Award Winning Bio-defense Speaker Mar. 31

By Connect Mason Reporter Paula Salamoun

Mason’s Department of Public and International Affairs will hold a lecture on the national security issue of biological terrorism on Monday, March 31 in Dewberry Hall South from 6-7 p.m. It will feature Richard Danzig, a leading expert and governmental consult in the field of bio-defense.

According to Professor Brigety of the PIA department, this lecture will expose students to the importance of “bio-terrorism in a globalized society” and introduce them to Dr. Richard Danzig, a “distinguished public server.”

Danzig is the Nunn Prize Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, a senior fellow at The CNA Corporation, and a consultant to the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security on terrorism. In 1981, he was awarded the Defense Distinguished Public Service Award. He received that same honor twice more in 1997 and 2001 for his work with the Navy and Marine Corps.

His hopes for students in this lecture is that they will be able to take what they might learn in biology class or international relations and apply it to real world situations.

Although this lecture is geared towards bio-terrorism, Professor Brigety finds it important that the Mason community as a whole becomes educated on topics such as this is part of our goal to become “informed citizens.”