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FROM THE CHAIR The new academic year has been accompanied by many new and exciting opportunities for Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Most notable are the creation of a new materials-sensors-structures laboratory, NSF Career Awards going to two of our young faculty, and an extraordinary number of honors and awards for our faculty and for our students who swept student paper awards at several conferences. Our ASCE student Steel Bridge Team continued its succes