Congressional funding for the Response to
Emergencies and Disasters Institute to be housed at the GW
Virginia Campus was covered by The Washington Post (3/16).
A
Washington Post feature on the School Without Walls mentioned the
school’s relationship with GW (3/20).
Gary
Hart’s participation at a forum on homeland security hosted by
GW was mentioned in a Associated Press wire story
(3/20).
GW’s
Cyber Security and Policy Research Institute (CSPRI) was
profiled in a Government Computer News re-cap about a CSPRI conference
regarding open source software (3/24).
A
GW Muslim Student Association meeting about student safety in
light of the war in Iraq was mentioned in The Washington Post and
covered by WRC-Channel 4 and WTTG-Channel 5. GW President Stephen Joel
Trachtenberg was interviewed by both television outlets (3/25).
The George Washington University's Institute for Politics,
Democracy and the Internet was mentioned in a Roll Call (3/27)
article about their new survey on Internet users visiting campaign
sites.
GW’s South Asian
Society and the “The Bhangra Blowout,” an
intercollegiate competition they host annually, were the subject of a “Today’s Best Bets”
brief in the Washington Post (3/29).
It was also the subject of a Washington Post article
(3/31).
The St. Petersburg Times cited data from a recent GW
Congress Online Project study about Americans using the
Internet to gather political information (3/24). The Project was also profiled in a
Roll Call article, discussing its
report on the amount of information on the war in Iraq posted on Congressional
members’ Web sites (3/31).
The
GW-sponsored Kalb Report featuring a discussion of media
coverage of the war in Iraq was covered by the following outlets: C-SPAN, NBC
News, PBS’ “News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” Tokyo Broadcasting and the Japanese
newspaper, Asahi Shimbaum (3/31).
William C. Adams, professor of public administration,
was quoted by the St. Petersburg Times about the affect the Internet has on the coverage of war
news (3/29).
Gordon Adams, director of the Eliott School’s Security
Policy Program, was quoted in The
Times-Picayune (3/19) and USA Today
about post-war Iraq (3/20). He was also quoted in a Reuters
wire story about European defense contracts (3/19). His radio appearances about
the financial costs of war include Radio Canada, Bloomberg radio, WSAR in
Massachuttsetts, Voice of America (3/17) and NPR’s “Marketplace” (3/20).
Finally, his op-ed titled, “The Cost Looks Cheap, but Wait…” was published in
Newsday (3/30).
Charles Barber, senior counsel for GW, was quoted in a
Legal Times profile of lawyer Maureen Dwyer, who has worked with the
University (3/31).
Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archives
at GW, was quoted by the St. Petersburg Times in a story about the
government complying with the Freedom of Information Act in the wake of 9/11 and
escalating tensions in the Middle East (3/28).
David Brunori, adjunct professor of law, was quoted in a
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s
proposed tax hike on alcohol (3/26). He was also quoted by Fortune in an
article about rising property taxes (3/31).
Dr. Gene Cohen, director of George Washington
University's Center on Aging, Health and Humanities, was quoted in a Time
magazine story about senior citizens who participate in community theater
(3/17).
Lisa Delpy Neirotti, associate professor of tourism and
sport management, spoke with the Washington Business Journal about
Washington as a venue for sport and other events, and how cancelled events and
opportunities lost to fears about potential terrorist attacks in the city may
affect D.C.’s ability to attract events in the future (3/28).
Ernie Englander, associate professor of business and
public policy, was quoted by the Denver Post in regards to President
Bush’s tax cut and its effect on the economy
(3/30).
Amit
ai
Etzioni, GW University Professor, was featured on NPR’s “Weekend
Edition – Sunday,” in a story about the ACLU and civil liberties post-September
11 (3/30).
Mark
Feldstein, associate professor of media and public affairs, was a guest
on WAMU’s “Kojo Nnamdi Show,” discussing media coverage of the war in Iraq
(3/26). He also appeared on the program “Extra” regarding Peter Arnett’s ousting
at NBC (3/31).
Douglas C. Frechtling, chairman of the department of
tourism and hospitality management, was quoted by The Washington Post
in an article about the economic benefits of the new D.C. Convention Center
(3/31).
Leon Fuerth, research professor of international
affairs, wrote a Washington Post op-ed regarding the global scope of American interests (3/20). He discussed the
same op-ed as a guest on WAMU’s “Diane Rehm Show,”
(3/26). He was quoted by The Chicago
Tribune, The Seattle Times (3/30), The Star-Ledger (Newark,
NJ) (3/30) about the role of Congress in the country going to war.
James Goldgeier, associate professor of political
science, was quoted by The Columbus Dispatch about the tenuous
relationship between France and the United States both politically and socially
(3/29).
Peter
Hotez, chairman of the department of microbiology and tropical medicine,
was quoted in a Washington Post story about people who are stockpiling
antibiotics in the event of a bioterrorism attack (3/16).
Amb.
Karl Inderfurth, director of the international affairs program and
professor of the practice of international affairs, was featured on WAMU’s “Kojo
Nnamdi Show,” discussing peacekeeping and the status of society and politics in
Afghanistan (3/26). Amb. Inderfurth was also interviewed by India Abroad
about the war in Iraq (3/28).
Leslie Jacobson, professor of theater, was quoted in
The Boston Globe about her efforts to adapt author Rivka Solomon’s stories to the stage (3/16).
Darryl Jenkins, director of the Aviation Institute, was
quoted in a News & Observer (Raleigh, NC ) story about the financial status of
American Airlines (3/18). He provided similar analysis for all the airlines for
the Christian Science Monitor (3/20). His comments on US Airways pensions
appeared in The Washington Post (3/21). He was quoted in The
Washington Times (3/21),
Knight-Ridder Business News and The Seattle Times
(3/28) about the impact the war in Iraq will have on
international travel. He was quoted by The Washington Post about
US Airways reorganization (3/28).
Quoted by The Dallas Morning News and the San Diego
Union-Tribune about government bailout for U.S. airlines (3/29). The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
ran his comments about the business success of regional and major airlines
(3/30). Jenkins was also quoted by
The Washington Post about the possibility of bankruptcy for United
Airlines and was quoted in the Buffalo News about financial aid from the
government to the airlines (3/30).
Finally, he was also quoted by AP Online in a story about a
marketing agreement between Delta, Northwest and Continental Airlines
(3/31).
Daniel Kaniewski, executive director of GW’s Center for
Emergency Preparedness, was quoted in a New York Times story about how
D.C. law enforcement agencies handed the protester who drove his tractor into a
pool of water near the Mall (3/20). He also wrote an Roll Call op-ed
about the roles and responsibilities of Congressional Homeland Security
Committees (3/24).
Orin Kerr, associate professor of law, was paraphrased
in an Associated Press (3/31) story about pending legislation to
strengthen penalties for online encryption that appeared in AP Online
(3/31) and the Charleston Gazette (3/31).
Steven Livingston, associate professor of media and
public affairs and international affairs, was quoted in a Wall Street
Journal story about new media technologies being used to cover the war in
Iraq (3/21). The story also appeared in The Asian Wall Street Journal and
Wall Street Journal Europe (3/22).
Joshua Marks, chief of staff of GW’s airline operations
center, appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to discuss the latest news
about the status of the airline industry (3/29). He was also quoted by the Associated
Press (2/28, 2/29) in a story about the possibility of changing work rules
at United Airlines, that appeared in The Canadian Press (3/28), AP
Online (3/28, 3/29), The Seattle Times (3/29), The Columbian
(Vancouver, Wash) (3/29), Richmond Times-Dispatch (3/29), Tulsa
World (3/29), The Winnipeg Free Press (3/29), Charleston
Gazette (3/30) The Commercial Appeal (3/30) and the Houston
Chronicle (3/30).
John Logsdon, director of the ESIA Space Policy
Institute, was mentioned in a Houston Chronicle story about his
appointment to a board that will investigate the Columbia disaster (3/16). He was quoted in a Washington Post
story about the role private companies will play in future space missions
(3/19). He was quoted in an AP story about the possibility of reducing
NASA’s shuttle crew (3/25).
Jarol Manheim, professor of media and public affairs and
of political science, was quoted in Baltimore Sun and Newsday
stories about the use of propaganda in the war in Iraq (3/22, 3/28).
Fitzhugh Mullan, clinical professor of pediatrics and
public health and his new book, “Big Doctoring in America,” were featured in
New York Times Books in Brief (3/30).
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, GW University Professor, was quoted
in an Associated Press wire story about interfaith relations in America
(3/18). The story also appeared in The Canadian Press (3/18), Richmond
Times-Dispatch (3/19), The Jerusalem Post and the Houston
Chronicle (3/20). His new book, “Islam: Religion, History and Civilization,”
was featured in a Houston Chronicle brief (3/29) and a Boston
Globe book review (3/31).
David Nagel, research professor of engineering, was
quoted by the New Scientist about research efforts in cold fusion
conducted by the U.S. Navy (3/29).
Susan Phillips, dean of the School of Business and
Public Management, discussed the U.S. economy and the most recent Federal Open
Market Committee meeting with the following outlets Dow Jones newswires,
Bloomberg radio, Bloomberg television and CNBC's “Power Lunch” (3/18). She was
also quoted in a Times Union (Albany, NY) story about derivatives (3/17).
Dr. Jerrold Post, professor of psychiatry, political
psychology and international affairs and director of GW’s Political Psychology
Program has been speaking to the media on Saddam Hussein, the Geneva Convention
and the psychological effects related to the war in Iraq. The following media
outlets interviewed him: WTOP (3/17), CBS Radio (3/17), NBC “Nightly News,”
(3/17), Chicago Tribune (3/17), C-SPAN Booknotes (3/17), El Tempo
(3/17), Hungarian TV (3/18), WHYY Radio Philadelphia (3/18), La Presse
(3/18), Variety magazine (3/18), “CBS News” with Dan Rather (3/18),
Associated Press (3/18), ZDF German TV (3/19), Fox News Channel (3/19),
Ontario Radio (3/19), WAMU “Kojo Namdi Show” (3/19), BBC “Today Show” (3/19),
Norwegian Newspaper (3/19), “CBS News” with Dan Rather (3/20), CBC TV
(3/20), Sky News International (3/20), CBS “Evening News” (3/20), CBS “48 Hours”
(3/20), MSNBC “News with Brian Williams” (3/20), Globe and Mail (3/20),
“Inside Edition” (3/20), BBC TV (3/20), Daily Mail, London (3/20), Sun
Newspaper, London (3/20), Newsweek (3/20), Cox News Service (3/20),
U.S. News and World Report (3/20), Knight-Ridder (3/20), The
Washington Post (3/20), Houston Chronicle (3/20), WUSA-TV 9
(3/20), CBS “The Early Show”
(3/21), BBC Radio (3/21), BBC TV (3/21), “EXTRA!” (3/21), Chicago Tribune
(3/21), San Francisco Radio (3/21), MSNBC (3/21), San Diego Union Tribune
(3/21), Serbian Daily Blic (3/21), Glasgow, Scotland Sunday Mail
(3/21), CBS News (3/21), VOA-TV (3/21), Boston Herald (3/22), MSNBC
(3/22), CBS “Face the Nation” (3/23), MSNBC (3/23), BBC Radio (3/23), CBS Radio
(3/23), MSNBC News (3/24), Fox News Channel (3/24), CNN Radio (3/24), WMAL Radio
in Washington (3/24), Australian TV (3/24), CBS Radio (3/24) MSNBC “Hardball
with Chris Matthews” (3/25), Tulsa World (3/25), Charleston
Gazette (3/25), Voice of America (3/25), CBC-TV (3/25), BBC-TV (3/25),
Boston Herald (3/26), The Washington Post (3/26), The Christian
Science Monitor (3/26), The Asian Wall Street Journal (3/26), The
Wall Street Journal Europe (3/26), Colombian Radio (3/26), CBS “Evening
News” (3/27), San Francisco Chronicle (3/27), China News Daily
(3/27), BBC World Service Radio (3/27), Belgium/Dutch TV (3/28), Toronto Radio
(3/28), Fox News Channel (3/29), MSNBC (3/29), CNN Radio (3/30), Hungarian newspaper (3/31), Texas
Radio (3/31), CNBC (3/31), TIME (3/31) and The Toronto Star
(3/31).
Dr. Michael Rankin, clinical psychologist at GW
Hospital, was quoted in a Toronto Star article (3/26) about opposing the
war in Iraq and reflecting on Vietnam.
Peter
Raven-Hansen, professor of law, was quoted in Roll Call about
efforts to legally block President Bush’s launch of an attack on Iraq (3/19).
Walter
Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics
and Human Behavior at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs, wrote a
Washington Post book review for the nonfiction work, “The Hidden Life of Otto Frank” (3/16). He also wrote a
Jerusalem Post column about a group of Arab citizens organizing a visit
to Auschwitz (3/24).
Jeffrey Rosen, associate professor of law, was quoted in
eWeek about having lawmakers establish oversight authority over data
mining (3/26).
Steven
Saltzburg, Howrey Professor of Trial
Advocacy, Litigation, and Professional Responsibility, was quoted in an
Associated Press wire story about a judge
barring the public and the media from the early stages of jury selection in a
Detroit terrorism trial (3/18).
Steven
Schooner, associate professor of law, appeared on NPR’s “Marketplace”
(3/21, 3/25) and California public radio, KPCC to discuss government contract
for rebuilding a post-war Iraq. Schooner discussed the same topic in New York
Times and Washington Post stories (3/28, 3/29, 3/30) and a Star
Ledger (Newark, NJ) op-ed (3/30). Finally, he was
mentioned in a Washington Post editorial about a lecture he gave on
courts and the government (3/26).
Dr. Gary Simon, director of the GW Medical Center’s
department of infectious diseases, was featured on NPR’s “All Things
Considered,” about the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and
how it is handled and diagnosed at the hospital (3/28).
Alexander Sokolowski, an adjunct professor of
comparative politics, contributed to an article in The Moscow Times
(3/27) on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s need to join a political
party. He also wrote an St. Petersburg Times
op-ed about Putin’s election strategy (3/28).
Richard Thornton, professor of history and international
affairs, had a opinioned letter about the war in Iraq printed in the
Financial Times (3/31).
Jonathan Turley, professor of law, was quoted in a
Boston Globe story about a Supreme Court ruling regarding a federal
compensation payment made for a 1948 Air Force plane crash (3/18). He was also
quoted in the Grand Rapids Press about legal challenges against the war
in Iraq (3/21). His analysis of the Supreme Court hearing a homosexual-conduct
case from Texas was included in the Times Union (Albany, NY) (3/22). He
was quoted in a Star Ledger (Newark, NJ) story about court cases
involving Area 51 (3/22). Finally, he was quoted in The Harrisburg
Patriot (3/27) about state liquor-access laws and global trade
talks.
