Researchers at the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center are available to discuss today's report by the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, "Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies." The report, which was delivered to the nation's 52 attorneys general in December, will be made public and presented today at the State of the Net conference in Washington, D.C.
Political Scientist Donald Beachler predicts business/labor battle in Congress over the Employee Free Choice Act. Satellite uplink available.
The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs offers online resources related to the American presidency that are an inauguration reporter's dream come true.
Barack Obama ran a spectacular presidential campaign, but how will he do when it comes to actually implementing public policy? Visiting professor Gilbert St. Clair of Southwestern University weighs in.
President-elect Obama's inauguration marks a transition and historic moment. America will reflect on the outgoing Bush Administration but will also look ahead. Numerous issues will demand immediate attention during Obama's critical, first weeks in office. Tufts University political experts have insight and perspective on Bush and also on the challenges that lie ahead for Obama.
If one had to pick a single word to describe the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, "historic" would definitely have to be the front-runner. The Inauguration offers a momentous first"”the swearing-in of the first African American president, Barack Obama.
Lisa Jackson, President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans, where she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.
Jana K. Lipman, an assistant professor of history at Tulane University, is the author of a revealing, in-depth history of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
America's struggle over competing visions of nationhood involving race is a giant step closer to resolution with Obama's inauguration, says historian Gary Gerstle. He's the author of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century, recently recommended on NPR as one of the best books for understanding the nation's new civic movement.
Change may be Obama's mantra, but one Texas Tech political scientist says don't expect the Roosevelt administration.
Americans' bad energy consumption habits are an epidemic. Founder of University of Delaware's Energy Institute suggests best way to curb the habits is taxation.
Ambassador (ret.) Carey Cavanaugh, who worked under Clinton and Bush, is available to discuss diplomacy under the Obama administration.
The following are GW experts available to discuss Presidential history, American politics, African-American history, first ladies, international affairs, terrorism, homeland security, and emergency preparedness.
Binghamton University professor David Louis Cingranelli is available to discuss the parallels between the Obama inauguration and the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933. Topics include rising political tensions, the economic crisis, and rampant anti-Americanism abroad.
Faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin are available to provide expert perspectives on presidential inaugural and transition issues, including policies, economics, and defense and foreign policy issues.
President-elect Barack Obama and a new Congress face challenges ranging from the economy to a tangled foreign policy picture in Europe and the Middle East. Experts at North Carolina State University can place these challenges in their proper context and offer insight into what we can expect from our nation's new leaders.
A new group of computer hackers began using the Gaza conflict and a fake cnn.com news site to infiltrate computers and steal passwords early this morning, according to Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The UAB Spam Data Mine, which collects millions of e-mails and analyzes them for emerging threats, began receiving e-mails concerning the conflict in Israel around 7:30 a.m.
As the fighting between Israel and Hamas continues today, the death toll has reached almost 600 in Gaza. About 10 Israeli soldiers and civilians have been killed. University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) political scientist Renato Corbetta, Ph.D., an expert in international conflict, is available for interviews before 12:30 p.m. and after 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, and Friday, Jan. 9, to discuss the conflict in the region and how third-party interventions are used to resolve international conflicts.
An American academic, who also formerly served in the Israel Defense Forces, is in Israel now and is prepared to address issues related to the situation in Gaza from both academic and practical perspectives.
While there were important steps taken in 2008 regarding the cooperative and effective use of outer space, the coming year presents both challenge and promise for the secure and sustainable use of space for the benefit of Earth and all its peoples.
Tipsheet on current conflict between Israel and Hamas, which has escalated to the bombing of Gaza.
In just a few months, five leaders of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime will go on trial before the U.N.-established war crimes Tribunal in Cambodia (known as the ECCC). Case Western Reserve University School of Law's globe-trotting professor Michael Scharf and two of his students recently traveled to Phnom Penh to help the ECCC prepare for the historic "Killing Fields Trials."
Earth and its inhabitants are besieged by environmental hazards and the projected impact from global climate change. To help counter the destructive nature of these hazards, powerful new tools are available, from using satellites to applying new analytical capabilities. A recent gathering of global experts explored how best to use these 21st century capabilities - and understand political and institutional barriers that must be overcome in the future.
Obama's choice of Warren to lead prayer not surprising, says Baylor University history/church-state studies professor; the decision to include Warren in inauguration is "natural exercise in tolerance."
People say they want a sustainable society. But are we ready to pay the price in sharply lower growth? Does the American Dream depend on our growth-based economic model, or can sustainability fit with our core cultural values? This excerpt from a recently published feature asks the harder question: not whether we can, but whether we want to.
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia has a repository of presidential tapes and transcripts featuring Nixon and Haldeman discussing Mark Felts.
Charles E. Walcott, Virginia Tech professor of political science, can provide background on the presidential transition process, presidential appointments, George W. Bush's legacy, and the organization and operation of the presidency.
A political scientist calls for a national policy on culture as legal evidence.
In November, California citizens passed Proposition 8 upholding the idea that marriage is defined as and limited to the union of one man with one woman. The vote has given encouragement to many in other states who want to pass similar legislation. The United States is about to enter a period of legal upheaval on the question of marriage in the civil law, suggest Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., adjunct professor of religious studies in Arts & Sciences. His proposal? Give marriage to the churches and let the state define civil unions.
The criminal justice system in New Orleans was in complete disarray following Hurricane Katrina, precipitating a constitutional crisis.
A lack of affordable housing for low income people in post-Katrina New Orleans has led to controversy over the decision to demolish several public housing complexes within the city. Stacy Seicshnaydre, William K. Christovich Associate Professor of Law at Tulane University School of Law and director of Tulane Law School's Civil Litigation Clinic, says New Orleans authorities have yet to produce a fair plan to address its dire housing needs.
The Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University in New Orleans works to keep alive stories of courage from the civil rights movement. The Institute, founded in 1993, is a nonprofit center dedicated to providing education and communications training for educators.
A nationwide human rights crisis lurks behind prison walls. Patients chained to beds shared Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 with insects and vermin. In the filthy, drafty rooms, contagious diseases spread like wildfire through the HIV+ population.
Torture and political imprisonment are on the rise in many other countries around the world and the United States is setting the example, says a new report by human rights experts at Binghamton University and the University of Memphis.
Online threats and attacks in the virtual realm often have real consequences in the flesh-and-blood world. Danielle Citron, JD, associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, says federal law must address this dangerous problem.
In a pioneering, interdisciplinary study combining law and neuroscience, researchers at Vanderbilt University peered inside people's minds to watch how the brain thinks about crime and punishment. When someone is accused of committing a crime, it is the responsibility of impartial third parties, generally jurors and judges, to determine if that person is guilty and, if so, how much he or she should be punished. But how does one's brain actually make these decisions? The researchers found that two distinct areas of the brain assess guilt and decide penalty.
The following GW experts are available to discuss India - Pakistan relations.
Two Northeastern University researchers have been chosen to lead a major component of a $1.9 million federal grant to study police officers' careers. Jack McDevitt, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Graduate and Research at Northeastern's College of Criminal Justice and director of the Institute on Race and Justice, and Amy Farrell, Ph.D., assistant professor for the College of Criminal Justice, will play a fundamental role in the National Police Platform Project.
More government involvement, subscription services and widespread education among solutions proposed by class of 10 Vanderbilt first-year college students "“ the group most targeted by the recording industry for prosecution for illegal downloading.
As President-elect Barack Obama continues to fill key cabinet positions from the ranks of Washington, D.C.-based public policy think tanks, a new book by longtime policy adviser Murray Weidenbaum examines how the nation's top think tanks came to play such critical roles in U.S. politics.
The new treasury secretary should expect a difficult year no matter what is done. The incoming secretary of energy has to cut through a lot of ignorance and wrong-thinking to get to solutions. And, the transportation secretary faces a country full of infrastructure issues. That's all according to professors at the University of Delaware.
In an article published this month in The Journal of Environment & Development, a team of public policy researchers - lead by University of Southern California professor Daniel Mazmanian - explores the factors that helped define California as a leader in the climate change arena. The study illuminates the rapidly changing dynamic in how "subnational actors," in this case the State of California, are influencing domestic and international policy.
A joint study outlines a new theory - "trustee theory" - to explain the relationship between elected officials and government bureaucracies. The authors explain how this theory can be applied to explaining the current economic crisis.
Terrorism expert from the University of Illinois at Chicago available to discuss the recent attacks in Mumbai.
Last week's seige on Mumbai represents not just a disturbing new development in terror tactics, but also a potential breakdown in regional stability that could have repercussions around the world, say international relations experts at the University of Indianapolis.
A new report flags the need for global decision-making to respond to the threat of Near Earth Objects. The findings of a two-year long effort are being briefed to officials within the United Nations, as well as leaders in various space agencies around the world.
Partners within the European Space Agency are moving forward on developing a Space Situational Awareness system - a step that could lead to an international civil system for global space traffic management.
The nature of the recent attacks in Mumbai suggests collaboration between internal dissidents and foreign intelligence agencies, says an international relations specialist at the University of Indianapolis.
Today (Nov. 26), terrorists conducted coordinated attacks in India's commercial capital, Mumbai, targeting at least two five-star hotels, the city's largest commuter train station, a historic movie theater and a hospital. Two experts at Indiana University are available now to offer perspective.
As the Iowa Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could clear the way for gay marriage in Iowa, a poll shows nearly sixty percent of voters in the state favor some type of legal recognition of same-sex relationships in Iowa. In the random, statewide poll of 586 voters, University of Iowa political scientists found that 28 percent of Iowans support same-sex marriage. Another 30 percent support civil unions, not gay marriage. About one in three oppose both.
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