Center to Help Navajo Nation’s Disaster Resilience

Dr. Chris Dyer, “Dr.D”, an affiliate of the Center, included the Center in a proposal to the University of New Mexico’s Grand Challenge initiative and it was announced that we won on 15 May 2025.  The Center’s portion of the project is the development of an Agent-Based Model of the Navajo Nation’s emergency response system to support making improvements to further the resilience of the Navajo Nation to disasters.  Dr. Bill Kennedy is leading the effort and including students from the College of Science’s Aspiring Students Summer Intern Program (ASSIP). The budget only includes minor funding to support travel to New Mexico for meetings on the larger project.

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