London study-abroad faculty on TV12 tonight

The view from Prof. Nichols’ balcony at 13 Tavistock Place in London showing where police had cordoned off the street leading to the July 7 bus-bombing site.

12:29 p.m., July 11, 2005--Two University of Delaware faculty members who just returned from London with 27 students on a study-abroad program will be interviewed at 5:30 p.m., Monday, July 11, on Delaware Tonight, a local news and public affairs program on WHYY-TV12.

Ray Nichols, professor, and Bill Deering, assistant professor, both in the Department of Fine Arts and Visual Communications, were teaching visual communications in London from June 4-July 9. The students were staying about one block from the street where a bus was torn apart by a bomb blast on July 7.

"The sound, while loud, was somewhat muffled," Nichols noted in an e-mail after returning to Newark from London. "I walked out on the balcony and took a look, and, by this time, the roads were jammed with cars....I remember thinking that the sound was like you might imagine if two buses hit head-on."

Delaware Tonight is produced by WHYY-TV. The program, which airs from 5:30-6 p.m., Mondays-Fridays, from the WHYY Delaware Broadcast Center in Wilmington, provides the day's news from Delaware and the region, along with in-depth analysis.

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