Constantinou Named Chair of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Michael Constantinou, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named chair of the department.

Constantinou joined the UB faculty in 1987 after three years as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

He has served as director of graduate studies for the UB Department of Civil Engineering, and was named director of the university's Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory in 1998.

Constantinou, who earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, served as a consultant on analysis and design of seismic-isolation and energy-dissipation systems for such projects as the Corinth Canal Bridges in Greece, the U.S. Court of Appeals building in San Francisco and the Queensboro Bridge in New York.

He was the recipient of a prestigious Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1988 in recognition of his ability and potential in his field.

Constantinou resides in Amherst.