The East Hampton Star: CHEER Hazards Expert Comments on Local Hurricane Risk
Eventually, a major hurricane will hit Montauk, and the eastern Long Island hamlet — whose lifeblood is the ocean — is not ready.
Hub Researchers and Students Attend Workshop on Preparing for Future Disasters
Earlier this year, several Hub members participated in a day-long graduate student workshop focusing on the future of disaster planning and response at the University of Delaware.
CHEER Hub’s STARR Framework Highlighted in NHERI Newsletter
The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) is partnering with CHEER Hub on a hurricane decision-making framework. The software tool will close the gap between mitigation solutions and implementation.
UD’s Disaster Research Center Celebrates 60th Anniversary, Hosts Fireside Chat with Anthony Fauci
As a part of the Disaster Research Center’s 60th anniversary and workshop, the University of Delaware hosted a fireside chat with the former director of National Institutes of Health.
Climate Game On: UD Hosts Inaugural Climate-themed Video Game Jam
In March, competitors, judges and video game enthusiasts celebrated UD’s first video game jam, a time-limited competition organized by A.R. Siders that challenges participants to create a video game from scratch.
CHEER’s Tricia Wachtendorf Authors Article in The Conversation
Alongside her fellow co-director of the Disaster Research Center, Tricia Wachtendorf, a professor of sociology at University of Delaware, authored a news feature that discussed how people’s social circumstances and individual challenges shape how they experience disasters.
