Professor John Hadjigeorgiou (CivE), Director of the Lassonde Institute for Mining and Claudette MacKay Lassonde Chair in Mineral Engineering, was recently elected to the Council of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM).

Professor Hadjigeorgiou was also elected as Chair of the Rock Engineering Society (RES) at its Annual General Meeting in Montreal on May 22, 2011.

Founded in 1898, CIM is the leading technical society of professionals in the Canadian minerals, metals, materials and energy industries. Its Rock Engineering Society, a constituent society of CIM since 1984, promotes the development and application of mining industry geomechanics to support safe and economically viable extraction.