Prof. Gang Wang won 2009-2010 Li Foundation Heritage Prize

1 January 2010

Prof. Gang Wang was recently awarded 2009-2010 Li Foundation Heritage Prize for Excellence in Creativity. The Heritage Prize is the Li Foundation's top award given to Chinese scholars in all areas of science and medicine, as well as the arts and humanitarian fields of study. Prof. Wang is the only recipient of the prize this year, and he was cited for “outstanding and distinguished research contributions in the field of earthquake engineering and geo-hazard mitigation”.

The Li Foundation was founded in 1944 by Dr. Kuo Ching Li and based in New York, U.S.A.