Oprah fans may only know of Stacy Smedley as a sperm-donor baby who met her DNA half-brother in 2008, thanks to the talk show.
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Paradise Lost in Childhood Inspires a Devotion to Making Better Buildings
January 10, 2019
Engineer Pushed for Seismic Safety in Alaska Ahead of 2018 Earthquake
January 10, 2019
The son of a pioneer bush pilot in Alaska, structural engineer John Aho spent decades working toward earthquake preparedness.
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Federal Economist Leads Design of a More Reliable Construction Productivity Measure
January 10, 2019
Leo Sveikauskas, research economist in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Division of Productivity Research and Program Development, had been thinking about issues in measuring construction productivity after a discussion with peers in that unit of BLS, part of the U.S. Labor Dept.
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Getting Power Back to the People in Puerto Rico
January 10, 2019
If Kris Caldwell has a mantra, it’s “we have to do more.”
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Manager Shined a Light on Failed Nuclear Project's Problems
January 10, 2019
As hearings into South Carolina’s failed nuclear project began last November, it was uncertain whether potential star witness Carlette Walker would even testify.
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Engineer Scales Up 3D-Printed Concrete Structures
January 10, 2019
Last month, Megan Kreiger spent more than a week at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, 3D printing a 32-ft-long reinforced concrete footbridge.
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Offshore Wind Pioneer Gets in Deep to Propel Burgeoning US Market
January 10, 2019
Alla Weinstein is described as “tenacious and focused” in her push to have lots of floating turbines generating power, and revenue, in deep water off California—and elsewhere.
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Scientist and Engineer Works to Break Down Barriers Between Disciplines and Communities
January 10, 2019
In 2018, Ehab Meselhe and a team at the Water Institute of the Gulf, a Louisiana nonprofit research group, sat for hours with residents of St. Bernard and other coastal parishes in Louisiana, modeling their potential solutions to coastal land loss.
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Construction Engineer Turned Tech Startup CEO Delivers Digital Plans and an $875M Payoff
January 10, 2019
Tracy Young had enough project smarts and technology vision to create PlanGrid, a now widely used cloud-based platform that has transformed field-document handling that just brought an eye-popping buyout price from software giant Autodesk.
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'Superstar' at 83 Continues His Water Management Crusade With an Assist on Big Urban Flooding Study
January 10, 2019
When Texas A&M Professor Sam Brody had the chance to snag a “superstar” to join an academic team producing the first national study of urban flooding scope and consequences, he knew just who to ask: Gerry Galloway.
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