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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration	Erin Miller	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Dissuading Adversaries and their Radiological/Nuclear Pathways: Integrating Deterrence Theory and Analytics in the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA)	Amy Pate, Brandon Behlendorf, Gary Ackerman, John Sawyer, Steve Sin, Hamid Mohtadi, Marcus A. Boyd	October, 2013 to September, 2018
A Toolkit for Preventing Targeted Violence on College Campuses	Gary LaFree	July, 2017 to July, 2018
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	June, 2001 to June, 2018
Managing Chaos through Crisis Communication Leadership	Brooke Liu	June, 2017 to May, 2018
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Violent Non-state Actors and Contested Space Operations	Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven	August, 2017 to April, 2018
Towards an Understanding of Explosive Detection Technology Adoption: Results from Two Surveys	Brooke Liu	May, 2016 to June, 2017
Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) Process	John Sawyer, Steve Sin	September, 2014 to June, 2015
PRND Capability Development Framework Mapping	John Sawyer, Marcus A. Boyd	December, 2012 to June, 2015
Integration of International Architecture Analysis	Brandon Behlendorf, Emily Iarocci, Gary Ackerman, John Sawyer	September, 2013 to March, 2015
Consensus Framework for Informing Decision-Making in the Biological Threat Characterization Program	Gary Ackerman	September, 2013 to September, 2014
Training in Risk and Crisis Communication (TRACC)	Brooke Liu, Elizabeth Petrun Sayers, Katherine Worboys Izsak	August, 2011 to October, 2013
Building Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali-Americans in Minneapolis-St. Paul	Stevan Weine	August, 2010 to August, 2012
Organizational Factors in the Successful Application of 'Community Engagement' Principles for Bioterrorism Preparedness	Monica Schoch-Spana	June, 2008 to December, 2011
Quantitative Index of the Public Health Impacts of Terrorism	Fran Norris	June, 2008 to October, 2011
Preparedness for Catastrophic Events	Hamilton Bean, Kathleen Smarick, Monica Schoch-Spana, Paul Harwood	November, 2008 to November, 2010
Radicalization of U.S. Prisoners	Bert Useem, Obie Clayton	June, 2005 to May, 2009
Communicating Risk of Mass Casualty Terrorism in Diverse Communities	Elaine Vaughan	May, 2005 to May, 2009
Developing Community Resilience for Children and Families	Betty Pfefferbaum, Fran Norris	June, 2005 to May, 2008

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
Balancing Pre-disaster Preparedness and Post-disaster Relief	January 2016	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
Common Sense or Gun Control? Political Communication and News Media Framing of Firearm Sale Background Checks after Newtown	November 2015	Sell, Tara	Journal Article
Community Resilience	April 2016	Pfefferbaum, Betty; Pfefferbaum, Rose	Book Chapter
Counter-terrorism Strategies in the Balkans: Risk Assessment of the Regional Conflict Potential and Recommendable Counter-terrorism Policies	June 2008	Mincheva, Lyubov	Book Chapter
Cry Wolf Effect? Evaluating the Impact of False Alarms on Public Responses to Tornado Alerts in the Southeastern United States	April 2019	Liu, Brooke; Egnoto, Michael	Journal Article
CVE Field Principles for Local Government Agencies	December 2016	Beutel, Alejandro	Discussion Point
Decisions in disaster recovery operations	November 2013	Zhuang, Jun	Book Chapter
Defensibility and Risk Management	October 2017	Bier, Vicki	Journal Article
Developing Risk Metrics to Estimate Risks of Catastrophic Biological and Bioterrorist Events: Applications to the Food Industry	March 2009	Mohtadi, Hamid	Book Chapter
Explosive Detection Technology Adoption: Findings from a General Population Survey	October 2017	Liu, Brooke; Iles, Irina A.; Egnoto, Michael	Research Brief
Foreshadowing Targeted Violence: Assessing Leakage of Intent by Public Mass Murderers	December 2017	Horgan, John	Journal Article
How communication theory can help counter-terrorism stakeholders	September 2017	Bean, Hamilton	Journal Article
How Mobile Home Residents Understand and Respond to Tornado Warnings	April 2019	Liu, Brooke; Egnoto, Michael	Journal Article
Implementing Disaster Policy: Exploring Scale and Measurement Schemes for Disaster Resilience	May 2019	Cutter, Susan	Journal Article
Keeping Hospitals Operating During Disasters Through Crisis Communication Preparedness	June 2018	Liu, Brooke; Herovic, Emina; Roberts, Holly	Journal Article
Modeling Public-Private Partnerships in Disaster Management via Centralized and Decentralized Models	October 2015	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
Our Hazardous Environment: Four Decades of Progress or Retrenchment?	January 2016	Cutter, Susan	Journal Article
Preparing for the Worst: Public Perceptions of Risk Management Innovations	March 2016	Liu, Brooke; Smith, Daniel; Petrun Sayers, Elizabeth; Ackerman, Gary; Roberts, Holly; Iles, Irina A.	Journal Article
Resilience to What? Resilience for Whom?	April 2016	Cutter, Susan	Journal Article
Risk in Extreme Environments: Preparing, Avoiding, Mitigating, and Managing	January 2018	Bier, Vicki	Book
Security Screening Queues with Impatient Applicants: A New Model with A Case Study	August 2017	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
Social Media Use during Disasters: A Review of the Knowledge Base and Gaps	December 2012	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia; Jin, Yan	START Reports
Taking Effective Risk and Crisis Communication for Granted?	August 2013	Liu, Brooke; Petrun, Elizabeth	Discussion Point
Terrorism-Centric Behavior Recognition and Adversarial Threat Forecasting	January 2016	Regens, James	Journal Article
Terrorism-Centric Behaviors and Adversarial Threat Awareness	January 2016	Regens, James	Journal Article
The Frontiers of Uncertainty Estimation in Interdisciplinary Disaster Research and Practice	May 2019	Sutton, Jeannette	Journal Article
The Risk of Catastrophic Terrorism: An Extreme Value Approach	March 2009	Mohtadi, Hamid	Journal Article
Training in Risk and Crisis Communication Modules: Project Fact Sheet	December 2013	Liu, Brooke; Petrun, Elizabeth	Project Fact Sheet
Understanding Community Responses to Authority/Law Enforcement Minority-Outreach Intergroup Communication Frames	July 2016	Glasford, Demis	Research Brief
Understanding Tornado Warnings, False Alarms, and Complacency	September 2016	Liu, Brooke; Roberts, Holly; Egnoto, Michael	Fact Sheet
Universal Preventive Interventions for Children in the Context of Disasters and Terrorism	April 2014	Pfefferbaum, Betty	Journal Article

Title	Byline
Center of Excellence collaboration examines critical infrastructure	Jessica Rivinius
Discussion Point: Insider Threat in the Aviation Industry	Herbert Tinsley, Cory Davenport
Risk communication researchers earn top paper awards
‘Best practices in crisis communications’
START Announces 2009 Curriculum Development Grant Recipients
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06

Title	Job Title	Institution
Christian Leuprecht	Professor	Royal Military College
Daniel Smith	Senior Research Specialist, START	University of Maryland
Devin Ellis	Policy & Research Program Director, ICONS Project	University of Maryland
Egle Murauskaite	Senior Researcher & Simulation Developer, ICONS Project, START	University of Maryland
Elise Miller-Hooks	Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering	University of Maryland
Elizabeth Petrun Sayers	Associate Behavioral and Social Scientist	RAND Corporation
Holly Roberts	Senior Communications Consultant, Enterprise Resource Performance Inc (ERPi)	None
Irina A. Iles	Researcher, National Cancer Institute	University of Maryland
Julia Fraustino	Assistant Professor	West Virginia University
Jun Zhuang	Associate Professor of Engineering	University of Buffalo
Marcus A. Boyd	Senior Researcher, GIS, START Director, Graduate Studies, START	University of Maryland
Michele Wood	Assistant Professor of Health Science, Director CA-NV Public Health Training Center - Fullerton	California State University, Fullerton
Michelle Jacome	Operations Officer, World Bank	None
Roberta Belli	Security Information Analyst, United Nations Department of Safety and Security	United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS)
Sarah Spalding	Geospatial Data Manager, Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD), ArdentMC	None
Stephanie Madden	Assistant Professor	Pennsylvania State University
Steve Sin	Director, Unconventional Weapons and Technology (UWT) Subject Matter Expert Instructor, National Center for Security & Preparedness	University of Maryland
Yan Jin	Professor of Public Relations	University of Georgia