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UD’s Disaster Research Center Celebrates 60th Anniversary, Hosts Fireside Chat with Anthony Fauci

UD’s Disaster Research Center Celebrates 60th Anniversary, Hosts Fireside Chat with Anthony Fauci

May 9, 2024 | CHEER Media Features, News and Events

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

Climate Game On: UD Hosts Inaugural Climate-themed Video Game Jam

Apr 11, 2024 | CHEER Media Features, Climate Change, Hub Highlights

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

CHEER’s Tricia Wachtendorf Authors Article in The Conversation

Mar 4, 2024 | CHEER Media Features, Climate Change, Hub Highlights

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 Appointed Interim Dean at UD’s School of Public Policy and Administration

Feb 28, 2024 | CHEER Media Features, Hub Highlights

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.

CHEER Team Members at ECU Research Property Buyouts and Public Perceptions

CHEER Team Members at ECU Research Property Buyouts and Public Perceptions

Feb 27, 2024 | CHEER Media Features, Climate Change, Coastal Hazards, Hub Highlights

Several CHEER team members are a part of a multidisciplinary at ECU studying compound coastal water events (CCWEs) in eastern North Carolina.

Shangjia Dong Receives Fellowship From Gulf Research Program

Shangjia Dong Receives Fellowship From Gulf Research Program

Feb 1, 2024 | CHEER Media Features, Hub Highlights

Shangjia Dong, member of the Hub’s buildings and households thrusts and a core faculty member in the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center, has been awarded an Early Career Research Fellowship by the Gulf Coast Research Program.

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