Thomas S. Blanton,
director of the National Security Archive at GW, was quoted in The New York
Times on technology’s influence on the lack of security for confidential
documents (10/25).
Nathan Brown, professor of political science and
international affairs, commented in a Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
story about the role of Islam in a new Iraqi constitution (10/22).
He was also cited in a Knight
Ridder/Tribune Business News article on the importance of certain freedoms
in U.S./Iraq relations (10/23).
Dana Tai Soon Burgess, assistant
professor of dance, and his new dance production, “Tracings,” which will
premiere November 6 at the Kennedy
Center, were profiled in The Washington Post’s “Weekend” section
(10/31).
Paul Butler, professor of
law, wrote in The Washington Post
“Outlook” section about the public interest in the upcoming sniper trials
(10/19). Butler’s comments on famous
instances of self-defense for jury trials were featured in the The Globe and
Mail
(Canada)
(10/21). He also appeared on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” to discuss the public
fascination with the high-profile cases such as the sniper trials
(10/21).
Michael Cornfield,
associate research professor of political management, was quoted by the
National Journal (10/18) and the Christian Science Monitor (10/23)
about the recent political phenomenon of Internet campaigning.
Charles Craver, professor of law, was
quoted by The Baltimore Sun, Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
(10/26) and the Houston Chronicle
(10/30) about American workers’ dissatisfaction with their jobs and the
increasing disparity between pay of top executives and average
workers.
Carol
Darr, director of
the GW Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, discussed the
implications of Internet campaigning in the upcoming presidential race with Newsbytes News Network and The Washington Post
(10/18).
Dr. Arthur Frank, director
of GW’s weight management clinic, was quoted in a Washington Post story
on low-carb diets (10/21).
Leon Fuerth, research
professor of international affairs, wrote an op-ed about the reconstruction of
Iraq, titled
“Structurally Unsound,” for The Washington Post “Outlook” section
(10/19).
Jim Goldgeier, director of
the GW’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and associate
professor of political science and international affairs, had chapter one from
his new book, “Power and Purpose: U.S.
Policy toward Russia after the Cold War,” posted on the Brookings
Institution’s Web site at www.brookings.edu/press/books/powerandpurpose.
The book is scheduled to be available in early November.
Harry Harding, dean of the
Elliott School of International Affairs, was quoted by the Agence France
Presse on the tension in U.S.-China economic relations (10/16). He also was
featured on Voice of America, speaking on the potential for future
U.S.-China conflict (10/24).
Ambassador Karl
Inderfurth, professor of the practice of international affairs, was quoted
in the Boston Globe in an article
titled, “Pressed,
Iran Offers Nuclear
Concessions” (10/22). Inderfurth
also was interviewed by a Washington-based German news agency regarding the
recently passed U.N. resolution on
Iraq.
Darryl Jenkins, director
of the Aviation Institute, commented on certain business decisions of leading
airlines in Knight Ridder/Tribune
Business News and The Washington Times (10/27). He also was
quoted by U.S. News & World Report about the tough job facing the new chief
operating officer of the U.S. air traffic control system
(10/27).
Frederick Joutz, associate professor
economics, was featured in a washingtonpost.com Web chat discussing a U.S.
Commerce Department announcement that the
U.S. economy
grew 7.2 percent in the third quarter and the ramifications of that growth
(10/30).
Horace Freeland Judson, research professor of history, wrote an
op-ed, “No Nobel Prize for Whining,” for The New York Times in which Judson criticizes a doctor’s claim
that he should also have won the Nobel Prize for medicine because of his
contributions to the winning project (10/20). Judson’s op-ed also appeared in
the International Herald Tribune (10/21).
Jeanette Lambrew, associate professor of health policy, was
quoted by the Associated Press about
a study she authored revealing that a third of the nation’s workers without
health insurance work for large companies (10/21). Lambrew’s research also
received mention in stories by the Agence France Presse, Augusta
Chronicle, Chattanooga Times Free
Press, Chicago Sun-Times,
Cincinnati Post, The Columbian
(Vancouver, Wash.), Detroit Free Press, Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, The Grand Rapids
Press, Houston Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Record (NJ), Rocky Mountain News (Denver), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (10/22) and The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
(10/27).
Donald Lindsey, GW’s chief investment officer, was quoted by
The Wall Street Journal about GW’s
decision to pull $28 million of endowment funds the University had invested with
Putnam Investments (10/31).
John M. Logsdon, director
of the Space Policy Institute, was quoted about
China’s space
program in The International Herald Tribune (10/16), South China
Morning Post (10/16, 10/17), The Straits Times (10/18),
U.S. News & World Report (10/27) and Business Standard
(India) (10/31).
Logsdon appeared as a guest on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” to discuss the
implications of
China’s space
program (10/17). He was quoted by
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
and The Orlando Sentinel about
whether NASA has the money to research and design a stronger cabin in its
shuttles, which may allow crews to survive accidents like befell the
Columbia (10/29).
Kip Lornell, professorial lecturer of
music and adjunct professor of Africana studies, appeared on WETA-FM’s Sunday
morning arts show “The Program,” to discuss and play examples of D.C.’s
homegrown music, go-go, about which he co-authored a recent book, “The
Beat.”
Jarol Manheim, professor
of media and public affairs and of political science, was quoted by Indian
Country Today and Knight
Ridder/Tribune Business News about the effects of Native American activism
on corporate policy (10/29).
Josh Marks, associate
director of the Aviation Institute, appeared on CNBC’s “News with Brian
Williams,” to discuss the public reaction to recent security problems on
Southwest Airlines (10/17). He was quoted on the changing business models of
certain corporate airlines in The Charlotte Observer (10/22).
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies, was
quoted by The Washington Times and
was mentioned in The Washington Post for being a keynote speaker at a
recent University of Chicago religious summit
(10/30).
Jerrold Post, professor of psychiatry, political psychology
and international affairs appeared on CBS’s “Evening News with Dan Rather,” to
discuss the growing trend of suicide bombers in the Middle East (10/19). His expertise also was employed by
the Christian Science Monitor in a recent article about the so-called
“doomsday letter” found in the luggage of the 9/11 hijackers, in which he
discussed the difference between the 9/11 hijackers and Palestinian suicide
bombers (10/30).
Peter Raven-Hansen,
professor of law, was quoted by The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ) in reference
to the historical precedence of executive privilege and how it relates to
classified documents concerning 9/11 (10/28).
Steven Schooner, associate
professor of law, addressed the United
States highly criticized policy on accepting
corporate bids for Iraqi reconstruction in The New York Times (10/19) and
the International Herald Tribune (10/20). He also commented to the Associated Press about the contract
scandal between New York City and
Snapple for exclusive vending rights (10/23).
Michael Selmi, professor
of law, was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor on recent
discrimination lawsuits (10/27).
David Shambaugh, professor
of political science and international affairs, was quoted in a New York
Times article about the growing approval of
China by its
Asian neighbors (10/18). He also was quoted in Dong-A Ilbo Daily
(South Korea)
about the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit (10/21).
Ambassador David Shinn,
adjunct professor of international affairs, had his comments on the
Ethiopia-Eritrea border conflict featured in U.S. State Department’s
Washington File (10/16) and an All Africa article (10/17). The
State Department’s Washington File and All Africa also devoted an
article to Shinn’s outlook on the potential for peace in the Horn of Africa
(10/20). Finally, Shinn was interviewed by Voice of America Newsline
(10/21) and BBC World Service Television (10/22) on the topic of
Sudan.
Ginger Smith, associate
dean for the college of professional studies and associate professor of tourism
studies, was cited by the Palm Beach Post in reference to her study of
the impact of state welcome centers to tourist spending in the state of
Florida (10/16). Her study also
was the subject of a St. Petersburg Times article (10/20).
James Starrs, professor of
law and of forensic sciences, was mentioned in Associated Press articles about
Meriwether Lewis for his efforts to exhume Lewis’ body (10/22,
10/25).
Jonathan Turley, professor of public interest law, wrote an
op-ed for the Los Angeles Times commenting on Attorney General Ashcroft’s
prosecution of protestors (10/17). He was quoted by The New York Times
about one of his defendants, a doctor on trial for mishandling plague specimens
(10/19). He was a guest on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” discussing the perils
of self-representation in relation to the sniper trial of John Muhammad
(10/20). Turley was quoted by The Salt Lake Tribune (10/26, 10/27) and
by the Los Angeles Times (10/31)
about the problems facing the defense and the prosecution and the tactics used
by both sides to influence jurors in the trial of two men who are accused of
bribing Olympic officials to help bring the Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City in
2002.
Arthur Wilmarth, professor of law, was
quoted by National Mortgage News
about the proposed rule to
exempt national banks and their operating subsidiaries from state laws designed
to end abusive lending practices (10/20).
