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CEE Assistant Professor Eyitayo Opabola has been named the 2023 Shah Family Innovation Prize recipient by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)! Professor Opabola received the EERI Innovation Prize last month at the annual EERI meeting in Seattle, Washington, last month.
The Shah Prize is given to early-to-mid-career individuals who have shown a commitment to creative and innovative thinking and have demonstrated the potential to make significant contributions to seismic risk mitigation and management.