Feb 19, 2024 | Funded Projects, Research Sites, TRC News
The University of Arkansas is hosting a new NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site this summer aiming to foster innovative, data-driven approaches to the study of crime and security data. The goal of the program is to impart transferable skills to...
Oct 26, 2023 | Funded Projects, TRC News
Criminology faculty from the Department of Sociology and Criminology were awarded $343,163 by the National Science Foundation for their multi-year project titled, “Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) Site: Connecting Research to Practice in Crime...
Sep 29, 2023 | American Terrorism Study, Funded Projects, TRC News
Researchers at the U of A’s Terrorism Research Center were recently awarded $751,842 from the Department of Homeland Security to study how individuals mobilize toward violence, including violent extremism, school shootings and other forms of mass shootings. The...
Oct 28, 2022 | American Terrorism Study, Databases, Funded Projects, TRC News
Earlier this year, the TRC completed work on its federally funded project Investigative and Prosecutorial Strategies: Creation of a Federal Terrorism Court Record Repository. Funded by the National Institute of Justice in 2018, the project resulted in the development...
Oct 29, 2021 | American Terrorism Study, Bias Homicide Database, Extremist Crime Database, Funded Projects, TRC News
The Terrorism Research Center (TRC) was recently selected to receive $893,721 from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to study online and offline radicalization, as well as cyberterrorism. The three year project, titled “From Dot Coms to Pipe Bombs: Online...
Jun 16, 2021 | CASDAL, Funded Projects, TRC News
The Crime and Security Data Analytics Lab (CASDAL), located in the TRC, received $700,000 in federal funding to examine gun violence in collaboration with the Chattanooga, TN police department and faculty at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Read more about...