Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering 19 Jan, 2021 Health care and education systems are two main pillars of a community’s stability. How well and how quickly a community recovers following a natural disaster depends on the resilience of these essential social services. New research from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, published in Nature Scientific Reports, has found hospitals and schools are interdependent, suggesting their collective recovery must be considered in order to restore a community in the wake of disaster. This Dawson Elementary School classroom in Coalinga, California, was damaged in the 1983 Coalinga earthquake. Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey