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Dan Simon presented his paper, "Structural Shocks and Suicide Mortality: The Cases of the Opioid Epidemic and the Great Recession in the United States" (co-authored with Ryan Masters) at the ASA Health and Mortality session
David Pyrooz, Kendra Clark, and Jennifer Tostlebe published a paper in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, titled 鈥淕ang affiliation and prisoner reentry: Discrete-time variation in recidivism by current, former, and non-gang
With the support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Science Foundation, the Natural Hazards Center released a Special Call for Quick Response proposals for research in the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam,
Visual art project that captures how the twin-cities of Matamoros and Brownsville are torn apart due to the temporarily closed border. Families are separated, physical borders seem more prominent, and loved ones are not able to stand with each other
From the Provost鈥檚 letter: 鈥淚n selecting you for this award, the faculty committee pointed to the importance of your book Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Members of the
Adriana N煤帽ez successfully defended her dissertation "Mexican Americans on the Border: Ethnic and Political Identities in the Trump Era." Her committee members were Christi Sue, Matt Desan, Rachel Rinaldo, Eddie Telles, and Rob Buffington.
A Framework for Convergence Research in the Hazards and Disaster Field: The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure CONVERGE Facility
Lori Peek and Kathleen Tierney are both quoted throughout this New York Times article, focused on gender and helping behaviors in the pandemic.
Last week the Natural Hazards Center hosted their 45th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop 鈥 and first ever online gathering. With over 800 people registered, it was the largest in the Center鈥檚 history. In addition, the Natural Hazards Center co-
