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Michael Vera is a civil engineering student
and currently works as an engineering intern
for the NYC School Construction Authority and
as a tutor at CCNY. He recently participated in
research in Japan pertaining to the structural
stability of buildings during earthwork loads.
He intends on obtaining a master's degree in
structural engineering and his P.E. license.

Taylor Malangone is a senior
civil engineering student and
a member of various student
chapters including ASCE,
and was recently inducted
into the Chi Epsilon Honor
Society. She recently interned
with AECOM's geotechnical group, and plans
to pursue a master's degree and career in
geotechnical engineering.
Rachel White is a civil
engineering student and is
actively involved with many
clubs and honor societies
on campus including ASCE,
DFI, Concrete Canoe and Chi
Epsilon. After graduating in
May 2020, she plans to pursue a master's
degree in engineering.

Merjan scholarship recipients at the 2019 Trust
Annual Gala from left to right: Michael Vera, Imam
Mihan, Alison Richard and Jeffrey Liu.

Charles J. Berkel Memorial
Scholarship

Tamaro Scholarship
Recipients

School-Speciﬁc Awards at University of
Illinois, Auburn University, University of
California at Berkeley, and University of
Houston

Four Manhattan College students received
awards from the George J. Tamaro
Manhattan College Civil Engineering
Scholarship Fund.

The recipients of the Charles J. Berkel Memorial
Scholarship at the University of Illinois
were David Kiepic, Kayla O'Sullivan and
Elisabeth Tarpey.

Cara Cao is a senior
undergraduate student
majoring in civil engineering
and is president of the DFI
Student Chapter at Manhattan
College. She recently
participated in a research paper
that has been accepted for presentation at the
Transportation Research Board (TRB). After
graduating, she will be pursuing her master's
degree in geotechnical engineering.

The recipients at Auburn University were
Garrett Smith, Sarah Bacon, Robert
Miles, Nicole Reed, Brooke Earls, Kelly
Turner, Jared Allen, Megan Foshee, Jacob
DeBusk and Christy Manning.

Michael LaValle is a senior
majoring in civil engineering.
He recently completed an
internship with JF Shea
Construction. He is the current
president of the Manhattan
College ASCE Student Chapter
and is involved in Concrete Canoe, DFI and
NYWEA. Upon graduation, he plans to work in
the tunneling ﬁeld.

4 | ANNUAL REPORT 2019

Larry P. Rayburn
Scholarship Recipients
The recipients of the Larry P. Rayburn/
University of Cincinnati Civil Engineering
Scholarship are Jacob Nicewaner, Trent
Phillips and Sam Carper.

Congratulations to the
5 WiDF Grant Recipients
The DFI Educational Trust awarded ﬁve
Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF)
Professional Development Grants of $1,750
each to women working in the deep
foundations industry to attend DFI's 44th
Annual Conference in Chicago, October
14-18. The grant includes free conference
registration and covers related expenses
for attending the conference.
Congratulations to the recipients:
Tugce Baser, Ph.D.,
assistant professor,
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

Sayantani Ghosh, EIT,
senior staff engineer,
Langan Engineering
and Environmental
Services, Inc.

The recipients at the University of California
at Berkeley were Emily Wong, Colin Leung,
Mark Young and Mohammadrezza Bayat.

Amanda Parry,
geotechnical engineer,
GEI Consultants, Inc.
(former Educational Trust
Scholarship recipient)

The recipients at the University of Houston
were Ahsman Bhusal, Leonid Prilepskiy,
Moises Perez-Cruz, Sergio Gonzalez
Miramon, Shehzaib Siddiqui and Elizabeth
Walker.

Sherry Pirzadeh, P.E.,
design engineer,
Menard Group USA

The scholarship is named in memory of Charles
J. Berkel, chairman of the board of Berkel &
Company Contractors, Inc., and a graduate
of the University of Illinois. Berkel generously
committed $1 million to the DFI Educational
Trust to create this scholarship endowment
fund.

Adeleine Tran, P.E.,
geotechnical engineer,
Jacobs Engineering
Group Inc.
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