Early Career Investigator Award Recipients

金正日Blisniuk’s research investigates and quantifies how landscapes evolve through time due to earthquakes and climate change. She is particularly interested in earthquakes that are preserved in the landscape along active faults because the rate at which a fault moves—how fast it moves over time—is proportional to the fault’s seismic hazard 潜在的.

2019年博士. Blisniuk received the National 科学 Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the organization’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. 这 added to her remarkable track record of funded research grants and awards from organizations 比如美国.S. Department of the Interior’s National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program and the Southern California Earthquake Center.

Wilson Yuan’s research examines the origins of fear of crime and how individuals and communities react to criminal victimization in order to cope with its negative consequences, particularly in Asian and Latino immigrant communities. He explores whether an immigrant’s status is associated with victimization and how immigrants of different racial and ethnic groups mobilize formal and informal resources in response to crime.

Funded by a grant award from the National Institute of Justice, Dr. 人民币即将推出 an extensive mixed-methods city-level victimization study focused on the city of San 加利福尼亚州圣何塞,.  A cross-sectional survey of local residents’ victimization experiences will be conducted, as will in-depth interviews with residents, police department officials, victim services providers, and members of community organizations.

For more information on the Early Career Investigator Awards (ECIA), visit the 菠菜网lol正规平台 研究基金会 ECIA webpage.