News Articles
Fleeing Disaster Is Hard. Climate Change Is Making it Harder
Wired, September 1, 2021
What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale
The Atlantic, May 20, 2021
Meet Gen C, the Covid Generation
CNN, March 11, 2021
What Kids Can Do: Paying Attention to Children’s Capacities in the Pandemic
Social Science Research Council, February 25, 2021
A Disaster Expert Died Two Days Before he was Set to be Vaccinated. Here’s How to Honor Him.
The Washington Post, February 17, 2021
Why Americans are Numb to the Staggering Coronavirus Death Toll
The Washington Post, December 21, 2020
Prof Seeks Avalanche of Ideas to Help Prevent Disaster
CU Boulder Today, December 14, 2020
How Promising Is the Vaccine News if People Won't Take it? | Opinion
Newsweek, December 8, 2020
In Public Health, Personal Responsibility Message Touted by Boulder County, Others has Mixed Success
Daily Camera, December 5, 2020
Clinicians, Cooks, and Cashiers: Examining Health Equity and the COVID-19 Risks to Essential Workers
Toxicology and Industrial Health, November 26, 2020
Empathy Could Stop This Pandemic
Elemental, November 16, 2020
Improving Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Humanitarian Settings: Reflections on Research Funded Through R2HC
BioMed Central, October 30, 2020
Boulder, Colorado Wakes up to the Threat of Worsening Wildfires
National Geographic, October 26, 2020
Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: Online Survey
National Library of Medicine, October 23, 2020
Multiple Disasters Strain Response Systems, Slow Recovery, and Deepen Inequity
DirectRelief, October 7, 2020
A Failure of Empathy Led to 200,000 Deaths. It Has Deep Roots.
The Atlantic, September 22, 2020
Systematic Human Rights Violations, Traumatic Events, Daily Stressors and Mental Health of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
BioMed Central, August 20, 2020
Who Helps Out in a Crisis?
The New York Times, July 14, 2020
The Coronavirus Disproportionately Affects Latinos and Blacks in Denver, but Experts Aren’t Sure Why
Denverite, May 1, 2020
Forget 'Social Distancing.' The WHO Prefers we Call it 'Physical Distancing' Because Social Connections are More Important Than Ever
CNN, April 17, 2020
Even as COVID-19 Poses Huge Challenges to Responders, the Risks for Natural Disasters are Rising
Discover, April 8, 2020
COVID-19: A ‘Transformative’ Moment for Social Science
CU Boulder Today, April 2, 2020
Officials Weigh Whether to Open Community Tornado Shelters Amid the Coronavirus Crisis
The Washington Post, March 26, 2020
Is ‘Social Distancing’ the Wrong Term? Expert Prefers ‘Physical Distancing,’ and the WHO Agrees
The Washington Post, March 26, 2020
CU Boulder Natural Hazards Center Focused on Coronavirus Challenge
Boulder Daily Camera, March 19, 2020
One Gathering Not Canceled in Honolulu: A Conference on Risk Management
Hawaii News Now, March 11, 2020
How Portland’s Earthquake Preppers Are Planning for the Worst
Citylab, December 18, 2019
CU Boulder Expert: Disasters Going to Become More Frequent, More Intense
Boulder Daily Camera, December 4, 2019
The Climate is Changing, but Our Disaster-Response System Isn’t Keeping Up, Experts Say
The Washington Post, October 5, 2019
Women and Men Found to Respond Differently in Disasters
Reuters, September 23, 2019
CU Boulder Researcher Helps Show Disparity in Disaster Response by Gender
Boulder Daily Camera, September 22, 2019
When Natural Disaster Strikes, Men and Women Respond Differently
CU Boulder Today, September 19, 2019
Grant Writing Boot Camp Pays Off for Social Sciences
Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, June 11, 2019
CU Boulder Hazards Center Lands $3M Grant to Support Natural Disaster Research
Boulder Daily Camera, January 3, 2019
$3M Center to Support Rapid-Response Research of Natural Disasters
CU Boulder Today, December 27, 2018
America’s Deathtrap Schools
New York Times, April 7, 2018
Lori Peek of the Natural Hazards Center Discusses Effects of Disasters on People
Emergency Management, June 30, 2017
Larger Disasters ‘Inevitable,’ Says New Natural Hazards Center Director
CU Boulder Today, March 15, 2017
Radio, Podcasts, and Broadcast News
Natural Hazards Center and CONVERGE, University of Colorado Boulder Disaster Zone Podcast, September 7, 2021
What Is Crisis Leadership and Can it lead us out of the Chaos?
EM Weekly with Todd De Voe, December 3, 2020
Understanding the Societal Impacts of COVID-19
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business COVID-19 Webinar Series, April 24, 2020
Disasters Deconstructed
Podbean, April 20, 2020
WHAAAT?! Festival; Gender and Natural Disasters; New Campus Murals
Radio 1190, KVCU-AM, Boulder, September 30, 2019
CU Study: Men, Women Handle Disasters Very Differently
CBS4 News, Denver, September 19, 2019
Interdisciplinary Natural Hazards Research with Lori Peek of CONVERGE
DesignSafe Radio, January 15, 2019
Climate Reports Finds Natural Disasters are Getting Worse; Where Will They Hit Hardest?
NewsChannel 5, Nashville, November 30, 2018
Children and Disasters
The Measure of Everyday Life, February 28, 2018
Other Media
PRiMO Keynote Speaker Dr. Lori Peek, Director of the National Hazards Center
Pacific Risk Management 'Ohana
Improving the Disaster Recovery of Low-Income Families
The Urban Institute, 2019
Hazards Center Research Associate Receives Research Scholar Fulbright Award
CU Institute of Behavioral Sciences, June 9, 2017
Recently Published
‘I Suppose I’ll Be Patching You Up, as Usual’: Women’s Roles and Normative Femininity in a Team-Based Video Game
Jessica Austin
New Media and Society, November 11, 2020
Mortality From Forces of Nature Among Older Adults by Race/Ethnicity and Gender
Rachel M. Adams, Candace Evans, Mason Mathews, Amy Wolkin, and Lori Peek
Journal of Applied Gerontology, September 10, 2020
Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina, Flood: An Interdisciplinary Approach
John van de Lindt, Walter Gillis Peacock, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Nathanael Rosenheim, Derya Deniz, Maria Dillard, Tori Tomiczek, Maria Koliou, Andrew Graettinger, Shane Crawford, Kenneth Harrison, Andre Barbosa, Jennifer Tobin, Jennifer Helgeson, Lori Peek, Mehrdad Memari, Elaina Sutley, Sara Hamideh, Donghwan Gu, Stephen Cauffman, and Juan Fung
Natural Hazards Review, August 1, 2020
A Framework for Convergence Research in the Hazards and Disaster Field: The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure CONVERGE Facility
Lori Peek, Jennifer Tobin, Rachel Adams, Haorui Wu, and Mason Mathews
Frontiers in Built Environment, July 7, 2020
What Methods Do Social Scientists Use to Study Disasters? An Analysis of the Social Science Extreme Events Research Network
Lori Peek, Heather Champeau, Jessica Austin, Mason Mathews, and Haorui Wu
American Behavioral Scientist, July 1, 2020
A Very Photogenic Cat: Personhood, Social Status, and Online Cat Photo Sharing
Jessica Austin and Leslie Irvine
Anthrozoos, May 12, 2020
Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, Five Year Science Plan, Multi-Hazard Research to Make a More Resilient World, Second Edition
Billy Edge, Julio Ramirez, Lori Peek, Antonio Bobet, William Holmes, Ian Robertson, and Thomas Smith
DesignSafe-CI, March 25, 2019
Global List and Interactive Web Map of University-Based Hazards and Disaster Research Centers
Emmanuelle Hines, Mason Mathews, and Lori Peek
Natural Hazards Review, February 11, 2020
Human-Induced Seismicity: Risk Perceptions in the State of Oklahoma
Nnenia M.Campbell, Maggie Leon-Corwin, Liesel A. Ritchie, and Jamie Vickery
The Extractive Industries and Society, January 31, 2020
Using Conjoint Constitution to Understand Responses to Slow-Moving Environmental Change: The Case of Mountain Pine Beetle in North-Central Colorado
Jamie Vickery, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, and Hua Qin
Environmental Sociology, December 2019
Disaster-Zone Research Needs a Code of Conduct
JC Gaillard and Lori Peek
Nature, November 20, 2019
Stories for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research Collaboration
MithraMoezzi and Lori Peek
Risk Analysis: An International Journal, November 6, 2019
Community Advantage and Individual Self-Efficacy Promote Disaster Preparedness: A Multilevel Model Among Persons with Disabilities
Rachel Adams, with David Eisenmann and Deborah Glik
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 3, 2019
Gilbert F. White’s Legacy: Remembering a Man and His Many Accomplishments
Environment, Special Edition, August 16, 2019
Women’s Experiences Across Disasters: A Study of Two Towns in Texas, United States
Melissa Villareal and Michelle Meyer
Disasters, June 24, 2019
Social Vulnerability and Procedural Equity: Exploring the Distribution of Disaster Aid Across Counties in the United States
Simone Domingue, with Christopher Emrich
The American Review of Public Administration, June 18, 2019
Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research
Nnenia Campbell
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2019
Global Academics Hazards and Disaster Research Centers Data
Lori Peek, Emmanuelle Hines, Mason Mathews, Jeffrey Gunderson, and Haorui Wu
DesignSafe-CI, May 28, 2019
Utilizing Co-Design Approach to Identify Various Stakeholders’ Roles in the Protection of Intangible Place-Making Heritage: The Case of Guchengping Village
Haorui Wu, with Chaoping Hou
Emerald Publishing, March 12, 2019
An Integrated Approach to Mental Health and Disaster Preparedness: A Cluster Comparison With Earthquake Affected Communities in Nepal
Courtney Welton-Mitchell and Leah James, with Shree Niwas Khanal and Alexander James
BMC Psychiatry, September 15, 2018
Exposure Outliers: Children, Mothers, and Cumulative Disaster Exposure in Louisiana
Lubna Mohammad and Lori Peek
Journal of Family Strengths, September 8, 2018