In August, Dr. Grace Yan, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, delivered a keynote speech titled “High-fidelity Tornado-community Interaction Modeling and Its Application to Enhance Tornado Resilience” at the 2024 International Conference on Advances in Wind and Structures. This conference is part of the 2024 World Congress on Advances in Civil, Environmental and Materials Research and the 2024 Structures Congress. This international forum brought together academics and practicing engineers to exchange results under the topics of infrastructure, environmental and materials research.