A number of national newspaper articles were published on the asphalt modeling research carried out by Dr. Papagiannakis and Dr. Masad while they worked at Washington State University:
- Seattle Times 4/18/2000
- Wall Street Journal 4/24/2000
- Chicago Tribune 6/11/2000
- Toronto Star 7/2/2000
- NBC Nightly News 4/24/2000