Roesler earns a Fulbright Scholar grant

Jeffery R. Roesler, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is one of seven University of Illinois faculty members who have been awarded 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar grants.

Roesler, who is also an IL-American Concrete & Pavement Association Faculty Scholar, has been researching and lecturing on advances in concrete pavement design, analysis and materials, as well as on design, modeling and material requirements for thin concrete pavements at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, since August. He will continue through December.

Roesler’s professional and research interests include: concrete pavement design and analysis, shrinkage and creep of concrete, fatigue and fracture of concrete, continuously reinforced concrete pavements, effects of curling and warping on concrete pavement responses, characterizing concrete joint behavior, accelerated pavement testing of PCC, and fibrous concrete. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in pavement engineering, specifically pavement analysis and design.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields, according to the Fulbright Scholar Program. The U of I recipients join about 800 other Americans who have received the grants to lecture or conduct research abroad. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

The other U of I recipients:

• Steven G. Anderson, a professor in the School of Social Work
• Eyamba G. Bokamba, a professor of linguistics
• Sherban Lupu, a professor in the School of Music
• Elizabeth Ann Oyler, a professor of East Asian languages and cultures
• Christopher J. Prom, a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
• Lawrence B. Schook, a professor of biomedical sciences

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Writer:  Mare Payne, associate director, UI News Bureau, 217/ 333-0567.

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