A car and
street fire resulting from a ruptured gas line and the evacuation of the GW Hospital and other GW buildings was the subject of
extensive media coverage including WJLA-TV, WRC-TV, WTTG-TV, WUSA-TV, WTOP, CNN,
MSNBC, Fox News, The Washington Post,
The Washington Times and the Associated Press (10/7).
The Elliott School forum, “French-American
Relations in a World Transformed,” with French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte,
aired live on C-SPAN (10/10).
The GW Washington Forum radio show, which airs on WRC-AM
1260 Sunday mornings at 9
a.m., featured Joel
Denker, professorial lecturer of history, Hope Harrison, assistant professor of
history and international affairs and Gerald Brock, professor of
telecommunication, discussing their latest books (10/5). Dr. Daniel Lieberman
from the GW Medical Center discussed addiction and was followed by Allan Gerson, professorial lecturer in
honors, and Rob Weiner, professor of
international business and international affairs, who analyzed
U.S.
international relations (10/12).
The GW-sponsored “Kalb Report” was
carried live from the National Press Club by C-SPAN 2 and WMAL-AM 630. The title
of the program was “Ethics of Journalism in War and Politics” (10/13).
In its
October 13 edition, Forbes named the best business schools according to
its editors’ model. GW’s M.B.A.
program ranked 66th in the nation.
GW Law's Consumer Mediation Clinic was
profiled by WRC-TV’s Liz Crenshaw. Carol
Izumi, professor of clinical law, appeared on the program (10/14).
Deborah D.
Avant, associate professor of political science and international affairs,
was cited in a Washington Post article discussing the flow of money in
and out of the United
States during the ongoing war (10/9). Her
comments were also included in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (10/9).
John
Banzhaf, professor of law, was mentioned in
The Observer (United
Kingdom) in reference to ongoing litigation in response to
the growing regularity of obesity in children
(10/12).
Susan Blake, associate research professor at
the GW Center for Prevention Research, was quoted in a recent issue of AIDS
Alert on the effect sex education has on student behavior
(10/1).
Thomas S.
Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, had his article on the
freedom of information published in The International Herald Tribune
(10/11).
Debra
Bruno, adjunct instructor in English, had an editorial on grading practices
featured in the Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake
City) (10/5).
David
Brunori, research professor of public policy, authored the article “The
Sales Pitch” for the October issue of Governing Magazine.
Paul
Butler, professor of law, was quoted in a Times Union
(Albany) article on the subject of
racial representation within juries (10/5).
Mary
Cheh, professor of law, sat in on a recent taping of NPR’s “Morning Edition”
to discuss the pros and cons of building a DNA database and its legal and
ethical implications (10/3).
Michael
Cornfield, associate research professor of political management, was quoted
by The Wall Street Journal in an article dealing with the recent
political phenomenon of Internet campaigning (10/14). The story also appeared in
The Wall Street Journal Europe
(10/15).
Carol Darr, director of the Institute for
Politics, Democracy and the Internet, was cited in a Fast Company
magazine article discussing the implications of Internet campaigning in the
upcoming presidential race (10/1). Similar comments were featured in National
Journal (10/4).
Dorothy
Butler Gilliam, SMPA lecturer and director of the Washington Post’s
Young Journalists Development Project, was mentioned in a Presstime
magazine article discussing Reaching Generation Next, a recent book
published by her group.
Harry
Hertzfeld, senior research scientist at the Space Policy Institute,
co-authored the article “Steady Course for Civil Space in 2002” which was
featured in the October issue of the magazine Aerospace
America.
Tyra Hilliard, assistant professor of event
and meeting management, had her article “Room Taxes and Surcharges” published in
a recent issue of the magazine Corporate Meetings & Incentives
(10/1).
Harry
Holzer, professor of public policy, was quoted in a recent Philadelphia
Inquirer article dealing with the economy and its potential for recovery in
2004 (10/1).
Ambassador
Karl Inderfurth, professor of the practice of international affairs, was a
guest on the Voice of America’a “Newsline” to discuss the U.N. General Assembly
and the Bush Administration’s efforts to seek more U.N. support to reconstruct
Iraq
(10/3). Inderfurth wrote a book review for the
October 2003 issue of the Foreign Service Journal for “Islam Under
Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honour World” by Akbar S. Ahmed. Finally,
Inderfurth was quoted in an
article titled,
“U.S. Not Buying
India’s Argument on Troops in
Iraq” that
appeared in India Abroad (10/10).
Darryl
Jenkins, director of the Aviation Institute, offered his analysis of
small-market airlines in their competition with market leaders in the Rocky
Mountain News (10/4). Jenkins expressed his opinion on the feasibility of
certain airline mergers in a recent Washington Post article (10/7). He
also commented on certain business decisions of leading airlines in The New
York Times (10/10) and the International Herald Tribune (10/11).
Finally, Jenkins forecasted the prospects of new start-up airlines for a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story (10/15).
Peter
Kornbluh, director of the Chile Documentation Project at the National
Security Archive, contributed his article “The El Mercurio File” to the
September/October 2003 edition of the Columbia Journalism Review.
John
Lachin, professor of biostatistics, was quoted in the periodical Diabetes
Forecast concerning his ongoing research into new methods for treating
diabetes being performed here at the University (10/1).
Jeanne
Lambrew, associate professor of health policy, expressed her opinion on the
lack of presidential concern in the ongoing process of Medicaid reform in the
Buffalo News (10/10).
John M.
Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute, reviewed Robert Zimmerman’s
Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for
Interplanetary Travel in this month’s issue of Astronomy (10/1). His
comments on
China’s space
program were included in two New York Times articles (10/13,
10/15).
Ira Lupu,
professor of law, and Robert Tuttle, professor of law, were mentioned
in reference to their study “The Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare
Policy” in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (10/14) as well as the
Deseret Morning News (10/14). Lupu also appeared on NBC’s “Nightly News
with Tom Brokaw” (10/14) and CNBC’s “Early Today” (10/15) discussing the Supreme
Court’s Pledge of Allegiance case (10/15).
Gregory
Maggs, professor of law, was mentioned in The Recorder
(Northern California) for his work as Supreme
Court-appointed special master in the dispute between
Alaska and the federal government
(10/3).
Forrest
Maltzman, professor of political science, spoke on the use of filibustering
as a scare tactic in The Baton Rouge Advocate (10/5).
Mike
Mochizuki, associate professor of political science, co-authored the article
“Toward a Grand Bargain with North
Korea,” featured in the Autumn 2003 edition of
The Washington Quarterly.
Dr. Fitzhugh
Mullan, professor of pediatrics and public
health, opined on the best way to deal with the doctor shortage in
Pennsylvania in a Philadelphia Inquirer article
(10/12).
Tom
Nagy, associate professor of management science, was quoted in a Hamilton
Spectator
(Canada) article
that focused on peaceful protest (10/6).
Seyyed Hossein
Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies,
was quoted on the disparity between scientific knowledge and Islamic faith in a
recently published collection of press releases and documents by Voice of
America (10/11).
Miguel
Angel Rodriguez, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Visiting
Professor of International Affairs, was mentioned by The Washington
Times in reference to his candidacy for the
position of secretary-general to the Organization of American States
(10/3).
Jeffrey
Rosen, professor of law, was a
featured contributor in a recent symposium article titled “Has the Supreme Court
Gone Too Far?” in the magazine Commentary (10/1). He reviewed Evan
Gerstmann’s book Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution in The
Washington Post (10/5). His upcoming speech in Omaha on “Defending Privacy”
was mentioned in the Omaha World-Herald (10/11).
Steve
Schooner, associate professor of law, discussed the ethical considerations
of recent actions taken by the Air Force in its selective acceptance of bids for
an upcoming project in the Chicago Tribune (10/4) and The Washington
Post (10/8).
David
Shambaugh, professor of political science and international affairs, was a
guest on CNNfn’s “Market Call” discussing the Chinese space program
(10/14).
Ambassador
David Shinn, Elliott
School adjunct professor of
international affairs, was a guest on Voice of America discussing the peace
process in
Sudan. He was
also interviewed by the BBC World Service regarding Kenyan President Kibaki’s
visit to the
U.S. (10/5).
James
Starrs, professor of law and forensic sciences, was mentioned for his work
in the Boston Strangler case in The Boston Globe (10/1). Also, he was
cited in The Canadian Press as an authority against the use of voice
stress analysis (10/8).
Robert
Tuttle, professor of law, was quoted in a Washington Times article
discussing government restrictions on charitable funds (10/7).
Ray
Williamson, research professor at the Space
Policy Institute, was quoted in a Denver Post article about Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
(10/12).
Jonathan Turley, professor of law, appeared on
CNN’s “American Morning” to discuss the civil rights of those being held in
conjunction with the recent spying at Guantanamo Bay (10/1). Turley was interviewed
on Fox News’ “Special Report with Brit Hume” focusing on the ongoing
investigation into the CIA leak (10/2). Also, his comments on the recent
crackdown on illegal mutual fund trading in New
York were featured in The
Australian (10/4). Furthermore, his opinions on the trial of Zacarias
Moussaoui were featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (10/3) and
The Seattle Times (10/3).
