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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 has been an absolute privilege and joy — grateful to see the amazing things they do next! 🙌🏼

Duke University

The last day of our @BassConnections 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! 🙌🏼 @DukeU
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EGU 2024 ✅🌏🙌🏼

What an incredible week in Vienna talking and presenting my work on deep-seated landslide monitoring! 🏔️

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Duke Engineering

EGU 2024 ✅🌏🙌🏼 What an incredible week in Vienna talking #landslides and presenting my work on deep-seated landslide monitoring! 🏔️ @EuroGeosciences @DukeEngineering
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So proud of our Duke University KTM Geo Lab students, presenting their work at the Bass Connections at Duke Symposium! Watching this interdisciplinary team become transdisciplinary researchers has been an absolute privilege and joy. Up next: Kathmandu!

Duke Engineering

So proud of our @DukeU KTM Geo Lab students, presenting their work at the @BassConnections #Research Symposium! Watching this interdisciplinary team become transdisciplinary researchers has been an absolute privilege and joy. Up next: Kathmandu! @DukeEngineering
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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

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Shrishtee Bajpai(@shrishtee) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New article: Threading Life and futures
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Reflections on 'Weaving' as an act of crafting possibilities in horizontal, autonomous, communitarian, and plural ways that challenge the dominance of extractive economies, social and political systems.

New article: Threading Life and futures globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:13… Reflections on 'Weaving' as an act of crafting possibilities in horizontal, autonomous, communitarian, and plural ways that challenge the dominance of extractive economies, social and political systems.
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Rachael Lau, Ph.D.(@RachaelLau3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I don’t highlight my 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!

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Anil Pokhrel(@anilpokhrel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My earlier post was Nepali version. Here is the same article - in English- that explores the linkage between disaster, droughts and migration in the . Thanks Himal Khabarpatrika NDRRMA

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“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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Rachael Lau, Ph.D.(@RachaelLau3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to be back in this May for the Climate Data Field Lab — excited to learn from and work with some incredible folks in , , and ! Shoot me a DM if you’ll be around! 🌏🏔️

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Rachael Lau, Ph.D.(@RachaelLau3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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. 🫶🏼 @DukeU @DukeEngineering
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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 ! 🇳🇵

Duke Engineering

So excited for our @DukeU @BassConnections 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! 🇳🇵 @DukeEngineering
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Tenzin Yangkey དབྱངས་སྐྱིད་(@ten_yangkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨(1/n - share widely) in - so heartbreaking & enraging to see the crackdown against Tibetans protesting dam building inside Tibet. Yebatan Hydropower on Drichu (Yangtze River) will destroy two villages of Upper Wonto and Shipa and six Tibetan monasteries

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Fulbright Nepal(@fulbrightnepal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to Rachael Lau, Ph.D. for being selected as one of the 20 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.

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Rachael Lau, Ph.D.(@RachaelLau3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Excited to be kicking off the John Brooks Slaughter Leadership in Engineering DEI Summit at @USCViterbi ❤️✨ 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
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Rachael Lau, Ph.D.(@RachaelLau3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My first book chapter is available as pre-print! 📚🥹 Excited and grateful for all of the support and opportunities I’ve been able to have in academia thus far. What a surreal moment✨

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Rachael Lau, Ph.D.(@RachaelLau3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Grateful is an understatement. 💙 Coming off of 48 hours in DC, meeting with other 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.

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 @FulbrightPrgrm, @IIEglobal, and the US State Dept.
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Rachael Lau, Ph.D.(@RachaelLau3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

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Rachael Lau, Ph.D.(@RachaelLau3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Woah — I’m a 2024 Fulbright Alumni Ambassador. 💙 🌏 My experience was incredibly formative, and I'm grateful to the The Fulbright Program and the @iieglobal for their consideration of my testimony and voice.

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Duke University

Woah — I’m a 2024 Fulbright Alumni Ambassador. 💙 🌏 My #Fulbright experience was incredibly formative, and I'm grateful to the @FulbrightPrgrm and the @iieglobal for their consideration of my testimony and voice. @fulbrightnepal @DukeU
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