Inspiring Interest in Geotechnics

I had the pleasure of giving the Bright Spark Lecture at IS-Cambridge last month (https://www.is-cambridge2020.eng.cam.ac.uk/programme/speciallectures) and yesterday got around to creating and posting a recording for posterity.   Here it is on figshare, in fully citable format.  Thanks in advance for the nod if you find any of it useful in your teaching or research: […]

Mini-symposium on Advances in Terramechanics at EMI2019, June 18-21, Caltech

Consider submitting an abstract to our mini-symposium on Advances in Terramechanics as part of the EMI2019 conference running from June 18-21 this year at Caltech (http://emi2019.caltech.edu/). MS#42. Advances in Terramechanics: Soil-Machine Interaction, Mobility, Terrestrial Robotics, and Beyond. Co-organizer(s): Jim Hambleton, Northwestern University; Dan Negrut, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dan Goldman, Georgia Institute of Technology Description: This […]

Old News #3: NU Career Day for Girls

We had a blast at the annual Career Day for Girls at Northwestern University on February 24.  We ran three different thirty-minute demonstrations to groups of students, each with with around 10 girls ranging from middle school to high school.  Here is what the girls signed up for: Explore the world beneath your feet in the […]