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Unrest in Russia
Russia views U.S. missile defense in Poland as antagonistic, says expert
Aug. 22,
2008 --
Russia's leaders and its population tend to view current developments in Poland through the lens of a basic Russian national narrative that focuses on Russia as a target of invasion by foreign enemies, claims James V. Wertsch, an expert on post-Soviet democracy movements at Washington University in St. Louis. Wertsch was interviewed on this subject and on the Georgia/Russian conflict recently on KMOX radio. The interview is available here.
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Networking, managing information for the military
Novel network is proposed for Department of Defense
Aug. 6,
2008 --
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| Image courtesy U.S. Army |
| WUSTL's Patrick Crowley is proposing a novel network for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to manage information better simultaneously in real-time. |
Patrick Crowley, a WUSTL computer architect, intends to design a new kind of network for the Department of Defense (DoD) to facilitate real-time information in the field so that every foot soldier, commander, tank and transport vehicle is networked. Crowley will use the WUSTL programmable network platform that can scale real-time information sharing over several orders of magnitude, from a handful of interconnected platforms to thousands and tens of thousands. He hopes to facilitate better information sharing in the military.
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Research!America
Samuel Stanley named global health research ambassador
July 11,
2007 --
Samuel Stanley, vice chancellor of research, has been named an Ambassador in Research!America's Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research. Stanley is now one of 50 of the nation's foremost global health experts who have joined forces to increase awareness about the critical need for greater U.S. public and private investment in research to improve global health.
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Hot off the press
Former Reagan economic advisor says current defense budget is much smaller than during other wars
April 3,
2006 --
Current levels of defense spending represent less than 5 percent of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP), says Murray Weidenbaum, the Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He says that the cost of today's war pales in comparison to military outlays of about 35 percent of GDP at the peak of World War II; 15 percent of GDP for the Korean War; 10 percent for Vietnam and 6 percent for the Gulf War. More...
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A world of promise
Chemist explores ways to make hydrogen a viable fuel
Nov. 2,
2005 --
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| Storing hydrogen is problematic. A WUSTL chemist and his colleagues are exploring different approaches to help make hydrogen fuel more practical. |
A chemist at Washington University in St. Louis hopes to find the right stuff to put the element hydrogen in a sticky situation. Lev Gelb is exploring several different ways to store hydrogen and prepares theoretical models of molecules that could enable storage and transport of hydrogen gas. One process would involve materials that hydrogen would stick to.
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Slow response to Katrina
Power of FEMA diluted by growing terrorism concerns, says government decision-making expert
Sept. 12,
2005 --
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The devastating conditions in the Gulf Coast have left many Americans asking, "Why did the government fail when Katrina hit?" "The answer to this question can be linked to the organizational changes that occurred in the federal government after September 11, 2001," says Nancy Staudt, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and expert on government decision-making. "At that time, the federal government began to worry about fragmented and uncoordinated relief efforts and sought to create a more streamlined approach to dealing with national disasters. FEMA was placed in a mammoth bureaucracy with less authority to respond to natural disasters; its power was diluted by the growing concerns for terrorism."
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New generation of hybrid filter
Device traps, UV zaps pathogens
June 8,
2005 -- A team of engineers from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Colorado at Boulder has removed bioaerosols - airborne biological particulate matter -- from the air of a hospital therapy pool using a new generation of hybrid filters. The bioaerosols identified in the unnamed Midwestern hospital pool had sickened nine lifeguards who had become ill with hypersensitivity pneumonitis, a lung condition that mimics pneumonia symptoms. This forced the pool to shut down. It is now reopened.
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Restoring scientific integrity in federal policy making
Prominent scientist Kurt Gottfried will speak on the need to restore scientific integrity in federal policy making for the Assembly Series
Feb. 1,
2005 -- Union of Concerned Scientists co-founder Kurt Gottfried will present evidence in support of their claim that the Bush administration has systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, biomedical research, nuclear weapons and other issues. His talk is at 11 a.m. on Feb. 9 in Graham Chapel.
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Biodefense grant
NIH awards $1.8 million to center for biodefense, emerging diseases research
Dec. 3,
2004 -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an additional $1.8 million to the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE), a multi-institutional research center anchored at WUSM.
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Future of civil liberties
David D. Cole, Georgetown law professor will discuss John Ashcroft and the future of civil liberties
Sept. 15,
2004 -- David D. Cole, professor of law at Georgetown University, author of numerous books on terrorism and civil liberties, and cooperating attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, will discuss "John Ashcroft's Paradigm of Prevention and the Future of Civil Liberties". After graduating from Yale Law School and clerking with the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Cole joined the Center for Constitutional Rights where he litigated several First Amendment cases, including the case that established protection allowing flag burning under the First Amendment. As a volunteer staff attorney for the Center, Cole continues to litigate First Amendment issues.
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