GW In The News
October 16-31, 2006
The Oregonian (10/16) mentioned a GW study regarding the prescription of non-preferred drug brands.
The Post-Standard/Herald-Journal (10/16) and Life Science Weekly (10/31) mentioned a GW study regarding the use of electronic health records.
BET.com (10/16) mentioned Young Voter Strategies, a GW organization encouraging young people to vote, in an interview with Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama concerning increasing the political power of black college students. Bradenton.com (10/20), The Register-Guard (10/29), Press of Atlantic City (10/30) and USA Today (10/24) also mentioned GW 's Young Voter Strategies.
The Washington Post (10/19) noted a GW study regarding domestic workers in Montgomery County.
Scoop.co.nz (10/18) mentioned GW among a list of universities whose senior academic staff wrote the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland to warn of the threat to the reputation of the school regarding proposed staff cuts.
Inside CMS (10/19) noted that researchers from GW helped conduct a study regarding electronic medical records.
The Washington Times (10/23) profiled the history of GW 's 1956 football team in an article regarding its 50th anniversary reunion held in Arlington.
Nwobserver.com (10/22) noted GW researcher's involvement in a study aimed at assessing whether changes in schools can lower the risk of type II diabetes.
The Washington Post (10/26) noted that GW 's School of Media and Public Affairs received a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for veteran journalists from major news organizations to mentor minority high school students.
ABC News Now: Ahead of the Curve (10/30) mentioned that GW is taking advantage of technology by using newly developed hands-on games for training health care providers and first responders.
C-SPAN, NHK Japanese Broadcasting, SBS TV, ATV, RFA, Yanhap News Agency, Nippon TV, Asahi Shimbum, APTN, Jiji Press, TVBS News, Global Security Newswire, NDU, and the VOA's Korean Service covered �A Nuclear North Korea: How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It�, with guest speaker Charles L. Pritchard (10/17), hosted by GW 's Sigur Center for Asian Studies.
Hossein Askari, Iran Professor of International Business, wrote an article posted on nationalinterest.org (10/26) regarding his call for a contrition strategy in the war with Iraq.
John Banzhaf, professor of law, was quoted on rctimes.com (10/20) regarding the possibility of personal behavioral choices being factored into insurance premiums.
Fernanda Bianchi, research scientist, was quoted in AIDS Vaccine Week (10/16), Health & Medicine Week (10/16), TB & Outbreaks Week (10/17), Virus Weekly (10/17), Life Science Weekly (10/17), Science Letter (10/17), Immunotherapy Weekly (10/18), Biotech Week (10/18), Obesity, Fitness, and Wellness Week (10/21), and Mental Health Weekly Digest (10/16) regarding the risk of HIV infection in Latino gay men.
Sarah Binder, professor of political science, was quoted in The New York Times (10/29) regarding the possibility of the November elections resulting in a divided government.
Gene Cohen, professor of health care sciences, was quoted in St. Louis Post-Dispatch (10/16) and Vancouver Sun (10/21) regarding his study on creativity and the elderly.
Michael Cornfield, research professor with GW's Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet, was quoted in USA Today (10/17) regarding internet campaign advertisements.
Charles Cushman, associate dean of the graduate school of political management and associate professor of political management, was quoted in The Canadian Press (10/27) and canadaeast.com (10/28) regarding U.S. Senator Rick Santorum.
Carol Darr, director, GW's Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet, was quoted on gulf-times.com (10/16) regarding amateur videos used in political banter and on marketplace.publicradio.org (10/19) regarding mass marketers buying consumers' personal information.
Robert Dunn, professor of economics, was quoted in Financial Times (10/27) regarding the recent economy boom in Washington, DC.
Henry Farrell, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, appeared on CNN: American Morning (10/19), CNN: CNN News Room (10/21), and CNN: The Situation Room (10/19) regarding the internet's effect on politics.
Mark Feldstein, associate professor of media and public affairs, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle (10/16) regarding the imprisonment of Josh Wolf, now the longest-jailed journalist in the United States and in The Arkansas Democrat Gazette (10/29) regarding media critics' concern over questionable journalistic practice involving the funding of three members of the Arkansas congressional delegation by the same people who run companies handling the news coverage of the same lawmakers.
Joseph Gastwirth, professor of statistics and of economics, wrote an article published in the National Law Journal (10/30) regarding the drop in the number of women hired as Supreme court law clerks.
Julie Germany, research associate, was quoted in The Buffalo News (10/28) regarding the increasing popularity of web-based campaign strategies and on nj.com (10/30) regarding the hazards of online politics. The Las Vegas Review-Journal (10/30) quoted her regarding politics on YouTube.
Richard Green, associate dean for graduate programs, School of Business, director of the Read Estate Institute, and Oliver T. Carr, Jr. Professor of Real Estate Finance and Finance, was quoted in Newsweek (10/16) regarding the current housing market and on businessweek.com (10/26) regarding housing busts.
Stephen Hess, distinguished research professor of media and public affairs, was quoted in USA Today (10/23) regarding the possibility of Illinois Senator Barack Obama running in the 2008 presidential campaign and in US Fed News (10/26) and Voice of America (10/26) regarding the war in Iraq. Dfw.com (10/30) quoted him regarding the Bush family's push for Republican control of Congress.
Peter Hotez, chair of the department of microbiology and professor of microbiology and tropical medicine, was quoted on monstersandcritics.com (10/30) regarding the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and global health organizations.
Karl Inderfurth, John O. Rankin Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, was a guest on C-SPAN: Washington Journal (10/20) to discuss the next UN Secretary General Ban.
Cindy Kinder, resident, was quoted in Gastroenterology Week (10/30) regarding research on kidney function.
Weston Konishi, part-time faculty, wrote an article published in a special to The Daily Yomiuri (10/31) regarding Japan's response to the recent North Korean nuclear test.
John Logsdon, professor of political science and international affairs, was quoted in BusinessWeek (10/16) regarding the beginnings of a relationship between NASA and China and in The New York Times (10/31) regarding NASA's plan to send astronauts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 2008.
Edward Maibach , professor of prevention and community health, was quoted on usatoday.com (10/28), Wyoming News (10/30), and in The Baltimore Sun (10/29) regarding new ethics rules and tighter restrictions on employees at the National Institutes of Health.
Forrest Maltzman, professor of political science, was quoted in The Globe & Mail (10/26) regarding President Bush's comments on the war in Iraq.
Wallace Mullin, associate professor of economics, was quoted in New York Law Journal (10/17) in an article regarding antitrust trade and practice.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, university professor of Islamic Studies, was mentioned in Manila Bulletin (10/16) and on theamericanmuslim.org (10/18) for being among a group of Islamic leaders who signed an unprecedented letter to the Pope expressing appreciation for his public clarification of an earlier speech that had upset the Muslim community.
Deepa Ollapally, associate director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, was interviewed on CNN International: World News (10/28) regarding the peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil rebels held over the weekend in Geneva.
Spencer Overton, associate professor of law, was quoted in The New York Times (10/27) regarding the threat of voter suppression and in Dow Jones Commodities Service (10/31) regarding some states' failure to upgrade voting system.
Joseph Pelton, research professor of engineering, was quoted in Rocky Mountain News (10/17) regarding population growth in Colorado.
Jerrold Post, professor of psychiatry, political psychology and international affairs, did a promotional interview with Fox News (10/29) for the National Geographic Channel: Inside Saddam's Reign of Terror .
Leo Ribuffo, professor of history, was quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune (10/20) regarding reports that Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's political advisers consulted with the church regarding his possible presidential campaign.
Steven Roberts, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs, co-wrote an article posted on usaweekend.com (10/27) regarding seven groups crucial to next week's election.
Jay Anil Salpekar, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was quoted in Mental Health Weekly Digest (10/30) regarding the simultaneous treatment of epilepsy and mood disorder in children.
Tracy Schario, director of media relations, was quoted in The Washington Post (10/25) regarding this year's college tuition increase and in an Associated Press (10/30) article regarding the settlement of a lawsuit between GW and a former student.
Heather Schell, assistant professor of writing, was quoted on wistv.com (10/20) regarding the use of iPods to download lectures on college campuses.
David Shinn, adjunct professor of international affairs, was interviewed by BBC World TV (10/27) concerning Somalia, Al Jazeera International TV (10/26) on Ethiopia and Somalia, VOA Radio Amharic Service (10/26) on Ethiopia/Eritrea/Somalia, VOA TV (10/23) on the Horn of Africa, and France Internationale (10/18) in English on the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict.
John Sides, assistant professor of political science, appeared on CNN: American Morning (10/25) regarding the war in Iraq.
Margaret Soltan, associate professor of English and human sciences, was quoted in The Washington Post (10/28) regarding Virginia Senator George Allen's accusation that Democratic opponent James Webb's fictional writing degraded women and included inappropriate material.
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of the University, was quoted in The Washington Post (10/19) regarding former president Bill Clinton's appearance at the roast of Mayor Anthony Williams and in The Chronicle of Higher Education (10/20) on his comments at the Annual Meeting of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni regarding the effects of lengthy terms of faculty leaders. The Washington Post (10/29) quoted him regarding a legal suit involving Morton A. Bender, a GW donor.
Jonathan Turley, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Service Law, was mentioned in Education Week (10/18) regarding his stance on the Foley scandal and the House page program. MSNBC: Hardball (10/20) mentioned Turley as the defendant of a Democratic staffer accused of leaking parts of the National Intelligence Estimates, and MSNBC: Countdown (10/18) hosted Turley in a discussion of a new bill signed by President Bush that redefines the right of habeas corpus. MSNBC: Countdown (10/27) hosted Turley in a discussion of Dick Cheney's comments on whether or not the U.S. has used a controversial type of torture, waterboarding, to interrogate detainees. The National Law Journal (10/30) quoted him regarding the future of several lawsuits filed by California's attorney general Bill Lockyer.
Robert Tuttle, D.R. & S Kirschner Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion, was quoted in Times Union (10/20) regarding a New York Court of Appeals ruling that religious social service organizations must cover the expense of birth control through employee health insurance benefits and in The New York Times (10/28) regarding a proposed single-faith religion-based prison rehabilitation program.
Akos Vertes, deputy chair of the department of chemistry, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology, was quoted on infozine.com (10/25) regarding the creation of a revolutionary microscope.
Guanyu Wang, assistant research professor of physics, was quoted on medindia.net (10/21) regarding a computer model which describes all three stages of HIV infection by incorporating competition among T cells.
Lawrence Wilkerson, part-time faculty, was mentioned in The Appalachian Online (10/26) regarding his political presentation in Boone, North Carolina.
Susan Wood, research professor, was a guest on NPR: Talk of the Nation/Science Friday (10/20) in a discussion regarding the inclusion of scientific topics on voter ballots.
