Dr. Marie G. Laborie, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, was keynote speaker for the COST

Dr. Marie G. Laborie, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, was the keynote speaker for the COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research) Action E35: “Fracture mechanics and micromechanics of wood and wood composites with regard to wood machining”. Her talk was entitled: “Cooperativity of segmental relaxation: application to wood and wood-based composites”. The meeting took place in Rosenheim Germany, Sept 29-30, 2005.