88R12050 TBO-D
By: A. Johnson of Harris H.R. No. 234
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Jamie Padgett of Rice University is being presented
with the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Engineering from the
Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology in
May 2023; and
WHEREAS, Established in 2006, the O'Donnell Awards annually
recognize Texas-based researchers who are addressing the essential
role that science and technology play in society, and whose work
meets the highest standards of professional performance,
creativity, and resourcefulness; honorees are selected in five
categories, medicine, engineering, biological sciences, physical
sciences, and technology innovation, and each award includes a
$25,000 honorarium as well as an invitation to present at TAMEST's
annual conference; and
WHEREAS, Jamie Padgett is being recognized for her lifesaving
research in infrastructure sustainability and resiliency in
hazard-prone regions; her work focuses on identifying and
minimizing the risks that natural disasters and other hazards pose
to critical infrastructure, such as highways and industrial
facilities, and it has played an instrumental role in improving
public safety in communities across Texas and beyond; and
WHEREAS, A skilled educator, Ms. Padgett is the Stanley C.
Moore Professor in Engineering and chair of the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering at Rice University; she has further
distinguished herself as a Fellow of the Structural Engineering
Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers and as a
founding chair of the organization's technical committee on
multiple hazard mitigation; moreover, she served on the ASCE
reconnaissance team that assessed damage caused by Hurricane
Katrina, and she has represented the United States at the National
Academy of Engineering China-America Frontiers of Engineering
Symposium in China; and
WHEREAS, Jamie Padgett's important research efforts have
made a lasting, positive impact in her field, and she is truly
deserving of this prestigious honor; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas
Legislature hereby congratulate Jamie Padgett on her receipt of the
Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Engineering from the Texas
Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology and extend
to her sincere best wishes for continued success; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for Ms. Padgett as an expression of high regard by the
Texas House of Representatives.