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White Receives 2009 T.R. Higgins Award
Congratulations to Dr. Don White, professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). Dr. White is the recipient of the 2009 T.R. Higgins 
Lectureship Award, making him the third winner of this honor in CEE. Dr. Bruce Ellingwood, the Raymond Allen Jones Chair, was awarded this honor in 1988 for his work on serviceability criteria. In 1993, Dr. Roberto Leon received this honor for his work on PR frame construction. CEE now has one more Higgins Award winner than the University of Texas, the University of California Berkeley, and Virginia Tech. Each of these institutions has two.
Given each year by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award recognizes an outstanding lecturer and author whose technical paper or papers are considered an outstanding contribution to the engineering literature on fabricated structural steel. The award consists of an honorarium of $10,000.
AISC Vice President Louis F. Geschwindner expressed his personal congratulations to Dr. White for this deserved honor. He stated "The [Award] Jury reviewed your series of papers on stability analysis and design and the provisions of the 2005 AISC Specification for Steel Buildings from the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering and the AISC Engineering Journal. They considered your outstanding reputation as an engineer and lecturer, along with your key role in bringing numerous provisions of the 2005 Specification to completion, in making their decision."
Dr. White presented a paper of the above topic at the 2009 North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC), where he received the award. In addition, he will present this paper at a number of locations across the country during the coming year.
The T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award is named for Dr. Theodore R. Higgins, former AISC Director of Engineering and Research, who was widely acclaimed for his many contributions to the advancement of engineering technology related to fabricated structural steel. The award honors Dr. Higgins for his innovative engineering, timely technical papers and distinguished lectures.