As a practicing geriatrician and health policy expert, Dr. Richard Stefanacci recognizes the major components of healthcare reform that cannot wait any longer to be addressed, especially those negatively affecting older Americans and Medicare patients. Dr. Stefanacci identifies key issues and changes that can make healthcare reform a reality.
Government financial support that has bolstered this country's commercial news business since its colonial days is in sharp decline and is likely to fall further, according to a report released today by the University of Southern California’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. Because these cutbacks are occurring at the height of the digital revolution, they will have an especially powerful impact on a weakened news industry.
National Wildlife Federation applauds Obama State of the Union.
International experts have outlined steps to establish a global detection and warning network to deal with possible asteroid threats to Earth.
President Barack Obama is expected to focus on job creation, helping the middle class, fighting the deficit and health care reform in his State of the Union Address tonight, to begin at 9 p.m. E.T. Here are U.Va. experts in those fields.
The 2010 State of the Union address may be THE most important speech of President Barack Obama’s career. The reason is simple – his presidency hangs in the balance, says Dr. Martin J. Medhurst, co-director of www.PresidentialRhetoric.com and Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Baylor University in Texas.
To win back angry independent voters, U.S. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address on Wednesday, Jan. 27 needs to be long on details and short on rhetoric when it comes to health care reform and the economy, says University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Professor of Political Communications Larry Powell, Ph.D.
Most Americans leave homeland security efforts to government officials and emergency responders. Paul Andrews, adjunct professor for Saint Joseph's University’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Institute and a nationally recognized expert in homeland security, has a different view. He suggests individuals must do their own part in protecting our country.
Several American University professors are available for comment regarding President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union Address.
Kristin Smith, a family demographer with extensive knowledge of child care costs and women’s rising contributions to family incomes, is available to comment on President Obama’s State of the Union address.
With rising unemployment, debate swirling around plans to reform health care, and national security issues, the pressure is on President Obama to make certain his first State of the Union Address resonates with the American public and people around the world. Robert Lehrman, a professor at American University’s School of Communication is uniquely qualified to comment on this and other speeches by the President.
Coronary heart disease costs the health care system more than $475 billion annually. Cardiac rehabilitation programs, which teach heart attack and bypass patients how to make lifestyle changes including exercise and diet, yield measurable outcomes at a low cost, but lack appeal of flashy stents.
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn campaign spending limits for corporations “strikes a serious blow against efforts to stem the dominance of corporations in our political process,” says Gregory P. Magarian, J.D., constitutional and election law expert at Washington University in St. Louis. “The Court overruled a longstanding decision that had struck a sensible, carefully drawn balance between the self-interest of corporations and interests of integrity and fairness in the political process.“
Top judicial politics expert can discuss impact of U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on election laws, campaign financing.
Count on more political attack ads in 2010 after a Supreme Court ruling lifting the ban on corporation and labor donations, according to political scientist John Geer.
Experts can comment on various topics relating to politics, American presidential history, homeland security & terrorism and international affairs.
Trends, developments and an assessment of the status of space security is the focus of a special briefing on Thursday, January 21st at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C. The event is being held by the Secure World Foundation, the Space Security Index and the Embassy of Canada.
A new study offers a scathing critique of a U.S. immigration enforcement program that targets migrant workers. The report states that the program, Operation Streamline, violates the civil rights of defendants and diverts resources from fighting border violence: drug smuggling and human trafficking.
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti late Tuesday afternoon, causing widespread damage and many deaths and injuries. Indiana University experts comment on the quake and its likely aftermath.
An expert panel of librarians, library scientists, publishers, and university academic leaders today called on federal agencies that fund research to develop and implement policies that ensure free public access to the results of the research they fund “as soon as possible after those results have been published in a peer-reviewed journal.”
A University of Iowa free speech expert is available to discuss the Supreme Court decision expected this week in a case that could overturn limits on campaign spending by some organizations.
Indiana University will inaugurate its Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism this week. Alvin Rosenfeld, the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, founded and directs the new institute.
As the first State of the Union address approaches, University of Texas at Austin researchers are available to offer expertise on U.S. politics, the Obama administration and terrorism.
Like all Presidents, Barack Obama will use his State of the Union Address to tell the American people what is important to him, says Peter Siavelis, associate professor of political science at Wake Forest University and co-editor of the book “Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know.” Siavelis explains what it will mean if President Obama mentions immigration in his State of the Union speech.
“Liberals will be remembering that the President was elected on a mandate of change and a promise of bipartisanship,” says David Coates, professor of political science at Wake Forest University and the author of “A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Answers to Conservative Arguments.”
How much can the president influence the economy? Not as much as many people think, says Robert Whaples, chair and professor of economics at Wake Forest University. “It is important to realize that economic growth and unemployment trends are determined by the decisions and interactions of billions of individuals around the globe."
The attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day came at the worst time for President Obama and has reinvigorated debates about U.S. security, says Will Walldorf, assistant professor of political science at Wake Forest University.
Baylor University political scientist and professor Dr. Bradley Thayer is available as an expert to speak about terrorism and national security policy. His research centers on international politics, including international relations theory, grand strategy, nuclear deterrence and nuclear proliferation.
The overwhelming majority of Americans support action to limit carbon pollution and move the U.S. toward a clean energy future, according to a new poll released today by National Wildlife Federation.
As the debate over health reform continues, please remember that faculty members of The George Washington University (GW) Medical Center Department of Health Policy are available to comment on topics regarding health reform, including: general policy/political analysis, Medicare, Medicaid, compliance, community health centers, state health reform, affordability, finance, health technology information.
The third African Leadership Conference on Space Science and Technology for Sustainable Development was held earlier this month in Algiers. An outcome of the gathering was the signing of two regional space partnerships
NWF says Copenhagen Climate Talks show progress but ,ore needed.
The latest edition of The George Washington University Battleground Poll finds a majority of voters (56%) believing that the country is on the wrong track. Their top areas of concern are the economy and jobs, health care costs, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the federal budget deficit.
James Martin, who specializes in the study of infrastructure for increased resilience to natural or terrorist activities, advocates community-based leadership to minimize disasters. "Government must coordinate efforts but ... we need the transportation, water, power, and other industries to share the leadership."
Dr. James SoRelle, Baylor University professor of history, is available for interviews about King. SoRelle authored an entry about King for the Oxford Companion to Politics of the World.
The threat from orbital debris is a growing international concern. Experts from around the world are meeting this week to identify steps that can be taken to help reduce this menacing problem.
Statement from ASCE President, Blaine D. Leonard, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE.
Leading experts will discuss ways to improve survey design and data collection in developing economies when they meet Dec. 10-11 at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. for “Survey Design and Measurement in Development Economics,” a conference presented by the University of Chicago, the World Bank and Yale University.
Research parks’ role in job creation will be the focal point this Wednesday, December 9th as the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hears testimony on Senate Bill 583 Building A Stronger America Act.
Today the Environmental Protection Agency made final its determination that global warming pollution constitutes a public danger and is virtually certain to act boldly under its authority under the Clean Air Act. The news comes just as international climate talks begin in Copenhagen.
Obama Scheduling Change Boosts Momentum at Copenhagen
Finance professor's op-ed addresses the need for Social Security to be stabilized before healthcare reform takes place.
The images are indelible, from the president standing before a banner declaring "Mission Accomplished" to another president, years later, saluting flag-draped coffins. What stories do the media tell about war, and what stories haven't they told? A new book, The Pen and the Sword: Press, War and Terror in the 21st Century, by St. Lawrence University Professor of Government, Calvin F. Exoo, published by Sage Publications, takes a look.
A University of Arkansas law professor and national health policy expert says reform bills making their way through Congress will do little to control rising health care costs. “Like a football punted on the moon, U.S. health care spending’s upward trajectory shows no sign of reaching apogee,” says Rob Leflar, professor of law at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
Two Baylor University economists lay out a universal health care plan that does not create a government entitlement program or threaten in any way the insurance coverage or health care of Americans who currently have coverage.
Nearly a third of those ages 18 to 64 in Texas do not have health insurance.
As the debate over healthcare reform continues, please remember that faculty members of The George Washington University (GW) Medical Center are available to comment on topics regarding health insurance reform, including: general policy/political analysis, Medicare, Medicaid, compliance, community health centers, state health reform, affordability, finance, health technology information.
A space policy workshop held in Mexico City brought together space institutions in Latin American and Caribbean countries. They have agreed to identify common elements in their space policies to facilitate international cooperation.
Trio of experts in global conflict, counter-terrorism and dispute resolution available for perspective on Afghanistan situation.
More than one third of those who sexually abuse children are other juveniles, according to a new study from the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center.
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