Richmond in the national media
Cornelius Beausang, associate professor of physics, was quoted in a USA Today article on using high tech to detect improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
University President Bill Cooper's letter to the editor about college tuitions and the economy appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. He also commented about college administrators sending their children to college for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Akiba Covitz, assistant professor of political science, co-wrote an article for The New Republic Online about appointing former politicians, instead of former judges, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Walter Green III, associate professor of emergency services, commented on emergency planning in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Craig Kinsley, professor of psychology, commented on gender issues for Associated Press Online and Associated Press Worldstream. His comments on Israel keeping its wall appeared in Philadelphia Daily News.
Rick Mayes, associate professor of public policy, commented for The Providence Journal about universal health care, saying that with Iraq, terrorism and Hurricane Katrina preoccupying the nation, health care is on a back burner. He predicts that will change as health care costs continue to soar.
Rod Smolla, dean of the School of Law, was quoted in a USA Today article on the banning of "Yankees Suck" T-shirts at Boston Red Sox games. He commented for The New York Times on how John Roberts might rule on libel.
Carl Tobias, professor of law, was quoted about the second U.S. Supreme Court vacancy in the San Francisco Chronicle and the (London) Globe and Mail; the Harriet Miers nomination in The Christian Science Monitor, Las Vegas Sun, Hartford Courant and Las Vegas Review Journal;, the pipeline from the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. to the Supreme Court and the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri in the Los Angeles Times; the trial of Australian David Hicks in The Miami Herald; intelligent design in Philadelphia Inquirer; and the Merck/Vioxx litigation on Forbes.com. His commentary on the role of the chief justice appeared in National Law Journal.
The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post and other major newspapers around the country ran reviews of the new ABC-TV program, Commander in Chief, which mentioned University of Richmond as part of the plot line in the pilot episode.
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