{"id":337271,"date":"2026-09-03T20:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337271\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:28:55","slug":"queens-is-bringing-back-graduate-from-us-to-teach-geological-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337271\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s is bringing back graduate from US to teach geological engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a99b032018e4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo: Gabe Walton, supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Dr. Gabriel Walton is currently a professor at the Colorado School of Mines and a recipient of the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A geological engineer working in the United States is coming home to Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gabriel Walton is the recipient of the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada. He will be teaching at Queen&#8217;s University in the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering starting in summer 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The chair will provide $8 million in federal funding over eight years to support the work. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walton says Queen&#8217;s one the best universities in Canada in that field.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walton graduated from Queen&#8217;s in 2014 with a PhD in geological engineering. He then moved to Golden, Colorado the following year working at the Colorado School of Mines as a professor and associate department head.<\/p>\n<p>Walton says during his time there he also collaborated with the Colorado Department of Transportation on some projects.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Walton is one of 64 recipients of the inaugural Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada, part of a $1-billion federal investment in to the recruitment of internationally recognized researchers working abroad. This program aims to strengthen Canada\u2019s research and innovation capacity, economic security and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Walton says this funding gave him a chance to return to a place he is very familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>During his time at the Colorado School of Mines, Walton discovered that there was more focus placed on developing STEM researchers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Walton and his team at Queen&#8217;s will focus on building a more complete picture of slope hazards. They will look at how slopes fail and how they respond to both sudden and longer-term environmental changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Story by Ken Hashizume<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Gabe Walton, supplied Dr. Gabriel Walton is currently a professor at the Colorado School of Mines and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-337271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}