One day each year we celebrate Mother Earth! (but the rest of the year…)
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]]>This past December Alex St. Pe was admitted to the 2014 Duke University Global Policy and Governance Program in the Environment, Energy, and Economics track. As part of the program, Alex will participate in a five-day intensive course this summer in Geneva and placed in an environment, energy, and economic policy-related internship.
Given her experience and research interests in offshore wind energy science and policy, Alex has been selected to intern with the United Nations Economic Commission of Europe (UNECE) Sustainable Energy Division. This June - August, Alex will be interning at their office in Geneva, assisting with preparation for the 2014 meetings of the Committee on Sustainable Energy, particularly with the Group of Experts on Renewable Energy. Alex will also conduct research and draft studies related to sustainable energy sources, particularly offshore wind. Alex is looking forward to gaining international insight for her Ph.D. research and working amongst inspiring renewable energy leaders from around the world!
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One day each year we celebrate Mother Earth! (but the rest of the year…)
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First it was the tragic loss of Malaysian flight 370 that spawned a marathon of media madness and speculation.
Now, the news is filled with another disaster: a South Korean ferry with 476 people on board sunk into the ocean last week.
Around the globe people are gripped by these stories of woe. Why?
Matt Lewis ponders the primal attraction of such disasters.
When large scale tragedies happen, how do we react? What does how we react say about us?
Using the Malaysia Flight 370 story he suggests it is natural that disasters would fascinate us. What is of concern is when they are presented like a box office hit rather than a sad reality.
With weeks of airtime to fill, the media has gone on flights of fancy…entertaining wild speculation to explain the mystery of its disappearance.
And people seem to be eating it up.
Unlike Malaysian airplane saga, the media covering the ferry disaster have living actors to blame.
The captain and crew have been accused of crimes “akin to murder” in the words of South Korean President Park Geun-hye. A serious charge.
The captain apologized to the whole nation for his actions. He will still face justice, and rightfully so. But are the captain and crew really “murderers,” and how productive is it use this language when there was no malicious intent?
There are things to learn from such events: how to improve our transportation infrastructure, how to decrease the ability for human error.
However, we’d prefer our news reports to be without wild speculation and unfounded language…with the privacy of the victims’ families being a central concern.
Unfortunately, it seems sober analysis is often a casualty of disaster coverage.
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Nidhi Mittal, a 2013 graduate of UMBC’s Cybersecurity Master’s in Professional Studies program talks about her experience. In this video Ms. Mital talks about the value of the cybersecurity program’s instructors, who bring with them a wealth of experience in the public and private sector.
UMBC offers a variety of master’s degree and certificate options. Our cybersecurity graduate programs leverage a student’s experience toward a range of opportunities within the cybersecurity profession. UMBC’s in-person cybersecurity programs are designed to prepare computer science, information systems, and other experienced professionals to fill management and leadership roles in cybersecurity and cyber operations.
