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"Recent catastrophic earthquakes in Haiti and Chile have once again reminded us that our world view must include extreme events and their impacts. We know that the United States is particularly vulnerable due to its large populations living and working in high risk areas: seismic zones, coastal and riverine flood plains, and urban terrorist targets. Catastrophic events can and will happen here," John Harrald, research professor, Virginia Tech Center for Technology, Security, and Policy, warned yesterday during his testimony at a subcommittee hearing of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Bruce M. Lawlor, director, Virginia Tech Center for Technology, Security, and Policy, has been appointed to the Commission on the Black Sea to foster discussion about the political future of bordering nations.

In testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology, Randall Murch, said he strongly supported the development, coordination, and implementation of a National Intelligence Strategy for Countering the Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

The highly visible, state-of-the-art facility will further the university's mission to expand its research portfolio in a region that offers great opportunity for partnerships with corporate research entities and close proximity to government agencies and other public and private-sector organizations.

Commissioner Valerie Lemmie, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), a leading scholar on the subject of public management in enhancing democracy, was inaugurated recently as the second Inclusive Management Fellow of the Coast-to-Coast Inclusive Management Initiative within the Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) and the School for Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at Virginia Tech, National Capital Region.

Virginia Tech National Capital Region recently hosted a symposium titled "A Public Administration Moment: Forging an Agenda for Financial Regulatory Reform" to address such relevant topics as: How can financial regulation be made more transparent? What is the government's role in regulating financial innovation and risk? What are the educational challenges in preparing public administrators for financial regulation? And what are the lessons from rapid responses to tough economic issues?

Gerard Toal, professor and director of Virginia Tech's Government and International Affairs (GIA) program in the National Capital Region, has been honored with a career award in the field of geography by the Political Geography Specialty Group and Elsevier, publisher of the journal, Political Geography.

When political geographer Gerard Toal, professor of Government and International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs, applied to the Human and Social Dynamics program of the National Science Foundation for a research grant this past spring, he had no idea that the topic would suddenly become the center of a worldwide crisis.

The Alexandria City Council received the Eco-City Alexandria report, "Green-Ventory of City Environmental Policies, Plans, and Programs," conducted in collaboration with the Virginia Tech Eco-Studio, Urban Affairs and Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, during its recent monthly legislative meeting.

The Virginia Tech Complexity Science Academy, in conjunction with the university's National Capital Region (NCR) Operations, recently sponsored a workshop, "Policy Informatics in an Interdependent World," drawing both national and international invited experts from government, industry, and academia.

Gerard Toal, professor of government and international affairs in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, National Capital Region, was invited to speak at a series of conferences organized to mark the recent 10 year anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords, the agreement that ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and governs that country today. An estimated 200,000 people died in the war that raged from April 1992 to September 1995.

"Thinking critically about geopolitics is more important than ever," says Gerard Toal, of Washington, D.C., professor of government and international affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs in the College of Architecture and Urban Affairs at Virginia Tech, National Capital Region, in the recently published new edition of the popular textbook, The Geopolitics Reader.

Virginia Tech and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop research collaborations and educational and training programs that will serve COG's constituents and provide Virginia Tech with unique research and educational opportunities related to metropolitan issues.

One million returns, yet the legacy of ethnic cleansing endures. That was the testimony of Gerard Toal, professor of government and international affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, National Capital Region, before a congressional subcommittee hearing on "Bosnia-Herzegovina: Unfinished Business" on April 6.

The United Nations recently reported that a landmark number of 1 million refugees have returned to their houses since the Dayton Peace Accords brought the war in Bosnia to an end in 1995. During the past few years, Gerard Toal, professor of government and international affairs at the Virginia Tech Alexandria campus, has been at the forefront of research on the returns process in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Toal's research investigates the contradiction in the Dayton peace treaty that pledged to reverse ethnic cleansing but, at the same time, sanctioned a segregated Bosnia created by ethnic cleansing and ruled by local authority ethnonationalists. This contradiction has resulted in a 10-year struggle between the international community and local authorities over the ethnic composition of Bosnia.