Feb. 22: Regents Professor John Shroder, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Professor John Shroder, an expert in the geography and geology of Afghanistan, will discuss his work with U.S. counterterrorism agencies to use geographic information system (GIS) technology to map cave systems used as hideouts by al Qaeda operatives in that region. His lecture is set for Thursday, Feb. 22, at 6 p.m. in the Bush Library's orientation theater. A reception for Dr. Shroder, who is regents professor in the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Bush Library rotunda. Admission to both the reception and the lecture is free and open to the public. The event is co-sponsored by the Integrative Center for Homeland Security and the Center for Geospatial Information Science and Technology, both at Texas A&M.

