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North Carolina Department of Transportation Selects Activu for New, World-Class, Multi-Agency Joint Forces Headquarters

North Carolina Department of Transportation Selects Activu for New, World-Class, Multi-Agency Joint Forces Headquarters











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Rockaway, NJ (PRWEB) March 15, 2012

Activu® Corporation, a leading provider of IP-based visualization and collaboration solutions for mission-critical command and control center environments, is pleased to announce that it has designed, built, installed and commissioned a turnkey large-scale visualization system at the Statewide Transportation Operations Center in the State of North Carolina’s Joint Forces Headquarters (JFHQ) building in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Joint Forces Headquarters brings together staff from North Carolina’s departments of Transportation, Highway Patrol, National Guard and Emergency Management under one roof for coordinated routine and emergency operations. Specifically, at the facility’s new Statewide Transportation Operations Center (STOC), the North Carolina Department of Transportation is co-located with the Turnpike Authority and NC DOT’s Incident Management Assistance Patrol. The new 236,000 square feet building features state-of-the-art technology, equipment and network infrastructure, and facilities such as a 400-seat auditorium, a dedicated media briefing room, a large situation room and multiple breakout and conference rooms.

Activu’s secure, Internet Protocol (IP) and open standards based visualization and collaboration solution is as an integral part of the state’s Triangle Expressway Intelligent Transportation (ITS) system and allows the NCDOT to easily share information from 400 closed circuit television cameras, over 600 vehicle detectors and 5 roadway weather information systems with other agencies at the JFHQ and beyond. This sharing, where all stakeholders see exactly the same information, improves situational awareness, helps develop a common operating picture and significantly improves the quality and speed of decision-making which, in turn, helps the DOT fulfill its mission of safely and efficiently moving people, goods and services. Activu’s software accommodates NCDOT’s legacy analog infrastructure, bridges it with newer network and mobile technologies, and offers operators a single point of control.

“Activu is delighted to be a part of this initiative. We strongly believe that North Carolina’s state-of-the-art integrated Joint Forces operations center is the wave of the future because it underscores the profound importance of inter-agency cooperation for effective monitoring and emergency response. We also believe that the opportunity and scale of inter-agency cooperation at this center will help us improve and expand our own product capabilities.” said Paul Noble, Activu CEO.

About Activu

Activu is the leading provider of highly secure, scalable and robust IP-based visualization and collaboration solutions for mission critical command and control center environments. Our solutions enable sharing, annotating, and analyzing real-time visual information across the network, and across display devices from large video walls to mobile devices – to develop a Common Operational Picture (COP), improve Situational Awareness (SA) and accelerate decision-making. Learn more.





















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New York Law School Announces New Joint Degree Program in Forensic Psychology and Law

New York Law School Announces New Joint Degree Program in Forensic Psychology and Law










New York, NY (PRWEB) November 28, 2011

New York Law School (NYLS) and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, announced today the creation of a dual-degree M.A.-J.D. program in forensic psychology and law to train attorneys with a specialization in mental disability law. The program will begin in the fall 2012 semester.

The new dual degree brings together two fully-developed programs at each institution: the J.D. at NYLS and the M.A. in forensic psychology at John Jay. J.D. students at NYLS have the opportunity to specialize in mental disability law, through course offerings that represent the most comprehensive mental disability law curriculum of any law school in the world, while John Jay’s M.A. program in forensic psychology specializes in psychology as it relates to law and the courts. John Jay’s psychology department includes more than 35 full-time faculty members who specialize in forensic areas, including six professors who are both attorneys and psychologists.

“This new program is a perfect fit between our two institutions, as it combines the strongest law program specializing in mental disability law in the country, with the strongest forensic psychology program in the country,” said Dr. James S. Wulach, Director of the M.A. Program in Forensic Mental Health Counseling at John Jay. “Our graduates will be well-trained lawyers for people with mental disability issues and have the potential to become legal advocates, work on public policy, or become law professors in this unique niche.”

The 128-credit program allows students to count 12 law school credits towards their M.A. degree and 12 M.A. credits towards their law degree, allowing them to graduate with both degrees in four years instead of five. Required courses include Survey of Mental Disability Law; Mental Health Professionals, Social Science, and the Law; Criminal Psychological Assessment; Criminal Law; and Legal Practice. Electives include such courses as Mental Disability and Criminal Law; Race, Gender, Class, and Mental Disability; Forensic Reports, the Role of Experts, and Forensic Ethics; and Custody Evaluations, Juvenile & Family Law, and Mental Disability.

“I’m very excited about the joint program because it highlights the interdisciplinary nature of what we are trying to do through our Mental Disability Law Program [MDL],” said Professor Michael L. Perlin, the MDL program’s Director. “We created our courses very specifically to appeal to both lawyers and mental health professionals. This program helps create a synergy that ensures, as best as we can, that graduates will have a deep understanding of the other’s discipline.”

To be admitted into the dual-degree program, students should apply separately and be accepted into both NYLS and John Jay. Students will have the option of beginning their first year in either of the two degree programs.

For more information about the dual-degree M.A.-J.D. program, click here.

In addition to the new dual-degree program, NYLS, through its Mental Disability Law Program, also offers an online Masters of Arts in Mental Disability Law Studies and a Certificate in Advanced Mental Disability Law Studies, the only degree and certificate of their kind to be offered by an American Bar Association-approved law school. For more information, visit http://www.nyls.edu/mdl.

About New York Law School

Founded in 1891, New York Law School is an independent law school located in lower Manhattan near the city’s centers of law, government, and finance. New York Law School’s renowned faculty of prolific scholars has built the School’s strength in such areas as constitutional law, civil and human rights, labor and employment law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and a number of interdisciplinary fields. The School is noted for its nine academic centers: Center on Business Law & Policy, Center on Financial Services Law, Center for International Law, Center for New York City Law, Center for Professional Values and Practice, Center for Real Estate Studies, Diane Abbey Law Center for Children and Families, Institute for Information Law & Policy, and Justice Action Center. New York Law School has more than 13,000 graduates and currently enrolls some 1,350 full-time students and 400 part-time students in its J.D. program and its four advanced degree programs in financial services law, real estate, tax, and mental disability law studies. http://www.nyls.edu

About John Jay College of Criminal Justice

An international leader in educating for justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching, scholarship and research, the College approaches justice as an applied art and science in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law. For more information, visit http://www.jjay.cuny.edu.

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