Source: RISK newsletter,
Second Quarter 1996, published by the Society for Risk Analysis
The Society for Risk Analysis chose seven students to receive awards for the highest quality student papers submitted to the 1995 SRA Annual Meeting. Six of the students presented their papers in platform sessions at the meeting and received $500 awards to help with their travel expenses. The students and their affiliations and topics are as follows:
Melissa L. Finucane, University of Western Australia, “Risk Perception Biases and Decision Strategies”
Ginger V. Gibson, University of Alberta, Canada, “The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Risk Decision-Making”
Dmitri I. Solovyov, Russian Academy of Administration to the President of Russia, Moscow, “The Role of Risk Management in Enforcing the Sustainable Development of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)”
Kelly A. Toy, University of Washington and Tulalip Tribe Department of Natural Resources, “A Fish Consumption Survey of the Tulalip and Squaxin Island Tribes”
Donna J. Vorhees, Harvard School of Public Health, “Residential Multimedia Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls Near New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts”
Michaela T. Zint, Michigan State University, “Improving Risk Decisions Through Formal Science Education: Final Results of a Teacher Needs Assessment”
The seventh student, Oksana V. Shilova of International
Independent University of Ecology and Politology, Russia, could
not attend the meeting.