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Investigators makes presentations at DHS University Network Summit
Three FAZD Center investigators made presentations to the DHS University Network Summit held during March in Washington, D.C.
Michael Orosz of the University of Southern California and David Hartley of Georgetown University participated in a panel discussion, "Global Food & Agriculture."
Tim Carpenter of the University of California, Davis, took part in the breakout session "Event Modeling."
In addition, two graduate students with connections to the FAZD Center made presentations during the two-day event.
Edu Suarez, associate professor from the University of Puerto Rico-Ponce,, participated in the session "Collaborative Research with Minority Serving Institutions." Suarez studied with Blanca Lupiani, a FAZD Center principal investigator at Texas A&M University, under the 2007 DHS Minority Serving Institutions Summer Research Team Program.
Lindsay Holmstrom took part in the session "DHS Scholars & Fellows: The Best and the Brightest." Holmstrom, a 2006 DHS Fellow, interned at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California with support from the FAZD Center. At LLNL, she participated in the development of a model for animal disease impact assessment.
Presentations are posted on the summit's site: http://www.orau.gov/DHSRESummit08/materials.htm#speaker.
The annual summit showcases key research and education priorities of the Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, the Science and Technology Directorate and the Department of Homeland Security at large. More than 60 subject matter experts from academia, industry, government and the international community addressed the latest homeland security research and education issues.