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I contributed to proposal development on Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program for Dr. Sue McNeill of UD Civil Engineering and currently on loan to the Dean of Arts and Sciences. Had the proposal been approved it would have provided overhead and support to the department. Details of that budget would have been worked out had our IGERT proposal made it to the second round.

I agreed to help Prof. William Nicholson of North Carolina Central University prepare an NSF grant proposal that would investigate “Culture and Consensus in the Department of Homeland Security.” This project required more than two months of intensive effort. I invited our colleague David Wilson to join the team. The proposal text is included in the Research folder I am furnishing you for this review. Should NSF approve our proposal, the College and Department stands to gain summer funding for faculty, administrative overhead, and funding sufficient to compensate two research assistants.

In early April 2006 I presented a paper on a panel called, “The New Role of the Presidency in National Disaster Management,” on a panel at the American Society for Public Administration national conference in Denver. My paper is “Homeland Security and Disaster Management: New Roles, Policy, Research, and Strategic Planning.” I am also slated to speak on a roundtable at the ASPA convention, this one titled “Security, Hazards, and Disaster Risk Reduction.”

During the review year I completed a FEMA Higher Education Micro Grant project for Dr. Wayne Blanchard. The Body of Knowledge project called for commissioning five academics and practitioners to conduct surveys across several levels: graduate education, undergraduate education, associate degree and junior college level, disaster center research level, and professional level. It was my job to supervise the survey work of people commissioned to conduct this survey and it was my job to write up a final summative report. That report is available on FEMA’s Higher Education website.

On June 7, 2006, I made a presentation at the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, Higher Education conference on a panel entitled “Cultural Conflict in Homeland Security.”

I spoke on a Roundtable entitled, Security, hazards, and Disaster Risk Reduction, at the American Society for Public Administration meetings in late March, early April 2006.

I consulted with the Disaster Research Center to help them with proposal development on “Preserving Disaster Statistics,” though I do not know if they made application to NSF as they had discussed.