Students & Alumni

On May 22, 2019, a team from Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) led by Jared Ettinger, an IWP alumnus, published a report on a study on cyber intelligence practices. The SEI had previously published a study in 2013 regarding cyber intelligence, upon which the recent publication built.

IWP students and interns have created videos to highlight human rights issues in a practicum project for the Institute’s Center for Human Rights and International Affairs. This project, called the Universal Rights Digital Media Initiative, was designed to facilitate student and intern involvement in developing media messages.

Jack Doyle, Valedictorian of the IWP Class of 2019, gave remarks during the Commencement ceremony, which took place at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C. on May 18.

While Joshua Drusbacky was pursuing political science studies at Ashland University’s Ashbrook program, he was looking for a way to blend his military experience into a civilian career. He began to gravitate towards the national security field, and, soon, he learned about IWP from his political science professor Dr. Peter Schramm.

Piotr Trabinski (’18) grew up in Warsaw, Poland. While being in Poland, Piotr worked in the finance industry for major foreign companies for seven years, and, during that time, he learned “to always work not only for [himself], but to find a mission that is worth fighting for,” which he names as one of the…

As they prepare to graduate, members of the Class of 2019 reflect on their experiences at IWP.

A book entitled Dynasties and Double Standards: Khashoggi, Disinformation, and US Security by IWP alumnus Joseph Duggan (Class of 2007) was recently published by Encounter Books. In this heavily researched account of the October 2, 2018 death of the Saudi dissident and columnist for The Washington Post, Mr. Duggan takes aim at the global response to Mr. Khashoggi’s…

Alumnus Dr. Zak Allal (’18) has recently launched a new piano concert series entitled “One Piano, One Monument.”

Kevin Cyron (’13) was recently honored by the Freedom Hill Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) as an Outstanding Teacher of American History.

In this interview, we speak with Kevin Murphy (’16), whose career ambition is to continue process improvement with financing U.S. defense systems.