COLLEGE PARK, MD, February 9, 2022 — The capabilities of US systems intended to defend against the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that North Korea may have or could obtain are currently low and will likely continue to be low for the next 15 years, according to a new technical ...
Certain courses from the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Security have been retired from the University's course catalog and thus the Certificate course list. Any student to previously complete a retired course is still eligible to use it towards the certificate. Legacy Course List: CHLH/ENVS/PATH 474: Principles of Epidemiology CS 460/ECE 419: Security Laboratory AE/ECE...
The National Acadamies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is holding an online open session of the Committee on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War & Nuclear Terrorism on April 21 and 23 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm EST. More information about the study can be found here....
Congratulations, and best wishes from ACDIS!- Read full story to view a video recording of ACDIS Core Faculty Member Dr. Frederick Lamb giving a talk about the vulnerability of near-earth space.
Speaker: Colleen Murphy, Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Just war theory offers ethical guidance on how and why war should be fought. It provides criteria to distinguish just from unjust wars. International humanitarian law offers guidance on legal and illegal conduct in war, and the crime of aggression defines when the resort to war...
Speaker: Andrew Wyatt Nelson, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Center for Global Security and Cooperation Andrew Nelson is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Global Chemical and Biological Security (GCBS) program at Sandia National Laboratories. Currently, he works to promote world peace though practical and innovative solutions that help secure...- ACDIS and Sandia National Laboratories' hosted a joint security seminar series during Spring 2023 Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 846 3131 8462 Password: ACDIS "Impact of violence on the population in Yemen" Speaker: Dr. J...
Speaker: Francine Hirsch, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison Speaker: Francine Hirsch is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches courses on Russian and Soviet history, postwar Europe, and the history of human rights. Her first book, ...
ACDIS and the European Union Center are jointly organizing this Friday's sessions APRIL 22 | 1:00PM-5:00PM CT Visions for Technology, Energy, and Security in Europe (Jean Monnet Center of Excellence SMAART Symposium) Recent breakthroughs in nuclear fusion technology — whereby renewable energy is produced by the fusion of two atomic nuclei into one heavier nucleus — have led to heightened...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (75 years and counting) Jul 21, 2021 12:00pm Join Alex Wellerstein, professor and nuclear historian at Stevens Institute of Technology, in conversation with Lynn Eden, senior research scholar emeritus at Stanford University, to discuss Wellerstein’s recent book, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy...
The Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership is organizing one or two panels for the virtual symposium “Digital Learning in Global Africa During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Please send abstracts to J.Jarpa Dawuni at josephine.dawuni@howard.edu by July 15th. Please reach out to Jarpa if you have ideas for panel topics....
Big Data Analytics, Global Cases by John Hopkins CSSE, and Center for Disease Control and Prevention resources.- ACDIS Summer 2021 Fellowship (Please Click for PDF version) Job Details Job Location: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, possibly including some travel if essential for the type of study undertaken. Job Category: Research Description: Paid ACDIS Director’s Fund 2021 Summer...