Rachael Lau, Ph.D.
@RachaelLau3
Disaster engineer, PhD @DukeU. @FulbrightPrgrm @IIEglobal ambassador. Disaster, climate, refugees, pedagogy, and social entrepreneurship.
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The last day of our Bass Connections at Duke for the year 🥹❤️ working with these young researchers on #DRR #research has been an absolute privilege and joy — grateful to see the amazing things they do next! 🙌🏼
Duke University
EGU 2024 ✅🌏🙌🏼
What an incredible week in Vienna talking #landslides and presenting my work on deep-seated landslide monitoring! 🏔️
EGU
Duke Engineering
So proud of our Duke University KTM Geo Lab students, presenting their work at the Bass Connections at Duke #Research Symposium! Watching this interdisciplinary team become transdisciplinary researchers has been an absolute privilege and joy. Up next: Kathmandu!
Duke Engineering
So excited for our Bass Connections at Duke team today as they present their work at the Fortin Foundation Bass Connections Showcase! 💪🏼🏔️ It’s been an absolute privilege watching these young researchers grow in their passions! 🙌🏼
Details: April 17 from 3:30-6:00 p.m. in Penn Pavilion
I don’t highlight my #photography in my engineering world too much, but I’m excited to share my first photography piece will be shown in a gallery here in Durham at the Enviro-Art gallery! 🌿
First gallery ✅ so grateful!
My earlier post was Nepali version. Here is the same article - in English- that explores the linkage between disaster, droughts and migration in the #Nepal #Himalaya . Thanks Himal Khabarpatrika #BarbaraFoundation NDRRMA
“However, climate hazards do not respect national boundaries, and collaboration across boundaries is essential to ensure safety and security of flood-affected communities in South Asia”
Important words by Dharam Uprety
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Today I successfully defended my doctoral work at Duke University. There are very few words to begin to describe how I feel, but grateful has to be at the top of the list. 🫶🏼
Duke University
Duke Engineering
Excited to be headed to EGU 2024 in Vienna this April! #Registered #NaturalHazards
#AcademicChatter — anyone headed to EGU this year? Let me know!
So excited for our Duke University Bass Connections at Duke students to be presenting their work this April in Durham! These students have been pouring so much into their work on developing new technologies for understanding geohazard early warning systems in #Nepal ! 🇳🇵
Duke Engineering
Congratulations to Rachael Lau, Ph.D. for being selected as one of the 20 #Fulbright U.S. Student Alumni Ambassadors! As the AY 2022-23 Student Researcher, Rachael worked with National Society for Earthquake Technology and Institute of Engineering researching deep-seated landslides.
Grateful and excited for the term ahead! Thank you The Fulbright Program Institute of International Education (IIE) 💙
Duke University Fulbright Nepal
Excited to be kicking off the John Brooks Slaughter Leadership in Engineering DEI Summit at USC Viterbi School ❤️✨
This event has been a year in the making, excited for the next few days with co-organizers + ever-grateful to be here and engage with an incredible group of folks! @USC
Grateful is an understatement. 💙 Coming off of 48 hours in DC, meeting with other #Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors where we got to share our testimonies, backgrounds, and connect with one another. Incredible grateful to The Fulbright Program, Institute of International Education (IIE), and the US State Dept.
Incredible listening to Shrishtee Bajpai talk on Rights of Rivers and Nature in South Asia with the Himalayan Water Project! An awesome episode listening to a convo on nation state boundaries, the Anthropocene, and river systems of South Asia
Listen here: himalayanwaterproject.org/podcast/episod…
Woah — I’m a 2024 Fulbright Alumni Ambassador. 💙 🌏 My #Fulbright experience was incredibly formative, and I'm grateful to the The Fulbright Program and the @iieglobal for their consideration of my testimony and voice.
Fulbright Nepal
Duke University