Director of SLU's Institute for Biosecurity Dr. Alan Zelicoff suggests the use of real-time disease surveillance systems to be able to recognize bioterrorism threats.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) has scheduled a series of tests in the Boston subways to measure the real-world performance of new sensors recently developed to detect biological agents within minutes.
Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate's pipe bomb dismantling mechanism is sophisticated enough to preserve forensic evidence for tracking down the perpetrator.
Isolated terrorists are not formally connected to organizations – but do belong to virtual communities in social networks, a new study shows.
Fears of terrorism in Europe and the United States have deteriorated into an irrational suspicion of Muslims, which will continue until the West turns its critical eye inward.
Policies that reward abstinence from terrorism are more successful in reducing such acts of violence than tactics that aim to punish terrorists, suggests a new study in the August issue of the American Sociological Review.
American University professor’s research looks at media portrayals of ethnic terrorists and mass shooters.
A common belief in the West is that al Qaeda wishes to impose Islam everywhere. However, researchers at Arizona State University have released a study of extremist's use of religious texts in communications that suggests that Islamists’ goals are much more modest.
The fact that bin Laden was killed by a team of highly trained soldiers - and not by a drone or bomb - spoiled the grand narrative of brave Muslim fighters vs. U.S. technology that bin Laden and al Qaeda had developed in their war against the United States.
Homeland Security’s new smartphone application for bomb threats.
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.
Much like their male counterparts, female terrorists are likely to be educated, employed and native residents of the country where they commit a terrorist act, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
It took only 13 seconds for Minneapolis I-35W bridge to collapse and plummet into the Mississippi River. Sabotage? Not that time, but such a scenario is indeed possible, and DHS and its partners is testing to prevent it.
While the U.S. is drawing down significantly and turning over operations to the Afghans, it’s a mistake to say the war is ending. The war will continue beyond 2014 for the Afghans as well as for those U.S. service men and women who comprise the residual force that remains in country.
Georgia Tech researchers have developed a prototype radiation-detection system that uses rare-earth elements and other materials at the nanoscale. The system could be used to enhance radiation-detection devices used at ports, border crossings, airports and elsewhere.
By analyzing 600,000 tweets sent on the night U.S. Special Forces captured Osama bin Laden, researchers studied how Twitter broke the story and spread the news. Their data also shows that the Twitterverse was overwhelmingly convinced the news of bin Laden’s death was true, even before it was confirmed on television.
A dirty bomb attack centered on downtown Los Angeles’ financial district could severely impact the region’s economy to the tune of nearly $16 billion, fueled primarily by psychological effects that could persist for a decade.
Homeland Security's "Virtual USA®" Unveils a Fourth Generation Prototype.
The University Of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law is offering students a unique way to test their skills at preventing and fighting terrorism during the fifth annual Counter-terrorism Simulation. This year’s exercise will be streamed live on Friday, March 30th, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. MDT at http://simulation.law.utah.edu and www.utah.edu.
Except when an event such as the infamous 2003 blackout in the northeast takes place, the nation's electric grid isn't something most of us think much about. But, maybe we should.
Every day, thousands of cargo containers from around the world arrive at our nation's seaports carrying items we need, but possibly some that are not so welcome. Monitoring what's in thousands of sea cargo containers as they arrive in port is no easy task, but the DHS Science and Technology Directorate may have an answer.
By helping buildings withstand unusually severe hazards, the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate aims to keep critical infrastructure open for business
Predicting bomb shockwaves, building vulnerability, and evacuation priority.
There are First Responders, and there are First Receivers. Both need a way to communicate with each other when they are expected to perform under unusual scenarios. Now they have it.
The FY 2013 defense budget request will raise many questions about the ability of the U.S. to protect its national security interests abroad. American University Prof. Gordon Adams, former associate director for national security and international affairs at OMB in the Clinton administration is available for analysis and reaction.
International terrorist organizations have shifted their Internet activity focus to social networks and today a number of Facebook groups are asking users to join and support Hezbollah, Hamas and other armed groups. This has been shown in a new study.
Research at New York's aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center will transition to Kansas State University's Biosecurity Research Institute in preparation for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, NBAF.
The doors to the new, state-of-the-art emergency center at 1653 W. Congress Parkway will be the first to “open in the new hospital building at Rush University Medical Center at 6 a.m. CT on Friday, Jan. 6.
Scientists are reporting development of a first-of-its-kind technology that could help law enforcement officials trace the residues from terrorist attacks involving nerve gas and other chemical agents back to the companies or other sources where the perpetrators obtained ingredients for the agent.
This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa. It is possible that the differences between men and women are founded in gender socialization: 'teaching' women to respond to terrorism with more anxiety than men.
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate First Responder Communities of Practice Website is a vetted, professional networking, project collaboration, and resource-sharing platform for first responders and other personnel working in homeland security capacities. The site is focused on emergency response, preparedness, resiliency, planning, management, and homeland-security-related matters. Site members can network with others in their fields and areas of interest; join or start new communities to collaborate “virtually” with others through wikis, blogs, discussion boards, real-time chat, and internal Website e-mail; find and share resources and contacts; store and access documents; and stay connected through e-mail notification of site activities.
Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has a new tool available for rapidly rescuing those trapped beneath concrete.
In the 10 years since Sept. 11, engineers like University of Texas at Austin Professor Eric Williamson are designing structures and transportation systems that are more resistant to attacks.
Washington and Lee University law professor Erik Luna says that what is really new about terrorism is the development of a distinctive legal regime and heightened enforcement efforts in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks. He has created a new course, the Law of Terrorism, to examine the subject.
The U.S. is safer from terrorism in the decade after 9/11, but localized threats from jihadists operating within the United States are higher than before the tragic events, says Dr. Bradley Thayer, a professor of political science at Baylor University. Thayer has served as a consultant to the RAND Corporation and has briefed the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, as well as other components of the Department of Defense.
The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism at the University of Chicago has launched a website devoted to reflections and strategies from policymakers and academics on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. The site, http://cpost.uchicago.edu, offers original contributions on the Middle East, Islam, homeland security, and U.S. military policies
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) will host a panel discussion on Thursday, Sept. 8 with homeland security, law enforcement, public health, and weather officials to discuss the 10th anniversary of Sept.11 and lessons learned.
Without question we are safer today than we were ten years ago, according to Dr. Robert S. Fleming, professor of management at Rowan University and a nationally recognized authority on emergency preparedness.
Key differences in how Muslims were perceived before 9/11 in the United States and Western Europe played a key role in how much — or how little — attitudes of Muslims have changed there since 9/11, says John R. Bowen, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
For journalists covering the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a round-up of University of California, San Diego experts.
Special journal edition chronicles 3D structures of Important antibacterial and bioterrorist targets.
Three experts at IGS were part of the 2001 Amerithrax investigation and can discuss biosecurity with anthrax and other bacterial pathogens.
A decade after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Saint Louis University bioterrorism export warms that we've become too complacent.
Building skills in observation can aid the general public in spotting suspicious activity.
Elizabeth Frierson is a University of Cincinnati associate professor of history and former director of Middle Eastern Studies for the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). She has lived in the Middle East and is a published researcher on the history of politics, censorship, women and cities in the Middle East. She has served on the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Committees for Africa and the Middle East.
USC experts available to discuss aspects of 9/11 and U.S. response.
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