Students and Scholarships

2025 DVGI Student Night Scholarships and Presentations
DVGI’s next annual Student Night will be held in the early spring of 2025. During the event, select local BS, MS, and PhD students in geotechnical engineering and related fields will be recognized for their academic and research achievements with scholarship funding and opportunities to deliver PowerPoint or poster presentations. Applications for scholarships and presentation slots are now open and are due by January 24th. The application forms are available below.

2025 DVGI Scholarship Application Download

2025 DVGI Student Presentation Application Download

2024 DVGI Student Night Scholarships and Presentations
DVGI’s 2024 Student Night was held on Tuesday, March 12th. The DVGI Board had the challenge of narrowing a crowded field of well-qualified candidates to select scholarship recipients. The Board extends its thanks to all this year’s applicants and congratulates the winners:

Slade Goldman (University of Delaware)
Ani Khachadourian (Lafayette College)
Catherine Marino (Villanova University)
Kris Melag (Drexel University)
Daniel Porotov (University of Delaware)
Sean Walshe (Lafayette College)

DVGI thanks the students who delivered presentations on their technical work to the Student Night attendees:

Will Baker (University of Delaware) on assessing Continuous Compaction Control
Weiling Cai (Rowan University) on evaluating soil properties using high frequency electromagnetic induction
Kaniz Roksana (Rowan University) on using biocementation to prevent erosion of beach sands

DVGI also thanks the students who presented posters on their technical work during the Student Night reception:

Daniel Adeleke (Villanova University) on predicting the diffusion behavior of bentonite-polymer composites (BPC’s)
Mohamad El Ahmad (Villanova University) on assessing the liquefaction behavior of sands
Mohammadreza Jebeli (University of Delaware) on improving finite element analyses of lateral movement
Thomas Mayer [presented by Thommy Messmer] (Villanova University) on managing urban stormwater using ultra-lightweight foam glass aggregate
Mohammad Amin Nozari (University of Delaware) on using drones to assess the thicknesses of soil layers
Siamak Yoosefi (University of Delaware) on analyzing the behavior of stone columns under axial loading

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