Monday, May 24, 2010
A new summer course at Penn State Harrisburg will teach educators and guidance counselors about skills their students need for careers in security and intelligence. (more)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Disease statistics buried within patient records or detailed in newspaper clippings can be sorted and organized to depict geographic patterns, allowing the discovery of trends that were previously overlooked, according to a Penn State geographer. "The use of interactive maps and graphs, combined with word search interfaces, can lead to greater insight into complex events such as the spread of Swine flu," said Frank Hardisty, research associate, Penn State GeoVISTA Center. (more)
Monday, February 22, 2010
The Christmas day attempt to blow up a commercial airplane over Detroit with an "underwear bomb" punctuated the importance of homeland security. As the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies look to hire workers for occupations in security and protection, medicine, public health and information technology, they also face the challenge of an aging workforce. About one-third of federal career employees and more than 60 percent of government career executives will be eligible to retire between now and 2012, according to a Government Accountability Office report. To help prepare workers to fill existing and new jobs in homeland security, Penn State is launching an online Intercollege Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security program this fall. For application information, visit http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/securitydegree/ online. (more)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
To effectively combat terrorism in the 21st century, it's critical to establish strong international partnerships, according to a Penn State counterterrorism expert. Pete Forster, a professor in the College of the Liberal Arts, has found a way to marry theory to practice in his field, promoting civil society in war-torn regions. Through his membership in the Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, an association of higher learning institutes in defense and security affairs, Forster works to find better ways to combat terrorism through the broadened perspective that comes through international collaboration. (more)
Friday, October 16, 2009
Penn State Harrisburg is a key partner in a federally funded University initiative aimed at encouraging Pennsylvania school students to consider college majors which lead to careers in the U.S. intelligence community. (more)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member Steven R. Parker recently trained the local County Animal Response Team to deal with an intentional livestock infection. Certified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a Master Trainer, Parker presented "Foreign Animal Disease Response and Counter-Terrorism Preparedness." (more)
Monday, February 09, 2009
A Penn State Harrisburg faculty member is playing a lead role in the University's international efforts to strengthen the fight against terrorism. With an international reputation for research and writings on terrorism, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science Michael Kenney has been named the first Fellow of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism (ICST) headquartered in the College of The Liberal Arts on the University Park campus. (more)
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Penn State will serve as a designated research collaborator in a first-of-its-kind center funded by the Department of Defense (DoD), to focus on systems engineering issues facing the DoD and related defense industries. Known as the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), the effort is the nation's first University Affiliated Research Center devoted to systems engineering research. Penn State will participate as part of a consortium of 18 leading collaborator universities and research centers throughout the United States. (more)
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
The scourge of modern terrorism can be tackled more effectively by understanding how and why certain individuals give up their violent ways, according to a counter-terrorism expert at Penn State who says information gleaned from ex-terrorists could provide clues to checking the growth of militant organizations. (more)
Monday, December 08, 2008
"As we go forward, security must be integrated into our everyday thinking. But in our society, we have to ensure that that security does not undermine the very basic differences between our society and others, which is the sanctity of human life, the Constitutional rights that we as a society have established our country upon, and which we must maintain in order to differentiate a civilized society against that which is, in fact, intended to destroy the civilization that we know of, and to return to a very medieval form of control of religion, control of culture, control of literature and the virtual enslavement of half the population, meaning the female half of the population. Those are the stakes that are involved."
-- Oliver "Buck" Revell, global business and security consultant and former Marine and FBI special agent, who discussed "Terrorism, the Current and Future Threat to America," during the Penn State Forum today (Dec. 8) at University Park. Revell served for five years as an officer and aviator in the U.S. Marine Corps, leaving active duty in 1964 as a captain. He then served 30 years as a special agent and senior executive of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1964-1994). In September 1987, Revell was placed in charge of a joint FBI/CIA/U.S. military operation (Operation Goldenrod) which led to the first apprehension overseas of an international terrorist. He is also author of the book "G-Man's Journal: A Legendary Career Inside the FBI -- From the Kennedy Assassination to the Oklahoma City Bombing." (more)
