Professor Goodman Receives Honorary Degree from Graz University

Professor Emeritus Richard Goodman has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Graz University of Technology in Austria. In a colorful, old world ceremony in the University's Great Hall, Goodman was extolled for important and innovative contributions to engineering geology and rock mechanics, and for his biography of the great Austrian civil engineer Karl Terzaghi (The Engineer as Artist).

Goodman obtained his PhD from the Dept. of Mineral Technology at Berkeley in 1964, and built a productive career in that department and then in the Civil Engineering department. At the time of his retirement in 1994, the University of California awarded him the Berkeley Citation. Subsequently he became an active writer and consultant in geological engineering, specializing in the safety of existing dams. Since 1995, he has been a frequent guest professor in Austria, and an occasional lecturer at Berkeley.

Goodman is also active in the field of opera, as singer, producer, pianist, and stage director. He founded the Berkeley Opera and continues to perform roles there, and also sings with Opera Fresca in Mendocino, where he currently makes his home.

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