Elizabeth Higgins Durika (E 2003)

2011 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award

Bio

In less than a decade after graduating from the College of Engineering on a Navy ROTC scholarship, Lt. Durika has become a decorated military leader with important assignments on three continents.

As the officer-in-charge for the Seabee Detachment, her team drilled wells to provide African communities with access to clean water and built an eight-room hospital with a much-needed maternity ward in Ghana. Durika has received the Navy Achievement Medal three times and the Navy Commendation Medal twice.

She is currently the public works officer for SIXTH Fleet in Naples, Italy.