Situations such as the coronavirus pandemic have heightened interest in the importance of disaster management and mitigation. At Rochester Institute of Technology, researchers have created two new ...

FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), a mega-disaster that marked Japan and the world with its unprecedented scale of destruction. This feature story ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

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County staff said the overhaul is needed now that participation demands and state requirements have changed, and the county wants more control over what responders are learning.

Being prepared to manage emergency response requires continuous learning and certification. An employee at the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity has become one of a select few emergency management ...

Each year brings its own set of known milestones. When my children were babies, I knew roughly what was coming. First words. First steps. The first day of school. Later came braces, learning to ...

Work-life balance, it seems like it might be easy to achieve, but many an emergency manager has struggled with the challenges of achieving a balance between their duties and their personal lives.