Annual Hazards and Disasters Student Paper Competition

Previous Winners

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2009 Winners

Xiaoli Lu, Leiden University
First Place, Graduate Studen
Mass Evacuation in Typhoon Response in Wenzhou, China: A Preliminary Analysis of Progress and Challenges

Megan Reid, University of Texas at Austin
Honorable Mention, Graduate Student
Survivors’ Perceptions of Federal and Non-Governmental Responses to Hurricane Katrina

Krista Richardson, Colorado State University
First Place, Undergraduate Student
Katrina’s Children: An Analysis of Educational Outcomes Among Displaced Children in Colorado

Charles Jacob Huxford, Alexis Blue, and Hope Rietzen, Western Washington University
Honorable Mention, Undergraduate Student
Reversing Rural Abandonment in the Mediterranean: A Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment of Communities on the Ionian Island of Kefalonia, Greece

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2007 Winners

Brett Heeger, Brown University
Disasters and CNN: The importance of TV news coverage for provoking private donations for disaster relief

Alex Mitchell, Colorado State University
Impact of Fear: An examination of the 2002 Washington, DC sniper shootings

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2006 Winners

Lindsey Barnes, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Public Perceptions of Flash Flood False Alarms: A Denver, Colorado Case Study

Brooke Fisher Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Preparing the People

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2005 Winners

Sheridan Wimmer, Kansas State University
Can Biotechnology Help Slow Global Warming?

Hannah Brenkert, University of Colorado
The Place of Fire

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2004 Winners

Tristan L. Emery, Purdue University
Untitled (disaster communications)

Walker S. Ashley, University of Georgia
Derecho Hazards in the United States

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