A recent geotechnical PhD graduate, Dr Mahdi Taiebat, has accepted a tenure track faculty position at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, Canada, at the rank of Assistant Professor, starting in Fall 2009. Mahdi, who was co-advised by Professors Jeremic and Dafalias, has spent a post-doc year at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute before being offered the faculty position. We wish him a successful academic career!


