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Geotechnical News • December 2019
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2019 R.F. Legget Medal Award - le Médaillé R.F. Legget 2019
Awarded to Arun Valsangkar
Introduction of 2019 R.F. Legget
Medal Winner
by Paul Deering
Dear colleagues/chers collègues,
It is my great pleasure and honor to
announce that the 2019 Robert F.
Legget Medal recipient is Dr. Arun
Valsangkar. Sterling Parsons, from
Stantec and our 2019 conference
Chair, led Arun’s nomination, which
was supported by some 20 nomination
letters including:
• Kerry Rowe, Queens University
• Andy Take, Queens University
• Craig Lake, Dalhousie University
• Michael Whitford, Co-Founder of
Jacques Whitford Limited now
Stantec
Arun Valsangkar has over 50 years
of combined experience in teach-
ing, research, and consulting. He
was a professor at the Department
of Civil Engineering, University of
New Brunswick until his retirement
in 2009. Following his retirement,
he received the honorable distinction
from UNB as Professor Emeritus in
Civil Engineering where he continues
today.
Arun was educated in India and
arrived in Canada in 1974 to work as a
post doctorate fellow for the infamous
Professor Geoffrey Meyerhof at the
Technical University of Nova Scotia.
During this time, through the mentor-
ship of the late Dr. John Brown, he
was introduced to Hector Jacques and
Michael Whitford who had recently
started a geotechnical engineering firm
in Halifax. It was these early years that
Arun began to see the applications of
how he could leverage his theoretical
background in geotechnical engi-
neering into positive impacts on the
geotechnical engineering practice.
In 1981, Arun moved to Fredericton
where he joined the University of New
Lake Louise, Alberta. Left to Right: Remco Kleinlugtenbelt, Professor Burland
and Bryan Simpson (Southern AB Section).
