Support the Disaster Research Center

After 50 years of excellence in research, training, and service in the disaster community, the Disaster Research Center continues to pioneer advances in disaster research. 

Giving back to the Disaster Research Center allows us:

• to advance interdisciplinary research on preventing and managing disasters;
• to further our commitment to graduate and undergraduate research training, especially through the Disaster Science and Management Program;
• to strengthen The E. L. Quarantelli Resource Collection as the world’s most complete collection on the social and behavioral science aspects of disasters;
• and to expand our portfolio of seven hundred field studies in the aftermath of disasters, catastrophes, and community crises.

Student Professionalism

DRC believes that students are essential to the Center's research and service mission. External grants typically support students to present work on funded projects. However, gifts to DRC allowed us to support, in 2016, an additional 15 students to present their independent research and participate in meetings both in the US and abroad.

With gratitude, these are just a few of the students you helped support this year:

• Flavio Lopes Ribeiro was able to present his paper on the "Usefulness and Practical Application of the Concept of Resilience in Disaster Science & Management" at The 3rd World Congress on Resilience held in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. He focused his presentation on how varying concepts of resilience (as a process or an outcome) have different impacts on policy-making, projects and practices in disaster risk reduction. 
• Mei Johnson was able to attend The 10th Annual Society of American Archivists Research Forum on Foundations and Innovations in Atlanta, GA at which she presented a poster (by Mei Johnson and Valerie Marlowe) entitled "Safeguarding the Charters of Freedom from Nuclear Attack in 1975: Agency Convergence and Idea Divergence." 
• Samantha Penta, Valerie Marlowe, Carolina Velequez, Sarah Gregory and Rachel Chicquione were able to attend the Natural Hazards Workshop in Broomfield, CO this year. They gave poster presentations, met with DRC alums, and exchanged ideas with scholars, emergency managers and other's in the disaster community. 
• Diego Fernandez Otegui traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to participate in The 4th World Conference on Humanitarian Studies organized by the International Humanitarian Studies Association. Diego presented two papers at the conference: "Urban Field Disaster Response: A Mixed Coordination Model for Operations in Urban Marginal Settings" and "Humanitarian Response and Organized Crime: An Exploratory Essay on the Need for International Regulation to Control Humanitarian Organizations."
  

Professor Enrico L. Quarantelli established three funds to support disaster research, education, and scholarship. Those wishing to honor the memory of DRC co-founder and Professor Emeritus Enrico L. (Henry) Quarantelli may consider making a gift to the following funds.

The E. L. Quarantelli Scholars in Disaster Social Science Research Endowment Fund

The Quarantelli Scholars Fund will help support University of Delaware students pursuing disaster-related studies in the social sciences.

The E. L. Quarantelli Field Research Endowment Fund

The Quarantelli Field Research Fund will help to continue Disaster Research Center's longstanding tradition of quick-response field work and other field deployments.

The E. L. Quarantelli Resource Collection

The collection is used and visited annually by scholars and officials from around the world. Donations to the resource collection, the world's largest specialized disaster library, will enable continued acquisition and preservation of disaster books, periodicals, articles, consultant reports, artifacts, and other items.

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Questions about your contribution?

If you have any questions about your donation, please contact the Office of Annual Giving. Email annualgiving@udel.edu or call 866-535-4504 .