Seven PhD students will receive a $10,000 grant to support interdisciplinary dissertation work courtesy of the 2012 PERISHIP Dissertation Fellowship Program in Hazards, Risks, and Disasters.
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 with funding from Swiss Re and the National Science Foundation.
The 2012 PERISHIP Fellows and their dissertations are:
Natalie D. Baker, University of California, Irvine, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, "Practicing Disaster: Organizational Preparedness for a Catastrophic Earthquake in Southern California"
Gregg Bowser, University of South Carolina Department of Geography, "Determining the Differences in Evacuation Influences and Perceptions within the United States Elderly Population"
Grant Cavanaugh, University of Kentucky Department of Agricultural Economics, "The Prospects for an El Niño Futures Market: Simulating New Disaster Risk Markets Emerging Over Time"
Dana Rose Garfin, University of California, Irvine, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, "Differential Responses to Natural Disasters: The Impact of the 2010 8.8 Magnitude Chilean Earthquake on Children and Adults Living Near the Epicenter"
Mark Muszynski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, "Soil Improvement Strategies to Mitigate Impact of Seismic Ground Failures via Novel Integration of Experiment and Simulation"
Lan Nguyen, University of Colorado Boulder Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, "Theoretical Fundamentals of Confined Masonry for New and Retrofitted Structures"
Jessica Weinkle, University of Colorado Boulder Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, "Characterizing, Creating, and Governing Florida’s Hurricane Risk"
For more information on the fellowship, visit the PERISHIP website.