Category: Expert Pitch

MOSCOW (MIPT) — Following the Wednesday announcement of this year’s Nobel laureates in chemistry, we talked to Dmitry Semenenko, who heads the Energy Storage Lab at MIPT’s Institute of Arctic Technology. He is available to comment on lithium-ion batteries and…

Women’s voices ‘invisible’ thanks to social media gender bias

A new study shows that female academics have disproportionately fewer Twitter followers, likes and retweets than men, regardless of their professional rank or amount of activity on Twitter. Brooke Erin Duffy, professor of communication, studies the intersection of media, culture…

A storm of hype or a wind of hope? Russian climate expert comments on climate change

MOSCOW (MIPT) — Climate scientist Alexander Rodin from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology is available to comment on the global warming, the greenhouse effect, carbon capture and sequestration, and even the climates of Mars and other planets. He…

Turkey’s military aggression in Syria is as unlawful as Russia’s in Ukraine, Notre Dame expert says

Turkey continues its military operation in northeast Syria to control a major swath of Syrian territory, moving the Kurdish population far from its border, and Notre Dame Law School Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell, a renowned expert on international law, calls it lawless. “Turkey’s ground…

Rutgers Shellfish Expert Available to Discuss East Coast Oyster Breeding Project

New Brunswick, N.J. (Oct. 15, 2019) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick shellfish geneticist Ximing Guo is available to comment on a five-year Rutgers-led consortium project to breed better, more disease-resistant East Coast oysters. Improved oyster broodstock will then be made available…

Kids who specialize in a single sport more than 8 months in a year are more likely to get injured.

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Tracy Zaslow, MD, is the director of the Sports Concussion Program and medical director of the Sports Medicine Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Zaslow, a team physician for the L.A. Galaxy professional soccer team, understands the goals and…

Saint Joseph’s University Expert Available to Discuss What Makes Consumers Spend Money on Halloween Inspired Treats

Does it seem like holiday themed items and flavored food appear in retail stores earlier and earlier each year? That’s not an accident, according to Ernest Baskin, Ph.D., assistant professor of food marketing and an expert in consumer behavior and…

Expert available to discuss National Latinx AIDS Awareness (Oct. 15) — and alarming rise in Latino HIV cases and what can be done about it.

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New York University professor of social work Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is founding Director of The Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH), and specializes in minimizing sexual health risks, including HIV/AIDS, for adolescents and young adults in low-income communities. His…

Disaster research experts can comment on Los Angeles wildfires

Experts from the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center can provide tips and analysis about evacuations and response related to the wildfires raging in Los Angeles. Tricia Wachtendorf: Evacuation decision-making, disaster response and coordination, disaster relief (donations) and logistics, volunteer and emergent efforts, social vulnerability. James Kendra: Disaster response,…

@atscommunity members join #CDC to craft guidance on #vaping associated lung injury. Available for comment.

Carolyn Calfee, MD, is a professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine at UCSF Department of Medicine. Dr. Calfee was one of the ATS members who collaborated with the CDC on the clinical guide on…

@atscommunity members join #CDC to craft guidance on #vaping associated lung injury. Available for comment.

Don Hayes, Jr., MD, MS, MEd, is the medical director of the Advanced Lung Disease Program and the Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is a Professor of Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, and Surgery at The Ohio…

ATS Expert Resources: New CDC Clinical Guide on Vaping Lung Injury

Today, the CDC is expected to release new recommendations for evaluation and treatment of patients with suspected vaping-associated lung injury (VALI). The document — “Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Evaluating and Caring for Patients with Suspected E-cigarette Use, or Vaping, Associated Lung Injury — United States, October 2019” — was written in concert with national experts identified from professional medical societies, including the ATS.

New study found an increased risk of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes among women delivering after Hurricane Harvey made landfall.

Hector Mendez-Figueroa, MD, first and corresponding author, is available to talk about his research: New study found an increased risk of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes among women delivering after Hurricane Harvey made landfall. The study was just published in…

2019 brings best pumpkin crop, unique gourds

Steve Reiners, professor of horticulture at Cornell University and a New York state vegetable industry expert, says the 2019 season has some of the best quality pumpkins he’s ever seen. Bio: https://hort.cals.cornell.edu/people/stephen-reiners/ Reiners says: “The 2019 growing season started cool and…

Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss Democratic Debates

New Brunswick, N.J. (October 10, 2019) – Ross Baker, a distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and an expert on American politics, is available to comment before and after the Democratic debates next week. Baker is a…

Tech firms’ path to positive inroads in China ‘foggy at best’

CORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICEOct. 10, 2019 Tech firms’ path to positive inroads in China ‘foggy at best’ Following pressure from China, Apple decided to pull HKmap.live from the App Store. The app allowed users to track police presence in…

Virginia Tech’s Marc Edwards available to discuss new EPA standards for lead in water

Environmental Protection Agency plans to improve testing for lead in drinking water nationwide are long overdue, according to Marc Edwards, the Virginia Tech professor who helped expose the water crisis in Flint, Mich. and other cities. “One can hope that…

Russian astronomer comments on Nobel Prize in physics

MOSCOW (MIPT) — The discovery by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz was momentous in that they made it very clear how exoplanets may be sought using what is known as the radial velocity method, says Alexander Rodin from the Moscow Institute…

University of Redlands Environmental Economist Dr. Nicholas Reksten can speak on the economic and environmental impacts of the current wildfire threat and planned power outages.

University of Redlands Professor Dr. Nicholas Reksten is a nationally recognized environmental economist who can speak with authority on economic and environmental impacts of the current wildfire threat and planned power outages. Dr. Reksten joined the economic department at the…

Who Is Rescuing Whom? Dog Ownership and Cardiovascular Health

Dhruv S. Kazi, MD, MSc, MS, Associate Director of the Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, writes an accompanying editorial about two new reports showing an association of dog ownership with a better outcome after a major cardiovascular event.

Rush experts can comment on Neuroendocrine cancer, the rare and often aggressive cancer that took the life of Bernie Sanders’ daughter-in-law Rainè Riggs, 48.

Two leaders of the Rush University Medical Center’s Neuroendocrine Tumor Services team (Medical Oncologist Dr. Shikha Jain and Surgical Oncologist Dr. Sam Pappas) both have extensive experience treating –and explaining – this often under diagnosed cancer. Original post https://alertarticles.info

@UCSDMedSchool Expert Available on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

Kerri Boutelle, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine departments of Pediatrics, Family Medicine and Public Health and Psychiatry, is one of the leading experts in research focusing on the causes, characterization, prevention and treatment of childhood…

American Chemical Society’s president comments on award of 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

On behalf of the American Chemical Society (ACS), President Bonnie Charpentier, Ph.D., congratulates today’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Expert Available to Comment on Record High STD Rates

David Gondek, an associate professor of biology at Ithaca College, is available to comment on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s announcement that chlamydia, syphilis and gonorhhea rates in the U.S. rhave risen for the fifth consecutive year. Gondek’s research focus…

WashU Expert: Freedom of speech, the NBA and China

Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey recently tweeted in support of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, causing reaction from the NBA and from China.Following Morey’s tweet, NBA commissioner Adam Silver expressed support for Morey’s freedom of speech. But in response, China’s state broadcaster CCTV punished the NBA by canceling broadcasts of two preseason NBA games.

Many Republicans are criticizing Trump but it’s naive that we can remain forever at war, says Notre Dame’s Michael Desch

University of Notre Dame Professor Michael Desch, who directs the Notre Dame International Security Center, specializes in international relations, American foreign policy and defense and provided the following comments on Trump pulling troops out of Syria. Desch has worked on the staff of a…

Supreme Court to decide LGTBQ+ civil rights, ‘right to work’

The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on a series of cases that could expand protections against job discrimination on the basis of sex, codified by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to include sexual orientation and gender identity.…

@UMSociology expert Erin Cech: If the Supreme Court rules that discrimination did happen, it will effectively implement anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ workers in the US for the first time

Cech’s research examines cultural mechanisms of inequality reproduction–specifically, how inequality is reproduced through processes that are not overtly discriminatory or coercive, but rather those that are built into seemingly innocuous cultural beliefs and practices. “The passage of the U.S. Supreme…

Craig Konnoth, law professor, contributed to an amicus brief in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. EEOC and is available for media interviews.

Craig Konnoth, associate professor of law, contributed to an amicus brief in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The brief argues Aimee Stephens was improperly fired for not conforming to gender stereotypes. He is in Washington, D.C.…

Nobel Prize winners’ exoplanet discovery started a ‘remarkable era of discovery’

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to a Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved from the Big Bang and the discovery of the first known planet outside of…

Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss Rise of Religious Left in Election Season

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Cynthia Medina, [email protected], 848-445-1940 Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss Rise of Religious Left in Election Season New Brunswick, N.J. (Oct. 8, 2019) – Rutgers scholar Louis Benjamin Rolsky is available to discuss the reemergence of…

Notre Dame experts available to comment on 2020 Presidential Election

Notre Dame scholars are available to comment on issues related to race and representation, religion and politics, immigration, economy, media and democracy, and women and politics. For a list of available experts, visit https://news.nd.edu/our-experts/topic-2020-election/ Original post https://alertarticles.info

AIP Congratulates 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 8, 2019 — The 2019 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded today to James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz “for contributions to the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.” “AIP is delighted…

Rutgers Dean Available to Speak on FDA’s Approval of Second Drug to Prevent HIV

New Brunswick, NJ – Rutgers School of Public Health dean and expert on HIV/AIDS is available to comment on the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new drug, Descovy, for the prevention of HIV in men and transgender women.…

Data Breaches Threaten Healthcare Records, Texas State University Experts Available to Comment

Cybersecurity: Keeping Information Safe Newswise — Just read the daily headlines to find them — cybersecurity breaches of healthcare organizations both large and small. Even the popular medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy” turned to ransomware when choosing a storyline plucked from…

Kim Campbell, Alzheimer’s disease advocate and widow of music legend Glen Campbell, to keynote ANA2019 October 13

WHO: Kim Campbell, Alzheimer’s disease advocate and widow of Grammy Hall of Fame and Award-winning music legend Glen Campbell; and ANA President David Holtzman, MD, ANA President, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Washington University School…

Notre Dame’s Victoria Tin-bor Hui, native of Hong Kong & expert on contentious politics, available for comment on ongoing protests

University of Notre Dame Associate Professor Victoria Tin-bor Hui is a native of Hong Kong and an expert in contentious politics, particularly in the China-Hong Kong context. She can be reached via email at [email protected]. Notre Dame has an on-campus studio so we can easily arrange…

Extinction Rebellion elevates sense of global climate crisis

CORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE Oct. 7, 2019 Extinction Rebellion elevates sense of global climate crisis Environmental activists kicked off two weeks of protests on Monday in London, Berlin and other cities to demand that governments adopt a more radical…

Rutgers Expert Can Discuss Amber Guyger’s Controversial Hug

The gesture toward the former Dallas police officer sentenced to 10 years in prison for murdering a black man in his own apartment has sparked controversy over compassion in the courtroom. What are the limits? Who is on the receiving end? And why? Rutgers-Newark School of Criminal Justice Professor and former Chief Judge in Newark Municipal Court Victoria Pratt is available to offer perspective.

Columbus Day glorifies the enslavement of Native Americans and should be replaced by Indigenous Peoples’ Day