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One instant changes everything for Tech student (Rapid City Journal)
Shaun Herrod should be getting ready to graduate this month with a civil engineering degree from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.

Life Swap (The Villanovan)
Seniors communication major Tina Lamsback and civil engineering major Bryan Wagner attend each other's classes and report back with their reactions to the differences between the colleges.

Profile: Tom Sorel, Minnesota Department of Transportation (Finance and Commerce)
Tom Sorel has all the right qualifications to lead the Minnesota Department of Transportation, including a civil engineering background, an MBA, and three decades of federal transportation experience.

Uniontown board awards engineering contract (The Uniontown Herald Standard)
The Uniontown Area School Board agreed to pay $94,318 for civil engineering work at Ben Franklin, Lafayette and the high school.

USS Kearsarge returns to Norfolk (WAVY 10)
NORFOLK, Va. - The USS Kearsarge is returning to Norfolk Tuesday from its humanitarian mission dubbed Continuing Promise. During its deployment, the crew provided veterinary, medical, dental, and civil engineering help to six partner nations in Central and South America and the Caribbean.

CSU professor honored for work in study of water (Colorado State Collegian)
CSU Civil engineering professor and alumni Chih Ted Yang was honored earlier this month with the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in the Surface Water Branch for his study of river morphology.

Rowe Inc. names new associate to staff (County Press)
LAPEER -- Rowe Incorporated has named a new associate, effective Jan. 1. Project Engineer Jeremy Lynn, PE, has been named ROWE's 17th associate. Lynn joined the firm in 2000, after earning a B.S. in civil engineering from Michigan Technological University.

Afghan basketball team has Fremont flavor (The Daily Review)
After starring at Washington, Safi Mojaddidi and Qais Haider, both 21, do not to play at San Jose State, where they are juniors majoring in civil engineering. Instead, they play for their country, even though it is a land in which Haider has never stepped foot, and one to which Mojaddidi hasn't returned since leaving as an infant.

Hokies to hold graduation ceremonies Dec. 19 (Daily Press)
About 2,500 Virginia Tech students will don caps and gowns Dec. 19 for the school's fall commencement ceremonies in Cassell Coliseum on the main campus in Blacksburg.

Man Sentenced For Vehicular Battery (KELO Sioux Falls)
A Rapid City man who injured another motorist after huffing an aerosol cleaner has received a 10-year suspended prison term.