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In July 2011, Dr. David McIntyre (NGS VP for Academic Affairs) presented at the annual conference for the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management, located at the University of Southern California. The conference was cosponsored by CREATE (the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, a DHS Center of Excellence). The topic of Dr McIntyre's presentation was "Black Swans, Red Motorcycles and Blind Bats: Reducing the Risk of Risk Management."  His central point, echoed by other academic presentors, was that formal Risk Analysis can serve a useful function in helping to focus on the most likely homeland security challenges. But all such analysis must also highlight less likely but "game changing" events (like flooding in Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon BOP failure, and the failure of safety measures in the recent Japanese nuclear emergency) to senior leaders whenever appropriate. Risk Analysis should go beyond narrowing the focus of leaders to emphasize most likely events, and instead broaden their understanding of less likely but more dangerous outcomes as well.   

In August he presented at a joint FBI-InfraGard conference in Houston on a similar theme.

He was also selected to attend a fully funded weeklong workshop on curriculum development for Homeland Security and Defense. The workshop included representatives from more than 20 schools. It was held at the Center for Homeland Security and Defense, located at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, CA.

On June 4, 2011, twelve members of the NGS faculty were honored with "Distinction Awards" at a ceremony held in conjunction with the Spring 2011 Commencement Exercises in Washington, D.C. Honorees were presented with certificates for "distinction" in one or more of the following categories: Teaching, Project Management/Mentoring and Research/Publishing.  

The following faculty members received awards:

• Prof. Kathleen Albert - Distinction in Teaching
• Dr. Dennis Bowyer - Distinction in Teaching and Project Management/Mentoring
• Dr. Saundra Braxton - Distinction in Teaching
• Dr. Dan Brewer - Distinction in Teaching
• Dr. Margaret Carter - Distinction in Teaching
• Prof. Kevin Jones  - Distinction in Project Management/Mentoring
• Dr. Kevin McCormack - Distinction in Teaching & Project Management/Mentoring
• Prof. John Miller - Distinction in Teaching
• Prof. Deborah Seabron - Distinction in Teaching & Project Management/Mentoring
• Prof. Ernie Ehlinger - Distinction in Teaching
• Prof. Howard Hall - Distinction in Project Management/Mentoring
• Dr. Danny Davis - Distinction in Research & Publishing

Award candidates may self-nominate or be nominated through online forms available from Academic Affairs. The application deadline is March 1st for awards of the same year.  Awards wil be given during the June commencement of the same year.  To nominate a faculty member for a Distinction Award, click here.