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  • April

    Karl Mai stands on the same beach from which he left Vietnam in 1981 as one of the fleeing “Boat People.” Behind him is a bamboo fishing boat like the one he and 18 others crowded into for the nighttime escape to Hong Kong. This photo was taken in August 2012 when Mai and his family revisited Vietnam.

    Sacramento engineer came to America among Vietnam’s “Boat People”

    More than 30 years ago, 19 villagers escaped Vietnam at night aboard a 19-foot bamboo fishing boat and headed into the open ocean toward Hong Kong. Karl Mai, a 17-year-old high school senior, and a few of his classmates were in that boat – leaving behind everyone and everything they knew for the hope of freedom and a better life.
  • Gary Householder, (center), Mon River operations supervisor, and Mark Ivanisin, (right), Ohio River operations supervisor, speak with an unidentified man during barge recovery operations.

    Teamwork averts disaster after barges break away

      When 17 barges broke free of their moorings on the raging, ice-filled Monongahela River, March 4,
  • Dr. Stakhiv at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseilles, March 2012.

    Professor Eugene Z. Stakhiv Named USACE IWR Maass-White Visiting Scholar in Residence

    ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.   IWR is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Eugene. Z. Stakhiv as
  • (Left to right) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees, David Claussen, an Equal Employment Office specialist, Carol Haynes, chief of Equal Employment Office, Stephanie Coleman, an Equal Employment Office specialist, and Andreas Patterson, chief of Natural Resources talk with Emma Wilbert, Sarah Chichester, and Jesse Mendiola, all 7th graders at Rucker- Stewart Middle School from Gallatin, Tenn during a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Science Expo sponsored by the Middle Tennessee STEM Innovation Hub at the Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro on April 9. The Nashville District team set up an exhibit and shared their knowledge about engineering, water management, dam safety, regulatory protection of natural resources, and the role of park rangers who carry out the natural resources mission at Corps projects.

    Corps evaluates STEM competition at Middle Tennessee State University

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 14, 2015) – A group of technical experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District attended a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Science Expo as judges and staffed an exhibit sponsored by the Middle Tennessee STEM Innovation Hub at the Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro on April 9.
  • An interesting feature of Montana’s T.rex is that it was found with a third digit, demonstrating that T.rex had a vestigial third finger. For decades Tyrannosaurus rex was thought to have had only two fingers at the end of its tiny arms.

    What’s the Army Doing with Dinosaurs? Redux

    On April 11, Montana State University’s, Museum of the Rockies publicly opened a new permanent exhibit in its Siebel Dinosaur Complex called “The Tyrant Kings.” At the center of the exhibit is a nearly 12-foot-tall, 40-foot-long fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. The fossil, known by many names: “Peck's Rex” because it was found in 1997 near Fort Peck Dam and Reservoir in Montana and scientifically, “MOR 980” the specimen number assigned to the fossil when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers entrusted it to the Museum of the Rockies in 1998. With the opening of the exhibit, it will become known as “Montana’s T.rex.”