GW IN THE NEWS Week of October 15 - 19, 2001    ·             Elliott School's Dr. Jerrold Post, professor of political psychiatry and international affairs, conducted interviews on the terrorist attacks with many print and network outlets, including CNN, NPR, "Newsweek," Hong Kong TV, The Boston Globe, French TF-1 TV, WJLA-TV (Channel 7), WRC-TV (Channel 4), ABC-Australia's public affairs show, "Four Corners" and The Washington Post.   ·             GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was interviewed by WJLA-TV (Channel 7) about how applications to GW for the fall of 2002 are up 51% over last year.  ·             Steven Livingston, director of GW's Political Communication Program at the School of Media and Public Affairs, was interviewed by the Discovery Channel on the use of propaganda during wartime.   ·             Leon Fuerth, Elliott School's Shapiro Professor, was interviewed by BBC-TV on national security.  Fuerth also participated in an online interview with thewashingtonpost.com, discussing America at war.   ·             Joseph Barbara, associate director of GW's Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management Center was interviewed by ABC's "Primetime with Peter Jennings" on bio-terrorism disaster and emergency preparations.   ·             Elliott School’s Alan Gerson, director of GW's Institute for Peacebuilding and Development, wrote an op-ed article for The Washington Times titled “Lockerbie lessons on anti-terror warfare.”   ·             Peter Swire, visiting professor of law, was quoted by The New York Times discussing FBI Internet wiretaps and was quoted by Business Week about freezing terrorist assets.  Swire was also interviewed on NPR about the anti-terrorism bill, was quoted by Wired News on electronic privacy and the recording industry's desire to delete stolen MP3 files from personal computers and conducted an interview in GW's new flash studio with Chicago radio WBEZ regarding privacy issues with new terrorism legislation.   ·             "GW Washington Forum" featured a discussion of the history, culture and politics of Afghanistan with special guest Quadir Amiryar, adjunct professor of political science. Professor Amiryar was raised in Kabul, Afghanistan where, in 1964, he helped create the country's first democratic constitution.  ·             Ambassador Karl Inderfurth, Elliott School's Raymond and Juliet Bland Professorial Lecturer in International Affairs, was interviewed by The Philadelphia Enquirer on the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.   ·             Dr. Stephen Evans, department of surgery, discussed "Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease, (GERD)" on WTTG-TV (Channel 5) for the GW "Hi-Tech Healthcare" segment.   ·             Derek Chollet, visiting scholar at the Elliott School’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, had an article titled “Wise U.S. Would Make Nation-Building a Priority,” published in The Baltimore Sun.  ·             Elliott School’s Professor Gordon Adams, director of GW's Security Policy Studies Program was interviewed by Phoeniz – TV (Hong Kong) and was interviewed live on KQED in San Francisco on homeland defense.  ·             Stephen Saltzburg, professor of law, was interviewed on the All News Channel talking about Anthrax.  Saltzburg was quoted by "The National Law Journal" regarding terrorist trials and by "The New Jersey Law Journal" discussing actions for class counsel.    ·             Elliott School Professor David Shambaugh was interviewed on "CNN Headline News" and NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show" about United States and China relations.   ·             Dr. Frederick Goodwin, research professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was interviewed on CBS' "60 minutes." The interview revisited a 1973 "60 Minutes" segment about depression in which Dr. Goodwin was interviewed.   ·             Paul Maniscalco, EMS adjunct professor, was interviewed by ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, the Newark Star Ledger, WOR and WINS Radio, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about emergency response preparations for any future terrorist attacks.   ·             Dr. John Harrald, director of GW's Institute on Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, was interviewed by "Judicial Watch" and the Voice of America on emergency preparedness.  ·             Dr. Tee L. Guidotti, chair of GW's department of environmental and occupational health, was interviewed by Gannett News and USA Today.  Guidotti and Dr. Peter Hotez, chairman of the department of microbiology and tropical medicine, were also interviewed by Judicial Watch on smallpox.    ·             Keith Holtermannn, assistant dean for health sciences, was interviewed by BBC, WUSA-TV (Channel 9) and Voice of America on preparedness and bio-terrorism.   ·             GW Hospital was featured in The Washington Post as one of the hospitals where people were tested for anthrax exposure.    ·             Daniel Z. Lieberman, director of Ambulatory Care Services and Outpatient Psychiatry and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" about the law passed in Connecticut forbidding teachers from discussing Ritalin with parents.  ·             Craig DeAtley, associate professor of emergency medicine, was quoted in The Washington Post about the number of United States' private doctors being uninformed on how to recognize, treat and report casualties of a biological attack.  ·             Dr. Robert Zeman, chief of radiology, was interviewed by Scripps Howard on advances in radiology.  ·             University Wire re-capped the "Civil Liberties Forum" hosted at GW Law School with Law Professor Mary Cheh and University Professor Amitai Etzioni.    ·             Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law, had an article published in The New Republic on the new terrorism bill.   ·             Matthew Harrington, law school assistant dean for administrative affairs, had an op-ed published in The Providence Journal-Bulletin on airport security.   -GW-     ©2002 The George Washington University Office of University Relations, Washington, D.C. 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