As a Marine Corps officer stationed in North Carolina, Jesicca Chamberlin is pursuing a master of professional studies in homeland security through Penn State World Campus to advance her education and her career.
Penn State has launched two new graduate certificates in the homeland security program — counterterrorism and cyber threat analytics and prevention — that can help prepare professionals to combat terrorism and cyberattacks.
Dan Steiner knows a thing or two about assessing terrain, gathering knowledge sources and weighing human interactions — all things required in the field of geospatial intelligence — on the fly. The West Point graduate who served for seven years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including leading an engineering company in combat during Operation Desert Storm, spent his life using these skills, first in the military, then for a pharmaceutical company, and currently for Orion Mapping, a geospatial intelligence business he founded three years ago.
A Penn State World Campus student in Nigeria hopes to prevent deaths and injuries stemming from emergencies and disasters in his home country.
Penn State has added two new courses of study in its homeland security portfolio that can help prepare professionals to combat terrorism and cyber-attacks, through Penn State World Campus.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs will present a panel discussion titled “How Homeland Security Evolved and Where We Are Now” from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge on campus.
For his insightful work into battling extremism on college campuses, Peter Forster, associate dean for online and professional education at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, has received a recognition from Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
Robert J. Farnsworth, a retired U.S. Army reconnaissance engineer and Penn State alumnus, was selected to receive the 2017 Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award in Geospatial Intelligence.
Army Capt. Andy Duhon balanced his coursework with his military service and family as he earned his master’s degree through Penn State World Campus.
Rear Adm. Linda Wackerman knew when she took oversight of a nationwide emergency preparedness program in 2011 that she needed to go back to school to better understand the complexities of homeland security. That’s why she turned to Penn State to help her better serve the nation.
A new Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs poll shows that Pennsylvanians primarily see homeland security as a comprehensive effort of the federal government to fight terrorism at home and abroad. However, while it most often has a positive connotation, the multi-faceted mission space of homeland security is widely unknown.
A new online graduate certificate in Penn State’s homeland security program focuses on keeping hospitals and medical facilities operating during disasters and emergencies.
A Penn State nursing professional studying homeland security online developed an action plan for her community to respond to infectious disease outbreaks.
When Charlotte Palmer Roy graduated from Penn State College of Medicine’s graduate program in homeland security in 2012, she had no idea her new found knowledge would be put to the ultimate test just one year later during the Boston Marathon bombing.
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has underscored the importance of the education and training that people need to respond to global health crises. An online master’s degree and graduate certificate from Penn State can help prepare people for those kinds of jobs.
