School of Law Professor William Dunlap available to comment on new arrests in Boston bombings

Bill Dunlap, a professor in the Quinnipiac University School of Law, is available to comment on the arrests of the three new suspects who were arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing case.

A faculty member since 1983, Dunlap teaches constitutional, criminal, national security, counterterrorism and international law. He studied at the National Security Law Institute at the University of Virginia and the Parker School for Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School and the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. He is a former chair of the Section on Admiralty and Maritime Law and of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools. After law school, he practiced first amendment law and international commercial litigation and arbitration at the Coudert Brothers law firm in New York. Before law school, he was a newspaper editor and a public radio host and producer in New York. He frequently gives public lectures and advises the media on current legal issues.

To schedule an interview with Dunlap, please call John Morgan, associate vice president for public relations, at 203-206-4449 (cell).

Professor David Cadden offers insight into Yahoo’s decision to extend maternity and paternity benefits

David Cadden, a management professor in the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Department in the School of Business at Quinnipiac University, is available to comment on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to extend maternity and paternity benefits to employees. Yahoo is now offering female employees 16 weeks of paid maternity leave while new dads get eight weeks of paid leave.

“It is extremely gratifying to hear that Yahoo has decided to double the maternity and paternity leave time,” Cadden said. “CEO Mayer has recognized that employees aren’t singularly driven by just the paycheck. They look and are motivated by other benefits. These include the ability to raise a family. She had curtailed Yahoo’s employees’ ability to work at home which aided many of them in raising their family. While extremely generous by American standards, Yahoos’ policies for maternal and paternal would be merely average in the Northern European context. Such policies are critical in attracting and retaining technically competent individuals. For a period of time, Xerox Corporation had in many of its facilities on-site daycare for young children. CEO Mayer has a comparable capability for herself. She had a nursery built next to her office.”

To speak to Cadden, please call John Morgan, associate vice president for public relations at Quinnipiac, at 203-206-4449 (cell).

 

School of Medicine Professor Victoria Richards offers insight into FDA’s decision to lower age on Plan B pill

Victoria Richards, assistant professor of medical sciences in the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, is available to discuss the FDA’s decision to lower the age for buyers of the Plan B pill to 15.

“Levonorgestrel is referred to as the “morning after” pill because it can prevent pregnancy about three days after unprotected intercourse or in the event of the failure of another contraceptive,” Richards said. “Levonorgestrel is not an abortifacient, an agent that induces an abortion, which I think helps fuel the controversy.”

To speak to Richards, please call John Morgan, associate vice president for public relations, at 203-206-4449.

Founding Dean Dr. Bruce M. Koeppen testifies before U.S. Senate subcommittee

Dr. Bruce M. Koeppen, founding dean of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, will testify before a subcommittee hearing on Successful Primary Care Programs: Creating the Workforce We Need on Tuesday, April 23 at 10 a.m. in Room SD-430 at the Dirksen Building, Constitution Avenue and 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC.

Dr. Koeppen was invited by Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders and Ranking Member Richard Burr to testify about the new medical school, which admits its first class this fall and was created with the mission to train primary care physicians, foster collaborative, team-based care and serve as a national model of interprofessional health professions education.  Dr. Koeppen will discuss the growing shortage of primary care physicians and efforts to restructure the health care system to provide high quality, cost-effective and patient-centered care to successfully create the primary care workforce this country so desperately needs.

Dr. Koeppen’s testimony will address reasons for the primary care physician shortage and its extent; his efforts to change the traditional care model where physicians are viewed as the captain of the ship to something akin to a NASCAR pit crew, where highly efficient and effective teams, comprised of individuals with unique knowledge and expertise are all focused on a single goal-the patient; changes in the new medical school’s curriculum; programs such as the Teaching Health Center program in the Affordable Care Act, which allows Community Health Centers to establish residency programs to train physicians; and how an expansion of federally funded residence positions could encourage more people to enter primary care.

View a full copy of Dr. Koeppen’ s testimony.

View a live stream of the senate subcommittee hearing.

To interview Dr. Koeppen, email John Morgan at john.morgan@quinnipiac.edu or call 203-206-4449.

Professor Alexander Laskin available to offer insight in the Boston Marathon bombings investigation

Alexander Laskin, associate professor and director of graduate public relations in the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University, is available to offer insight in the Boston Marathon bombings investigation.

Officials said that the two suspects are of Chechen origin. Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim territory in southern Russia, is a long-disputed territory.

Laskin, who is originally from Moscow, is available to offer perspective about the Russian Federation, its political, ethnic and religious make-up.

“Russia is one of the most diverse countries in the world with almost 200 different nationalities living within its borders and practicing many different religions,” Laskin said. “Although most of the nationalities live peacefully, Russia has been exposed to violent clashes in its Caucasus region, especially in Chechnya, for the last 200 years. Unfortunately, this conflict intensified after the break-up of USSR.”

To speak with Laskin, please call John Morgan, associate vice president for public relations, at 203-206-4449.