Monday, February 17, 2020
COLLEGIAN.COM
Vol. 129, No. 43
Rams return after successful meets in Iowa and New Mexico Multiple members of the track and field team set personal bests in meets
By Leo Friedman @LeoFriedman13
well-established field until the last decade, McAllister said. Researchers in different fields would analyze resilience and disaster impact without accounting for the interdependency of different community infrastructure systems. Engineers would look at engineering systems, economists would look at the economy and social scientists would look at the human impact, all in isolation.
After being away for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the Rams track and field teams have returned from their meets in Iowa and New Mexico with successful results. The meet in New Mexico, which was focused on sprints, jumps and throws, brought numerous Rams personal records. Two freshmen, Celyn Stermer and Tom Willems, moved into CSU’s top five records on the first day for pole vaults and 400-meter sprints, respectively. Stermer placed fourth out of 28 athletes, with a height of 12 feet, 8 inches. Willems finished his 400-meter sprint with a time of 47.81, good enough for a top five finish in CSU history. On the second day in New Mexico, CSU placed fourth in the women’s 4x400 relay and third and fourth in the women’s shot put. Junior Tarynn Sieg hit a season-best in that event, tossing the shot put 52 feet, 7.25 inches, and Maria Muzzio finished right behind her teammate with 51 feet, 10.5 inches. The men placed second in their 4x400 relay with a time of 3:12.08.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology building in Boulder, Colorado. Colorado State University’s renewed partnership with NIST allows researchers to apply the natural disaster impact modeling system they have developed. PHOTO BY DEVIN CORNELIUS THE COLLEGIAN
Planning for a natural disaster? ‘Resilience science’ is here to help By Samantha Ye @samxye4
From disaster to recovery, a federally-funded research center of Colorado State University is developing multidisciplinary “resilience science” to help communities plan for comebacks after natural hazard events. Funded by the federal National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Center for Risk-Based Community Resil-
ience Planning has spent the last five years developing measurement science for community resilience. NIST recently renewed its partnership with the center for $20 million over the next five years, which it will use in large part to help communities understand and implement these findings. Resilience science is about looking at how well a system restores itself after a major shock such as a flood or earthquake,
center leaders said. Instead of only looking at damage mitigation, resilience thinks about how to invest for recovery. Put another way, disasters are events that cause so much damage that the community struggles to recover, but “if resilience is successful, hopefully it won’t become a disaster,” said Therese McAllister, NIST group leader and program manager. In the case of hazard events, community resiliency wasn’t a