Tomorrow is the annual Emergency Preparedness Expo at NDSU that is sponsored by the Department of Emergency Management and the NDSU Emergency Management Student Association. The Expo will be in the Plains Room which is upstairs in the Memorial Union on NDSU's campus and runs from 10 AM to 3 PM. It is a free [...]
Tag: disaster preparedness
You can’t duck the facts.
Today was Family Day at NDSU. Families of NDSU students were welcomed to campus to participate in a number of activities with their NDSU student. The Department of Emergency Management had a couple of tables filled with lots of free emergency management "stuff" and of course our preparedness icons - the rubber ducks. I have to [...]
No chocolate balls…
In my disaster preparedness class my students are tasked with creating a public service announcement (PSA) that promotes individual and household preparedness. The PSA project is designed to get them thinking about what it takes to sell a message. So far, the folks in my field have not been wildly successful in "selling" citizen preparedness [...]
THE NEW FORTY 