Geosystems Student Awards

Awards from the annual George F. Sowers Lecture

George F. Sowers Award (Ph.D. Students)

Outstanding Geomaterials Research Award

2024 Mengwei Liu
2023 Yumeng Zhao
2022 Chenying Liu
2021 Rodrigo Borela and Nimisha Roy
2020 Ming Liu

Paul W. Mayne Award

2024 Abdallah Ikbarieh and Bokkisa Srinivas Vivek
2023 Cody Arnold and Elliot Nichols
2022 A. Lynnae Stypulkowski and John Huntoon
2021 Yimin Lu
2020 Boyoung Jeong and Nimisha Roy
2019 Rodrigo Borela

Richard D. Barksdale Award

2024 Emre Duman
2023 Clara Bailey and Ryann Khalil
2022 Imgenur Tepecik
2021 Shaivan
2020 John Huntoon
2019 Sean Tyndale
2018 Yumeng Zhao
2017 Karie Yamamoto
2016 John Hu
2015 Ryan Evans
2014 Xenia Wirth
2013 Randall Pettyjohn
2012 Jason Kraft
2010 James McNash
2008 Savannah Gowdy
2005 Douglas Cortes
2004 Robert Hurt
2000 Eileen Prencke
1999 Brad Jarrett
1997 James Schneider
1995 Gilberto D’Andria

Outstanding Geosystems MS Award (James S. Lai Award starting 2002)

2018 Nimisha Roy
2017 Xenia Wirth
2016 Andres Peralta
2015 Cheng Zhu
2014 Yixuan Sun
2013 Cameron Troxel
2012 Alejandro Martinez
2011 Nortey Yeboah
2010 Joseph Thomas
2009 Nicolas Espinoza
2008 Weslie Ross
2007 Varun
2006 Robert Hurt
2005 Veronica Rebata-Landa
2004 Pierre Ramondenc and Alfredo Fernandez
2003 Vasileios Drosos
2002 Jennifer Knapp
2001 Gregory Hebeler
2000 Bill Diesing
1999 James Schneider
1998 Gregg Huddock

ASCE GeoInstitute Georgia Chapter Award

2017 Xenia Wirth
2016 Trevor Clark
2015 Andres Peralta
2014 Randy Pettyjohn
2013 Nortey Yeboah
2012 Nathan Glinski
2011 James McNash
2010 Ross Cutts
2009 Lauren Mize
2008 Savannah Gowdy
2007 Verica Rebata-Landa
2006 Robert Hurt
2005 Douglas Cortes

Awards from the Geotechnical Student Poster Symposium

in partnership with the Georgia ASCE Geo-Institute Chapter

Outstanding Graduate Fundamental Research Award

2024 Winners: Srinivas Vivek Bokkisa, Emre Duman, Clara Bailey
- Honorable Mentions: Abdallah Ikbarieh, Andrea Muñoz Ibáñez, Jackson Stewart
2023 Winners: Navya Eldho, Camilo Guerrero, Imgenur Tepecik
- Honorable Mention: Cody Arnold
2022 Winners: A. Lynnae Stypulkowski, Yimin Lu, Savannah Howard, Sean Donovan
- Honorable Mentions: Meron B. Belachew, Candas Oner
2021 Winners: Hejintao Huang, Savannah Howard, Sean Donovan
- Runners-up: Ryann Khalil, Elliot Nichols, John Huntoon, Karie Yamamoto
2020 Winners: John Huntoon, Shaivan, Karie Yamamoto
- Runners-up: Cody Arnold, Rodrigo Borela, Yumeng Zhao
2019 Winner: Koochul Ji
- Runners-up: Jongchan Kim, Chenying Liu, Tingting Xu
2018 Winners: Rodrigo Borela, Wilson F. Espinoza
- Runner-up: Boyoung Jeong
2017 Winner: Mahdi Roozbahani
- Runner-up: Longde Jin

Outstanding Graduate Applied Research Award

2019 Winner: Lynnae Luettich
- Runner-up: Yuzhi Guo
2018 Winner: Fikret Atalay
- Runner-up: Xenia Wirth
2017 Winner: Fangzhou Liu
- Runner-up: Xenia Wirth

Outstanding BS/MS Research Award

2019 Winner: Sean Tyndale
- Runner-up: Shaivan
2018 Winner: Yumeng Zhao
- Runner-up: Karie Yamamoto
2017 Winner: Nicholas Young
- Runner-up: Lynnae Luettich