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Photo of the Brand Research Group and colleagues do a site visit of a deteriorating concrete wall in Floyd, Virginia, in April 2022
The Brand Research Group and colleagues do a site visit of a deteriorating concrete wall in Floyd, Virginia, in April 2022
  • May 2022: Congratulations to Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Amir Behravan on accepting his new job at the Virginia Transportation Research Council! 
  • May 2022: Congratulations to Shivani Agrawal for completing her M.S. degree in CEE!
  • April 2022: Dr. Brand is selected as the Young Professionals Network (YPN) Cements Division Liaison for the American Ceramic Society.
  • January 2022: Congratulations on the 2019 Le Chatelier Distinguished Paper award from the journal Cement and Concrete Research for the article: A.S. Brand, J.M. Gorham, and J.W. Bullard. “Dissolution rate spectra of β-dicalcium silicate in water of varying activity,” Cement and Concrete Research, 118, 2019, 69–83. DOI:10.1016/j.cemconres.2019.02.014
  • December 2021: Dr. Brand is a Keynote Speaker at the 1st International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Structures (Virtual Conference) hosted by St. Thomas Institute for Science and Technology, Kerala, India, 14-17 Dec. 2021.
  • December 2021: Congratulations to Laurie Metzler for completing her M.S. degree in CEE!
  • May 2021: Congratulations on the Best Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Transportation Engineering (Virtual Conference) for the paper: “Aggregate moisture content and fresh property control measures in cementitious mortars” by M.C. Jenkins and A.S. Brand. DOI:10.11159/iccste21.130.
  • May 2021: Congratulations on the Best Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Transportation Engineering (Virtual Conference) for the paper: “A preliminary digital image correlation study of the anisotropic mechanical properties of a 3D-printed mortar” by M.C. Jenkins, A.S. Brand, T.T. Painter, and S.T. Sherry. DOI:10.11159/iccste21.146.
  • May 2021: Congratulations to Don DeMartino for completing his M.S. degree in CEE!
  • December 2020: Congratulations to Trevor Painter for completing his M.S. degree in CEE!
  • January 2020: Dr. Brand joins the editorial board of the International Journal of Pavement Engineering as an Associate Editor
  • December 2019: Congratulations to Morgan Jenkins for completing her M.S. degree in CEE!
  • November 2019: Dr. Brand gives an Invited Keynote presentation at teh 2019 International Seminar and Case Presentation on Recycled Aggregate and Recycled Aggregate Product hosted by the Korea Construction Resources Association on Jeju Island, South Korea, 21-22 November 2019.
  • Summer 2019: Congratulations to Morgan Jenkins for receiving a IACMI Internship to work at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory over Summer 2019.
  • May 2019: Dr. Brand is the Keynote Speaker at the 17th Euroseminar on Microscopy Applied to Building Materials hosted by the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 20-23 May 2019.
  • May 2019: Congratulations on the 1st Place Microscopy Photo Contest Award at the 17th Euroseminar on Microscopy Applied to Building Materials awarded to Dr. Brand and Paul Stutzman (NIST).