A retirement reception honoring George Youngs , professor of emergency management and NDSU Center for Disaster Studies and Emergency Management co-director, is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 16, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Arikara room.
Youngs' service to NDSU has spanned 36 years.
According to the department website, Youngs' current courses included Emergencies, Disasters and Catastrophes; Socio-Behavioral Foundations of Emergency Management; and Advanced Research Methods.
Youngs earned a bachelor's degree in sociology at Drake University, and a master's degree and doctorate in sociology from the University of Iowa. He served in the NDSU Department of Sociology/Anthropology from 1978 until the creation of the Department of Emergency Management. Youngs was awarded a USDA grant that created the Center for Social Research’s telephone survey lab in 1995.
Listed among his honors are the 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Great Plains Sociological Association; Outstanding Teaching Award and Outstanding Service Award from the NDSU College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; and the NDSU Apple Polisher Award. Youngs is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers.
His research interests are a flood's impact on resource loss and gain in the context of the Conservation of Resource Model, impact of resource loss and gain on stress and post-traumatic growth, the use of design maps to teach research designs in emergency management and as a framework for constructing mixed methods.
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