September 12 meeting “Engineering Safer Cities: the American Firearm Ecosystem” was the first of a planned series of events aiming to explain the complexity of the American firearm ecosystem and engage the NYU community in a conversation about gun prevalence, violence, legislation, media coverage, politics, and means of crime prevention, at the national, state, and urban scales.
The invited speakers, Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri (NYU Tandon), Professor Oded Nov (NYU Tandon), Professor James Macinko (University of California Los Angeles), Professor Igor Belykh (Georgia State University), and Professor Rifat Sipahi(Northeastern University) presented the results of their collaborative research and answered the insightful questions of the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Councils members.
The guests are co-PIs of a large-scale research project, “LEAP-HI: Understanding and Engineering the Ecosystem of Firearms: Prevalence, Safety, and Firearm-Related Harms”, funded by the National Science Foundation.
