CEMHS launches tool to connect emergency managers and students through an applied project exchange platform

What is the HDxCC Project Dashboard? Local resources are scarce and college students need hands-on experience, especially in the emergency management and homeland security profession to improve their job prospects. The goal of the Hazards and Disasters xChange Collaboratory (HDxCC) Project Dashboard is to a) connect emergency managers and other community stakeholders with faculty and students to implement community projects through in-class projects, virtual internships, guided studies, capstone projects, thesis work, and similar; b) immerse graduate and/or undergraduate students in community projects that allow students to apply their emergency management core competencies acquired during their academic studies into work-ready skills; and c) create mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships between state, local, and non-profit organizations operating in the risk reduction, disaster recovery, emergency management or homeland security arena with higher education students and faculty.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards Governance by Brian J. Gerber (ed.)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards Governance clarifies our understanding of the processes and dynamics of this new, broad-based field. It addresses key theoretic gaps on natural hazards governance in general, and presents in an integrated fashion the status of natural hazards governance worldwide, both nationally and regionally. Focused on applications of governance practices in all variations of response to immediate and long-term threats, it also covers assessment of risk reduction, community resilience, capacity building, and planning. All of the articles appear online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science.

Statement on Systemic Racism from the North American Alliance of Hazards and Disasters Research Institutes

Emergency Management Student Association

We are the Emergency Management Student Association (EMSA), an Arizona State University Student Organization. EMSA is located at the ASU Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security (CEMHS). We bring hands-on experiences to students interested in Disaster Management, Operations, Preparedness, Response and Homeland Security. We have already teamed up with Maricopa County Department of Emergency Management, Arizona State University, ASU Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security and Arizona’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs.

Outstanding graduate credits ASU program for becoming a fire captain at 24

For a firefighter to attain the rank of captain usually takes several years, often a decade or two, of dedicated service. At age 24, Utah Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Oliver Silva — make that Fire Captain Oliver Silva — credits his graduate studies at Arizona State University as what set him apart from his colleagues. Silva is captain in the fire department at the 801,505-acre U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground in the northwestern Utah desert, about 50 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. He is receiving his master’s degree in emergency management and homeland security offered by ASU’s Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, and is the Watts interdisciplinary programs’ fall 2019 Outstanding Graduate.