Giant thumbs up to ETSU. The Geoinformatics and Disaster Science (GADS) Lab at East Tennessee State University has received national recognition from FEMA, being featured in the federal agency’s Mitigation Planning Success Stories series. Currently, the online storymap only includes 13 stories acorss the country.ETSU is one of only a small number of universities nationwide with its own hazard mitigation plan which, according to FEMA, demonstrated best practices that can be used by universities as well as cities and counties in developing their own plans.