GW News Center:

Campus Advisories

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA CONTACT: Helen Ryan

October 29, 2002

(703) 726-8303; hryan@va.gwu.com 
Matthew Nehmer
(202) 994-6467; nehmer@gwu.edu  

 

NATIONAL EXPERTS TO DISCUSS TRANSPORTATION
SECURITY
AT GW VIRGINIA CAMPUS
NOVEMBER 1

 

EVENT:

Transportation Security: From Governance to Process hosted by The George Washington University Virginia Campus and sponsored by GW’s Aviation Institute. The one-day forum focuses on the growing need to create a unified process for security operations in the post-9/11 world while respecting passenger rights and constitutional issues.

AGENDA:

Friday, November 1, 2002
8:00 a.m.: Registration opens

10:00 a.m. – Noon: Transportation Security Process (Panel Session)

Facilitator:  Darryl Jenkins, GW Aviation Institute

Rick Stephens, vice president of homeland security services, Boeing

Seth Young, professor, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Robert T. Francis, Zuckert, Scoutt and Rasenberger, L.L.P.

Fred Sorenson, UNISYS

Robert Ken Quinn, Winthrop, Stimpson, Putnam & Roberts

Richard Eastman, CEO, The Eastman Group

1:00 p.m. Panel Session: Passenger Rights, Constitutional Issues and Profiling

Facilitator:  Darryl Jenkins, GW Aviation Institute

John Hankey, transportation historian, former curator of the B & O Museum

Mary M. Cheh, professor of law, GW

Robert O’Harrow, reporter, The Washington Post

WHERE:

GW Virginia Campus
(at University Center off Rt. 7, one mile west of Rt. 28)
20101 Academic Way, Ashburn, Virginia

COST: $25 per person. Seating is limited to first 100 attendees. On site registration only.

 

Background:

The George Washington University Virginia Campus serves an international technology and management community from its research and technology campus near Dulles International Airport in the Northern Virginia technology corridor. Since opening in August 1991, The Virginia Campus has become a leading center of collaborative research in transportation safety and security. The campus houses several federal transportation initiatives, including the FWHA/NHTSA National Crash Analysis Center, FAA International Aviation Safety and Security program, and the NTSB International Training Academy. For more information on the GW Virginia Campus visit www.gwvirginia.gwu.edu.

Media interested in covering the conference should call Helen Ryan at (703) 726-8303 to reserve seating and arrange interviews. For more news about GW, visit www.gwnewscenter.org.

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