Rice University’s Dr. Jamie E. Padgett
September 7, 2023
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences hosted a Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Jamie Padgett, a Stanley C. Moore Professor in Engineering and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from Rice University. Her seminar was titled, “From Fragility and Losses to Risk Mitigation at the Nexus of Waterfront Industries and Fenceline Communities.” The seminar was held at the Watt Family Innovation Center on September 7th at 3:30 p.m. with a reception following in the Watt Center atrium.
Dr. Padgett is a structural engineer whose research is focused on multi-hazard risk and resilience modeling of structures and infrastructure systems, while understanding their impacts on communities. Dr. Padgett has received such honors as the TAMEST Edith and Peter O’Donnell award, the EMI Objective Resilience Distinguished Lecturer, and the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize. She is a Fellow of ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), an NSF BRITE Fellow, and a member of the IASSAR Executive Committee. Padgett serves in leadership roles within several large national research efforts including the NIST funded Center of Excellence for Risk-based Resilience Planning, the NSF funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), Cyberinfrastructure “Design-Safe”, and the Severe Storm Prediction Education and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center. She is the Faculty Director of the inaugural Gulf Scholars Program at Rice University funded by NASEM’s Gulf Research Program.
