DesRoches elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Reginald DesRoches has been selected as a 2020 inductee to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The election citation indicated that his selection was for “research and design of resilient infrastructure systems to mitigate damage from natural disasters and other extreme conditions.” Rice University now has a total of 10 current members, as well as three emeritus members, in the NAE.

DesRoches awarded the Outstanding Paper Award (The Masonry Society)

A paper by Reginald DesRoches and former PhD student Laura Redmond, now faculty at Clemson University, was awarded the Outstanding Paper Award by the Masonry Society. The paper entitled Shear and Tensile Strength Equations for Analysis of Grouted Masonry was published in Vol. 34, No. 1 of TMS Journal. Only a small fraction of papers submitted to TMS Journal earn this recognition.

The award was presented on Tuesday, June 18 at the 13th North American Masonry Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.