News Releases

May 2025 – Received the NSF Travel Award to attend the NHERI Summer Institute for Early-Career Faculty

April 2025 – Participated in the ENGage LSU outreach program in collaboration with the Sustainable Planning & Innovation in Construction & Engineering (SPICE) Lab

January 2025 – Awarded the LaDIA Faculty Fellowship by Louisiana Sea Grant

August 2025 – Patrascu's Future Infrastructure SysTems (FIRST) Lab is established at Louisiana State University in the Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management

January 2024 – Our work was featured on the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy website at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University: https://bush.tamu.edu/news/istpp/istpp-director-arnold-vedlitz-co-authors-paper-with-engineering-researchers-on-access-to-essential-facilities/

August 2025 – Joined the Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

2023 – Received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

2020 – Recognized for contributions to the editorial board and supporting contributors in Casajus Valles, A.; Marin Ferrer, M.; Poljanšek, K.; Clark, I. (Eds.), Executive Summary of the Report Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020: Acting Today, Protecting Tomorrow, EUR 30183 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020, ISBN 978-92-76-27150-5; doi:10.2760/919253; JRC114026.