Six Ph.D. students will receive a $10,000 grant to support interdisciplinary dissertation work courtesy of the 2010 PERISHIP Dissertation Fellowship Program in Hazards, Risks, and Disasters. The winners were announced during the opening ceremony of Natural Hazards Workshop.
The program assists top scholars in the completion of hazards dissertation work in natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, engineering, and in interdisciplinary programs such as environmental studies.
The PERISHIP Fellowship is administered by a partnership between the Natural Hazards Center and the Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) with funding from Swiss Re and the National Science Foundation.
The 2010 PERISHIP Fellows and their dissertations are:
Ryan Alaniz, University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology A Tale of Three Cities: Long-term Development in Post-Disaster Honduras
Daina Harvey, Rutgers University, Department of Sociology Moving on From Hurricane Katrina
Owen Kulemeka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Media Disasters, Individuals with Disabilities, and the Transportation Disadvantaged: A Study of Preparedness Programs in Post-Disaster
Sizheng Li, University of Delaware, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Modeling Post-Earthquake Fire Spread and Suppression
Kristin O'Donovan, North Carolina State University, Department of Public and International Affairs Variation in Flood Mitigation Plans and Effects of Experience in Alteration
Christopher Uejio, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Environmental Influences on Neglected Public Health Problems
For more information on the fellowship and program winners, visit the PERISHIP website.