{"id":71140,"date":"2001-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-experts-available-for-terrorism-follow-up-stories\/"},"modified":"2001-10-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-01T00:00:00","slug":"uri-experts-available-for-terrorism-follow-up-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2001\/10\/uri-experts-available-for-terrorism-follow-up-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"URI experts available for terrorism follow-up stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; October 1, 2001 &#8212; The following University of Rhode Island faculty and staff members are available to provide insight on a variety of topics related to the ongoing activities following the September 11 terrorist attacks. To reach any of these experts, please call the University of Rhode Island News Bureau at 401-874-2116.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nTerrorism and national security \u2013 Marc Genest, associate professor of political science, is the author of Conflict and Cooperation: Evolving Theories of International Relations and taught American Foreign Policy and International Relations to naval personnel deployed in the South Pacific and Far East.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nBiological warfare \u2013 Wilfred Nelson, professor of chemistry, has worked with the military and served as a consultant on biological warfare.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nExplosives and forensic science \u2013 Jimmie Oxley, associate professor of chemistry, collaborated with the FBI on simulations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nPost-traumatic stress \u2013 James Campbell, director of the URI Counseling Center, has been to the site of the World Trade Center attacks twice to counsel victims and has studied the psychological effects of being held hostage&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nStock market impact \u2013 Henry Oppenheimer, associate professor of finance, is an expert on financial markets and investing.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nEconomic impact \u2013 Leonard Lardaro, professor of economics, compiles the Current Conditions Index and Job Improvement Index, which are respected indicators of the present state of the Rhode Island economy.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nGrief and bereavement \u2013 Eugene Knott, associate professor of human development and family studies, is the former director of the URI Counseling Center and the author of a respected book about death and dying, Thanatopics.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nMuslims\/Islam \u2013 Mohammed Sharif, professor of economics, is a local spokesman in the Muslim community.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nCrime investigations \u2013 Dennis Hilliard is director of the Rhode Island State Crime Lab, located at the University of Rhode Island.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nPeace and nonviolence \u2013 Bernard Lafayette, distinguished scholar in residence and director of the URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, was a close colleague of Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights Era.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; October 1, 2001 &#8212; The following University of Rhode Island faculty and staff members are available to provide insight on a variety of topics related to the ongoing activities following the September 11 terrorist attacks. To reach any of these experts, please call the University of Rhode Island News Bureau at 401-874-2116.&#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}