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Borders involves a range of research activities that are intent on making sure enemies and any of their dangerous cargo does not enter our country illegally and that our food and water supplies are not sabotaged.
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Joseph O'Sullivan
Professor Of Electrical & Systems Engineering
O'Sullivan received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame. He has published dozens of peer reviewed articles and is active in many international conferences and professional organizations. He conducts research in a wide range of science and technology for security applications, including ...
Expertise: electrical engineering, encryption, sensors, automatic target recognition, cybersecurity
Direct contact: (314) 935-4173
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jao@wustl.edu
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Panos Kouvelis
Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management
Kouvelis is an expert on global supply chain security and on the efforts of homeland security officials to secure the 30 million containers that are shipped into the United States annually as part of the manufacturing and distribution supply chain. He's also an expert source on a variety of business-related ...
Expertise: marketing, e-commerce, operations management, manufacturing management, facility layout, inventory control, production planning, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4604
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kouvelis@wustl.edu
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Immigration law expert available for comment
'Reduce illegal immigration by reuniting nuclear families of legal immigrants,' Legomsky says
June 19,
2007 --
Immigration law expert Stephen H. Legomsky says that an easy way to put a serious dent in illegal immigration is to exempt the spouses and young children of legal immigrants from numerical ceilings, just as we now exempt the spouses and children of U.S. citizens. Legomsky is the author of America's leading law school textbook on immigration law and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. He has advised both Republican and Democratic administrations and several foreign governments on immigration, refugee and citizenship issues. More...
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A tool to thwart terrorists
Theory can help disable terrorists' messages
July 10,
2003 --
An electrical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has devised a theory that sets the limits for the amount of data that can be hidden in a system and then provides guidelines for how to store data and decode it. Contrarily, the theory also provides guidelines for how an adversary would disrupt the hidden information. The theory will have a major impact on homeland security applications.
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Drug Informant Fights Deportation
NPR Day to Day
Feb. 8,
2008 -- A Nigerian immigrant here facing deportation says he's going to be tortured and killed if he is, in fact, sent back home. Frank Enwonwu was caught smuggling heroin 22 years ago. Since then he's lived the dangerous life of an informant for federal drug authorities.
He claims part of the deal was a promise to allow him to stay in the U.S. and escape revenge from the Nigerian drug dealers. Professor Stephen Legomsky, an immigration law expert at Washington University in St. Louis, comments.
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Bush domestic proposals address some Democratic concerns but will still be a hard sell
Associated Press
and 17 others
Jan. 24,
2007 -- WUSTL presidential rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields is one of several experts analyzing the content and presentation of President Bush's State of the Union speech.
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Bush speech lacks knockout blow: analysts
Agence France Presse -- English
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Jan. 24,
2007 -- WUSTL political science professor Steven Smith is one of several experts analyzing the content and presentation of President Bush's State of the Union speech.
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U.S. to Deploy Proven Technology on Borders
NPR - Morning Edition
Sept. 22,
2006 -- The Department of Homeland Security today awards a multi-billion dollar contract to beef up border security. The anticipated winner is Boeing. Despite the aerospace giant's background, Boeing's border security plan is less high tech than you might expect.
WUSTL computer science professor Robert Pless comments on surveillance technology. He is assistant director of WUSTL's Center for Security Technologies.
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