11/11/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/11/2025 13:56
Dr. Amy Hyman (left) associate professor, and Dr. Joseph Richmond (right), associate professor and department chair, disaster preparedness and emergency management, oriented first-year experience classes on natural hazards this semester, using a National Science Foundation grant through its Natural Hazards Center. They included a virtual reality experience that took students through a tornado simulation. They also presented their research, on students' preferred warning methods and protective actions, to the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C.