Congratulations Dhanushika Mapa, Ph.D.

Please join me in congratulating Dhanushika Mapa, Ph.D., Assistant Project Engineer for Ardaman & Associates, Inc, who along with her co-authors, have been awarded the Wason Medal for Materials Research by the American Concrete Institute for their research paper, Effect of Slag Characteristics on Adiabatic Temperature Rise of Blended Concrete.

The Wason Medal for Materials Research may be bestowed annually, but not necessarily each year, on the author(s) of a peer-reviewed ACI Materials Journal paper published by the Institute that makes extraordinary contributions or impact on the state of knowledge of cement-based materials used in the construction industry.

Announcement of the award will be made at the ACI Fall 2023 Concrete Convention which will be held from October 29 – November 2, 2023, in Boston, MA).

 The paper was published in the January 2022 issue of the ACI Materials Journal.