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RaCERS Announces Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule: Smart Buildings, Vincent Dunn, and Bob Hennelly

RaCERS Announces Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule: Smart Buildings, Vincent Dunn, and Bob Hennelly

The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies is pleased to announce its Spring ’23 Seminar Series. This semester focused...

Peter Apps, Grenfell Tower fire author, to present on 12/9/22

Peter Apps, Grenfell Tower fire author, to present on 12/9/22

The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies is pleased to update its announcement for its final event for 2022....

RaCERS Advisory Board Member Named to FEMA National Advisory Council

RaCERS Advisory Board Member Named to FEMA National Advisory Council

RaCERS Advisory Board Member Andrew Phelps, the State of Oregon’s Director of Emergency Management, was named to the Federal Emergency...

RaCERS Announces Fall 2022 Seminar Series: UAS, Floods, Grenfell Tower

RaCERS Announces Fall 2022 Seminar Series: UAS, Floods, Grenfell Tower

The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS) is pleased to announce their Fall 2022 Seminar Series. All events...

Board Member Co-Edits Handbook of Cognitive and Autonomous Systems for Fire Resilient Infrastructures; Two Chapters Written by RaCERS Affiliates

Board Member Co-Edits Handbook of Cognitive and Autonomous Systems for Fire Resilient Infrastructures; Two Chapters Written by RaCERS Affiliates

  RaCERS Executive Committee and Faculty member Glenn Corbett co-Edited (with M. Z Nasar of Clemson University) the Handbook of...

RaCERS Faculty Presents, Organizes at FEMA EM Higher Education Symposium

RaCERS Faculty Presents, Organizes at FEMA EM Higher Education Symposium

Prof. Lucia Velotti of John Jay College of Criminal Justice is serving as an organizer and presenter at the Federal...

RaCERS Faculty Present at NIST Public Safety Communications Conference

RaCERS Faculty Present at NIST Public Safety Communications Conference

The team of Columbia University and John Jay College’s Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS) presented their ongoing...

RaCERS Advisory Board Members pen Op-Eds on Gun Violence, Mass Shootings

RaCERS Advisory Board Members pen Op-Eds on Gun Violence, Mass Shootings

In the wake of mass Shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde, Tulsa, and ongoing events, RaCERS Advisory Board Members have weighed in...

RACERS FELLOW, FACULTY PUBLISH TWO ARTICLES, OP-ED

RACERS FELLOW, FACULTY PUBLISH TWO ARTICLES, OP-ED

RaCERS-Affiliated faculty continue to produce important contributions to the field of fire safety in the built environment. “These works continue...

RaCERS Concludes Spring Seminar Series with Discussion on High-Rise Fire Safety

RaCERS Concludes Spring Seminar Series with Discussion on High-Rise Fire Safety

The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS) Spring 2022 seminar series concluded with a panel discussion on ways...