We are pleased to introduce this site for the Seventh Annual Homeland Security Research Showcase. The showcase aims to offer Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) students, both on-campus and online, the opportunity to present their original research to the broader university community. This internal EKU site provides student presentations recorded in 2020 and based on research conducted in Homeland Security courses.
The EKU Homeland Security program aims to prepare graduates seeking careers protecting life and assets as homeland security and emergency management practitioners, who will become critical and creative thinkers, effective communicators, and leaders in their professional communities. Conducting research to produce high-quality scholarship is a desired skill of homeland security professionals. Likewise, research offers students the opportunity to contribute knowledge to the following disciplines that constitute homeland security:
Exploring the Need for a Domestic Counterterrorism Organization (HLS 321W)
Is TSA Activity Keeping Airports Safe? (HLS 321W)
Electromagnetic Pulse (HLS 465)
Ballistic Air Missile Defense Systems (HLS 441)
Virtual Reality Training Tools (HLS 441)
COVID-19 Impacts on Border Patrol Operations (HLS 321W)
Border Security: Technology vs. Human Capital (HLS 321W)
3D Printing Does What? (HLS 441)
Artificial Intelligence Being Used in Disaster Recovery (HLS 441)
Next Generation 911 Technology (HLS 441)
Technology in Disaster Management (HLS 321W)
Infectious Disease, Epidemics, and Pandemics (HLS 465)
Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) (HLS 441)
Conducting Emergency Shelter Operations During a Pandemic (HLS 465)
Natural Disasters and Emergency Preparedness (HLS 321W)
The Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment (EDGE) (HLS 441)
Boko Haram: Funding Terrorism Through Sex Trafficking and Slavery (HLS 430)
Human Trafficking Detection Through Artificial Intelligence (HLS 441)
Impact of International Drug Trade on the United States (HLS 321W)
Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) (HLS 430)
Al-Qaeda (HLS 430)
Patriot Front (HLS 430)
Impact of Terrorism on the U.S. Economy (HLS 321W)
Government Monitoring of Cell Phones and Internet Activities (HLS 321W)
Impact of Leadership in Domestic Violent Extremism Organizations (HLS 321W)
Agroterrorism (HLS 465)
Sovereign Citizen Movement (HLS 430)
Ku Klux Klan (HLS 430)
Deceptive Audio-Visual Technologies and DeepFake (HLS 321W)
Economic Struggles in Security Management (HLS 321W)
Biometric Identification: Facial Recognition (HLS 441)
Effectiveness of Walls in Border Security (HLS 321W)
Fingerprint Recognition (HLS 441)
Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure (HLS 321W)
Evolution of Data Protection Laws in Cybersecurity (HLS 321W)
Quantum Computing: Communications and Cyber Security (HLS 441)