In case you missed it in this morning's Erie Times News (doesn't everyone read that?), the paper highlighted the Institute of Intelligence Studies' participation in the anti-graffiti task force here in Erie. The effort is pretty large but we are just doing the analysis part. Interesting work for Pro ...

2 days ago · Sources And Methods · sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com by Kristan J. Wheaton () 23 references

Bill Newton-Dunn is a Liberal Democrat from the UK and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He is also a sophisticated consumer of intelligence products and we have done several projects for him. One of our more recent projects, the EU Bio-Preparedness Project, which a mixed team of Mercyhurst ...

10 days ago · Sources And Methods · sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com by Kristan J. Wheaton () 23 references

When Tom Dempsey of the US Army's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute ("the US military's premier center of excellence for mastering stability and peace operations...") agreed to sponsor a strategic intelligence project with my graduate students last winter, I have to admit I was nervous ...

22 days ago · Sources And Methods · sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com by Kristan J. Wheaton () 23 references

Dan Mulligan, who teaches business and competitive intelligence here at Mercyhurst, was recently called to active duty and has been in Iraq for the last five months. He is home on leave and the Erie Times News did a story on him and what he has been up to since he left. I don't want to speak for Dan ...

30 days ago · Sources And Methods · sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com by Kristan J. Wheaton () 23 references

Today is graduation day for all of our graduate and adult students in the Intel Studies program at Mercyhurst. Tomorrow, all our seniors will graduate as well. SAM wishes them all the best with high honors going to the parents, family and friends who supported them all the way through what is a pret ...

48 days ago · Sources And Methods · sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com by Kristan J. Wheaton () 23 references

In case you missed the press release, Bobby Williams, an intel studies student at Mercyhurst, just won the Ransome Scholarship and will be shipping off to St. Andrews next year to earn a masters in Middle Eastern Security Studies. Bobby is one of those students who has taken full advantage of everyt ...

53 days ago · Sources And Methods · sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com by Kristan J. Wheaton () 23 references

Wikipedia has become the de facto tertiary source of choice for many researchers. Like any tertiary source, some of Wikipedia's content has to be taken with a grain of salt, but, in many cases, the articles are well-written and researched and provide a useful place to start. One of the things that h ...

61 days ago · Sources And Methods · sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com by Kristan J. Wheaton () 23 references

I just need to post an entry, however short, to comemmorate that Jon Naylor, my least favorite roommate, who smells like rotting meat because he no longer showers but just smokes pot and sleeps, IS GONE!! YYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He moved out this morning and ...

83 days ago · Austin · fiyero3305.livejournal.com by Austin 2 references

Mercyhurst made a little bit of news in recent weeks by shifting the way it provides financial aid. The College announced in March "its decision to directly provide federal student loans, a move intended to shield its students from recent upheaval in the student loan market." Of interest primarily t ...

85 days ago · Sources And Methods · sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com by Kristan J. Wheaton 23 references

One of the great benefits of teaching at Mercyhurst is having the opportunity to work with a bunch of dedicated and very intelligent students. Another advantage is having enough students in the intelligence studies program to be able to conduct meaningful experiments. Both factors come into play in ...

92 days ago · Sources And Methods · sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com by Kristan J. Wheaton 23 references