October 1, 2009
The Wall Street Journal mentioned SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers in a story about efforts to revive a national Registered Traveler program. According to the story, the resurrection of such a program could depend on Southers, who was recently nominated to head the Transportation Security Administration. Southers would have to support the decision to implement such a program, the story noted.
September 16, 2009
Erroll Southers MPA '98 has been nominated by the Obama administration to run the Transportation Security Administration. Southers is an adjunct professor at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and he also serves as associate director of the USC Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.
August 10, 2009
The Daily Breeze reported that the Obama administration plans to appoint SPPD Adjunct Professor Erroll Southers as head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). In the position, Southers, MPA '98, would oversee a workforce of 50,000 airport screeners. Southers is a former FBI agent and previously served as deputy director of the California Department of Homeland Security, the story noted.
July 27, 2009
A comprehensive study spearheaded by the USC-based Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) has determined that the economic impacts of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack were actually less severe than previously estimated.
July 9, 2009
City News Service featured a new report from USC's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events. The study found that the economic impact of the September 11 attacks was far less than original estimates, at $35 billion to $109 billion, rather than $500 billion. "This is the most comprehensive study to date on the economic impacts of 9/11, and it can be applied towards future planning and preparation in the event of future terrorist attempts," said SPPD Research Professor Adam Rose, the center's coordinator for economics. "It shows that Osama bin Laden's policy strategy to damage the U.S. economy was short-lived in its effects due to the resiliency of the U.S. economy."
March 15, 2008
SPPD Research Professor Adam Rose and Garrett Asay of the USC Viterbi School are part of a four-man team that has been awarded a $750,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the public's response to disasters, a North County Times story reported. Using public surveys as a starting point, the team will then use mathematical modeling to identify everything from the pace at which fear spreads through a community after a disaster, to the likelihood that people will cut back on spending so severely that it affects the economy. Rose and Asay both work at USC's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), the article noted.
