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Monday, November 12, 2001
Dr. Alan Godlas' Islam Web site continues to attract international attention as people search the internet for a better understanding of Islam.
The Humbul Humanities Hub, one of the premier Web sites for Humanities computing in England, highly recommends Dr. Godlas' web site. In the review, the author writes "Adrift in a sea of polemics and postulation, the wonderful "Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic and Religion" web site holds a truly welcome presence on the Internet for its commitment to collecting and evaluating useful Internet resources on the Islamic faith. Maintained by Dr. Alan Godlas at the University of Georgia, these pages seek to provide a scholarly overview of Islam, and Islam related issues with the site divided into a series of categories that introduce the reader to an array of historical and contemporary discussions, but detailed enough to entice the most discerning of users... Those who wish to learn about Islam through electronic resources while remaining confident of the quality of material would do well to begin here."
Smith College, Power Reporting, and Der Wochentlich net Nite Newsletter has highlighted the web site as an invaluable resource and Wittenberg University 's online weekly newsletter states that "recent events have brought an increase of interest in Islam, its history and its place in the modern world. Acting Provost Ken Bladh suggested a source of information, a Web site maintained by Alan Godlas, an associate professor of religion at the University of Georgia." Wittenberg University, in Springfield, Ohio, is a nationally recognized college for the liberal arts and sciences and is distinguished by its strong interdisciplinary programs such as East Asian Studies and Russian Area Studies.
Friday, November 2, 2001
Newsweek magazine (Nov. 5) quotes UGA's Michael Doyle regarding food safety during the current terrorism crisis. Time magazine (Nov. 5) also quotes Doyle regarding the potential for food-borne pathogens as a terrorist tactic. He's also quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding plans to irradiate mail to kill anthrax, much as food and medical supplies already are irradiated.
The Athens Banner-Herald reports on training session for UGA personnel who handle mail.
Thursday, November 1, 2001
Time magazine (Nov. 5) quotes UGA's Michael Doyle regarding the potential for food-borne pathogens as a terrorist tactic. Doyle also is quoted in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding plans to irradiate mail to kill anthrax, much as food and medical supplies already are irradiated.
The CDC's associate director for bioterrorism response speaks at a UGA bioterrorism conference, saying many prior assumptions about anthrax use and response have been proven false over the past month, and government officials are learning as they go.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2001
A bioterrorism seminar at UGA on Wednesday will draw public health professionals from across the state to discuss casualty management and other previously unthinkable consequences of such attacks, reports the Athens Banner-Herald.
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
UGA's Corrie Brown is quoted in a Cleveland Plain Dealer report on farm precautions against bioterrorism risks. Mass contamination of crops or animals could be accomplished with chilling ease, she says.
UGA's Michael Doyle tells the Associated Press that consumers' best defense against such bioterrorism is common sense food-handling practices such as peeling, washing and properly cooking food.
A bioterrorism seminar at UGA on Wednesday will draw public health professionals from across the state to discuss casualty management and other previously unthinkable consequences of such attacks, reports the Athens Banner-Herald.
Alan Godlas' Islam web site is featured as a Chronicle of Higher Education "bookmark." A Cal State-Northridge profsessor is quoted as saying it is "far and away the best Web site for the study of Islam in North America." Godlas is a professor of religion at UGA. (subscription service)
Monday, October 29, 2001
Bill Shipp suggests UGA veterinary medicine professors might be helpful in understanding the anthrax scare.
Friday, October 26, 2001
Gary Bertsch, director of UGA's Center for International Trade and Security, is quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article on the United States' control of bioweapons.
UGA College of Veterinary Medicine pathologist Corrie Brown is quoted in the latest edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education about agricultural terrorism. Brown guesses that less than 1 percent of all veterinarians in the U.S. have ever seen a case of foot-and-mouth disease. (subscription service)
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
UGA Grady College of Journalism professor Conrad Fink discusses the press' access to information on the war on terrorism in an op-ed piece for the Athens Banner-Herald.
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
South Florida professor who visited UGA as a panelist on Islam six years ago is now leader of the Islamic Jihad. (Athens Banner-Herald)
UGA student Julene Ricks says her opposition to retaliatory bombing is not unpatriotic in today's "New Attitudes" op-ed in the Atlanta Journal- Constitution.
On Salon.com, Rumi translator (and retired UGA English professor) Coleman Barks discusses the bestselling poet who's loved equally among Yanks and Afghans.
Monday, October 22, 2001
South Florida professor who visited UGA as a panelist on Islam six years ago is now leader of the Islamic Jihad. (Athens Banner-Herald)
UGA student Julene Ricks says her opposition to retaliatory bombing is not unpatriotic in today's "New Attitudes" op-ed in the Atlanta Journal- Constitution.
Alan Godlas, a UGA professor of Islamic studies in the religion department, explains what a fatwa is for CNN's online special "War Against Terror: Understanding Islam".
Monday, October 16, 2001
Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion, a website developed by Alan Godlas, a UGA professor of Islamic studies in the religion department, was highlighted by the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper (online edition)
Florida professor who visited UGA as a panelist on Islam six years ago is now leader of the Islamic Jihad. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Sunday, October 15, 2001
Anupam Srivastava, a professor in UGA's Center for International Trade and Security, is quoted in today's Times of India. He says both the U.S. and India are in agreement on maintaining the current internal stability of Pakistan.
Loch Johnson, UGA professor of political science, is the author of"Intelligence under microscope," an article Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Johnson says the attacks of Sept. 11 represent the worst intelligence failure in U.S. history.
Seema Gahlaut, director of UGA's South Asia program, is quoted in Saturday's AJC. In the article, Gahlaut says the United States needs the support of both Pakistan and India.
UGA comparative literature professor Betty Jean Craige discusses patriotism in Columbia's The State. Craige is the author of "American Patriotism in a Global Society."
The Athens Banner-Herald looks at the study of Arabic at UGA and conducts a Q&A with Kenneth Honerkamp, professor of religion at UGA who spent many years in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Morocco.
Friday, October 12, 2001
Two Athens Banner-Herald letter writers question and criticize comments made by Han Park, director of the Center for the Study of Global Issues.
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
UGA is among the Wall Street Journal's "16 Colleges for a New Era." "Forget prestige. This fall, safety and economic worries have changed the conventional wisdom on applying to college," writes the WSJ. UGA is praised for its emphasis on Islamic student safety.
USA Today names Islam website by UGA's Alan Godlas as one of its "Hot Sites."
Betty Jean Craige, Director of UGA's Center for the Humanities and Arts, says in a letter to the editor of Newsweek that we should "take care to punish only those who have demonstrated their intent to harm us."
Morris News Services reports that University System of Georgia students will receive full refunds on their tuition and all mandatory university fees if called up for military service in the war on terrorism.
UGA's Han Park says the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan "will never work." In an Athens Banner-Herald article, Park says the strategy may meet a short-term goal of serving justice, but is not the way to eradicate international organized terrorism
Monday, October 8, 2001
Experts from UGA discuss the implications of yesterday's bombings of Taliban targets in Afghanistan. (Athens Banner-Herald)
UGA student Kevin Nealon is raising money for the disaster relief effort by selling T-shirts over the Internet. The junior from Dallas, Texas, says the attacks hit too close to home when his father was scheduled to attend a meeting at the World Trade Center the morning of Sept. 11. Nealon's father, who never made the meeting, is alive and well.
UGA psychology professor Adam Goodie is quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about last Wednesday's Greyhound bus attack in Tennessee. He says the succession of attacks the morning of Sept. 11 is a factor in how people are still reacting.
Thursday, October 4, 2001
UGA psychology professor Adam Goodie is quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about Wednesday's Greyhound bus attack in Tennessee. He says the succession of attacks the morning of Sept. 11 is a factor in how people are still reacting.
UGA Grady College of Journalism professor Conrad Fink says Afghanistan is beginning to sound eerily similar to Vietnam. Fink writes in Athens Banner-Herald that any war the U.S. is involved in needs to retain its focus so there will not be another Vietnam.
Wednesday, October 3, 2001
The Banner-Herald reports on a new student group at UGA, Students in Support of Our Troops.
Monday, October 1, 2001
Anupam Srivastava, executive director of UGA's India Initiative, says Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is in a very difficult situation. Srivastava, who also heads the South Asia Program at the Center for International Trade and Security at UGA, says Musharraf's siding with the U.S. has its risks as well as rewards.
A Q&A with Han Park, director of UGA's Center for the Study of Global Issues, in appeared in Sunday's Athens Banner-Herald.
UGA financial counselor Patrice Dollar says it's a bad idea to make a move in the stock market right now. She tells the New York Post that selling when the market is down is a guaranteed way to lose money. (subscription required for full text))
Georgia readies for war effort reports an Athens Banner-Herald article that quotes UGAs Gary Bertsch.
Friday, September 28, 2001
The Wall Street Journal quotes UGA's Loch Johnson on tools the intelligence community will need to deal with the terrorists. (Subscription service).
NPR’s “Morning Edition” today featured UGA political science professor Loch Johnson in a story on domestic intelligence gathering.
Jeff Humphreys, director of the Selig Center at UGA's Terry College of Business, is quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the effects of military call-ups on businesses.
Thursday, September 27, 2001
Two hundred people attended a panel discussion at the UGA main library on possible responses to the Sept. 11 attacks. Panelists included UGA professors Eve Trout-Powell (history) and Pete Brosius (anthropology) and Rich Rusk, son of the late Dean Rusk, professor of law at UGA.
Networks' attack coverage is good, but not "Peabody good," says Peabody Director Horace Newcomb, in a Morris News Service story. Conrad Fink, professor at UGA's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, says the coverage has shown TV at "its best and its worst."
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
The Washington Post quotes Robert E. Hoyt, professor of risk management and insurance at UGA's Terry College, in article on federal consideration of "terror insurance." Hoyt was also quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune and the Hartford Courant
UGA's Jeff Netter, professor of finance, is quoted extensively in Gwinnett Daily Post story on the uncertainty on Wall Street. Netter is also quoted in a Smartmoney.com article on corporate buy-back of stocks.
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
The Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Athens Banner-Herald report on a rally at UGA's Arch during the Tuesday lunch hour in support of a peaceful response to the terrorism of Sept. 11.
Additional security measures for Sanford Stadium are announced. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Amelia Maness Gilliland is featured in an AP story on the rise of military weddings as troops are deployed. Gilliland is a doctoral student in adult education at UGA's College of Education.
Monday, September 24, 2001
UGA history professor Douglas Northrop says Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world. (Athens-Banner Herald)
Igor Khripunov, UGA's associate director of the Center for International Trade and Security, says three Afghan neighbors have close ties with Russia and are not likely to oppose the Kremlin's direction for fear of losing economic or military assistance. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
John Murphy, a UGA speech communication professor, is quoted in Sunday's AJC about President Bush's address to the nation last Thursday night.
Friday, September 21, 2001
UGA’s Loch Johnson is quoted in coverage of President Bush's address to the nation in the Athens Banner-Herald.
Memorial candlelight service draws hundreds to Herty Field. (Athens Banner-Herald)
UGA's Marc Lipson quoted in Detroit News story on the new reality of the economy.
Coach Vince Dooley remembers the weekend of the Kennedy assassination, and its effect on collegiate football, in AJC column by Tony Barnhart.
Research by UGA's Carolyn Berdanier featured in Chronicle of Higher Education story on how diet may affect genes. (subscription service)
Thursday, September 20, 2001
Monitoring of international students and visa curbs are worrying college officials nationwide, reports the Athens Banner-Herald.
UGA Grady College professor Conrad Fink says in an Athens Banner-Herald op-ed that "our bombs and armor will be useless in a war against Afghanistan."
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
"AFTERSHOCK: COMING TO GRIPS WITH TERRORISM IN AMERICA": Forum Hosted by UGA's Department of Political Science and Center for International Trade and Security
Before a standing-room only crowd today, a group of UGA professors from the departments of philosophy and political science came together in the Chapel to discuss the events of Sept. 11 and issues surrounding the United States' response. "By thinking, talking, and working together, we can become stronger, promote understanding, and contribute to a safer and better world," said Gary K. Bertsch, forum moderator and director of UGA's Center for International Trade and Security.
Moderatoring the panel was Gary K. Bertsch, Director, Center for International Trade and Security and UGA Department of Political Science. Panelists were Jeffrey D. Berejikian, Political Science; Loch K. Johnson, Political Science; Alan Godlas, Religion; Scott A. Jones, Center for International Trade and Security; Han S. Park, Political Science and Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS); Carlo Pelanda, Political Science and GLOBIS.
Coverage in the Athens Banner-HeraldUGA's Marc Lipson, assistant professor of banking and finance in the Terry College, discusses investment strategies during the national crisis. (Athens Banner-Herald)
UGA alumnus Matthew Clapp (AB '98), writes of his harrowing escape from the World Trade Center last Tuesday.
Offering help to employees after extreme trauma should be a top priorty for companies that are rebuilding, says Ann Buchholtz, associate professor of management at the Terry College.
Monday, September 17, 2001
International students are wary at Georgia colleges, report the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Athens Banner-Herald, but Muslims take the lead in UGA's ecumenical service.
Offering help to employees after extreme trauma should be a top priorty for companies that are rebuilding, says Ann Buchholtz, associate professor of management at the Terry College.
Amos Zeichner, a professor of clinical psychology at UGA, is quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article on the state of pop culture and humor after last week's attacks.
UGA history professor James Cobb comments on whether Americans have the patience to see the war on terrorism to its end. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Friday, September 14, 2001
UGA's Rex Forehand says in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article, "You can't focus your entire parent-child relationship on this tragedy. You need a diversion."
Anupam Srivastava, executive director of the India Initiative and South Asia programs in UGA's Center for International Trade and Security, is quoted in an AJC article on Osama bin Laden and other terrorist groups..
Betty Jean Craige, director of UGA's Center for Humanities and Arts, was quoted in an Oregonian article on patriotism. "The flag hasn't changed. Love of our country hasn't changed. . . . What is changing is the recognition that we are an interconnected global society."
UGA memorial service brings religions together; Muslims join Presbyterians, Baptists, Jews and others in remembering the dead in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. (Athens Banner-Herald)
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