Dear reporters, The ten-year anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center is upon us. The American Thoracic Society has experts on hand to assist you with reporting on the health effects from exposure to the airborne pollutants released in the attacks. Please contact me, Keely Savoie, or Brian Kell should you need any additional information.
RPI Professor Jose Holguín-Veras is the leading international authority on the topic of humanitarian logistics and disaster donations. From 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake of 2010, and the Tohoku quake and resulting nuclear crisis of March 2011, Holguín-Veras has visited these sites shortly after the disaster to take careful inventory of the relief policies, procedures, preparations, and infrastructure in place.
Much has been made of so-called “flashbulb memory” — recollection of our surroundings and reactions during such events as 9/11, Pearl Harbor and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. At one point, researchers believed these to be photograph-like memories: detailed, vivid, accurate and unchanging. Not so, says a Baylor University professor of psychology and neuroscieince.
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) will host a panel discussion on Thursday, Sept. 8 with homeland security, law enforcement, public health, and weather officials to discuss the 10th anniversary of Sept.11 and lessons learned.
Without question we are safer today than we were ten years ago, according to Dr. Robert S. Fleming, professor of management at Rowan University and a nationally recognized authority on emergency preparedness.
Key differences in how Muslims were perceived before 9/11 in the United States and Western Europe played a key role in how much — or how little — attitudes of Muslims have changed there since 9/11, says John R. Bowen, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
After years of study, what has emerged is a disconcerting picture of major infrastructure systems that are highly dependent upon one another. Systems Engineering Expert Al Wallace sees this deep interdependency as a liability and threat to national security and the quality of life for U.S. citizens.
Increased incidence of gastroesophageal reflux symptoms (GERS) reported by a large population of 9/11 World Trade Center attack survivors, most of whom had not reported any GERD-related symptoms prior to 9/11, worsened the health-related quality life for many rescue and recovery workers, lower-Manhattan residents and local workers who were exposed to the dust cloud and other contaminants in the aftermath of 9/11, according to a study published online today online today in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
As deadly as the attacks on the World Trade Center were, thousands more could have perished if the towers had fallen immediately.
In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, research published in this week’s 9/11 Special Issue of The Lancet found that New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site were at least 19 percent more likely to develop cancer in the seven years following the disaster as their non-exposed colleagues and up to 10 percent more likely to develop cancer than a similar sample from the general population.
For journalists covering the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a round-up of University of California, San Diego experts.
Three experts at IGS were part of the 2001 Amerithrax investigation and can discuss biosecurity with anthrax and other bacterial pathogens.
As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center terrorist assault approaches, Anand Pandya, MD, a psychiatrist who worked with families and first responders in New York City immediately after the attack, is available to discuss the psychological effects on Ground Zero survivors, first responders and Americans in general.
A decade after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Saint Louis University bioterrorism export warms that we've become too complacent.
Throughout the month of September Temple Gallery at Temple University will be filled with a collection of recorded moments of silence expressed in commemoration of September 11, 2001. These silences , collected from the past ten years range from President Obama’s recent visit to Ground Zero following the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, to a woman’s private moment of silence recorded alone in her Missouri bedroom for the families whose loved ones died on September 11.
History will look at the 10 years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as a period of “breathtaking American ignorance” on the part of the nation’s leaders, offset by tremendous adaptability among U.S. military personnel, says Dr. John C. McManus.
Ethan Katz, a UC assistant professor of history, analyzes the domestic and international perceptions of the United States since 9/11.
Building skills in observation can aid the general public in spotting suspicious activity.
Elizabeth Frierson is a University of Cincinnati associate professor of history and former director of Middle Eastern Studies for the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). She has lived in the Middle East and is a published researcher on the history of politics, censorship, women and cities in the Middle East. She has served on the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Committees for Africa and the Middle East.
USC experts available to discuss aspects of 9/11 and U.S. response.
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