The new Natural Hazards library catalog interface is now online! It’s got lots of great new features and the Hazards Center and the IBS tech team have worked super hard to create it. Read more here: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/dr/archives/dr651.html#threeAccess the library directly here: http://hazlib.colorado.edu/
If you’re not directly involved in the realm of natural and human-caused disasters, a small news item may have escaped notice last week: The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology’s publication of its first comprehensive community resilience planning guide.
Andrei Rogers' latest book has just been published: "Applied Multiregional Demography: Migration and Population Redistribution", (Dordrecht: Springer), 2015. This book reconsiders conclusions reached in the literatureregarding several fundamental common sense demographicquestions in migration and population redistribution, including:Are the proximate sources of urban population growth mostlydue to migration or natural increase? Is it mostly migration or“aging-in-place”
“A Multi-level Life Course Model of Boundaries in Knowledge Production” Projects spanning multiple disciplines (e.g., interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research) have been examined and evaluated in ways that are substantially under‐theorized. We propose a dynamic model of how disciplinary boundaries are constructed, maintained and crossed, as a means to identify how research fields change as
John O’Loughlin, CU-Boulder professor of geography and faculty associate in the Institute of Behavioral Science, has become the first foreigner in more than 100 years to win the Semenov-Tyan-Shansky gold medal for research on Russia.
The mystery of why health outcomes deteriorate the longer Hispanic immigrants are in the U.S. cannot be blamed on America’s fast food culture alone.
A new $6.2 million grant from the National Institute of Justice will help 32 Front Range middle schools put knowledge into action to prevent youth violence, according to Beverly Kingston, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence in the CU-Boulder Institute of Behavioral Science and the grant’s principal investigator.
Jim Dykes is the new Director of Computing and Research Services (CRS) at IBS. Jim was Senior Director of Engineering at Seagate Technology; prior to joining Seagate, he held a variety of positions at Dartmouth College, including jobs as Director of Informatics at the Dartmouth Medical School and Director of Data Analysis in the Center
Kathleen Tierney gave the keynote address at the Colorado Wildland Fire Conference in Snowmass. Below is a link to a news report about her talk: http://www.aspentimes.com/news/18337621-113/researcher-at-snowmass-conference-frames-why-wildfire-impact
President Obama this week expressed backing for behavioral research. He signed an executive order that praised the value of behavioral science and told U.S. agencies to look for ways to apply behavioral science findings to make various policies and programs more effective.
