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Week of Feb. 15

February 23, 2010

  • The Boston Globe, VPR, Newsday and other media ran a news brief Feb. 22 about the JAG/Solomon Amendment town hall meeting coming up on Feb. 24 on the VLS policy banning military recruiters from campus until the Pentagon allows openly gay men and women to serve in the armed forces.
  • The Missoulian interviewed Professor Craig Pease for a Feb. 21 story on the controversy surrounding the status of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies.
  • In a Feb. 19 story aired by 300 public radio stations nationwide, Public Radio International's Living on Earth interviewed Professor Pat Parenteau about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to deny endangered species status to the American pika, a small mammal that has been hard hit by climate change.
  • On Feb. 17-18, Professor Michael Dworkin spoke with the Associated Press, ABC-TV 22, the New Orleans Times-Picayne, Seven Days, WAMU-Radio, FOX-TV 44 and other media and Professor Cheryl Hanna talked to Seven Days and WAMC-Radio about the possibility of Entergy going to federal court to try to block a shutdown of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. The AP story was picked up by Forbes and many other media.
  • Mark Cooper and Adjunct Professor Peter Bradford were quoted in USA Today, Bloomberg News, Marketplace, Associated Press, The Washington Post, Market Watch, Diario Financiero (a Chilean daily newspaper), Der Tagesspiegel (a German daily newspaper), the Sydney Morning Herald (in Australia), FightingBob.com (an online opinion magazine), Mother Jones and other media on Feb. 16 and Feb. 17 about President Obama's announcement of $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors . Cooper is a senior research fellow for economic analysis at the VLS Institute for Energy and the Environment.
  • Professor Cheryl Hanna talked to The Brattleboro Reformer and Bennington Banner on Feb. 16 and the Burlington Free Press on Feb. 15 for stories about Vermont's campaign finance laws.
  • Associate Professor Michael McCann talked to The Christian Science Monitor for a Feb. 16 story about an NFL anti-trust case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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