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.
Partner Perspectives – The Bill Anderson Fund
As CHEER welcomes its second cohort of summer scholars, the Hub is thrilled to feature the Bill Anderson Fund in its inaugural issue of Partner Perspectives, a quarterly column that will highlight the strategic, collaborative work done alongside one of CHEER’s 17 diverse partners.
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.
