April 15, 2009 at 1:57 pm
From New Hampshire to Virginia, Thomas Kunz, biology professor and long-time expert on bats, searches for answers about White Nose Syndrome, the mysterious white fungus that continues to kill tens of thousands of bats. Like the disappearing honeybees and frogs, bats play a critical role in the balance of nature, consuming 50 to 100 percent […]
April 15, 2009 at 9:15 am
International Relations Professor Charles Stith, director of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center and a former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania, says in a Boston Globe op-ed that the Somali pirates’ incident was more than just a superb police action. It’s also a wake-up call for the U.S. to forge a comprehensive diplomatic and military […]
April 14, 2009 at 4:00 pm
School of Law Professor Tamar Frankel, an authority on securities law and legal ethics, says the SEC is in a tough spot reviewing whether bailed-out Bank of America broke the law by not disclosing to shareholders bonuses to executives at Merrill Lynch, which BofA had bought. She suggests three ways to enforce the law, which could […]
April 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Law Professor Susan Akram, a Pakistan-born authority on immigration and refugee law, says it’s incorrect to suggest the financial meltdown makes it impossible to justify legalizing undocumented people when citizens are facing job losses. President Obama, she says, is right to push for immigration reform now. “Hard evidence about U.S. immigration – both legal and […]
April 10, 2009 at 11:12 am
School of Management executive-in-residence Mark T. Williams, a former Federal Reserve bank examiner, says the Fed should be sharing more details with the public about the “stress-testing” being conducted on the nation’s 19 largest financial institutions. “It is understandable that the Fed needs to protect the confidential nature of test results. But how the tests […]
School of Management Professor Scott Stewart, an investment-management expert and former Fidelity funds manager, says the possibility of small investors being allowed to get in with the big hedge funds in investing in the banking bailout might be a disaster, but could work. “To provide access to the little guy, you’d want a mutual fund […]
April 8, 2009 at 11:41 am
Mass Communication Professor T. Barton Carter, an FCC expert, reflects on the commission’s long-awaited start today on a national broadband plan aimed at ensuring all consumers have access to fast and affordable services. “Universal broadband has been a major goal of the Obama administration from the beginning. It is viewed as essential in today’s society as […]
Law Professor Linda McClain, an authority on family law and policy, says Vermont’s legislature legalizing gay marriage marks an erosion of political resistance to same-sex unions – at least in that state. “One objection to the Massachusetts high court’s approach of ruling that the constitutional remedy for excluding gay men and lesbians from marriage was […]
April 7, 2009 at 12:06 pm
College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler, a Pulitizer winner and former executive editor of the Miami Herald, says the threat by the Associated Press to take on Web aggregators who distribute news stories without paying for them is misguided. “I think the AP and its newspaper members have more to lose than to gain from […]
Journalism Department Chairman Lou Ureneck, a former deputy editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, says it’s about time the Associated Press and its member papers took on the Web aggregators that use articles without legal permission. “This is long overdue. The newspapers seem to be taking their cue from book publishers, who recently settled with Google.” […]
