We are extremely pleased to announce the selection of the 2006/7 PERISHIP Fellows in Hazards, Risk, and Disasters!!

Jong-Wha Bai, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M, "Seismic Fragility Analysis and Loss Estimation for Concrete Structures."

Kapil Khandelwal, Structural Engineering, University of Michigan, "Progressive Collapse Mitigation in Steel Structures."

Anuradha Mukherji, Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, "Negotiating Housing Recovery in Post-Earthquake Urban Kutch, India."

JiYoung Park, Planning, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, “Essays on Economic Modeling: Spatial-Temporal Extensions and Verification. ”

Scott Somers, Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, “Building Resilience Potential: Toward a New Paradigm in Disaster Planning.”

Anna Versluis, Geography, Clark University, “We All Live Downstream: Flood Hazard and Land Change in Southeast Haiti.”

Sarah Vogel, History of Public Health in the Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, “Uncertainty and risk in the plastics age: a history of the science and politics of bisphenol A.”

Tamara Wall, Interdisciplinary Studies in Geography, University of Montana, “Resident's Perceptions of Place and Wildfire Hazards and Risks in Southwestern Montana.”