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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.- Jack Buffington, who serves as a research professor in the civil engineering department and as the associate director of the Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation Center at the University of Arkansas, will be honored by the Society of American Military Engineers with the prestigious Golden Eagle Award at a ceremony in Arlington, Va. on March 27, 2009. Since 1996, the society has honored two outstanding Americans each year for contributions to the engineering profession and national security.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.-
Heather Nachtmann has been appointed as the new director for the Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation Center. Nachtmann is an associate professor in the department of industrial engineering at the University of Arkansas.
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The Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation Center has been named as one of six transportation research centers that will split $18 million annually for four years to study ways to protect the security of America’s transportation system. The University of Arkansas research center, which has been named a National Transportation Security Center of Excellence, was included in the Improving America’s Security Act of 2007, which President Bush signed on Aug. 3.
