The NDSU emergency management program was well represented at the FEMA/Department of Homeland Security’s 12th Annual All-Hazards Higher Education Conference at the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Md., in early June.
Carol Cwiak, emergency management lecturer, presented at the Business Continuity session and served as a panelist on the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Higher Education Programs Integration roundtable. She also presented data on the 2009 Body of Knowledge survey and moderated a session, titled “Building Partnership Opportunities Across Borders,” which focused on NDSU’s collaboration with the North Dakota National Guard and the Emergency Management Programs in Ghana.
Professor and chair Daniel J. Klenow presented “Growing and Maintaining Bachelor’s Level Emergency Management Programs.”
Doctoral student and Presidential Fellow Jessica Jensen presented with Cwiak on the newly initiated Emergency Management Emcollaborative program. Jensen also presented at the Emergency Management Theory session. Doctoral student Daniel Martin moderated a session titled “Catastrophic Failures: Emerging Threats to Critical Infrastructure.”
Emergency management graduate students Marc Khatchadourian, Alex Cole-Corde, Pierre Freeman and Ryan McEwan presented a session titled “Sink or Swim: Putting Education into Practice.” This session focused on their participation in the response to the 2009 flood event.
July 21, 2009