On March 14, I had the pleasure of welcoming CINA’s stakeholders to our annual meeting. As usual, it was an opportunity for researchers from across the country to meet up…
Director’s Blog: April 2024
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Director’s Blog: December 2023
I am delighted to join the CINA team as director effective December 11, and I am excited to build on the center’s achievements under my predecessors, Jim Jones and Anthony…
Director’s Blog: June 2023
As I write these thoughts, we are winding up our 2023 CINA MSI Week (details in the article below). By all accounts, the week was a huge success, and I…
Director’s Blog: March 2023
With respect to the threat of global war in the current world, I once heard a retired US military leader say that we’re not really close to war now, and…
Director’s Blog: November 2022
The end of the calendar year is a natural time to reflect on the year just passed. I know we’re not quite there yet, but clocks are back on standard…
Director’s Blog: September 2022
At this time each year, the CINA Center (and most of our DHS COE colleagues) are busy kicking off new research projects identified in the prior program year and approved…
Director’s Blog: March 2022
A big component of the CINA center is our research portfolio, so we naturally spend a lot of time thinking about how we initiate, execute, and communicate research that will…
Director’s Blog: June 2022
As I’ve written before, one of the benefits of leading CINA is the many opportunities we have to meet and talk with a wide variety of people who are directly…
Director’s Blog: September 2021
The CINA Center is four years old, the first DHS Center of Excellence was formed 17 years ago, DHS is almost 19 years old, and our constitution was written 234…
Director’s Blog: August 2021
The CINA Center proudly supported three projects this year through the DHS Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions (MSI). We once again had an abundance of strong proposals, and we selected teams…