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The ACI Foundation's 2023-2024 Fellowship and Scholarship Recipients

5/2/2023

The ACI Foundation is pleased to announce its 2023-2024 fellowship and scholarship recipients. The ACI Foundation is a non-profit subsidiary of ACI that promotes progress, innovation, and collaboration in the concrete industry through strategic investments in ideas, research, and people to create the future of the concrete industry. 

All Fellowship recipients receive a $10,000 (USD) educational stipend (Falconer fellowship receives $15K); paid travel expenses and attendance fees to two ACI conventions; and assistance in finding an industry mentor. All Scholarship recipients receive a $5,000 (USD) educational stipend. Since the inception of the Foundation’s Fellowship program in 2008, the ACI Foundation has provided financial support, mentorship, and internship opportunities to over 275 students.

This year the ACI Foundation was able to award 19 fellowships and 14 scholarships to students from 27 different institutions.

2023-2024 Fellowship Recipients:

• ACI Foundation Concrete Materials Fellowship -- Sherryen Mutoka, University of Notre Dame
• ACI Foundation Concrete Practitioner Fellowship -- Avery Londo, Montana Technological University
• ACI Foundation Future Concrete Industry Leader Fellowship -- Jenna Hays, Northern Arizona University
• ACI Foundation Fellowship --Noah Struck, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• ACI Foundation Fellowship --Mohammad Jobaer Uddin, Oklahoma State University
• ACI Foundation Fellowship --Saida Rezaee, University of Waterloo
• ACI Middle East Fellowship --Habibelrahman Hassan, American University of Sharjah
• ACI Presidents' Fellowship --Bayezid Baten, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• Baker Student Fellowship -- Colin Boyle, Cornell University
• Barbara S. and W. Calvin McCall Carolinas Fellowship --Paul Acuna, North Carolina State University
• Charles Pankow Foundation Student Fellowship -- Katie Hogarth, Idaho State University
• Daniel W. Falconer Memorial Fellowship -- Dana Tawil, University of Ottawa
• Darrell F. Elliott Louisiana Fellowship -- Sergio Godinez, University of California - San Diego
• Don Marks Memorial Fellowship -- Timothy Kohany, Manhattan College
• JoAnne K. & Cecil L. Jones Carolinas Fellowship -- Samuel Valmassoi, North Carolina State University
• Nicolas F. Maloof Jr. GA Chapter Fellowship -- Carlos Franco Mayorga Gallegos, University of California – San Diego
• Robert F. Mast Memorial Fellowship -- Johnathan Broyles, Penn State University 
• S.P. Shah Fellowship -- Marina Garcia, Purdue University
• Tribute to the Founders Fellowship -- Anabel Merejildo, University of Puerto Rico

2023-2024 Scholarship Recipients:

• ACI Foundation Scholarship --Sandy Chen, University of Toronto
• ACI Foundation Scholarship --Timothy Mueller, University of Florida
• ACI Foundation Scholarship --Tijani Mohammed, Texas State University
• ACI Foundation Scholarship --Kate Weiksnar, University of Florida
• Bernard Erlin Memorial Scholarship -- Moustafa Mansour, University of British Columbia
• Bertold E. Weinberg Scholarship --Madeleine Murphree, University of Florida
• Katharine & Bryant Mather Scholarship -- Micah Stark, Texas A & M University
• Master Builders Solutions Concrete Materials Scholarship --Nithya Nair Vijayakumaran Nair GeethaRani, University of Texas, Arlington
• Nick Bada – ACI Ontario Chapter Graduate Scholarship -- Jeremy Dodd, Western University
• Richard D. Stehly Memorial Scholarship -- Ariel Manjano, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Roger S. Johnston Memorial Scholarship -- William Snitzer, Arizona State University
• Schwing America Scholarship --Meraj Rubayat Kamal, University of British Columbia
• Stewart C. Watson Memorial Scholarship -- Cameron Hicks, Kansas State University
• W. Gene Corley Scholarship --Bo Rider, Cornell University

The online application process for the ACI Foundation’s 2024-2025 Fellowships and Scholarships will open on July 5, 2023, and close on November 1, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. EST

ACI Foundation Fellowship and Scholarship awards are made possible through generous contributions by donors from the concrete community. Together, the Foundation and its supporters are strengthening the concrete industry by supporting students entering a professional career in the field of concrete. The ACI Foundation is leading the way to ensure a sustainable, successful future of the concrete industry by intentional and focused investments in ideas, research, and people. Additional information about each fellowship and scholarship is available at acifoundation.org/scholarships.

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The ACI Foundation was established in 1989 to promote progress, innovation, and collaboration and is a wholly owned and operated non-profit subsidiary of the American Concrete Institute. Three councils make up the ACI Foundation; the Concrete Innovation Council, which identifies technologies and innovations and helps to implement when appropriate; the Concrete Research Council, which funds and assists in the research of new concrete technologies; and the Scholarship Council which facilitates student fellowships and scholarships.

For more information, contact:

stacey.mccann@acifoundation.org
Marketing Manager
p +1.248.848.3758
ACI Foundation | Building the Future
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