“What do we hold when we hold the memory of those we’ve lost? What do we do with the grief that we have?” Those were questions that ASU Department of English Professor Safiya Sinclair explored as she wrote the libretto for the Sounds of Remembrance concert, being performed by the New York Philharmonic to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

New research suggests that shrinking the National Flood Insurance Program into separate, state-run systems could actually make it harder to recover from major disasters. The study introduces the idea of hyperclusters — large, connected flood events driven by the same weather systems — and shows why spreading risk across the entire country makes insurance programs more financially resilient.