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November 9, 2001 - The Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) awarded two scholars for their work in the area of land use planning and natural hazards.
The winning papers and their authors were:
· "Seismic Assessment for Communities in Mid-America", written by graduate student Yueming Wu of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as part of his doctoral dissertation research.
· "Four Mitigation Strategies for Protecting Barrier Island Communities from Coastal Hazards", written by graduate student Wendy Garpow for a course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Each student was awarded $1,000 at the ACSP 2001 conference in Cleveland, Ohio Thursday. The winning papers will be presented during sessions today and tomorrow.
This was the first time IBHS and ACSP teamed up to offer a scholarship award, which is designed to encourage planners to include natural hazards loss reduction in their research and practice.
IBHS is a national, non-profit engineering, research and communications initiative of the insurance industry. Its mission is to reduce deaths, injuries, property damage, economic losses and human suffering caused by natural disasters.
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