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- CINA MSI Summer Research Teams
- CINA Distinguished Speaker Series
The following compilation describes workforce and outreach efforts of the CINA DHS Center of Excellence at George Mason University. As you review this report, you can select these phrases noted below to review stories in each separate section.
CINA MSI Summer Research Teams
Life transforming opportunities and a DHS introduction
A special thanks to Frank Xu of the University of Baltimore School of Criminal Justice and Duminda Wijesekera (pictured) of the George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering for your mentorship of the CINA Summer Research Teams (SRT) in 2020 during the atypical summer of 2020.
This program seeks to engage faculty-led teams of undergraduate and graduate students, by providing opportunities to better understand the mission and research needs of DHS, strengthen the talent pool of scientists and engineers, and conduct collaborative research of mutual interest to the Team, the DHS Center and DHS.
To learn more about CINA’s student and faculty enrichment and training partnership opportunities, contact CINA Workforce Development and Education Program Director, Deanna Sue Austin dausti@gmu.edu.
CINA Distinguished Speaker Series
The CINA Distinguished Speaker Series, which pivoted to a virtual and then hybrid format, highlighted experts among various fields that included:
- Christopher Koper and Beidi Dong: "Understanding and Countering Mass Violence in America"
- Siddharth Chandra: "Using Economic Principles to Identify and Understand Drug Trafficking Networks"
- Padhu Seshaiyer: "Computational Mathematics for Solving Global Challenges Involving Criminal Activities"
- Jodi Quas: "Enhancing Disclosures in Victims of Sex Trafficking: Science Guiding Solutions"
- Crysta Price: "Finding Trafficking Networks in Online Commercial Sex Ads"
- Martin Bouchard “Social Outlaws: What Network Data Tells Us About Gangs”
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