2024 Kim de Rubertis Student Scholarship Program Results

USSD would like to recognize and congratulate the 2024 finalists for the Kim de Rubertis Student Scholarship. After the final evaluations, the results were as follows. 

• 1st Place: Ashley Woodward, University of California, Berkeley
  "Evaluating Failure Mechanisms of Mine Tailings Dams Under High Stress"
• 2nd Place: Alicia Walburger, Brigham Young University
  "Improvement of Probabilistic Liquefaction Triggering Curves for Gravelly Soil"
• 3rd Place: Isaac Nedved, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
  "Viability of geomembranes to reduce overtopping and erosion failures in dams and levees"
• 4th Place: Johnathan Shelton, Tennessee Technological University
  "Comparative Analysis of Dam Stability: Integrating Simplified Methods with FEA Seepage and Undrained Shear Strength Assessments"

We look forward to updates on your research in 2025!