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Dennis Wenger: “A History of Disaster Research”
March 9, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Dennis Wenger is Former Program Director, Infrastructure Systems Management and Extreme Events, National Science Foundation.
Co-hosted with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Wenger was a professor from Texas A&M University from 1989–2007. At Texas A&M, Wenger was a Professor of Urban and Regional Science and an Adjunct Professor of Sociology. He was also the Founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center. Before his arrival at Texas A&M, Wenger was on the faculty of the University of Delaware where he served as co-director of the Disaster Research Center from 1984–1989.
For more information, see his biography page on the National Science Foundation website.