The Council approved the change of the name of the Society to International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. The acronym will remain ISRM.
Prof. Reşat Ulusay was elected as the next ISRM President. He will start his term of office after the 14th International Congress of the ISRM, which will take place in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, in 2019.
During the ISRM International Symposium AfriRock 2017 four new ISRM Fellows were inducted: Xia-Ting Feng (China), Álvaro J. Gonzalez Garcia (Colombia), Yuzo Ohnishi (Japan) and Ivan Vrkljan (Croatia).
The ISRM Council meeting took place during the 2017 ISRM International Symposium AfriRock 2017, in Cape Town, South Africa. It was preceed by the Board meeting.
The Rocha Award Committee selected the winner of the Rocha Medal 2018, Michael du Plessis (South Africa) and two runners-up: Javier Arzúa Touriño (Spain) and Topias Siren (Finland)
