[fusion_text]Professor Oral Buyukozturk and six members of his group recently attended the Engineering Mechanics International (EMI) conference. There were five student research competitions at the conference, and graduate students Reza Mohammadi Ghazi and Murat Uzun participated in and won the best paper and presentation award in two of these competitions. Ghazi won the award in the Probabilistic Methods Competition and Uzun won the award in the Structural Health Monitoring and Control Competition.[/fusion_text]