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<span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan has been selected as the recipient of the newly-established Honorable Daniel Wong Endowed Professorship
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<span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dr. Wong is a distinguished and proud graduate of the University of Houston. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1983, followed by a Master of Science
 in Civil Engineering in 1985. He finished his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1988, which had an emphasis on geotechnical engineering.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">He was recognized as the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus by the Cullen College of Engineering in 2009, and inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Civil &amp; Environmental
 Engineering Department in 2010. Dr. Wong still serves as a senior lecturer for the department, and he hopes his gift will spur further giving.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">“My goal of this gift is to serve as encouragement for other UH alumni to join in giving to the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in the form of an endowment,”
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<span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dr. Roberto Ballarini, the Thomas and Laura Hsu Professor and Department Chair of UH Civil and Environmental Engineering, noted that Dr. Wong has been a strong ally for
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<span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">“Dr. Wong has always demonstrated unflinching support of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and unbridled enthusiasm for the achievements of its students
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<span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In 1993, Dr. Wong co-founded Tolunay-Wong Engineers, Inc., and he currently serves as the company's president and CEO. The firm now employs more than 370 engineers, scientists
 and other professionals, and consults on a variety of projects in the Gulf Coast region. The company's corporate headquarters is in Houston, and it has 11 offices throughout Texas and Louisiana.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In addition to his professional success, Dr. Wong has also been a committed public servant. He served as an elected, At-Large City Councilman for the City of Sugar Land
 from 2002 through 2008. He was also a former Board member of the Houston-Galveston Area Council; and the Texas Board of Professional Engineers from 2006 through 2012, serving six years as its Chairman.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">His civic involvement consists of former board membership of the Fort Bend YMCA, the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">American
 Heart Association and the Literary Council. He is currently a trustee of the Fort Bend Economic Development Council.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">The endowed professorship will support the research work of Dr. Vipulanandan, which focuses on geotechnical, materials and geoenvironmental engineering. He has been Principal Investigator
 or Co-Principal Investigator for more than 56 funded projects since 1984, amounting to more than $5.8 million. Previous projects he has worked on include a $300,000 study on the maintenance of transportation and storm sewer facilities for the Texas Department
 of Transportation and a $150,000 study of the long-term performance of water pipelines for the City of Houston.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Dr. Vipulanandan joined the University of Houston as an assistant professor in 1984. He was elevated to an associate professor in 1990 and a full professor in 1995, and he served as the department's
 chairman from 2001 through 2009. Since 1994, he has served as the director of the Center for Innovative Grouting Materials and Technology at the Cullen College of Engineering. Dr. Vipulanandan earned his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa
 in Sri Lanka in 1980, followed by a Masters at Northwestern in 1981 and his doctorate at Northwestern in 1984.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">In 2005, Dr. Vipulanandan received the Fluor Daniel Faculty Excellence Award, the highest award given by the Cullen College of Engineering. Previously, he earned the Senior Faculty Research
 Excellence Award in 2002, as well as a research award from the Texas Department of Transportation in 2000 for his project on auger cast-in-place. He has also been a member or on a committee for 18 professional organizations, including the American Society
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Dr. Wong said he is friends with Dr. Vipulanadan, commonly known as “Dr. Vipu,” and considered it a great usage of his gift.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">“I was in the graduate program at UH when the department hired Vipu as the assistant professor in the Geotechnical program.,” he said. “My adviser, Dr. [Michael] O’Neill hired him at that
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