DRC NEWS PLACEMENTS: 43


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June 10, 2020

Disaster Science Reaches Out
Students provide accessible research for emergency professionals

The first topic selected for the DRC It! hurricane project focused on how residents decide whether and when to evacuate from an approaching hurricane. It’s a topic that draws intense interest from emergency management professionals each Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1.

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May 11, 2020

Vulnerable communities

You would be hard pressed to find a person on the planet who hasn’t been impacted in some way by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

But some communities have been hit harder than others, particularly those vulnerable segments of society and mothers who have infants they need to feed. Others have experienced other disasters — tornadoes, drought, floods — on top of the current health crisis that can overwhelm populations and their health care and emergency preparedness systems.

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May 5, 2020

How is COVID-19 Impactning Delawareans?

he University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center wants to interview as many people in and around Delaware as possible about the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on their lives.

“What Delawareans are experiencing right now is important to contributing to a better response in future disasters,” said Tricia Wachtendorf, director of the Disaster Research Center. “Our focus is both on the University of Delaware community, but also very much on those residents, organizations, businesses and groups in and around Delaware who have been impacted.”

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April 6, 2020

Clemson’s powerful football coach commits coronavirus fumble

DRC core faculty Jennifer Trivedi discusses messaging, disasters, and college football.

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October 9, 2019

Coastal Retreat
New study with UD researcher examines federal homeowner buyouts

he University of Delaware has been at the forefront of trying to understand where and why FEMA-funded buyouts are offered and accepted. After Hurricane Sandy, Professors Sue McNeil, Joe Trainor, and Alex Greer (then a doctoral student at UD) studied why homeowners accept FEMA-funded buyouts.

The University of Delaware has been at the forefront of trying to understand where and why Federal Emergency Management Agency-funded buyouts are offered and accepted. A new study by a team involving UD researcher A.R. Siders is the first to examine nationwide data on FEMA’s buyout program.

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August 22, 2019

Adapting to climate change

When it comes to climate change, moving people and development away from at-risk areas can be viewed, not as a defeat, but as a smart strategy that allows communities to adapt and thrive.

That’s the case for carefully planned “managed retreat” made by three environmental researchers in an article published Aug. 23 in the Policy Forum section of the journal Science. The article was written by lead author A.R. Siders of the University of Delaware, with co-authors Miyuki Hino and Katharine J. Mach of Stanford University and the University of Miami, respectively.

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May 28, 2019

A Celebration of Success
College of Arts and Sciences honors alumni, faculty, students

The University of Delaware’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) honored the accomplishments of alumni, faculty and students during the 2018-19 academic year at its annual spring Celebrating Achievement and Success event on Tuesday, May 21.

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February 22, 2019

In Memoriam:
DRC Co-Founder Russell Dynes

Russell R. Dynes, an early pioneer in the field of disaster research and co-founder of the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center (DRC), passed away Feb. 10, 2019. He was 95.

Professor emeritus of sociology, Dr. Dynes came to Delaware in 1982, serving as chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice until 1988. During his tenure as chair, the DRC and the late Enrico Quarantelli moved to UD from Ohio State University. In 1963, Dr. Dynes and Dr. Quarantelli founded the DRC there, focusing on social science aspects of disasters. The center’s work became internationally known and developed cooperative relations with scholars around the world.

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September 25, 2018

Hewlping Communities Prepare for Hurricanes
$1.99 million NSF grant supports disaster research project at UD

Katrina. Sandy. Maria. These and other hurricanes have devastated countless Americans. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that in 2018, between four and seven hurricanes will form off the Atlantic Coast, and the East Coast is recovering from the damage of Hurricane Florence. After that? The hurricanes will keep coming — that’s not a question. The question is to how to mitigate the damage when these events inevitably take place.

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April 3, 2017

In Memoriam:
DRC Co-Founder Enrico L. Quarantelli

Prof. Quarantelli, an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of disaster research, died April 2 at his home in Newark, Delaware, at age 92.

The June 9 service will take place from 2-4 p.m. at Daugherty Hall, Trabant University Center, on UD’s Newark campus. Before the reception, a brief graveside interment with a military honor guard will be held from 11-11:15 a.m. at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, 2465 Chesapeake City Road, Bear, Delaware.

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February 21, 2017

Disaster Recovery for Delaware: Exploring Potential Partnerships Among Emergency Planners, First Responders, Librarians and Others

On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, The Disaster Research Center, at the University of Delaware, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region and the Delaware Division of Libraries sponsored Disaster Recovery for Delaware: Exploring Potential Partnerships Among Emergency Planners, First Responders, Librarians and Others.

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January 30, 2017

Before the Storm
A Vulnerable Community Braces for the Impacts of Sea Level Rise

DRC affiliate faculty member Victor Perez and his work on residents’ perceptions of the risks of climate change and sea level rise in Wilmington, DE’s Southbridge community, was recently noted in a Yale Environment 360 article.

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December 29, 2016

DRC Thanks You for Your Support

As our month-long #DRCExperience campaign comes to a close, DRC Directors James Kendra & Tricia Wachtendorf would like to say THANK YOU to all who have donated to DRC this giving season!

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November 29, 2016

DRC’s End-of-Year Giving Campaign

As we near the end of our 53rd year, we honor the spirit of the holiday season to reflect and celebrate another year of successes in research, education, and service with many thanks owed to you, our friends, alumni and supporters. Give a gift to DRC today.

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November 17, 2016

Diversity in Disaster Research
Anderson fellowships provide support network for young scholars

Graduate students from across the country who gathered at the University of Delaware for two days of professional development and shared scholarship were following in the footsteps of the late William A. Anderson, a prominent disaster researcher who was dedicated to increasing diversity in the field.

In the 1960s, Anderson, whose research focused on how disasters affected marginalized communities, was one of the first graduate students in the Disaster Research Center, which was then at Ohio State University and is now at UD.

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July 8, 2016

Lessons from a Superstorm
Transportation planning research addresses pre- and post-Sandy climate change adaptations

In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the East Coast of the United States, leaving in its wake flattened dunes, chewed-up boardwalks, washed-out roads, twisted carnival rides, tangled power lines, sodden furniture and toppled cabanas.

Scenes from Sandy were all the evidence needed to convince many metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) that it was time to integrate climate change into the long-range planning process.

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June 20, 2016

On 9/11, America’s Dunkirk
Disaster researchers chronicle largest water evacuation in history

American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11, a new book by James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf, associate professor of sociology and director of the DRC. The two social scientists arrived in New York on Sept. 13, 2001, and ended up staying two months as they conducted interviews and delved into various aspects of the response to the terrorist attacks. They returned about a year later for follow-up

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January 13, 2016

Disaster research
Resource collection at UD receives important scholarly papers

Resource collection at UD receives important scholarly papers.

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September 2, 2015

ELATE Fellow
Rachel Davidson participating in national leadership program for women in STEM

Rachel Davidson participating in national leadership program for women in STEM

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