Originally published: . Volume 9, No. 7. Source pages: 8.
Dr. Katie Cherry, a Louisiana State University psychology professor and Executive Director of the LSU Life Course and Aging Center, is leading the “LSU Disaster Resilience and Recovery Project: The Great Flood of 2016.” Dr. Cherry is working with Dr. Matt Calamia and Dr. Emily Elliott also from LSU, to understand how disaster stress impacts peoples lives and health. The researchers are looking for individuals who moved to the Baton Rouge area in 2005 or after because of property damage in hurricanes Katrina or Rita, and for individuals who flooded in 2016 and who also had catastrophic damage in the 2005 hurricane. Participants must be 18 years or older and live in East Baton Rouge, Livingston, or Ascension Parish.
Cherry recently presented some of her work at the Science Café, held as part of the Louisiana Psychological Association’s recent convention. The Café, Co-Chaired by Dr. T. Scott Smith and Dr. Bridget Sonnier-Hillis.
Dr. Kaite Cherry (L) with Dr. Bridget Sonnier-Hillis at a recent convention where Dr. Cherry described her research in disaster resilience to psychologists.
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