“As I lifted up my exhausted head to look one last time at the Irish sunrise, I realized that I was looking out with new eyes.” – Ray Horton ’10
On travel: “We are balancing classes along with exploration. … We only have class Monday through Thursday, so we can travel on the weekends. Many of us have taken a bus to the second largest city in the country, Cork, and had a great time there. Others went to Waterford, and some traveled to Scotland for the weekend. We are going as a group to Dublin this weekend, then spending Easter in Paris. Others are planning trips to Germany, Croatia and possibly Italy. I’ll be traveling with two other students to Barcelona for a few days.” – Andrew Mayher
Mercyhurst hosts global intelligence conference What can a financial analyst learn from a pediatric urologist? What can an FBI counterterrorism expert learn from a forensic anthropologist working mass disasters? All use “intelligence” in their own ways to make more informed decisions, but rarely do they share with each other what works and what doesn’t. That all changed in mid-July when the Mercyhurst College Institute for
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Intelligence Studies (MCIIS) brought together nearly 200 professionals at the inaugural Global Intelligence Forum: The Dungarvan Conference in Dungarvan, Ireland. Under this year’s theme of Analytic Best Practices, professionals from national security, business, medicine, forensics and the law gathered to share trade secrets, talk about current issues facing intelligence analysts and gather information in hopes of opening doors to new approaches in interpreting threats to national security, conducting business, analyzing medical cases and more. “One way professional intelligence analysts are improving their practice is by looking to other domains to see if their best practices might provide insight into how to do intelligence analysis better,” said James Breckenridge, chair of the Mercyhurst College Department of Intelligence Studies. “The U.S. national security sector, in particular, is innovative in this way, explicitly evaluating best practices in medicine and journalism for their