Another significant transition that will occur at the February Board meeting will be the installation of Chris Arnold , President of Building Systems Development in Palo Alto, California, as EERI President. Outgoing President Joanne Nigg , Professor and Co-Director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, will continue to serve on the Board for one year as Past President. It is not too early to start thinking about next year's election of Directors and President-Elect. The Nominating Committee welcomes suggestions from the membership, including self-nominations. To submit a name for consideration, send a brief note giving the name and qualifications of the potential candidate to the Nominating Committee in care of the EERI office.
All submissions are confidential.
A new student chapter of EERI has been established at the University of California, Davis. The Faculty Advisor is Professor Rob Chai of the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Industry Contact is Dr. Roy Imbsen, Principal of Imbsen and Associates. Researchers at UC Davis are active in the areas of geotechnical and structural earth-quake engineering. The university has one of the world's largest geotechnical centrifuges with in-flight earthquake shaking capability. The announcement was made by Mike Armstrong, Associate Director of FEMA for Mitigation.