The Consortium was founded to coordinate homeland security research among faculty at New Jersey's universities and to facilitate collaboration among university faculty and between university faculty and New Jersey government officials. The Consortium is recognized by and works with the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness of the State of New Jersey as well as numerous govenrment and military research units in the State.

Consortium Executive Committee Co-Chairs:

• Dr. Paul Lioy
  Deputy Director of Government Relations, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
  plioy@eohsi.rutgers.edu
  Phone: 732-445-0155
  

• Dr. Fred Roberts
  Chair, Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative (RUHSRI)
  Director, DIMACS Center
  froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu
  Phone: 732-445-4303
  http://www.dimacs.rutgers.edu/People/Staff/froberts/index.html

• Members of the Consortium Executive Committee

Consortium Senior Advisory Committee Co-Chairs:

• Dr. Nancy Connell
  Professor and Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
  connell@umdnj.edu
  Phone: 973-972-3759
  http://cte.umdnj.edu/UMDNJ_master_educators'_guild/guild_gallery.cfm?ID=29

• Dr. Donald Sebastian
  Senior Vice President for Research and Development and Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, NJIT
  sebastian@njit.edu
  Phone: 973-596-8449
  http://industrial.njit.edu/people/sebastian_2.php

• Members of the Consortium Senior Advisory Committee

Participating Universities:

• Fairleigh Dickinson University
  
• Monmouth University
  
• New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
  
• Princeton University
  
• Rutgers University
  
• Stevens Institute of Technology
  
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
  

Consortium Representatives:

• List of Consortium Representatives

Consortium Symposia:

• State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research (October 29, 2003)
• Second State of New Jersey Universities Consortium Symposium on Homeland Security Research hend at UMDNJ (March 1, 2004)
• Third State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research held at Rutgers University, Newark Campus (October 12, 2004)
• Fourth State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research held at Monmouth University (May 23, 2005)
• Fifth State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research held at New Jersey Institute of Technology (November 29, 2005)
• Sixth State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research held at Fairleigh Dickinson University (May 15, 2006)
• Seventh State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research held at Rutgers University, Busch Campus (November 20, 2006)
• Eighth State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research held at Princeton University (December 5, 2008)