1. Reginald DesRoches was born on April 30,1967 and is an American civil engineer who has served as the president of Rice University since July 1,2022.
17 Facts About Reginald DesRoches
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Reginald DesRoches attended college and graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned his doctorate in structural engineering in 1998.
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Reginald DesRoches was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 "for research and design of resilient infrastructure systems to mitigate damage from natural disasters and other extreme conditions".
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Reginald DesRoches was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and grew up in Queens, New York City.
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Reginald DesRoches attended St Francis Preparatory High School in New York City and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Reginald DesRoches oversaw a $13.5 million renovation of the Jesse W Mason Building, which was the main facility of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Reginald DesRoches's responsibilities include representing the Institute to the Atlantic Coast Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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Reginald DesRoches previously served as the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering at the George R Brown School of Engineering at Rice.
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Reginald DesRoches has published some 300 articles and delivered more than 100 presentations in 30 countries.
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Reginald DesRoches has participated in numerous congressional briefings to underscore the role university research plays in addressing the failing infrastructure in the USand enhancing its resilience to natural hazards.
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Reginald DesRoches has served as thesis adviser to 30 doctoral candidates and 17 master's students.
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Reginald DesRoches is on the advisory board for the National Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure.
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Reginald DesRoches previously served on the National Academies Resilient America Roundtable, the National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Committee, and the Global Earthquake Modeling Scientific Board.
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Reginald DesRoches has testified before US House and Senate subcommittees on the science of earthquake resilience, and has participated in Washington, DC roundtables for media and congressional staffers on topics ranging from disaster preparedness to challenges for African-American men in STEM fields.
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Reginald DesRoches was a recipient of the 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award, the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Adviser Award, the 2007 ASCE Walter L Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, and the Georgia Tech ANAK Award, the highest honor the undergraduate student body can bestow on a Georgia Tech faculty member.
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Reginald DesRoches gave the John A Blume Distinguished Lecture in 2018 and that same year received the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Distinguished Lecturer Award, one of the highest honors in the earthquake engineering field.
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On November 11,2021, it was announced that Reginald DesRoches will be the president of Rice University, beginning on July 1,2022.