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Focal points for news and sources on war and terrorism issues at Washington University include the Department of Political Science in Arts and Sciences, the Center for Security Technology in the School of Engineering and the Institute for Global Legal Studies in the School of Law.
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Monica Matthieu
Research Assistant Professor
Matthieu's expertise centers on mental health services. She is available to discuss suicide prevention, mental health in the aftermath of disasters, the mental health impact of trauma as well as the mental health of veterans. Her current research focuses on provider and organizational change required ...
Expertise: mental health services, trauma, veterans, suicide prevention and disaster
mental health
Direct contact: 314-935-7516
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mmatthieu@wustl.edu
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Seth Eisen
Professor of Medicine
Eisen, who also is a physician at the St. Louis Veteran's Administration Hospital, led a large study that compared the health of veterans deployed in the first Gulf War to that of veterans deployed elsewhere. Ten years after the end of the first Gulf War, that study found most Gulf War veterans were ...
Expertise: Epidemiology, veteran’s health, Gulf War, Vietnam, veterans, military
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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Pratim Biswas
Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor
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Biswas received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, has published extensively in his field and served on many international organizations and conferences. His research interests include aerosol science and engineering, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, materials ...
Expertise: aerosol science, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, material processing for environmental technologies, environmentally benign processing, environmental nanotechnology, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5482
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pratim.biswas@seas.wustl.edu
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Kathleen Clark
Professor of Law
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Kathleen Clark teaches courses on secrecy and whistleblowing, national security law, legal and government ethics. Prior to teaching, she served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where she worked on issues of white collar crime, and was a law clerk to Judge Harold H. Greene in Washington ...
Expertise: legal ethics, national security law, whistleblowing, military tribunals, privacy of lawyer-client conversations, ethics in government, legal defense funds for government officials
Direct contact: (314) 935-4081
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kathleen@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Samuel Stanley
Director of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research
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Stanley directs the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE), funded by a $35 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The center's mission is to support basic and translational research in critical areas ...
Expertise: biodefense, infectious diseases
Media assistance: (314) 935-5217 / joeangeles@wustl.edu
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Blue-ribbon steering committee drafting international treaty
Harris World Law Institute kicks off landmark Crimes Against Humanity Project
April 25,
2008 -- The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute of Washington University School of Law announced a two-year project to study the international law regarding crimes against humanity and to draft a multilateral treaty condemning and prohibiting such crimes. Leila Sadat, J.D., the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and director of the Harris Institute, recently convened the first meeting of the project's steering committee.
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'She represented the hope of a fresh break'
Anthropologist who lived in Pakistan comments on Benazir Bhutto's death
Dec. 27,
2007 -- The assassination of Benazir Bhutto is not only a great loss to Pakistan, but also a great loss to the world says a sociocultural anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis who lived in Pakistan for six months and whose research focuses on Islamic movements in that country and in Afghanistan.
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Media Advisory - Interview opportunites
Representatives from MO National Guard, VA Medical Center and others to discuss mental health services for veterans on Nov 7.
Nov. 5,
2007 -- The Veterans Services Summit features new information about mental health services for veterans. In addition, the summit will feature a demonstration of Virtual Iraq technolgy, a virtual reality system that aids in the treatment of post traumatic stress disorder with returning veterans.
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Analysis: Debate Unlikely to Change Race
Associated Press
and 66 others
Feb. 27,
2008 -- WUSTL's Wayne Fields comments on final pitches by Democratic presidential candidates as they head into the last weeks of primary elections.
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Drug Informant Fights Deportation
NPR Day to Day
Feb. 8,
2008 -- A Nigerian immigrant here facing deportation says he's going to be tortured and killed if he is, in fact, sent back home. Frank Enwonwu was caught smuggling heroin 22 years ago. Since then he's lived the dangerous life of an informant for federal drug authorities.
He claims part of the deal was a promise to allow him to stay in the U.S. and escape revenge from the Nigerian drug dealers. Professor Stephen Legomsky, an immigration law expert at Washington University in St. Louis, comments.
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A faith-based stop for the president
Chicago Tribune
and 1 others
Jan. 11,
2008 -- WUSTL American culture studies Professor Wayne Fields comments on President Bush's recent Mideast trip. "President Bush believes in a religion of dramatic revelations — his conversion and 9/11 being the most notable — in which a person's life is transformed or the world is changed," said WUSTL American culture studies professor Wayne Fields. "These moments ... are the sources of the important 'truths' which inform his understanding of life and shape his behavior as well as his rhetoric."
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Analysis: Bush recasts war rationale
Associated Press
and 38 others
Sept. 17,
2007 -- WUSTL English professor Wayne Fields, who is an expert on presidential rhetoric, comments on President Bush's speech on Iraq.
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Ancient nomads offer insights to modern crises
The New York Times
and 1 others
Aug. 8,
2007 -- Every summer for the past eight years, WUSTL anthropologist Michael Frachetti has come to the desert steppe that rolls like endless yellow waves across this expansive Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan searching for evidence of a vast, connected nomadic society.
His work concerns Bronze Age nomads, and his scholarship is aimed purely at a historical understanding of how a preliterate society functioned more than 3,000 years ago. But his work coincides with a geopolitical reality that has important implications for American foreign policy makers: many of the countries that most trouble the West -- like Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia -- have government institutions that reflect a nomadic past.
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To set a pullout date or not: That is the question
Minneapolis Star Tribune online
March 9,
2007 -- House Democrats propose a measure to require that U.S. troops be withdrawn from Iraq by fall of 2008. Minnesota's delegation, regardless of party affiliation, stays on the fence, in one instance citing that people's opinions are "all over the map."
WUSTL political science professor Steven Smith comments on Nancy Pelosi's strategy.
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Scientists find potential weakness in plague germ
Scientific American
and 3 others
Jan. 26,
2007 -- The germ that caused the plague epidemic that ravaged medieval Europe has a weakness that could help make a particularly dangerous form easier to treat, according to a study published on Thursday.
There are periodic natural outbreaks of pneumonic plague like one that started in 2005 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There also is acute concern terrorists could harness the bacterium as an airborne germ warfare agent to spread pneumonic plague.
Writing in the journal Science, WUSTL scientists led by molecular microbiology professor William Goldman said experiments with mice showed that the onslaught of the bacterium slows markedly when the germ cannot use a key protein.
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Bush domestic proposals address some Democratic concerns but will still be a hard sell
Associated Press
and 17 others
Jan. 24,
2007 -- WUSTL presidential rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields is one of several experts analyzing the content and presentation of President Bush's State of the Union speech.
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Bush speech lacks knockout blow: analysts
Agence France Presse -- English
and 2 others
Jan. 24,
2007 -- WUSTL political science professor Steven Smith is one of several experts analyzing the content and presentation of President Bush's State of the Union speech.
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'Hana's Suitcase' bridges 2 worlds in its search for a girl who died at Auschwitz
Associated Press
and 16 others
Jan. 19,
2007 -- AP's Cheryl Wittenauer reports on the story behind Hana's Suitcase, a play that is receiving its American premiere this week at WUSTL's Edison Theatre.
Playwright Emil Sher's adaptation of the best-selling book of the same name by Karen Levine is co-produced by Edison Theatre and Metro Theater Company.
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U.S. to Deploy Proven Technology on Borders
NPR - Morning Edition
Sept. 22,
2006 -- The Department of Homeland Security today awards a multi-billion dollar contract to beef up border security. The anticipated winner is Boeing. Despite the aerospace giant's background, Boeing's border security plan is less high tech than you might expect.
WUSTL computer science professor Robert Pless comments on surveillance technology. He is assistant director of WUSTL's Center for Security Technologies.
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Republicans tense as voter disillusionment sets in
USA Today
Sept. 5,
2006 -- Iraq is one of several tides running against GOP candidates, driving away independent voters and some party faithful. Except for Missouri, independent voters in five Senate races polled by USA Today were swinging toward the Democrat. Party loyalty was stronger among Democrats than Republicans in every state but Ohio. Michael Minta, professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, comments on how the stem cell research issue is dividing Republicans in Missouri.
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Political pros sharpen their knives in press release wars
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 5 others
July 26,
2006 -- Article on the increasingly common attack fare in news releases from political operatives desperate to spin news coverage to their advantage.
WUSTL political rhetoric expert Wayne Fields, who directs the American Culture Studies program, says these tactics threaten to drain the substance out of political debate.
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Hussein presents a spirited defense
Los Angeles Times
and 3 others
April 6,
2006 -- Article covers events from Wednesday in the Saddam Hussein trial.
His savvy take on contemporary Iraqi politics took some observers by surprise.
WUSTL international law professor Leila Nadya Sadat, who watched segments of the trial on the Internet, comments.
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Bush pulls out the stops to save ratings
Forbes.com
and 57 others
March 23,
2006 -- In current and upcoming speeches, the president wants to convince Americans not only that there is reason for optimism about Iraq's future but that the situation now is better than the daily reports of strife make it appear. President Bush is drawing on his plainspoken manner to defend his Iraq strategy. WUSTL political rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields comments on Bush's strattegy.
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Saddam on trial
PBS – NewsHour
and 1 others
Feb. 16,
2006 -- PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer features a discussion of the trial of Saddam Hussein. Following a background report from Independent Television News, two lawyers give their reactions to the proceedings. WUSTL law professor Leila Sadat is one of the lawyers.
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Bush has hits, misses in annual speech
CBS News online
and 32 others
Jan. 27,
2006 -- WUSTL presidential rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields comments on President Bush's annual State of the Union address and looks back on his previous speeches.
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Roundup of commentary on Saddam Hussein trial by Leila Sadat
Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times
and 2 others
Dec. 8,
2005 -- Roundup of comments by Leila Nadya Sadat, WUSTL law professor and international criminal law expert, about the trial of Saddam Hussein. Defense strategy, the Iraqi war crimes tribunal, and the violence and turmoil surrounding the trial are all discussed. Professor Sadat also helped to train Iraqi jurists.
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2nd Hussein Trial Defense Lawyer Slain
Los Angeles Times
Nov. 9,
2005 -- Gunmen killed a second defense lawyer in the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants on Tuesday, throwing the controversial proceedings into greater turmoil and casting new doubt on the credibility of the tribunal.
WUSTL law professor Leila Nadya Sadat, who helped train Iraqi jurists, comments.
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Remote control device 'controls' humans
USA Today
and 70 others
Oct. 26,
2005 -- Article on new Japanese remote-controlled technology called galvanic vestibular stimulation — essentially, electricity messes with the delicate nerves inside the ear that help maintain balance.
WUSTL Professor of Otolaryngology Timothy Hullar comments.
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