The following is a November 7 article titled “Next war could be a click away” by CNN Senior National Security Producer Larry Shaughnessy: DARPA, the agency that really did invent the Internet, is now looking at ways the Web might be used to fight the next war. DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Pentagon office that researches everything from cutting-edge cybersecurity to hypersonic airplanes. The...
Read MoreGeography grad student Rodrigo Bombardi was among the twenty-three early career and young scientists selected for recognition for their outstanding presentations at the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Open Science Conference in Denver on Monday, October 24. According to its web site, “The daily competition for the best posters and papers presented by young researchers pulls from approximately 120 presentations each day....
Read MoreGraduate student Felipe Murtinho filed his dissertation, Adaptation in Watershed Management among Andean Rural Communities, this summer. Committee co-chairs Hallie Eakin and David López-Carr and committee members Christina Tague and Elinor Ostrom were very impressed with Felipe’s work. 2009 Economics Nobel Prize Winner, Ostrom opined that Felipe wrote a strong dissertation. Some of the more methodologically...
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