Craig Benson, Ph.D., distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, has received the A. Ivan Johnson Outstanding Achievement Award for his significant contributions to ASTM International Committee D18 on Soil and Rock.

A dedicated ASTM member for more than 25 years, Benson also works on Committee D35 on Geosynthetics. He has received numerous standards development awards from Committee D18, as well as two awards for outstanding articles published in the ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal. He received the title of ASTM fellow when he was honored with the Award of Merit, ASTM’s highest organizational recognition for contributions to standards activities, in 2011.

Benson has a joint appointment as chair of the civil and environmental engineering and geological engineering departments at UW–Madison and was named distinguished professor in 2007. He is also director of sustainability research and education, co-director of the office of sustainability, and director of the UW geotechnics laboratory, as well as an affiliate professor at the UW Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

A graduate of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Benson holds a master’s and his doctorate in civil engineering (geotechnical/geo-environmental) from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Wisconsin and a board certified environmental engineer per the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists.

Outside ASTM, Benson serves on the boards of the Environmental Research and Educational Foundation, the Global Waste Research Institute at California Polytechnic Institute and Sustain Dane in Madison. He has served several roles on the board of governors at the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), including two terms as president, and is a member of several other geotechnical societies and associations, including the International Geosynthetics Society. In 2009, he was named a fellow of ASCE and a diplomate, geotechnical engineering, by the Academy of Geo-Professionals.

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