New Center Announced: University of South Carolina geographer Dr. Susan Cutter has been tapped by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge to co-lead a U.S.-sponsored social and behavioral research center dedicated to reducing worldwide terrorism. For more click here.
26 October 2005: The Christian Science Monitor recently featured SHELDUS. To read the article, click here. Also, the news on the index has been updated to reflect the article in the Christian Science Monitor as well as an op-ed piece that appeared in The State ( click here ) and an article appearing in a Social Science Research Council forum ( click here )
19 October 2005: The Hazards Research Lab has recently completed a research trip to the Gulf Coast to study the impact of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi and Alabama. (See the project page .) The Graniteville report is also now available for download in pdf format. ( Click here to download.)
26 July 2005: The annual report for the Hazards Research Lab is now available online. Please see the index for the link. Also the projects page has been updated to reflect the new information that can be found on the Annual Report.
13 April 2005: SHELDUS has been updated and version 3.1 is the most current version. The metadata have been changed to reflect this new version as well. A few minor changes have been made organizationally on the website as well. FIPS code information can now be found on the Damage Maps page in addition to the metadata page where it was previously located.