EERI is delighted to announce that Dr. Anne Kiremidjian (M.EERI 1976) has been awarded the 2026 George W. Housner Medal in recognition of a career that has transformed earthquake engineering. The Housner Medal is awarded to recognize members of the Institute and others ...

EERI is pleased to announce that Laurie Johnson (M.EERI 1990) and Terri Norton (M.EERI 2003) have been selected as the 2026 EERI Honorary Members. Honorary membership of the Institute is awarded to recognize members who have made sustained and outstanding contributions to the field of earthquake eng...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) are pleased to announce that Francisco José Sánchez-Sesma, professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), is the 2026 recipient of the William B. Joyner Lecture Award. Sánchez-Sesma will...

I’m excited to update the membership with more news about EERI’s new-format Annual Meetings, coming in 2027 and beyond! As I shared in my previous leadership communique in July, the Annual Meeting Reenvisioning Working Group recommended the model of a full in-person annual meeting, held separate...

EERI is pleased to announce that Ayse Hortacsu (M. EERI 2000) and Robb Moss (M.EERI 2003) have been selected as the new Co-Chairs of the Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Program. Ayse and Robb have begun to shadow outgoing Co-Chairs Eduardo Miranda (M.EERI 1987) and Mike Mieler (M.EERI 2010...

Many thanks to all EERI members who took the time to consider and choose from the exceptional candidates for the 2026 EERI Board of Directors. EERI would like to welcome our new President-Elect and two new Directors: President-Elect: Scott Ashford (M. EERI, 1992)Professor of Geotechnical Engineeri...

Earthquake Spectra recently launched a new special collection of 13 articles based on the work of the Fault Displacement Hazard Initiative (FDHI), led by Yousef Bozorgnia (M.EERI 1986), professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and founding Director of the N...

EERI is working to grow and strengthen a coalition that supports Reauthorization of the U.S. National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP).Through EERI's Public Policy and Advocacy Committee, EERI leadership has been working closely with American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Internatio...

Travel study participants at the Catedral Metropolitana de México (Abe Lynn) From September 14 to 20, 2025, in partnership with the Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Sísmica (SMIS), EERI led its third Learning From Earthquakes Travel Study (LFE-TS) program, this time in Mexico. During the w...

This September, EERI members Amanda Hertzfeld (M.EERI 2023) and Zorana Mijic (2019) of the Public Policy & Advocacy (PPA) Committee took the pulse of Capitol Hill as they joined fellow geoscience advocates for the annual Geoscience Congressional Visits Day (GeoCVD), hosted by the Ameri...

In Spring 2025, EERI’s Public Policy and Advocacy (PPA) Committee launched a public survey to better understand how EERI members and the broader earthquake community have been impacted by federal funding uncertainty and recent executive orders. To date, 56 people have completed the survey. The pur...

Contributed by Ian Aiken, Amarnath Kasalanati, Dimitrios Konstantinidis, Nicos Makris, and Eduardo Miranda. Professor James Marshall Kelly (M.EERI 1982), world-renowned pioneer, expert, and leader in the field of seismic isolation and energy dissipation, died on 23 September 2025 at the age of...