Brown University<\/a>, where he will serve as senior fellow in the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, starting this spring. He will also run a study group, hold office hours, and host a public event during his time at Watson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![](\"\")
First elected in 2000, Langevin this month wrapped up 11 terms as a U.S. representative, ending a robust tenure during which he was a leading voice on such issues as cybersecurity, health-care reform, the environment, and advocacy for people with disabilities. The first quadriplegic to serve in Congress, he was the first wheelchair user to serve as speaker pro tempore and first presided over the U.S. House on the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAs a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, where he served his entire tenure in Congress, Langevin was chair of the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, later to be called the Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems Subcommittee, a post he held starting in 2011. As an expert on national security, Langevin helped shape the focus of the Department of Defense, paving the way for a heightened emphasis on harnessing emerging technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2003, he was a founding member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, serving on numerous subcommittees throughout his time in Washington. An expert in cybersecurity policy, he founded and co-chaired the House Cybersecurity Caucus and served on the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th<\/sup> presidency. Langevin most recently was appointed and served on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, created by Congress to develop an overarching strategy to protect the country against cyberattacks of significant consequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLangevin previously served as a state representative in the General Assembly from 1988 to 1994, and as Rhode Island\u2019s secretary of state from 1995 to 2001. Along with bachelor\u2019s degrees in political science and public administration from Rhode Island College, Langevin holds a master\u2019s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School at Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During Langevin\u2019s tenure in the House, 溏心vlog免费B站 achieved national recognition in cybersecurity education and other national security areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2011, Langevin commissioned the University\u2019s Cybersecurity Symposium to raise awareness of the need to prepare students and workers for technology-based jobs. A year later, 溏心vlog免费B站 was named a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education\u2014the nation\u2019s premier academic certification for cybersecurity education\u2014by the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And in 2021, 溏心vlog免费B站 was added to the National Science Foundation\u2019s CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service program, which helps train the nation\u2019s future cybersecurity workforce. In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security designated 溏心vlog免费B站 as a co-leader of a new Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation, and Response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Jan. 17, 2023 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 announced today that former U.S. Rep. James Langevin has been appointed a visiting scholar in the Department of Political Science. Langevin retired this month after more than 20 years representing Rhode Island\u2019s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":82417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82421,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82416\/revisions\/82421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}