CINA Annual RFP: Winter 2024 Release: Jan 19, 2024 Due: March 1, 2024 CINA Request for Proposals The Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) is soliciting proposals for research…
CINA Annual RFP: Winter 2024
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Podcast – Ep 55: Where the bodies are buried
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By Mason’s Access to Excellence Podcast Forensic research on human donors is not for the faint of heart, Mary Ellen O’Toole, director of the Forensic Science Program in George…
A former FBI profiler explains how ‘leakage’ can warn of a mass shooting
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By Kai McNamee, Kathryn Fox, Juana Summers NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI profiler, about the warning signs before a mass shooting. Listen Here
CINA Distinguished Speaker Series with Nick Nikiforakis: “Bridgespotting: How Web3 Attackers Target Web2 Cryptocurrency Users”
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Watch the CINA Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Nick Nikiforakis, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University as he discusses “Bridgespotting: How Web3 Attackers Target Web2…
Search underway for Maine mass shootings person of interest, police say
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By CBS News Authorities are attempting to locate 40-year-old Robert R. Card as a person of interest in the deadly Maine mass shootings, the Lewiston Police Department said in a…
California Ranks 36 Among Safest States in America
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By Cindy Uken What states made 2023’s Safest States in America list? With more than 34,000 Americans having died from gun violence this year and the country having experienced $24…
Virginia professor, former FBI profiler, recalls impressions of Natalee Holloway’s killer
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by: Chris Horne MANASSAS, Va. (WAVY) — Mary Ellen O’Toole remembers something familiar about Joran van der Sloot. Long the only suspect in the 2005 death of Natalee Holloway on Aruba,…
Beeline to bodies: George Mason research getting ready to take flight to aid murder investigations
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MANASSAS, Va. (WAVY) — Walk into the woods next to the Science and Technology campus of George Mason University and you’ll see a four-acre plot enclosed in a chain link…
Curbing pedestrian stops might not reduce police-civilian encounters
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By Sujata Gupta Any encounter between police and civilians has the potential to go awry (SN: 11/17/21). Stop and frisk, where police pat down pedestrians suspected of carrying contraband, can be particularly…
Schar School Study Shows 4 ‘Hubs’ of Illicit Trade—and the Reasons They Flourish
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By: Schar School Staff A major new academic study highlights four geographic hubs of illicit trade for organized crime and specifies how each of the hot spots shares an enabling…