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A team of three graduate students from the Institute for Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst University has been chosen as one of three finalists in the policy briefing competition sponsored by George Mason University’s (GMU) School of Public Policy.

IAFIE (International Association for Intelligence Educators), an association founded by Robert Heibel, holds annual conference in El Paso, TX, May 20-23, 2013

Six Mercyhurst University graduating seniors (5 of them are Intelligence Studies majors) will be commissioned into the U.S. Army as Second Lieutenants on Saturday, May 18, during a ceremony at the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center.

Thirty graduate students in Mercyhurst University’s Applied Intelligence Program put their studies aside for two days recently to help build a home for a local family through the Greater Erie Area Habitat for Humanity.

The Boston Marathon bombings made us stop, watch, wonder and worry. Was the attack part of a larger plot? Would we feel as scared and vulnerable as we had after 9/11? Had any Erie people -- long-distance runners and volunteers from the exercise club at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania -- been injured?

Robert Heibel, founder of the Mercyhurst IIS program and former deputy chief of counterterrorism for the FBI. comments on the terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon.

Robert Heibel weighs in on Boston bombings in article for Pittsburgh Trib.

Just when you thought Mercyhurst University’s foremost gamer Kris Wheaton would have exhausted his supply of games for grownups, he’s invented another, this one called “Widget.”

Cyberspace is no longer geek speak. Now it's the language of presidents and generals, of corporate chief executives and national security strategists. More importantly, it has been tied to another word, infrastructure, and the marriage of these two puts this issue squarely on the table of the national security strategist.

In the academic world, research papers go through a process called peer review before they’re published. Carr suggests that Mandiant’s report should be subjected to the same thing. He suggests that students at the Mercyhurst University Institute forf Intelligence Studies (Mercyhurst, in case you didn’t know, is sort of a feeder school for the intelligence community) take Mandiant’s findings and run them through a thorough review.