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Retirement celebration – Dr. Bryan Vila
August 15, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
A retirement celebration for Bryan Vila, Ph.D., who has been at WSU for the past 11 years, is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on August 15 in the Nursing Building Courtyard.
Vila is a professor of criminal justice and criminology at WSU Spokane and director of the Simulated Hazardous Operational Tasks Laboratory in the Sleep and Performance Research Center. He is known for his research on the impact of fatigue and stress on police performance.
Prior to joining WSU, he directed the Division of Crime Control and Prevention Research at the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice. Vila has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on $7.6 million in externally funded research projects. He has brought eight grants/contracts totaling $5.5 million to WSU in the past six years.
Before he became an academic, Vila served as a law enforcement officer for 17 years- including nine years as a street cop and supervisor with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, six years as a police chief helping Micronesia develop innovative law enforcement strategies, and two years in Washington, D.C., as a federal law enforcement officer.
His experience in Micronesia is the subject of an upcoming TV show pilot on Cinemax.
Please RSVP to Bethany Fruci.