from two parallel, adjacent bridges crossing the […]

December 5, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: Joseph Thomas Coe, Jr., Ph.D., of Temple University, is the winner of this year’s DFI Educational Trust Young Professors Paper Competition for his paper, “Comparison of Borehole Ultrasound and Borehole Radar in Evaluating the Length of Two Unknown Bridge Foundations.” Coe conducted a study where the length of foundations at […]

November 28, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: Frank Rausche, Ph.D., P.E., of GRL Engineers, Inc., has been selected as the DFI 2015 Osterberg Lecturer. The lecture will take place on Thursday, March 19, 2015, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m., during the International Foundations Congress and Equipment Expo (IFCEE) at the JW Marriott Hill Country Resort and Spa […]

July 18, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Professor Gray Mullins and his research team at the University of South Florida are the recipients of the 2014 Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in the Design and Construction of Marine Foundations. The award will be presented at a lunch on August 7 […]

July 8, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust (www.dfitrust.org), the charitable arm of DFI, recently appointed a new member to the Board of Trustees. Zoran “Zac” Curanovic, P.E., was elected to serve as an at-large member for a two-year term. Curanovic is currently employed with Underpinning and Foundation Skanska, where he […]

July 8, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust (www.dfitrust.org), the charitable arm of DFI, announces the recipients of At-Large Scholarships for academic year 2014-2015. The five recipients, each receiving a $2,000 scholarship, are Zachary Fallert, a senior at University of Missouri; Megan Hamilton, a senior at Virginia Tech; Jacob Sumearll, a […]

July 1, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: The DFI Educational Trust announces the establishment of the Thomas Wysockey Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund, which will provide scholarships to civil engineering students attending any U.S. college or university. The fund was established through a generous $50,000 donation from Thatcher Foundations, Inc., Gary, IN. The company has pledged an additional […]

May 28, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust (www.dfitrust.org), the charitable arm of DFI, recently appointed a new member to the Board of Trustees. Lars Richter was elected to serve as an at-large trustee for a two-year term. Richter is the general manager of AECON Foundations (Canada). Prior to AECON, Richter […]

March 4, 2014, Hawthorne, N.J.: The annual Hal Hunt Lecturer for DFI’s 39th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Atlanta this upcoming October, is Paul W. Mayne, Ph.D., P.E., professor of Geosystems Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The lecture is a highlight of the Annual Conference, and […]