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Released: 7-Feb-2019 11:05 AM EST
WIU Terrorism Researcher’s New Book Offers Insights into Family Terror Networks, Their Implications and How to Combat this Growing Feature of Global Terrorism
Western Illinois University

A new book authored by Western Illinois University Homeland Security Professor Dean C. Alexander addresses the aspects of family terror networks, their implications and countering this increasingly prominent facet of international terrorism.

Released: 20-May-2016 2:40 PM EDT
Counterterrorism/Aviation Expert Available at Western Illinois University
Western Illinois University

Western Illinois University professor has conducted extensive terrorism and aviation-related research and has also published numerous scholarly articles on terrorism topics.

Released: 24-Mar-2015 11:05 AM EDT
WIU Professor, Former FBI Agent's Latest Book, "The Like Switch," Provides Tips for How to Influence and Win People Over
Western Illinois University

A Western Illinois University professor's new book covers techniques that individuals can use to can influence, attract and win people over. WIU School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration Assistant Professor and former FBI Special Agent Jack Schafer's "The Like Switch," according to the publisher's website, "is a handbook filled with his proven strategies on how to instantly read people and influence how they perceive you…."

Released: 31-Jul-2014 11:45 AM EDT
WIU Professors Explain Impact of Updated U.S. Seismic Hazard Maps
Western Illinois University

Two Western Illinois University Professors have extensive experience in the study of earthquakes, including how the recent changes in the seismic maps impact their classroom work.

Released: 26-Nov-2013 12:50 PM EST
WIU Ed Leadership Students Jump In to Help After Washington, IL, Nov. 17 Tornado
Western Illinois University

A group of school administrators, who are enrolled in Western Illinois University's Educational Leadership Program, was in a school building in Washington, IL, Nov. 17, the day a deadly tornado outbreak swept across the Midwest. The educational leaders made it through the storm and provided the area's residents much-needed help—after the twister devastated their neighborhood.

Released: 30-Jul-2013 3:00 PM EDT
WIU Student Pens Motivational Book with Stepbrother
Western Illinois University

Western Illinois University senior Garrick Hodge is partnering with his stepbrother, X Games adaptive snocross bronze medalist Garrett Goodwin, for a new book about perseverance.

Released: 16-Apr-2013 8:00 AM EDT
Flowers Send a Message
Western Illinois University

Flowers often have a meaning or message: love, apology, congratulations, sympathy, friendship ... and thanks to a Western Illinois University student organization, environmental awareness.

Released: 3-Aug-2012 9:35 AM EDT
'Voices of Hennepin Canal' Available From WIU; New Book Is Latest Volume in Western Illinois Monograph Series
Western Illinois University

"The year was 1874, and the Hennepin Canal had achieved national significance and would be built as a federal waterway." Through this succinct declaration, the introduction section of Western Illinois University Geography Professor Emeritus Donald "Bill" Griffin's new book, "Voices of the Hennepin Canal: Promoters, Politicians, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," sets the stage for this historical account of how this waterway, located in Western Illinois and opened in 1908, was built and operated until 1951 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Released: 21-May-2012 1:30 PM EDT
Hamas, Hezbollah & the Arab Spring: Middle East Expert Lectures for Western Illinois University Law Enforcement and Justice Administration Students
Western Illinois University

Uri Rosset, a lecturer at Sapir College in Sderot, Israel, and an expert on the Middle East, was Western Illinois University in early May as a guest lecturer for the School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (LEJA) and its Homeland Security Research Program (HSRP). Through his classroom presentations and University-wide lecture covering terrorism, the Middle East and the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa, Rosset provided WIU students and faculty with contemporary and historical perspectives of the Hamas and Hezbollah organizations, as well as of the Arab Spring revolutionary wave.

Released: 1-Jun-2011 3:50 PM EDT
Expert Available - Natural Disaster Recovery (i.e. tornadoes) Expert Available
Western Illinois University

Jack Rozdilsky, an assistant professor in Western Illinois University's emergency management program in the WIU Department of Health Sciences, specializes in natural hazards and emergency management issues.

Released: 2-May-2011 12:00 PM EDT
Terrorism Expert on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda-Inspired Terrorism in America and Its Implications
Western Illinois University

Dean Alexander, director of the Homeland Security Research Program and associate professor of homeland security in Western Illinois University's School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration, has extensively lectured and published about terrorism, security, and legal issues.

Released: 17-Jan-2010 8:30 PM EST
Emergency Management Professor Available to Speak About Social and Physical Aspects of Haiti Earthquake Recovery
Western Illinois University

Western Illinois University Emergency Management Assistant Professor Jack Rozdilsky specializes in natural hazards and emergency management issues. He is active in disaster field research and his work focuses on social and physical aspects of long-term disaster recovery.

Released: 17-Nov-2009 3:00 PM EST
Horticulture Professor Develops Sustainable Landscaping Website; Uses Internet Instead of Textbook
Western Illinois University

New website on sustainable landscaping developed by WIU horticulture professor addresses a rapidly evolving area responding to environmental issues, including global climate change. This new instructional tool and content-rich website helps deliver the information people need to make informed choices.

Released: 25-Sep-2009 9:00 AM EDT
Domestic Jihad Expert
Western Illinois University

Dr. Dean Alexander, director of the Homeland Security Research Program and associate professor of homeland security at Western Illinois University, has extensively lectured and published on domestic jihads.

Released: 24-Mar-2009 8:00 AM EDT
Spring Break 2009: Bring Back Memories, Not Regrets
Western Illinois University

With many college students heading off to sun-and fun-filled spring break trips, Mary Margaret Harris, director of Western Illinois University's Beu Health Center, would like students to take a moment and consider the following advice: "Bring back great memories, not regrets."

Released: 21-Nov-2008 9:00 AM EST
Librarian's GIS Project Tracks Thanksgiving Foods
Western Illinois University

In times of yore, to trace the path of a meal from your table to the source may have only been a short jaunt out to some nearby woods. But in these days of modern transit, when the foods that people consume hail from various regions of the United States and even the globe, that path, many times, is much more complex.

Released: 31-Oct-2008 3:15 PM EDT
Expert Rick Hardy, Past Elector, on Election 2008: YouTube Video Podcast
Western Illinois University

Former Elector and constitutional law expert Rick Hardy, professor and chair of the political science department at Western Illinois University, addresses several topics concerning Election 2008 that will affect the future of this nation in a video podcast available on WIU's YouTube site at www.youtube.com/westernillinoisu.


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