A very proud congratulations to our own Ben Aguirre who has received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and study at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales of the Universidad Austral de Chile, in Valdivia, Chile. A specialist in the social science of disasters, Aguirre will be in Chile for four months teaching and also studying Chile's emergency management system, reputedly the best in Latin America! We are proud of you Ben!!