WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.780 2 00:00:03,780 --> 00:00:08,280 [John] Welcome to the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology. 2 00:00:08.280 --> 00:00:13.280 I'm John Verrico and this is Tech Talk. 3 00:00:13.310 --> 00:00:17.800 The Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology directorate is the research and 4 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.830 development arm that supports the enormous mission of the department. One of the things that we do, is we go 5 00:00:21.830 --> 00:00:26.200 to the people who are on the front line of security, the front line of protecting 6 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:30.690 our nation, the front line of responding to disasters and we ask the people 7 00:00:30.690 --> 00:00:35.250 what is it that you need to make your job better, safer, faster, more secure? 8 00:00:35.250 --> 00:00:39.320 Whatever. And then we turn to industry, we turn to 9 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:43.800 other government laboratories, we turn to academia 10 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:47.910 to try to find those solutions. Those technological solutions to those challenges. 11 00:00:47.910 --> 00:00:52.150 So in reaching out to the bright minds of academia 12 00:00:52.150 --> 00:00:56.190 the Department of Homeland Security has established mission focused centers of excellence 13 00:00:56.190 --> 00:01:00.360 through our university programs office. There are currently 14 00:01:00.360 --> 00:01:04.390 nine of these centers of excellence, encompassing a consortia of 15 00:01:04.390 --> 00:01:08.560 nearly two hundred individual colleges and universities. 16 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:12.590 it�s quite a large brain pool that we have of smart| people out there thinking about these things. 17 00:01:12.590 --> 00:01:16.600 The COEs have three primary focus areas in research, 18 00:01:16.600 --> 00:01:20.600 in education and in training and all three of those focus areas complement each other 19 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:24.610 and provide a foundation for how the COEs 20 00:01:24.610 --> 00:01:28.630 will operate to meet those objectives. The ultimate objective of course 21 00:01:28.630 --> 00:01:32.770 is to positively impact Homeland Security and they do this 22 00:01:32.770 --> 00:01:36.780 by transitioning the results, the products and the outcomes in the form of 23 00:01:36.780 --> 00:01:40.920 tools, technologies and knowledge products to the DHS components 24 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:45.200 and to state and local entities. Today's Tech Talk we are going to feature the 25 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.350 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism, 26 00:01:49.350 --> 00:01:53.570 otherly known as START. It is a 27 00:01:53.570 --> 00:01:57.700 DHS Center of Excellence(COE) led by the University of Maryland. 28 00:01:57.700 --> 00:02:01.860 With me today I have Gina Harrigan, who is the Program Manager in the Science and Technology directorates 29 00:02:01.860 --> 00:02:05.990 office of university programs. We have Liberty Day, who is 30 00:02:05.990 --> 00:02:10.010 Assistant Director of Education and Training at START, welcome. And also 31 00:02:10.010 --> 00:02:14.280 Joyce Rasing, the Graduate Education Program Coordinator at START. 32 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:18.570 So thank you all for joining us. We really appreciate having 33 00:02:18.570 --> 00:02:22.720 you here today. So let's start off with the most basic of all questions and what 34 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:27.020 is START? [Gina] So START is one our first 35 00:02:27.020 --> 00:02:31.020 actually our second Center of Excellence that was established about 12 years ago. 36 00:02:31.020 --> 00:02:35.300 It is led by the University of Maryland, like you already said 37 00:02:35.300 --> 00:02:39.440 and its focus is on the 38 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:44.440 I'm going to have to put my glasses on for this so I don't mess this up, but its focus is on 39 00:02:46.590 --> 00:02:50.810 advancing science base knowledge about the causes and 40 00:02:50.810 --> 00:02:54.910 consequences of terrorism and the effectiveness and consequences of 41 00:02:54.910 --> 00:02:58.920 responses to terrorism. Through its research START provides actionable data tools 42 00:02:58.920 --> 00:03:03.010 and training to assist the current and future Homeland Security workforce. 43 00:03:03.010 --> 00:03:07.250 [John] Thank you. So tell me 44 00:03:07.250 --> 00:03:11.340 about STARTs training program? [Joyce] Well over the last several years we've 45 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:15.350 really focused a lot of attention on developing our training capabilities as 46 00:03:15.350 --> 00:03:19.430 specifically we wanna reach professional audiences who have the 47 00:03:19.430 --> 00:03:23.650 ability to use the research in such a way that it impacts 48 00:03:23.650 --> 00:03:27.760 policy and practice and so one of the ways that we've 49 00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:31.990 done this is we've worked with the training program itself, which is 50 00:03:31.990 --> 00:03:35.780 a team of training professionals, works with subject matter 51 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:39.980 experts from our consortium to identify appropriate content that we can then 52 00:03:39.980 --> 00:03:44.070 build out into a training course. And so what's really great about that is that we 53 00:03:44.070 --> 00:03:48.270 have over the last several years really developed a diverse 54 00:03:48.270 --> 00:03:52.410 training portfolio. It's as diverse as our research 55 00:03:52.410 --> 00:03:56.610 portfolios as well. We have trainings available on risk and 56 00:03:56.610 --> 00:04:00.690 crisis communication, on encountering violent extremism, 57 00:04:00.690 --> 00:04:04.940 on terrorism awareness for ferry operators. 58 00:04:04.940 --> 00:04:09.010 And this just gives you a brief overview of 59 00:04:09.010 --> 00:04:13.250 the range of possible training topics that we can provide. 60 00:04:13.250 --> 00:04:17.320 [John] Wow, that's quite a broad spectrum. So what 61 00:04:17.320 --> 00:04:21.580 is S&T's role in this Gina? [Gina] We have a federal program 62 00:04:21.580 --> 00:04:25.650 managers and we make those connections between 63 00:04:25.650 --> 00:04:29.860 the DHS components and the First Responders 64 00:04:29.860 --> 00:04:33.930 to the actual academic sources of information. 65 00:04:33.930 --> 00:04:38.130 We make sure that work that we do in academia is 66 00:04:38.130 --> 00:04:42.200 mission relevant. It's not ivory tower, its mission relevant 67 00:04:42.200 --> 00:04:46.400 there to deliver solutions for the Homeland Security enterprise. 68 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:50.460 [John] Excellent. So now our audience for these Tech Talks 69 00:04:50.460 --> 00:04:54.690 is pretty much a broad spectrum of stakeholder, they could be First Responders, 70 00:04:54.690 --> 00:04:58.750 they could be people in industry, they could be potential students 71 00:04:58.750 --> 00:05:03.330 that might want to get involved in some of these programs. So are there any specific training 72 00:05:03.330 --> 00:05:07.550 opportunities that we would like to highlight that might, that maybe they will be interested in? 73 00:05:07.550 --> 00:05:12.380 [Liberty] Yes, one of the reasons we wanted to come talk to you all today 74 00:05:12.380 --> 00:05:16.650 is based on the fact that we have a suite of training courses 75 00:05:16.650 --> 00:05:21.300 on countering violent extremism, which has been funded by FEMA 76 00:05:21.300 --> 00:05:25.610 and those courses, I'll give you an overview really quickly of 77 00:05:25.610 --> 00:05:30.270 four courses, like our most relevant to this audience at this time 78 00:05:30.270 --> 00:05:34.710 and these include both online courses and one in-person course. 79 00:05:34.710 --> 00:05:38.730 The first one we released in March of 2017 and it's 80 00:05:38.730 --> 00:05:43.130 Community lead Actions in Response to Violent Extremism, otherwise known 81 00:05:43.130 --> 00:05:47.160 as CARVE. It's about a four. [John] Would you spell that out again please? [Liberty] Yes, 82 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:51.160 it's C-A-R-V-E, Community lead 83 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:55.940 Actions in Responses to Violent Extremism. [John] Thank you. 84 00:05:55.940 --> 00:06:00.350 [Liberty] Yeah, so this is a four hour online course. It's self-paced. 85 00:06:00.350 --> 00:06:04.370 It's available through the University of Maryland learning management system. 86 00:06:04.370 --> 00:06:08.800 You do not have to be an affiliate of UMD to take the course and it is offered 87 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:12.890 for free. This course in particular is going to give you 88 00:06:12.890 --> 00:06:17.350 an introduction to the radicalization of violence and from a research perspective 89 00:06:17.350 --> 00:06:21.360 and it's also going to answer the question of what can a communities do 90 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:25.830 in response to violent extremism and so this is provided 91 00:06:25.830 --> 00:06:29.940 to lay groundwork some of our other courses. 92 00:06:29.940 --> 00:06:34.430 The next course that was just released earlier this year is 93 00:06:34.430 --> 00:06:38.560 specifically for using non-integrating mental health and education approaches 94 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:43.080 and Encountering Violent Extremism and so that is a three and a half hour course 95 00:06:43.080 --> 00:06:47.110 based online, available for free. You can go sign-up 96 00:06:47.110 --> 00:06:51.670 and jump right into the course almost immediately and then you have sixty days to 97 00:06:51.670 --> 00:06:55.870 complete once you are in the course space, but this really takes a look at how mental health 98 00:06:55.870 --> 00:07:00.420 providers and educational professionals can 99 00:07:00.420 --> 00:07:04.640 be included in the response. 100 00:07:04.640 --> 00:07:09.640 So it explores this potential and actual synergy between 101 00:07:09.870 --> 00:07:14.200 these areas of study and CDE itself and then we have a Countering Violence 102 00:07:14.200 --> 00:07:19.200 Extremest Narratives. This course looks at five different types of 103 00:07:19.620 --> 00:07:23.620 violent narratives that are and specifically what are the 104 00:07:23.620 --> 00:07:27.690 messages that the violent extremist groups put forth in order to justify 105 00:07:27.690 --> 00:07:32.140 the use of violence and so we take a look at 106 00:07:32.140 --> 00:07:36.220 what those narratives actually are and the latter part of the course we talk about 107 00:07:36.220 --> 00:07:40.650 the principles of how you can develop counter narratives or 108 00:07:40.650 --> 00:07:44.650 alternative narratives to these violent narratives that are being put forth. 109 00:07:44.650 --> 00:07:49.100 That one again is an online self-paced course and 110 00:07:49.100 --> 00:07:53.140 is also available via the same platform. [John] Is that one also free? 111 00:07:53.140 --> 00:07:57.320 [Liberty] Yes. That's an amazing thing, you don't normally hear that so I'll repeat 112 00:07:57.320 --> 00:08:01.420 that these courses are free and that's an really important 113 00:08:01.420 --> 00:08:06.130 that gives people a great opportunity to come on and learn 114 00:08:06.130 --> 00:08:10.270 really important background issues. [Liberty] They are supported by FEMA, so FEMA 115 00:08:10.270 --> 00:08:14.760 is actually covering the cost of delivery so. [John] That's fantastic. [Liberty] And then we have one final course 116 00:08:14.760 --> 00:08:18.910 and this is an in-person course, so it's designed to be 117 00:08:18.910 --> 00:08:23.450 much more in depth and really focused on building the skills within the community 118 00:08:23.450 --> 00:08:27.660 but if it's focusing on coalition building and for CVE and community resilience. 119 00:08:27.660 --> 00:08:32.260 It's designed to be provided be provided to groups of between 120 00:08:32.260 --> 00:08:36.260 25, 35 individuals. We want to draw from multidiscipline 121 00:08:36.260 --> 00:08:40.890 areas and backgrounds. So that everyone in the room has the opportunity to learn from each other 122 00:08:40.890 --> 00:08:45.140 and to consider how they can build a coalition to develop 123 00:08:45.140 --> 00:08:49.920 a community specific response to violent extremism. 124 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:53.920 And we have funding from FEMA to provide up to seven iterations of this and so 125 00:08:53.920 --> 00:08:58.630 we are looking for communities who are interested in bringing us in to provide this training 126 00:08:58.630 --> 00:09:03.020 and that one is also free. [Gina] And John, such a broad audience is 127 00:09:03.020 --> 00:09:07.820 in line with the Homeland Security national preparedness goal. We recognize that 128 00:09:07.820 --> 00:09:12.270 a secure and resilient nation requires a full community. 129 00:09:12.270 --> 00:09:16.270 [John] That's brilliant, cause I was gonna ask 130 00:09:16.270 --> 00:09:20.720 it sounds like these courses, you mentioned that 131 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.810 they'd be interesting to our audience and I was wondering if these were intended for Homeland Security 132 00:09:24.810 --> 00:09:29.270 professionals or for that broader audience. [Liberty] Well 133 00:09:29.270 --> 00:09:33.290 when FEMA tasked us with developing these courses, they specifically wanted us 134 00:09:33.290 --> 00:09:37.800 to develop them for community partners and so we 135 00:09:37.800 --> 00:09:41.810 defined that very broadly, because we do feel like it does take 136 00:09:41.810 --> 00:09:46.810 a number of different professionals and disciplines to create an effective 137 00:09:46.830 --> 00:09:51.010 response and so just for an example our first course CARVE 138 00:09:51.010 --> 00:09:55.550 was released last year, that's been taken by emergency 139 00:09:55.550 --> 00:09:59.770 management personnel, law enforcement, educational professionals 140 00:09:59.770 --> 00:10:04.390 students, researchers, school research officers, 141 00:10:04.390 --> 00:10:08.660 educators so we have a very wide potential audience that 142 00:10:08.660 --> 00:10:13.370 were able to reach with these courses. [John] So what are the benefits 143 00:10:13.370 --> 00:10:17.820 if I am a, let's say I am a Homeland Security professional in some capacity 144 00:10:17.820 --> 00:10:22.740 whether in law enforcement, emergency management, school resource officer whatever, what are the 145 00:10:22.740 --> 00:10:27.150 benefits of participating in these types of courses? [Liberty] Well the first is 146 00:10:27.150 --> 00:10:31.210 just understanding how we are defining these different topic areas. There's a lot of different 147 00:10:31.210 --> 00:10:35.650 definitions. When we first got into creating these courses, it was surprising 148 00:10:35.650 --> 00:10:39.680 to us that there wasn't an agreed upon lexicon for 149 00:10:39.680 --> 00:10:44.140 this particular topic area, so we do provide some really 150 00:10:44.140 --> 00:10:48.240 basic information about what is violent extremism, what is terrorism, what is hate crimes 151 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.240 and how they are related. And so it gives a common language that people can use 152 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.300 that is academically informed. So the benefit of 153 00:10:56.300 --> 00:11:00.730 all of our courses is that we do draw upon our research 154 00:11:00.730 --> 00:11:04.820 findings and many of which are funded from S&T and so 155 00:11:04.820 --> 00:11:09.270 it is an academically informed research driven content on this particular topic. 156 00:11:09.270 --> 00:11:13.370 And in addition it 157 00:11:13.370 --> 00:11:17.850 really helps identify the fact that this is a type of 158 00:11:17.850 --> 00:11:21.860 issue that a full community will have to engage in and so 159 00:11:21.860 --> 00:11:26.370 it does open people's eyes to the fact that I have a role in 160 00:11:26.370 --> 00:11:30.510 this and what is my role? And so you get to explore those types of 161 00:11:30.510 --> 00:11:35.000 topic areas. And then finally I will say, at least initially our 162 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.160 evaluations are very positive and at least three out of four 163 00:11:39.160 --> 00:11:43.710 report that they have increased their knowledge skills and abilities. And then 164 00:11:43.710 --> 00:11:47.920 CARVE in particular, 96% of people who completed the 165 00:11:47.920 --> 00:11:52.560 course said they would recommend it to a peer and so we feel very positive about that. [John] That's excellent. 166 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:56.850 So are there any eligibility requirements that 167 00:11:56.850 --> 00:12:01.530 people have to have as a prerequisite or something that, some baseline that they should know before 168 00:12:01.530 --> 00:12:05.830 they even get in? [Liberty] No baselines at each level before you get in 169 00:12:05.830 --> 00:12:10.830 and while we do feel like the courses are strongest 170 00:12:11.260 --> 00:12:15.670 when taken together. We have tried to anticipate that not 171 00:12:15.670 --> 00:12:19.740 everyone is going to be able to take the full suite of courses and so we do cover 172 00:12:19.740 --> 00:12:24.210 a reduced overview. We do some basic groundwork in each of the courses so you don't have to take 173 00:12:24.210 --> 00:12:28.310 all of them if one of them speaks to you more strongly than the others than that would be fine. 174 00:12:28.310 --> 00:12:32.780 Some other prerequisites, 175 00:12:32.780 --> 00:12:36.880 well actually it's not a prerequisite, it's just 176 00:12:36.880 --> 00:12:40.890 some eligibility requirements that I would that I would want to make people aware of is the fact 177 00:12:40.890 --> 00:12:44.970 that this is a FEMA funded course and because of that you 178 00:12:44.970 --> 00:12:49.430 do have to be a U.S. citizen or a legal resident in order to 179 00:12:49.430 --> 00:12:53.540 do qualify to take the course, however if you 180 00:12:53.540 --> 00:12:58.020 are not a resident or a legal resident or a legal resident or 181 00:12:58.020 --> 00:13:02.160 a citizen and you do want to take course, if you have a sponsoring agency 182 00:13:02.160 --> 00:13:06.660 then we can fill out a foreign visitor request form and get 183 00:13:06.660 --> 00:13:10.820 you access to the course. It's just a little bit more of a paperwork process to make that happen. 184 00:13:10.820 --> 00:13:15.370 [John] And where can they go to register? 185 00:13:15.370 --> 00:13:19.560 [Liberty] Well you can register for any of the online courses 186 00:13:19.560 --> 00:13:24.100 via our website www.START.umd.edu. 187 00:13:24.100 --> 00:13:28.330 [John] And that's on the screen. [Liberty] Okay and 188 00:13:28.330 --> 00:13:32.940 there is along the top there is a section of our website 189 00:13:32.940 --> 00:13:37.230 dedicated to training and so what you'll do is go to the training drop down menus 190 00:13:37.230 --> 00:13:41.870 and select the trainings that you are interested in and then you'll be 191 00:13:41.870 --> 00:13:45.890 taken to the registration page of our LMS,|now if you�re interested 192 00:13:45.890 --> 00:13:50.880 and bringing us in to do the in-person training, then you would want to get in contact with me. 193 00:13:50.880 --> 00:13:55.230 Which is training@start.umd.edu. 194 00:13:55.230 --> 00:13:59.250 [John] Thank you and that's on the screen as well. 195 00:13:59.250 --> 00:14:03.680 And just let me encourage people to, for those of you watching this please 196 00:14:03.680 --> 00:14:07.710 if you have any questions at all just put them in the comments and we will get back to you 197 00:14:07.710 --> 00:14:12.160 and we will respond to you and also you can reach out directly to 198 00:14:12.160 --> 00:14:16.210 Liberty at that training email or go onto the STARTs website. 199 00:14:16.210 --> 00:14:20.630 Let's talk about the 200 00:14:20.630 --> 00:14:24.690 graduate certification program. 201 00:14:24.690 --> 00:14:29.150 What is, kinda tell, tell us about it? Tell us about the certificate program. [Joyce] Yeah, so the program 202 00:14:29.150 --> 00:14:33.230 is a four course, 12 credit, online synchronous program 203 00:14:33.230 --> 00:14:37.660 at the University of Maryland of course. It provides graduate level education for 204 00:14:37.660 --> 00:14:41.750 interested individuals wanting to learn about 205 00:14:41.750 --> 00:14:46.190 thee causes, dynamics and impacts of terrorism in a domestic 206 00:14:46.190 --> 00:14:50.290 and international realm. [John] So what kinds of courses 207 00:14:50.290 --> 00:14:54.740 are a part of this graduate curriculum? [Joyce] Sure. 208 00:14:54.740 --> 00:14:58.890 So there are four courses that each individual has to complete in order 209 00:14:58.890 --> 00:15:03.400 to receive the certificate program. The first two are the 210 00:15:03.400 --> 00:15:07.410 core courses, Motivations and Intents of Terrorist and Terrorist Group, Groups 211 00:15:07.410 --> 00:15:11.980 Societal Impacts of and Responses to Terrorism. 212 00:15:11.980 --> 00:15:16.150 So these two courses generally gauge thee 213 00:15:16.150 --> 00:15:20.680 the discussion of terrorism and how it's defined in the 214 00:15:20.680 --> 00:15:24.860 academic realm. 215 00:15:24.860 --> 00:15:29.400 They discuss how global and global terrorist events and 216 00:15:29.400 --> 00:15:33.640 terrorist are framed in the field in the academia. 217 00:15:33.640 --> 00:15:38.260 There are a few elective courses, in which a student has to choose one of them. 218 00:15:38.260 --> 00:15:42.560 Countering Violent Extremism, Policy and Practice and 219 00:15:42.560 --> 00:15:42.870 Legal and communal Approaches to Encountering a violent Extremism. So the first course CBE or 220 00:15:42.870 --> 00:15:47.590 Legal and communal Approaches to Encountering a violent Extremism. So the first course CBE or 221 00:15:47.590 --> 00:15:51.960 Encountering a violent Extremism is a very popular topic in this realm so 222 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:55.980 they talk about the existing programs both domestically 223 00:15:55.980 --> 00:16:00.980 and internationally. And lastly there is a research methods course in which a 224 00:16:01.150 --> 00:16:05.250 student has to choose between qualitative and quantitative research methods. 225 00:16:05.250 --> 00:16:09.750 [John] So how are these courses run? Are these 226 00:16:09.750 --> 00:16:13.880 in-person or are they online? How do they do these? [Joyce] Yes, so they are 227 00:16:13.880 --> 00:16:18.380 not in-person, but they are online. They are also synchronous 228 00:16:18.380 --> 00:16:22.530 and they run after 6pm Eastern Standard time. 229 00:16:22.530 --> 00:16:27.080 [John] So somebody has to login and watch it, when it's happening? [Joyce] Yes, so they 230 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:31.260 yeah the student gains access to the University of Maryland's systems, once they are admitted into 231 00:16:31.260 --> 00:16:35.860 the program. [John] Great, thank you. So does S&T 232 00:16:35.860 --> 00:16:40.070 envision that we will get a lot of people that already employed at DHS 233 00:16:40.070 --> 00:16:44.680 that might pursue this certificate? So anecdotally we do 234 00:16:44.680 --> 00:16:48.950 get contacted by DHS personnel that want to take 235 00:16:48.950 --> 00:16:53.610 courses and so they ask us about the development 236 00:16:53.610 --> 00:16:57.930 of those courses and a lot of our research has transitioned 237 00:16:57.930 --> 00:17:02.630 and has provided the content for the course material. 238 00:17:02.630 --> 00:17:06.990 [John] That's cool. [Joyce] I just wanted to add on to that, 239 00:17:06.990 --> 00:17:11.010 that 25% of our students come from federal employers. 240 00:17:11.010 --> 00:17:15.360 Some of them include DHS, the FBI, DOJ and NIJ. 241 00:17:15.360 --> 00:17:19.380 And we also have a small population of students 242 00:17:19.380 --> 00:17:23.750 that also have jobs within the military, but they're not active 243 00:17:23.750 --> 00:17:27.780 duty or civilian military. [John] Now they do have to have a 244 00:17:27.780 --> 00:17:31.790 bachelor's degree before doing this? [Joyce] Yes. [John] 245 00:17:31.790 --> 00:17:36.550 But they don't already have to have a masters in something else? [Joyce] No, they 246 00:17:36.550 --> 00:17:40.940 we only require a bachelor's degree for our program, 247 00:17:40.940 --> 00:17:45.020 although we recommend that they have already obtained a masters degree but it is not required to have a masters. 248 00:17:45.020 --> 00:17:49.020 [John] But this is a graduate level certificate? [Joyce] Right this is a graduate level. [John] Good, good. So what's the 249 00:17:49.020 --> 00:17:53.070 application process like? What does it take to get into this? [Joyce] So the application process 250 00:17:53.070 --> 00:17:57.480 will be through our website, which I'll mention later. 251 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:01.540 We'll require an online form, 252 00:18:01.540 --> 00:18:05.950 which collects your demographics, as well as 253 00:18:05.950 --> 00:18:09.960 your personal statement. A current resume or CVE, 254 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:14.350 as well as two recommendation letters from 255 00:18:14.350 --> 00:18:18.420 your employer or previous instructors. [John] So the 256 00:18:18.420 --> 00:18:22.870 recommendation letters are the real key to getting in the door and that's good to know. 257 00:18:22.870 --> 00:18:26.950 When's the next deadline? [Joyce] So we have a few months until the next deadline. 258 00:18:26.950 --> 00:18:31.410 January 12th, 2019 will be the next deadline for the spring 259 00:18:31.410 --> 00:18:35.530 2019 semester. [John] Okay, so thank you. And they 260 00:18:35.530 --> 00:18:40.000 sign-up on the website, which is www.start.umd.edu 261 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.120 and if they have questions, your email? [Joyce] Yes. 262 00:18:44.120 --> 00:18:48.560 If you have any questions, you can contact us at education@start.umd.edu. 263 00:18:48.560 --> 00:18:52.700 [John] Okay, so its training@start.umd.edu 264 00:18:52.700 --> 00:18:57.240 for education at start.umd.edu? 265 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:01.440 Great, thank you. So Gina 266 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:06.050 this is very exciting what's going on at START and I know there are lots of great opportunities in some of the other 267 00:19:06.050 --> 00:19:10.280 centers of excellence. If someone wanted to know about what's going on in some of the other 268 00:19:10.280 --> 00:19:14.890 centers of excellence, where should they find information? [Gina] So I think the best is to log onto 269 00:19:14.890 --> 00:19:19.140 the SciTech website, which I think is on the screen now. [website: https://scitech.dhs.gov] 270 00:19:19.140 --> 00:19:23.730 Search under university programs and from the university programs 271 00:19:23.730 --> 00:19:28.010 and centers of excellence. You can get a link to the other nine centers of excellence 272 00:19:28.010 --> 00:19:32.660 homepages and on those pages you will learn about all the centers. [John] Excellent. 273 00:19:32.660 --> 00:19:37.030 So that is for all of you out there 274 00:19:37.030 --> 00:19:41.860 do not use www, it is the https: 275 00:19:41.860 --> 00:19:46.280 back slash, back slash, but its SciTech, s-c-i-.- 276 00:19:46.280 --> 00:19:50.360 t-e-c-h-.dhs.gov. 277 00:19:50.360 --> 00:19:54.820 Search for centers of excellence or search for university programs and 278 00:19:54.820 --> 00:19:58.930 either of those will get you to the information about all the different center and the 279 00:19:58.930 --> 00:20:03.410 offerings that we have and the wonderful programs we have for universities. 280 00:20:03.410 --> 00:20:07.550 So I want to thank all of you for joining us today. Before we wrap it up is there anything 281 00:20:07.550 --> 00:20:12.270 you'd like to add, anything that you think people absolutely should know about the center? 282 00:20:12.270 --> 00:20:16.310 We covered everything? [Joyce] I think 283 00:20:16.310 --> 00:20:20.870 you've covered everything. Thank you. [John] Okay, great thank you. Well I to want to point out that START is 284 00:20:20.870 --> 00:20:25.060 the home of the Global Terrorism Database and 285 00:20:25.060 --> 00:20:30.060 it has all of the research covering 286 00:20:30.250 --> 00:20:34.550 all terrorist incidents and responses to terrorist incidents going way way back to the earliest 287 00:20:34.550 --> 00:20:39.250 recorded incident, so it's quite an amazing database. It is used by law enforcement 288 00:20:39.250 --> 00:20:43.260 agencies and all sorts of organizations and research organizations around the world 289 00:20:43.260 --> 00:20:48.030 and so that is kind of your claim to fame before you get into 290 00:20:48.030 --> 00:20:52.440 these types of things, so keep that in mind. Thank you for joining us. 291 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:54.058 Join us next time for another Tech Talk.