Andrew F. Braham, a civil and environmental engineering doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who is conducting important airport asphalt concrete research, is the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Air Transportation Centers of Excellence “Outstanding Student of the Year.” Braham works with the FAA’s Center of Excellence for Airport Technology. He is researching the behavior of asphalt concrete for use in airport pavement rehabilitation. He has worked on technologies related to reflective cracking mechanisms and mechanics-based modeling of pavement overlay systems. He also is developing and conducting mixed-mold fracture tests on asphalt concrete materials for his Ph.D. thesis research. Braham holds both masters and bachelors degrees in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a research assistant and teaching assistant at both the University of Illinois and Wisconsin University. Braham has authored or co-authored seven journal and conference articles about asphalt concrete materials, and he has presented his research at several national and international conferences.