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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.
UD’s Disaster Research Center to Host 60th Anniversary Workshop in May 2024
In honor of it’s 60th anniversary, the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center will be hosting an international workshop, “Innovating for an Imagined Disaster Future,” in Newark, Delaware from Thursday, May 2nd through Sunday, May 5th.
CHEER Hosts Inaugural Community Engagement Workshop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Representatives from six of the Hub’s community partner organizations gathered at the Renaissance Computing Institute in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on February 29 to attend CHEER’s first Community Engagement Workshop.
CHEER All-Team Meeting Advances Research and Strengthens Sense of Community for Hub Members
On Friday, March 1, CHEER researchers, postdocs, students, and staff gathered at Renaissance Computing Institute in Chapel Hill, NC, on Friday, March 1 during the Hub’s second annual all-team meeting.
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.
Researcher Spotlight – Caroline Williams
Thanks to Caroline Williams, a postdoctoral researcher, CHEER’s knowledge framework is well on its way to becoming a vital resource for the Hub.
CHEER Hub Represented at the 2024 NHERI Computational Symposium
Six members of the Hub met in California to present their research at UCLA.
Shangjia Dong Receives Fellowship From Gulf Research Program
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.
Researcher Spotlight – Kevin Liu
As a postdoctoral scholar with a background in industrial and systems engineering, Kevin plays a critical role in the Hub on the integration thrust.
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