To support graduate students seeking academic degrees that underpin disaster safety and mitigation, including construction, engineering, financial services, risk communication, social sciences and other related fields.
Applicants must be master or doctorate degree students or fourth or fifth year architectural students performing research on the following topics: innovative use of concrete systems to improve the resilience of new production homes; quantification of the impacts significant loss of housing stock has on post disaster community recovery and continuity; life cycle cost analysis examining short and long term financial and social impacts of more resilient concrete home construction; innovative use of concrete to improve the resilience of homes that are rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed in a natural disaster.
Selection will be based on the committee’s criteria.