Elio “D’App” D’Appolonia, Ph.D., P.E., Hon.M.ASCE, NAE, a giant of geotechnical and foundation engineering, has died. He was 97 years old.
A longtime Pittsburgh resident, D'Appolonia started the renowned consulting engineers firm bearing his name in 1956. Employing many of his family members and former students from his time as a faculty member at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), the firm grew into a group...
Gary Keefer, Ph.D, P.E., M.ASCE, a respected civil engineering educator, has died. He was 63.
He served as chancellor of the Pennsylvania State University Beaver Campus for 16 years, retiring in 2014.
“He was truly a role model for all of us and led our campus with high morals, character and integrity,” Interim Chancellor Donna Kuga said on Penn State Beaver's website.
“Gary will be greatly missed...
“That old document that no one reads anymore or pays any attention to, it’s the Constitution,” said Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “It says what we are supposed to be doing here … defending America and the roads, highways, and bridges.” Hear Sen. Inhofe share why short-term extensions don’t work and why we need continued...
What was once considered an issue of the far distant future, climate change, has been clearly stated by the Third National Climate Assessment as now meeting us in the present.
People from corn producers in Iowa, to coastal planners in Florida, to city dwellers in New York City, to Native Peoples on tribal lands are experiencing extreme changes to the climate around them. Summers are longer...
