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PhD student receives the Philip Turner Prize 2015

PhD student Chang Ye Gue has been awarded the Turner Prize for Centrifuge Modelling. The Prize is awarded each year for "outstanding work in geotechnical centrifuge testing conducted by a research student working at the Schofield Centre in Cambridge".

Professor Robert Mair, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, presented the award on 9 October 2015.

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