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Senior Jared Dourdeville receives 2010 SAME Award

$1,000 prize recognizes outstanding academic achievements by an undergraduate in engineering sciences

Jared Dourdeville '11 (far left) conducts a materials stress test in the SEAS undergraduate laboratories.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 29, 2011 – On behalf of the New York City Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), Harvard College senior Jared Dourdeville '11 has been awarded the 2010 Colonel and Mrs. S.S. Dennis, III Scholarship in recognition of his hard work and dedication to research.

During the SEAS All Hands meeting held on April 29th, Cherry A. Murray, Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), presented Dourdeville with a certificate of accomplishment and a scholarship check for $1,000 from SAME.

The organization has nearly 22,500 members and is dedicated to advancing individual technical knowledge and the collective engineering capabilities of governments, the uniformed services, and private industry in the interest of national defense.

Dourdeville is an Engineering Sciences concentrator pursuing the mechanical and materials track.

Hailing from Marion, Massachusetts, he is a member of the Men's Lightweight Crew team and was named to the Spring 2010 Academy All-Ivy League Team.

Dourdeville lives in Pforzheimer House.

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The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), the premier professional military engineering association in the United States, unites architecture,engineering construction (A/E/C), facility management and environmental entities and individuals in the public and private sectors to prepare for—and overcome—natural and man made disasters, and to improve security at home and abroad.

Headquartered in Alexandria, Va., SAME provides its more than 25,000 members extensive opportunities for training, education and professional development through a robust offering of conferences, workshops, networking events and publications.With a membership that includes recent service academy graduates and retired flag officers, project managers and corporate executives,Department of Defense civilians, private-sector experts and everyone in between, SAME is bridging the gaps between critical stakeholders to advance the field of military engineering and help secure our nation.