The Engineering Laboratory at NIST, Gaithersburg will be hosting the 5th annual (and third virtual) symposium featuring the 2018 NIST and 2020 NIST/NSF Disaster Resilience Grant Research Program awardees.
Researchers will convene to share insights and findings based on the research topics funded under the program. The Disaster Resilience Research Grants support advancement in U.S. disaster resilience, including research on Disaster and Failure Studies, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Wind Impact Reduction, and Reduced Ignition of Building Components in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires Project, community recovery, infrastructure resilience, and other related topics. The symposium will be held over 2 days in a virtual setting with each recipient presenting their work and answering questions about their research and related topics.
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