May 2014   KANSAS SECTION WICHITA BRANCH Branch cleans its ‘adopted’ stretch of highway north of Wichita Photo courtesy ASCE Wichita Branch As part of its community outreach, the Wichita Branch has adopted a two-mile stretch of Greenwich Road northeast of the city, and spent a day in late April involved in cleaning up trash along the busy thoroughfare.   Branch website>>  ST. LOUIS SECTION Younger Member Group joins in ‘Rebuilding Together’ Photo courtesy St. Louis Section Younger Member Group Members of the St. Louis Section’s Younger Member Group joined forces to help renovate a home in the city as part of the Rebuilding Together nonprofit program to assist low-income families, especially those with disabilities. See photo gallery>>   Section website>> COLORADO SECTION Leader in water resources and dam engineering elected ASCE Fellow Daniel Johnson, P.E., MS., F.ASCE, of Boulder, CO, a vice president of Tetra Tech, with more than 40 years of experience in water resources, dam engineering, geotechnical engineering, and civil engineering, has been elected an ASCE Fellow. Johnson has been involved as project manager or technical lead on more than 220 water resource and mine tailings dam projects in the U.S., Canada, and around the world. A member of the Boulder Water Resources Advisory Board and the STEM Advisory Committee for the Boulder Valley School District, Johnson has mentored many top-producing engineers in the dams engineering field, and is a senior mentor with Engineers Without Borders USA on a micro-hydropower project in Thailand. Learn more about what made Johnson worthy of Fellow status in ASCE News.  COLORADO SECTION Renovation of modern classic building in Denver moves forward A comprehensive renovation of the Byron Rogers building in Denver updates the energy performance while preserving the classic, formalist facade. Consider the update to the 1964 federal building in ASCE’s online Civil Engineering magazine. Read story>> Outreach event? Successful activity? Announce it here! If you’re a local ASCE leader and your Section, Branch, Younger Member Group, or Student Chapter has staged any special events, engaged in outreach from grade-school kids to lawmakers, or anything of the sort, let ASCEnews Weekly know and we may include it in next month’s Region report. You may already have written about it and posted pictures in your newsletter, website, or social media. Share the details and any photos at asce.org/localnews. Got questions? Write to submissions@asce.org. See the other Region reports for May If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for May, click on each to view them:   Region 1   Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section, Buffalo Section, Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers Section, Ithaca Section, Maine Section, Metropolitan Section, Mohawk-Hudson Section, New Hampshire Section, New Jersey Section, Puerto Rico Section, Rhode Island Section, Rochester Section, Syracuse Section, Vermont Section Region 2   Central Pennsylvania Section, Delaware Section, Lehigh Valley Section, Maryland Section, National Capital Section, Philadelphia Section, Pittsburgh Section Region 3   Akron-Canton Section, Central Illinois Section, Central Ohio Section, Cincinnati Section, Cleveland Section, Dayton Section, Duluth Section, Illinois Section, Michigan Section, Minnesota Section, North Dakota Section, Quad Cities Section, Toledo Section, Wisconsin Section Region 4   Arkansas Section, Indiana Section, Kentucky Section, North Carolina Section, South Carolina Section, Tennessee Section, Virginia Section, West Virginia Section Region 5   Alabama Section, Florida Section, Georgia Section, Louisiana Section, Mississippi Section   Region 6   New Mexico Section, Oklahoma Section, Texas Section Region 7   Colorado Section, Iowa Section, Kansas City Section, Kansas Section, Nebraska Section, South Dakota Section, St. Louis Section, Wyoming Section Region 8   Alaska Section, Arizona Section, Columbia Section, Hawaii Section, Inland Empire Section, Montana Section, Nevada Section, Oregon Section, Seattle Section, Southern Idaho Section, Tacoma-Olympia Section, Utah Section Region 9   Los Angeles Section, Sacramento Section, San Diego Section, San Francisco Section Region 10   All International Sections, Branches, and Groups Missed last month's debut Region 7 update? See the April edition of News Around Region 7 Share this page via social media and email: