Fellows
The ARMA Fellows Program recognizes individuals who have achieved outstanding accomplishments in the area of rock mechanics. The program started in 2008, with the inaugural class listed below. Since then new Fellows have been nominated by colleagues and inducted in recognition of their achievements in rock mechanics.
Biographies of ARMA Fellows
2024 Fellow
Paul Young
Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
2022 Fellows
Mark Board
Vice President - Technical Services (retired)
Hecla Mining Company
John Curran
Founder & Executive Chair
Rocscience
2021 Fellow
Mark Diederichs
Professor, Geological Engineering
Queens University
2020 Fellow
Joseph F. Labuz
Professor
Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering
University of Minnesota
2019 Fellow
Bill Dershowitz
Principal
GeoFractal LLC
2018 Fellow
Steven D. Glaser
Emeritus Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
2017 Fellows
William F. Bawden
Professor Emeritus
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Toronto
John Rudnicki
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University
2016 Fellow
Antonio Bobet
Professor
Civil Engineering
Purdue University
2015 Fellows
Emmanuel Detournay
Theodore W. Bennett Chair
University of Minnesota
Maurice B. Dusseault
Professor
University of Waterloo
William G. Pariseau
Malcolm McKinnon Chair, Emeritus
University of Utah
2014 Fellow
Kate H. Baker
British Petroleum (ret) and ExxonMobil (ret)
2013 Fellows
Edward J. Cording
Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John D. McLennan
USTAR Professor
University of Utah
Laura Pyrak-Nolte
Professor
Purdue University
2011 Fellows
Michael Hardy
President (ret.)
Agapito Associates, Inc.
Mark D. Zoback
Benjamin M. Page Professor of Earth Science
Stanford University
2009 Fellows
Ahmed Abou-Sayed
President
Advantek International
Derek Elsworth
Professor
Pennsylvania State University
Wolfgang Wawersik
Sandia National Laboratories (ret)
2008 Fellows
Bernard Amadei
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Colorado - Boulder
Charles H. Dowding
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Northwestern University
Herbert H. Einstein
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles Fairhurst
Professor Emeritus
University of Minnesota
Sidney J. Green
Research Professor
University of Utah
& Enhanced Production, Inc.
Richard Goodman
Cahill Professor of Geotechnical Engineering Emeritus
University of California - Berkeley
Bezalel C. Haimson
Emeritus Professor of Geological Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Priscilla P. Nelson
Professor
Colorado School of Mines
