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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joseph Trainor, the Hub’s practitioner engagement director and leader of the households thrust, has been named interim dean of the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware.
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