Articles Tagged with ''University security''

William Babb has been named the new chief of police and director of security at Virginia Tech University.

American universities are breeding grounds for innovation and research for students from across the globe. They are also a primary target of IP theft and cyber-attacks by some of these very students and their governments. America’s universities, supported by industry and by the U.S. federal and state governments, must be ready to protect the billions of U.S. dollars invested by the U.S. government and corporations to develop new technologies.

Who is leading the way in enterprise security? These 26 thought-leaders are making a difference, positively impacting the security field, their organization, colleagues and peers and the national and global security landscape.

North Greenville University in Tigerville, S.C. has grown from being a Junior College to a university with 2,550 students.

At High Point University in High Point, N.C., Chief Karpovich inherited one department and 12 employees and has built four more departments (Transportation, Parking, Safety & EM) with 130 employees.

Terri Brown has been named Chief of Police at Florida State University. 

Joseph Milek, assistant chief of police at Oklahoma State University, has been named chief of police operations for Penn State University Police and Public Safety.

The University of Central Florida implemented a policy of using license plate readers(LPRs) to track students' vehicles in order to "support the UCF Police Department's efforts to prevents and solve crimes," said an email from UCFPD Chief Carl Metzger. 

The University of Rhode Island’s School of Education was awarded its second National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program for $1.2 million to recruit, prepare and mentor teachers of science and mathematics over the next five years.