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Week of September 17 - 21, 2001  

·             SBPM Dean Susan Phillips was interviewed on CNBC's "Market Wrap," CNN's "Lou Dobbs Moneyline" and PBS' "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" and "The Nightly Business Report" about the Federal Reserves 50 basis point interest rate cut.
 

  • Elliott School's Jerrold Post, professor of political psychiatry and international affairs, was interviewed on the aftermath of the attacks by many of the major print and broadcast media, including CBS "60 Minutes II, CBS "Sunday Morning", NPR, MSNBC, Discovery Channel, FOX News, and WJLA-TV in Washington D.C.
     

·             Ambassador Karl Inderfurth, Raymond and Juliet Bland Professorial Lecturer of International Affairs at the Elliott School, was quoted in The Los Angeles Times and was interviewed on NPR about the United States' risk of fanning new hatred and creating more enemies with its war on terrorism.

 

·             Peter Raven- Hansen was quoted by The Detroit Free Press in an article on terrorism.  Raven-Hansen also discussed international law and terrorism on Channel NewsAsia.

 

·             Mary Cheh, professor of law, was quoted in The Sun-Sentinel in an article on terrorism and civil liberties.

 

·             Elliott School's Shapiro Professor, Leon Fuerth, was interviewed by NPR and had his op-ed being published in The Washington Post about the terrorist attacks.

 

·             Elliott School's Gordon Adams, director of the Security Policy Studies Program, was
interviewed by over 40 local and national media outlets on the topic of national security.

 

·             Steven Livingston, director of GW's Political Communications Program, conducted over 35 interviews to TV and print outlets on the recent terrorists attacks on the U.S.

 

·             Robert Hunter, former NATO Ambassador and currently a faculty member of the political science department was interviewed on NBC's "McLaughlin's One-on-One" about the recent attacks on the United States.

 

·             Dawinder "Dave" Sidhu, a GW law student, was quoted in The Washington Post about a campaign against hate that local Sikhs, a religion that has no connection to Islam or the Taliban, have created. 

 

·             John Artz, associate professor of management science, was interviewed by USA Today about the potential for data loss in the World Trade Center attacks.

 

·             Doug Frechtling, associate professor of tourism studies, was quoted in a Washington Post article about how the tourism industry will be affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks.

 

·             Dr. James Griffith, psychiatry, was interviewed by WTOP about coping with terrorist attacks.  WTOP and The Washington Post covered a GW Town Hall Meeting with GW Psychiatrists about coping with the terrorist attacks.

 

·             Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law, had an article on terrorism and freedom in published in The New Republic.

 

·             Jonathan Turley, professor of law, discussed legal snags in the hunt for terrorism in The Hartford Courant.  Turley also discussed the assassination ban in The Washington Times.

 

·             Jack Harrald, director of GW's Institute on Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, was interviewed by The New York Times, Voice of America, Legal Times and other media outlets about disaster preparation in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

 

·             Darryl Jenkins, director of GW's Aviation Institute, has conducted more than 100 interviews to date about how the aviation industry as been impacted by the terrorist attacks. Outlets include MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, and Business Week.

 

·             Mark Eppli, associate professor of finance, and Charles Tu, visiting instructor of finance, were quoted in a Washington Post article about "neo-traditional neighborhoods."

 

·             The George Washington University and Fox 5 News have joined together to create
"High Tech Healthcare," a segment that will air every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m.  The first segment included Dr. Sung Lee, department of cardiology, who discussed high tech cardiac mapping equipment. 

 

·             USA Today Television filmed GW's decon unit and interviewed Dr. Anthony MacIntyre, Emergency Medicine, about GW's preparedness program.

 

·             Law School Dean Michael K. Young participated in a TV panel on "Religion and Ethics Weekly" on PBS.

 

·             Orin Kerr, professor of law, was interviewed by NPR on the proposed changes in government investigative powers and possible civil liberty violations.

 

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