Students from the Department of Civil Engineering at New Mexico State University received numerous awards at NMSUs recent virtual Research and Creativity Week event. Eight civil engineering students presented their projects with four placing in the top 10 of all presentations. Clockwise from top left: New Mexico State University civil engineering students placed among the top 10 presentations at the recent virtual Research and Creativity Week event. Seyed Ali Aleali placed second for his project titled Bio-inspired Laterally Expressive Deep Foundations: Numerical Simulation; Judit Garcia tied at eighth place for her project is titled Effect of Bio-Enhancements on Adobe Walls: Fiber Reinforcement and Biopolymer; Saeedeh Naziri was tied at third place for her project titled Bio-inspired Self-Excavating Solutions for Extraterrestrial Subsurface Exploration; and Lucas Rivera tied for third place for his project titled Design and Calibration of