Shideh Dashti of the University of Colorado Boulder delivered the 13th GZA Lecture on March 2, 2023. The title of her lecture was "Considerations for the Mitigation of Earthquake-Induced Soil Liquefaction in Urban Environments." Shideh Dashti is an Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and the Acting Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. She also directs a college-funded interdisciplinary research theme titled RISE: Resilient Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity. Shideh obtained her undergraduate degree at Cornell University and graduate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. She worked briefly with ARUP and Bechtel on several engineering projects in the US auctures; consequences and mitigation of the liquefaction hazard facing structures in urban settings; and the intersection of resilience, sustainability, and social justice. She is the recipient of the 2018 Arthur Casagrande Award and the 2021 Walter Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE, among other honors and recognitions. The GZA Lecture was established with the ASCE Metropolitan Section Geotechnical Group in 2010 to promote developments and advances in the fields of geotechnical and foundation engineering and to explore technologies developed within our industry to meet the urban geotechnical, foundation, and construction challenges. The Geo-Institute is a technical society with about 12,000 geotechnical engineers and geologists as members. Find out more or join at http://www.geoinstitute.org. #geotechnicalengineering #geotech #civilengineering Show more