Researcher Spotlight – Chris Szpilka
Postdoctoral researcher Chris Szpilka has a passion for solving problems. Now a year into working with the Hub, she’s patching holes and optimizing workflows in CHEER’s hazards thrust.
Student Spotlight – Nelson Adeniji
As a PhD student with a background in geography and urban planning, Nelson Adeniji’s work on the economy and household thrusts exemplifies the Hub’s interdisciplinary approach to research.
CHEER Hub Leads and Learns at NHERI’s 2024 Natural Hazards Research Summit
Nearly a dozen members of CHEER traveled to Baltimore to participate in the event, which had the theme “Research-to-Impact: Building Partnerships to Strengthen Community Resilience.”
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.
Joseph Trainor Appointed Interim Dean at UD’s School of Public Policy and Administration
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.
