The Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers proudly announces that the 8th BIOT Conference on Poromechanics (BIOT- 8) has been spotlighted in ASCE Civil Engineering Source under the title “A colony of collaboration: Lessons from the 2025 Biot Conference”. The article is written by Conference Co-chair Pania Newell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah, and explores how the event embodied collective intelligence in addressing modern engineering challenges.

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