Student Spotlight This past se-mester, two (of many) undergraduate cy-bersecurity students completed presti-gious internship op-portunities: one with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and one with the New York State (NYS) Assembly. Christopher Evans interned in Washington, DC for the DHS, specifically, for the Homeland Se-curity Advisory Coun-cil (HSAC) housed in the Office of Policy. Throughout his in-

ternship, Chris was given the opportu-nity to gain a better overall professional perspective of the federal government, and the HSAC. Chris was able to apply his cybersecurity knowl-edge to his internship duties, and proved to be a true asset to the HSAC. Brian Ma-zurowski interned in Albany, NY for the NYS Assembly. Sev-eral of Brian’s duties included (but were not limited to) attend-ing floor sessions

and public hearings, prepared bill memos and contributed to the drafting of legis-lation. Given Brian’s

combined efforts over the course of his internship, he was awarded with the Assembly Speaker’s Certificate of Recog-nition for Excellence. In following, Brian was granted an ex-tension of his intern-ship, until the end of June 2015 (the remainder of the As-sembly Session). According to Zachary Lewis, who serves as the Intern-ship Coordinator for the Economic Crime, Justice Studies, and Cybersecurity (EC-JSC) programs, “It’s

funny how things work out. When first individually meeting with Chris and Bri-an about where they hoped to complete their internship re-quirement, Chris ex-plained that his goal was to (hopefully) intern with a feder-al agency. With the same mindset, Bri-an had the NYS As-sembly in mind as a potential internship site, but felt that it would be incredibly difficult to qualify for such a position.”

May 2015

Written by Danielle Alpi, ECJSC Intern

Christopher Evans and Secretary of the DHS, Jeh Johnson, shake hands. Photo submitted by Christopher Evans

Brian Mazurowski posing for a photo behind Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky’s chair at the NYS Assembly. Photo submitted by Brian Mazurowski

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Shanna Van Slyke

Dr. Shanna R. Van Slyke is an assistant professor of criminal justice. She received her doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s de-grees in criminol-ogy from Florida State University (FSU). At FSU, she served as the man-aging editor for the American Society of Criminology’s publi-cations, consisting of the Criminology and Criminology and Public Policy journals. Dr. Van Slyke joined the UC faculty in August 2010. She teach-es criminological research methods (SOC 376), crimi-nology (SOC 274), and introduction to criminal justice

(CRJ 103). Like most of the professors with-in the Economic Crime, Justice Stud-ies and Cybersecu-rity department, Dr. Van Slyke has many other projects and events going on outside of the classroom. Current-ly she is conduct-ing “perp walks” research with As-sociate Dean of Business and Jus-tice, William Virkler, Dr. of Criminology, Mike Benson, from the University of Cincinnati, and As-sociate Professor of Public Relations and Journalism, Patricia Swann. Dr. Van Slyke pre-sented earlier this spring at a Nexus presentation in the Carbone Auditori-um. From that pre-sentation, she was awarded a summer fellowship to con-duct independent

research compar-ing depictions of “perp walks” in colonial criminal narratives and con-temporary news media accounts. She is scheduled to present nation-al survey results at the November 2015 American So-ciety of Criminology (ASC) conference in Washington, DC with Associate Dean Virkler and Dr. Benson, based on research funded by Dean of Busi-ness and Justice Studies, James Norrie and Dean of the College of Ed-ucation, Criminal Justice, and Human Services at the Uni-veristy of Cincinna-ti, Larry Johnson. In addition to research, Dr. Van Slyke has been re-viewing curriculum for not only Utica College but for the State University of

New York at Morris-ville. She just com-pleted the 2015-2016 edition of the Criminal Justice Student Handbook, which reflects cur-riculum changes since the initial 2014-2015 edition of the handbook as well as visited SUNY Morrisville and reviewed their Criminal Justice Program. With the many curriculum changes, there have also been changes in course offerings. In the fall Dr. Van Slyke will be teaching alongside Assistant Profes-sor of Chemistry, Daniel Barr a new course, CRJ 475 - Meth Labs and Laws. This course will be interdisci-plinary in examin-ing all aspects of America’s “meth problem,” from pro-duction and distri-bution of the drug

and its precursors to societal and le-gal reactions to what is perceived to be a U.S. drug epidemic. Dr. Van Slyke was also the 2014 Young Schol-ar Award recipient for the National White-Collar Crime Center/White-Col-lar Crime Research Consortium, which was presented at the American Soci-ety of Criminology conference that year in Atlanta. In addition, along with co-editors Dr. Benson and Distin-guished Research Professor, Frank Cullen, of Universi-ty of Cincinnati, Dr. Van Slyke is work-ing to complete the Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime, which will be submitted to the publisher (Oxford University Press) before July 2015.

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Student Success Stories

Zachary Hunnewell

BS Criminal Justice

Intern - Manchester (NH) Proba-tion and Parole Office

From April 30 - June 2, the Master of Science in Cyber-security and Eco-nomic Crime Man-agement students traveled to the Utica College campus to fulfill their residency requirement. This residen-cy, we hosted the first (of many to come) residency networking nights. The residency networking night took place at the Saranac

Brewery Tavern. The students were pro-vided the opportunity to sample Saranac’s featured craft beers, as well as to tour the facility. This provided students with the op-portunity to network with their peers and professors and to leave with a “taste of Utica.” The three-day residency program included academic sessions taught by Professor Hosmer, Professor McCan-

dlish, Professor Mul-linix, Professor Mo-rales and Professor Atkinson. Also, the program included a guest lecture from Professor and United States Ambassador, David Smith. Profes-sor Smith lectured on OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and Cyber Threat Intelli-gence, concerning Russia.

Given that our master’s pro-grams are online pro-grams, students are not provided with the opportunity to meet face-to-face (other than at residency). One of the most im-portant take-aways of the residency, is the encouraged inter-action between the students and their professors.

Summer Residency

Professor Dave Smith giving his guest lecture on OSINT and cyber threat intelligence. Photo by Zachary Lewis

The cybersecurity and economic crime management students who attended the residency net-working night. Photo by Patricia Giordano

Collin Hart

MS Cybersecurity

Software Security Analyst - General Motors

Patrick Dundon

BS Economic Crime Investigation

Senior Investigator, Financial Intelli-gence Unit - Royal Bank of Scotland

R. Bruce Mc-Bride is currently the Commissioner for University Police for the State University of New York (SUNY). As commissioner, Dr. McBride oversees law enforcement operations for the 64 State University of New York cam-puses and serves as the liaison with state agencies and local police depart-ments. His duties

include overseeing police and campus security for the SUNY System and acting as a liaison with the New York State De-partment of Criminal Justice Services, po-lice chiefs at SUNY’s state-operated cam-puses and public safety administrators at community col-leges. In addition, Dr. McBride works with various SUNY offices and local police and NYS agencies regard-ing crime reporting, police matters, labor relations, and policy regulations and laws. Also Dr. McBride serves on various task forces pertaining to safety and security at SUNY campuses.

Sadly Dr. McBride has announced his retirement as Com-missioner of SUNY Police, effective July 1, 2015. P rev ious l y, Dr. McBride was the Executive Director and a Professor of Criminal Justice at Utica College from 2001 to 2012. At Uti-ca he was part of the planning team for the building that houses the criminal justice, economic crime, and cybersecurity and headed various program curriculum initiatives in the grad-uate programs. All while serving as coor-dinator for the intern-ship program. Dr. McBride

received his Bach-elor’s and Master’s degrees in History from SUNY Oswego and a Master’s and Doctorate of Educa-tion in Education Ad-ministration & Policy from the University at Albany. Dr. McBride is a very community oriented person and is involved in many different groups and organizations. He has been a long standing member of the International As-sociation of Campus Law Enforcement Ad-ministrators (IACLEA) since 1987 and was the recipient of the President Award for his work on the ex-ecutive development program in 2003 of

IACLEA. Formerly he was the President of the Criminal Jus-tice Educators Asso-ciation of New York and a member of the State University of New York Police Chiefs Association, the New York State Police Chiefs Associ-ation, and the Inter-national Association of Chiefs of Police. Most recently, in February 2015, Dr. McBride was ap-pointed by Governor Cuomo as a member of the Municipal Po-lice Training Council, which oversees po-lice training through the Division for Crimi-nal Justice Services.

McBride to Retire

As finals week approached, Professor Virkler and Chelsi Cohen, a criminal justice major, took a quick

“selfie break.”

Effective Fall 2015, the Master of Science in Eco-nomic Crime Man-agement (ECM) pro-gram will undergo a name change. The new name will be a Master of Science in Financial Crime and Compliance Manage-ment (FCM). The decision to make the change was to better reflect the course content of the program. Finan-cial crime and com-pliance are key terms that better describe both current and po-tential students’ re-

sponsibilities in the private and public sectors. Deloitte, one of the “Big Four,” recently stated that the increase in glob-al financial crimes - including terrorist fi-nancing, money laun-dering and econom-ic sanctions - have increased industry compliance needs. C u r r e n t l y , candidates for the program have to have previous experience in the field to apply. This admissions re-quirement will re-main the same.

ECM to FCM

Congratulations to all of the ECJSC students that graduated

this May!

These photos were taken from www.facebook.com/uticacollege and from the Utica Observer Dispatch.