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CU to host panel on '9/11/01 - Ten Years Later'

Panelist will be Max Wise, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, and FBI Special Agent Darrin Turpin. The moderator will be KHIPP founder John Chowning

By Joan C. McKinney
Campbellsville University's Kentucky Heartland Institute on Public Policy (KHIPP) will host a panel discussion on "9/11/01 - Ten Years Later" at 5pmET/4pmCT Monday, September 12, 2011, in Campbellsville University's Banquet Hall in the Badgett Academic Support Center at 110 University Drive, Campbellsville, KY. The event is free and open to the public.



Scheduled to serve on the panel are Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of Washington, DC, FBI Special Agent Darrin Turpin, and Max Wise, assistant professor of political science at Campbellsville University.

"9/11/01 - Ten Years Later" will focus entirely on 9/11, looking at the event itself, the fallout from the disaster and what the United States government has done since that day to protect the United States from another large scale attack. The panel will focus on Homeland Security, terrorism, intelligence and how the terrorist attacks of September11, 2001 have changed America.

Panelist Max Wise

Wise graduated with honors from Campbellsville University in 1997 and received a Master of Arts degree in International Relations/National Security from the Patterson School of Diplomacy at the University of Kentucky in 1999, and an advanced graduate certificate in home security from the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University in 2007.

Wise is married to Dr. Heather Wise, a 2001 graduate of Campbellsville University, and they have four children: Grayson, Jackson, Carter and McLean. He is a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Campbellsville.

Panelist Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Gartenstein-Ross is a lecturer for the Naval Postgraduate School, graduate of Wake Forest and New York University College of Law and is a regular contributing author to Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, Reader's Digest, the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal.

Gartenstein-Ross, who is now a Christian, was once a Muslim convert who worked for a Muslim charity that donated funding to terrorist groups. He later became an FBI informant and published the book "My Year Inside Radical Islam."

Panelist Darrin Turpin

FBI Special Agent Darrin Turpin, who worked at the FBI Office in New York on September 11, 2011, responded to the Twin Tower scene and was instrumental in the evidence recovery team following the Towers' collapse.

Prior to September 11, he worked on an organized crime/drug squad. He now works at the FBI Office in Lexington, KY.

Turpin has been a special agent in the FBI for over 13 years. After September 11, he worked on the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was also a team leader for the New York Evidence Response Team and worked on the World Trade Center recovery effort for approximately 11 months.

For more information about the KHIPP event, contact John Chowning, vice president for church and external relations and executive assistant to the president, at jechowning@campbellsville.edu or at (270) 789-5520. Chowning is the founder of KHIPP.

Campbellsville University is a Kentucky-based Christian university with over 3,000 students offering 63 undergraduate options, 17 master's degrees, five postgraduate areas and eight pre-professional programs. The university website is: campbellsville.edu. Joan C. McKinney, the contributor of this article, is News and Publications Coordinator for Campbellsville University


This story was posted on 2011-08-29 07:09:30
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