The Geosystems Program Fund will provide unrestricted support for the program, with a focus on enhancing the student experience. This includes funding tuition, fellowships, and conference attendance for graduate students and supplying resources that enrich the classroom and hands-on laboratory experiences.
About Juan Pestana
In addition to being a loved and respected member of his community, Juan served as a Geotechnical Engineer for more than 35 years, including working nearly a decade at Geosyntec. He also spent 23 years as a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he educated, trained, mentored, and inspired generations of geosystems students.
During his career, Juan authored or coauthored more than 150 research publications and received prestigious research awards for significant contributions to geotechnical and geotechnical earthquake engineering, including the ASCE Arthur Casagrande Award, the ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, and the Shamsher Prakash Research Prize. In addition, he served as Program Manager at the National Science Foundation for the Geoenvironmental Engineering and Geohazards Mitigation Program, as Director of the UC Berkeley Pavement Research Center and as a member of the Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering, of the National Academies.
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