The Geo-Legends series features our most eminent members. In episode 4 of season 5, Marika Santagata interviews Patricia Culligan of the University of Notre Dame! Patricia was the 2021 Seed Lecturer, among numerous other awards an honors through her career. She talks about everything from her childhood in Australia, her time at Cambridge, MIT, and Columbia, her current role as an administrator, and so much more! This interview was recorded at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN on June 25, 2025. Special thanks to Drew Stone of the Lyles School for his camera work! The Geo-Institute is a technical society with about 12,000 geotechnical engineers and geologists as members. Find out more or join at geoinstitute.org. Music in this episode: The Wallflowers - One Headlight. From the 1996 Show more