The Brand Research Group enjoying an end-of-the-year party in December 2022
August 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Rashed Alarrak for joining Kuwait University as an Assistant Professor!
May 2024: Congratulations to Rashed Alarrak for completing his Ph.D. degree in CEE!
May 2024: Congratulations to Megan Grose for completing her M.S. degree in CEE!
March 2024: Congratulations to Rashed Alarrak for receiving 3rd Place Poster Award in the Innovation and Technology Advancement Category at the 40th Graduate Research Symposium at Virginia Tech!
January 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Thien Tran for joining the University of Texas at Austin as a Postdoctoral Researcher!
December 2023: Congratulations to Thien Tran for completing his Ph.D. degree in CEE!
December 2023: Congratulations to Thien Tran for completing his M.Eng. degree in MSE!
December 2023: Congratulations to Rashed Alarrak for completing his M.Eng. degree in MSE!
October 2023: Dr. Brand joins the division leadership as Secretary of the Cements Division of the American Ceramic Society!
July 2023: Congratulations to Tu-Nam Nguyen for completing his M.S. degree in CEE!
July 2023: Congratulations to Byeonguk Jeon for completing his M.S. degree in CEE!
May 2023: Congratulations to Mohammad Shadab Shaikh for completing his M.S. degree in CEE!
May 2023: Congratulations to Ketki Phadke for completing her M.S. degree in CEE!
April 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Ebenezer Fanijo for receiving 4th Place in the Ph.D. Studnet Poster Award from the Torgersen Research Awards in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech!
February 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Ebenezer Fanijo for receiving the Golden Torch Award for Graduate Student of the Year 2022-2023 from the National Society of Black Engineers!
December 2022: Congratulations to Rashed Alarrak and Byeonguk Jeon on receiving a Best Paper Award from the 2nd International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS-2022)!
December 2022: Congratulations to Md. Hasibul Hasan Rahat, Douglas Annand, and Paul Atwood on receiving a Best Paper Award from the 2nd International Conference on Construction Materials and Structures (ICCMS-2022)!
December 2022: Congratulations to Ebenezer Fanijo for completing his Ph.D. degree in CEE!
December 2022: Congratulations to Ebenezer Fanijo for completing his M.Eng. degree in MSE!
December 2022: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bise for completing her M.S. degree in CEE!
December 2022: Congratulations to Michael Lowry for completing his M.S. degree in CEE!
December 2022: Congratulations to Paul Atwood for completing his M.S. degree in CEE!
December 2022: Congratulations to Douglas Annand for completing his M.S. degree in CEE!
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 Paperaward 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).
