News Archive

This news story aired on Lincoln, Nebraska's, KLKN - an ABC affiliate - on Dec. 6 and 7. Full report features NCITE researchers and NCITE Director Gina Ligon.

NCITE won a $136,000 federal grant to help law enforcement agencies identify insider threats.

Researchers from the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Center have won a $715,102 federal grant to improve suspicious activity identification and reporting using a chatbot.

The panel will discuss important humanitarian and security issues facing Afghanistan with perspectives offered by evacuees, Afghan-Americans, terrorism researchers, and a Congressional staffer working to get people out of Afghanistan; Oct. 20.

This panel discussion includes a first-person account from UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold of what it was like to live in New York City and treat first responders after the towers fell. It also features the expertise of terrorism researchers Seamus Hughes and NCITE Director Gina Ligon. And it includes remarks by Omaha FBI ASAC Philip Lenz.

A team of researchers led by the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Center has been selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to explore the urgent question: What is the best way to repatriate the U.S. spouses and minor children detained in Syria and Iraq who are connected to foreign fighters?

UNO undergrad supports the launch of NCITE during the pandemic while traveling the world.

Touring the soon-to-open National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE) headquarters inside the new addition to Mammel Hall, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon heard from experts on two pressing fronts.

NCITE student feature with Sue Yi

The work of a pair of NCITE researchers from Penn State (Sam Hunter, a psychologist, and Scarlett Miller, an engineer) come from completely different fields but have teamed up to test this contention: that violent thinking can be interrupted, limited, and essentially re-engineered.

Spotlight feature for NCITE fellow, Mary Beth (MB) Brennan Seng of DHS.

Liz Bender has intellect, drive, and curiosity — all important traits for any college student. But gut instinct and exposure are what have led her, so far, down a career path for counterterrorism.

During the capstone, students are paired with the Department of Homeland Security for applied educational project experiences.

When the DHS Office of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction asked for help, NCITE jumped in

Sociologist Pete Simi, an NCITE research theme lead and professor at Chapman University, looks at current domestic extremist group landscape.

Salina Greene is one of 10 regional prevention coordinators placed around the U.S. by the Homeland Security Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention. Her region spans three states: Nebraska, Iowa, and Montana.

NCITE board member Rik Legault draws from diverse career experiences that include military service, academia and working for DHS. He also commands a U.S. Air National Guard medic unit helping service members with COVID-19 get treatment.