NHERI Graduate Student Council
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Join the NHERI GSC to learn, grow, and connect as we mitigate natural hazards together. Register today: https://bit.ly/NHERI_GSCouncil.
Updates
Congratulations to the award recipients of the 2026 NSF NHERI GSC Mini-Conference!
We are proud to recognize outstanding student research across the Data Challenge, Research Challenge, and Individual Poster Presentation categories. These award-winning presentations highlighted innovative approaches to natural hazards engineering, community resilience, infrastructure risk, machine learning, evacuation planning, insurance and recovery economics, and disaster resilience.
Data Challenge
- First Place: Samjhana Sharma, Sujal Sapkota, and Surabhi Acharya
- Second Place: Jaril Deschamps and Ravindu Jayasekara
Research Challenge
- First Place: Ahmed Hassanien, Alireza Eskandarinejad, Emmanuel Randle, Mujungu Museru, and Shakirat Bukola Aliyu
- Second Place: Miki Mori, Gloria Hyun, Samuel Halim, and Patrick Hadinata
Individual Poster Presentation
- First Place: Qianyi Liu
- Second Place: Diako Abbasi
- Third Place: Ajibola Mofikoya
Thank you to all presenters, judges, organizers, and participants for making this year’s Mini-Conference a strong platform for emerging research in natural hazards and infrastructure resilience.
Program Information
NHERI support for graduate students. The NHERI Graduate Student Council provides an opportunity for graduate students to:
- Build a diverse graduate community for natural hazard researchers.
- Connect with mentors throughout the natural hazards community.
- Attend natural hazards, research, and career workshops.
- Learn about the impact of research on natural hazards practice.
- Gain leadership, service, and funding opportunities.
The NHERI Graduate Student Council offers graduate students interested in natural hazards research a chance to connect with other like-minded students. The GS Council meetings will support graduate students in building a network of support in the natural hazards field. The council will connect graduate students to natural hazard leaders, schedule workshops on careers, and research while providing leadership, service, and funding opportunities.
Eligibility
NHERI Graduate Student Council membership is open to all graduate students interested in natural hazards research. This includes those graduate students who focus on engineering, as well as those who focus on social science or medicine related to natural hazards disasters. While we encourage membership from institutions around the globe, funding opportunities are currently limited to members in U.S. Institutions.
Registration
Registration for the NHERI Graduate Student Council will remain open indefinitely, and the ECO or GS Council leadership will contact new members at the beginning of each month.
Explore
Click the links below to find out more information about the NHERI Graduate Student Council. As we build the Council together, we will offer more information. To register to become a member, click the link above and provide your ideas. Your input makes all the difference!
Contact Us
The Education and Community Outreach (ECO) and the ECO Committee host the NHERI Graduate Student Council. If you have questions about the Council or the registration process, please email us at reu-request@designsafe-ci.org. We want to hear from you!