Yang Zhang, assistant professor of urban affairs and planning the School of Public and International Affairs, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, co-organized a research roundtable at the fourth U.S.-China Relations: Looking Ahead after 30 Years conference in Beijing, China, from October 21 to 23. Zhang's research roundtable was on "Disaster Resiliency in US and China: Toward a Framework for Comparative Disaster Research." The participants included scholars from four U.S. institutions: University of Illinois, Texas A&M University, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Virginia Tech; two top research universities in China: Peking University and Beijing Normal University; and the Taiwan National Disaster Reduction Research Center. The group developed a plan for research collaboration, a joint training program, and a potential joint research center based in Peking University.