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ANIL K. AGRAWAL NISHI RAVI

CCNY’s Professor honored with Scholar honored with 2025

2025 Moisseiff Award Future Leaders Award

he American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) re-
cently announced the name of Nishi Ravi, a PhD student in Counseling
nil K. Agrawal, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil Engineering at TPsychology at Marquette University, as the 2025 recipients of the annual
The City College of New York is the recipient of the American Society K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. The award recognizes graduate stu-
Aof Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2025 Moisseiff Award. The honor is for his dents who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education and
paper “Reliability-Based Framework for Structural Robustness Evaluation of are committed to academic innovation in equity, community engagement, and
Bridges,” published in the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, April 2024. teaching and learning.
The paper proposes a novel robustness evaluation approach that is suited The award honors the work of K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of
for short, medium and long-span bridges, to assess the safety of bridges in Higher Education at the University of California–Berkeley, a distinguished
their intact and damaged conditions to facilitate critical decisions on design university administrator, researcher, and teacher.
and retrofit needs. The Moisseiff Award is one of the most prestigious awards
given by ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute to an important paper pub- Nishi Ravi is one amongst the five recipients selected for the
lished in an ASCE journal.
2025 awards. Prior to joining Marquette, she studied at the Uni-
“I am very grateful to the ASCE for the recognition and congratu- versity of Edinburgh, training in public and private sectors in the

late my former students for their outstanding efforts to carry out UK before establishing her independent private practice in India.
work that is so critical to ensuring the safety of our bridges,” said She enjoys traveling, reading, and pursuing her passion in psy-
Agrawal. “They are true ambassadors of the CCNY and the Grove choanalysis.
School of Engineering.”
The 2025 K. Patricia Cross Award recipients have been recognized and
honored during the opening plenary session of the AAC&U Annual Meeting
Agrawal’s co-authors include his former CCNY Grove School of Engi-
neering graduate students Qian Chen and Hong-Fan Wang; and collaborators in Washington, DC.
Nishi Ravi is an International member of American Psychological As-
Sherif El-Tawil (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Baidurya Bhattacharya sociation, student member of Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy &
(University of Delaware), and Waider Wong (former Project Manager at the Psychoanalysis and Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Association, Life member of
Federal Highway Administration). Counsellor Council of India, and a member of International Association of
Agrawal is a Distinguished Member of ASCE, and past chief editor of the
ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering. He has served as chair of the ASCE Applied Psychology.
The K. Patricia Cross Award is open to all doctoral-level graduate stu-
SEI Committee on Bridge Inspection, Rehabilitation and Monitoring and dents planning a career in higher education, regardless of academic depart-
the ASCE SEI Committee on Structural Control and Sensing. He has also ment, and have been nominated by a faculty member or administrator. Grad-
chaired the Engineering Mechanics Committee of ASCE’s Metropolitan Sec- uate students in fields where the master’s degree is the terminal degree are
tion since 2013, and is currently the vice-chair of ExCom of the SEI Technical also eligible.
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