Recent and ongoing funded research includes liquefaction of soils, earthquake mitigation of highway structures, stream stability and storm water detention in urban watersheds, sediment transport, river mechanics, constitutive modeling of reinforced and prestressed structures, blast protection of critical infrastructure real-time instrumentation of civil infrastructure, biofiltration, phytoremediation of organic contaminants, remediation of contaminated buildings, impact and occurrence of endocrine disrupters, compact low-energy wastewater treatment, fate of metals in fly ash, plants and doil systems, green infrastructure, creep compliance of asphalt mixtures, durability of concrete, resilient modulus of granular material.