Mpact Week events on Disaster Resilience, October 16 - 22

You are invited to attend the Clark School's Mpact Week on Disaster Resilience, a comprehensive exploration of what engineers and innovators can do to help prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from disasters, and make our society and infrastructure more resilient.

All of the events are free, and we hope you will be there to join us — please register at: http://ter.ps/Mpact2014  The events will take place Oct. 16-22, and will include multiple sessions on a variety of related topics — the schedule is as follows: • October 16: Fischell Festival in Bioengineering: Pandemic and Biomedical Emergency Response • October 17: UAVs and Robotics for Disaster Response (morning) and Resilient Communications (afternoon) • October 18-19: UMD Homecoming Activities • October 20: Energy Solutions for Grid Resilience, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction • October 21: The Intersection of Research and Public Policy for Disaster Resilience, Capitol Hill Visitors Center • October 22: Multi-Hazard Resilience (morning) and Coastal Infrastructure (afternoon) Speakers reserved for the week’s events include Alice Chamberlayne Hill from the White House, Stephen Redd from the CDC, David Miller from FEMA, Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bradford Tousley of DARPA, and many other distinguished scholars and researchers from Big Ten universities and organizations across the country. Mpact Week events are co-sponsored by the Big Ten Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE), as well as the UMD Division of Research. We hope you will join us for Mpact Week!