Introduction
The Disaster Research Center was founded in 1963 and now, over fifty years later, DRC continues to celebrate success in research, training, and service to the disaster community. DRC was established at The Ohio State University in 1963 by Professors E.L. Quarantelli and Russell Dynes and moved to its current location at the University of Delaware in 1985. The Center was the first in the world devoted to the social scientific study of disasters. While much of the research at DRC has been interdisciplinary throughout its existence, DRC has embarked on a new era as the Center builds on and maintains its foundation in social science while broadening its activities to embrace more explicitly interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research.
