Amilcare M. Porporato is an Italian-American engineer. As of 2018 he is Thomas J. Wu ’94 Professor at Princeton University. [1]
From 2014 to 2017 he was the Addy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University and an Elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union. His current concerns are earth sciences and its relationships and systems. [2] [3] [4]
Porporato obained a Master equivalent in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, in 1992 and a Ph.D. at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, in 1996. From 1995 to 2001, Porporato was an Assistant Professor at Turin's Department of Hydraulics, Transport and Civil Infrastructure, interrupted by a Postdoc stint in 1998 when he went to Texas A&M University as a Research Associate in the Environmental and Water Resources Division, and a year in Princeton as Visiting Scholar. In 2001 Turin promoted him to Associate Professor, and in 2004 Porporato was hired by Duke.
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James Henry Lane was a university professor and Confederate general in the American Civil War.
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Margaret Katherine Banks is an American academic, engineer, and former engineering professor, who is the current and 26th president of Texas A&M University as of June 1, 2021, having been nominated for the position on March 3, 2021, and confirmed by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on March 31, 2021. She is an Elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, was elected in 2014 to the National Academy of Engineering, and was formerly the dean of the College of Engineering, and the Jack and Kay Hockema Professor at Purdue University. Her research interests include applied microbial systems, biofilm processes, wastewater treatment and reuse, and phytoremediation bioremediation. She received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Duke University.
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