May 2022
- FIU experts are available to discuss the 2022 hurricane season. Mentions Amal Elawady from the NHERI Wall of Wind. FIU News, May 26.
- Florida Lab to Mimic Category 6 Hurricanes with 200-Mile-per-Hour Wind. Feature on FIU and NICHE. Scientific American, May 25.
- Take a look: Florida hurricane facility replicates storm conditions to improve products, building codes. Feature on FIU, ClickOrlando, May 23.
- FIU to build Cat 6 simulator. Feature on FIU, mentions NICHE, Wall of Wind, PI Arindam Chowdhury. KeysNews.com, May 19.
- ‘Cat 6’ hurricane simulator with 200 mph winds, 20-foot storm surge under design at FIU. Feature on FIU and the Wall of Wind; quotes NHERI at FIU co-PI Ioannis Zisis, mentions the NICHE award. Charlotte News & Observer, May 16. Republished in the Bharat Express News, Durham Herald Sun, News4JAX, Florida Today and others.
- Mr. Twister. Features StEER co-PI David Roueche and NSF-funded research to discover tornado damage data. Auburn Engineer, May 13.
- Simulating natural disasters: The weather lab with 200mph winds. Features FIU and NICHE. SpectrumNews1, May 9.
- The College of Engineering and Computing at FIU. Feature mentions the FIU Wall of Wind. Newsweek, May 6.
- Who said that? Florida's quote of the day. Ioannis Zisis quote. Florida Trend, May 3.
April 2022
- UW-housed RAPID Facility receives $6M renewal grant. Mirage News, April 7, 2022.
- Wooden Skyscrapers on the Rise. Quotes Shiling Pei, PI for NHERI Tallwood project. Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2022.
- FIU leads the way for Miami’s tech hub ambitions at eMerge Americas. Mentions NHERI Wall of Wind. FIU newsroom, April 18, 2022.
- Participated in the world's first 10-story wooden building vibration experiment in the United States. Aquira Home Group article mentions NHERI Tallwood project, PR News Release Service, April 28, 2022.
March 2022
- Oregon timber product gets the tremor test in university study. Features the NHERI Tallwood project, PI Shiling Pei. KOIN TV. March 1, 2022.
- UNM group designs rock-tapping remote control robot to detect potential slides. Mentions work with NHERI RAPID. University of New Mexico newsroom. March 2, 2022.
- Florida University to design 'Category 6' hurricane wind and surge simulator. Feature story on NHERI Florida International University, quotes PI Arindam Chowdhury, mentions NICHE, NHERI OSU, UC San Diego. Washington Post, March 2, 2022.
- Earthquake' to hit 10-story mass timber structure this summer. Features NHERI Tallwood, quotes Shiling Pei, mentions NHERI at UC San Diego, Woodworking network. March 3, 2022.
February 2022
January 2022
- Clarkson University Prof Awarded $200K NSF Grant to Mitigate Wind Damage on Buildings. Story about Pedro Fernández-Cabán and his research at NHERI University of Florida. Clarkson University News, Jan. 5, 2022.
- When water is coming from all sides. Story about modeling flood risks. Mentions DesignSafe. Science Daily, Jan. 13, 2022.
- The Flow of Inteformation. A story about the Georgia Tech hydraulics lab. Mentions NHERI at Oregon State University and Hermann Fritz. Georgia Tech College of Engineering News, Jan 31, 2022.
- FIU receives $12.8 million NSF grant to design an extreme wind, surge and wave testing facility. Published by the PR Newswire and FIU Newsroom, Jan 31, 2022. Reprinted/rebroadcast by CBSMiami, Spot on Florida, Local10News, Miami Herald, and others.
December 2021
- Civil engineer says buildings will need to prepare for stronger storms, Interview with David Prevatt of the U of Florida and StEER, National Public Radio, Dec. 13
- We can build homes to survive tornadoes like Kentucky suffered. We just haven’t. Essay by David Prevatt, Washington Post, Dec. 27.
- UNM’s SMILab develops marine and underwater smart sensing in NSF/ONR project. Features NHERI RAPID facility. University of New Mexico newsroom, Dec. 21, 2021
- RAPID reconnaissance: Capturing data in the aftermath of a disaster. Features NHERI RAPID facility. Interview with Michael Olson of NHERI RAPID. Engineering Out Loud podcast, Nov. 30, 2021.
- Exploring Mass Timber: A Global Research Project with the NHERI TallWood Project Team. Coughlin Porter Lundeen newsletter, Winter 2021 issue.
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
- Meet Surfside's Disaster-Data Forensic Sleuths, IEEE Spectrum, August 4
- Notre Dame’s Tracy Kijewski-Correa says as Haiti begins another recovery, we must recognize, respect and accommodate country's own time scales, Newswise, August 16
- Lessons from Surfside and Tropical Storm Grace, The Gleaner, August 21
- OSU research shows scale models effective for predicting storm damage to wood-frame buildings, OSU Newsroom, August 24
July 2021
- Interview with Lori Peek, principal investigator for NHERI-CONVERGE, in the COVID Calls podcast, July 27.
- Sustaining Solid Ground, July 23, ASU News, July 23.
- NIST Tags Evidence Related to Champlain Towers South Failure, in Engineering News Record, July 22.
- Update on NIST’s Investigation of the Champlain Towers South Collapse, in Homeland Security Today, July 16.
- Interview with Ben Mason, associate professor of geotechnical engineering, Oregon State University. In Engineering Out Loud: Engineering for Natural Disasters podcast, July 14.
- Interview with David Prevatt, professor of civil and coastal engineering, University of Florida. Disasters Deconstructed podcast, July 5.
