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Unintended Digital Transformation
Melissa Hathaway, Member, Board of Regents and Senior Fellow discusses our unintended digital transformation within cyber security, critical infrastructures, and services in our current environment at Secureworks. Listen to the Rapid Digital Transformation: Is the World Ready to Succeed in the Next Wave? Are You? podcast here.
Melissa Hathaway, leading expert in cyberspace policy and cyber security, brings a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional perspective to strategic consulting and strategy formulation for public and private sector clients. She developed a unique methodology for evaluating and measuring national levels of preparedness for certain cyber security risks, known as the Cyber Readiness Index (CRI). She has served in two U.S. presidential administrations, spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama and leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) for President George W. Bush. At the conclusion of her government service, she received the National Intelligence Reform Medal in recognition of her achievements.
Dr. Rita Colwell, Member, Board of Regents and Senior Fellow is featured in Chemistry World from the Royal Society of Chemistry. In the article, “Rita Colwell: ‘Pseudoscience is almost like a disease’,” Dr. Colwell provides insights to her journey as a woman in science and forewarns the consequences of pseudoscience.
Dr. Colwell served as the 11th Director of the National Science Foundation, 1998-2004. She has held many advisory positions in the U.S. Government, nonprofit science policy organizations, and private foundations, as well as in the international scientific research community. She is a nationally-respected scientist and educator, and has authored or co-authored 19 books and more than 800 scientific publications. She produced the award-winning film, Invisible Seas, and has served on editorial boards of numerous scientific journals. She serves as Chair of the Research Board for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (2010-2020).
Dr. Rita Colwell’s interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health. She has developed an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world, in collaboration with Safe Water Network, headquartered in New York City.
Read “Rita Colwell: ‘Pseudoscience is almost like a disease’” by Rebecca Trager here.
Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr., (USMC-Ret.) Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr., USMC (Ret.), Member, Board of Regents was featured in Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum’s inaugural Virtual Astronomy Live event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launch and discuss the iconic observatory.
Watch Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr., USMC (Ret.) in Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum’s inaugural Virtual Astronomy Live event here.
See a replay of the event on Twitch here.
Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr., (USMC-Ret.) was assigned as the Deputy Commanding General of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in 1997. During the first half of 1998, he served as Commanding General of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Forward in support of Operation Desert Thunder in Kuwait. Bolden’s 34-year career with the Marine Corps also included 14 years as a member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astronaut Office. After joining the office in 1980, he traveled to orbit four times aboard the space shuttle between 1986 and 1994, commanding two of the missions and piloting two others. Bolden piloted STS-31, on which the Discovery space shuttle launched the Hubble Space Telescope. Bolden served as the 12th Administrator of NASA.
Dana Shepard joins the Institute as a S&T Policy Research Analyst. Prior to this role, she spent almost a decade working in nonprofits focused on areas such as social emotional learning, improving outcomes for at risk youth, and oceanic conservation. Her experience includes grant writing and management, research, strategic planning, process design and improvement, data analysis, and fundraising. Ms. Shepard previously interned at the Constituency for Africa and spent over a year studying and working in Cameroon.
Ms. Shepard received a master’s degree in public administration from the University of South Florida, where she was selected as a Presidential Management Fellowship finalist. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science from Dickinson College.
Senior Fellows Donald A. Donahue, DHEd, MBA, MSJ, FACHE, FRSPH, Lieutenant Colonel, MS, U.S. Army (Ret.) and Stephen O. Cunnion, MD, PhD, MPH, Captain, MC, U.S. Navy (Ret.) lead the Center for Health Policy and Preparedness (CHPP). In a piece for Homeland Security Affair, they take a look at the proposed paradigm of “all needs” planning in perceived needs within impacted populations regarding catastrophic event preparedness and response.