Jan. 18, 2005

Kudos!

Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of the GW faculty and staff

Acknowlegements:
Steven Balla, associate professor of political science, public policy and public administration, and international affairs, CCAS, presented “Between Commenting and Negotiation: The Contours of Public Participation in Agency Rulemaking” at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Balla was a discussant on the “Politics” panel at the conference “Welfare State Reform In The United States And The European Union: Policy Choices And The Constitution Of The New Welfare Society.”

Lori Brainard, assistant professor of public policy and public administration, CCAS, presented two invited talks at the University of Southern California’s School of Policy, Planning and Development. She presented “Lessons from an Internet Research Agenda” and gave a talk on “Citizen Organizing in Cyberspace.”

Jocelyne Brant, instructor in French, CCAS, and Christine Meloni, associate professor emeritus of English as a foreign language, CCAS, presented the paper “Collaborating in Cyberspace through International E-Mail Projects” at the annual convention of the American Association on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Chicago.

Rosslyn Kleeman, distinguished executive in residence, CCAS, led a panel on “The New Public Service” at the annual conference of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Melvin P. Lader, professor of art history, CCAS, presented the lecture “Arshile Gorky: The Case of an Unlikely Modernist,” Nov. 5 at the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia, Washington, DC. Lader also wrote, “Advancing Modernism in America: The Gorky Works in the Collection of Hans Burkhardt,” for a catalogue accompanying the exhibition “Arshile Gorky: The Early Years,” at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc.

Sylvia A. Marotta, professor of counseling, GSEHD, and Jenny Douglas-Vidas, doctoral student, presented at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Meeting in New Orleans, “Group Cohesion among Women with a History of Incest.”

Akbar Montaser, professor of chemistry, CCAS, presented an invited lecture “The Survival of the Weakest in Atomic Spectrometry” at the University of Cincinnati. Montaser; PhD students Kaveh Kahen, Kaveh Jorabchi, Cristina M. Nechita; and undergraduate Daniel Ernest Mittelberger presented four invited lectures and four poster papers at the 2004 Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies meeting, and Jorabchi received the Best Poster Award.

Anne Scammon, director of student employment and experiential education, GW Career Center, presented “All in One: Bringing Together the Work of Student Employment, Internships, Cooperative Education and Experiential Education” at the National Student Employment Association in Boston.

Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of accountancy, GWSB, participated in the “GAHRP — Generally Accepted Human Resources Principles” Symposium hosted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Singleton was recently named one of the Top 10 Annual Conference Speakers by SHRM between 2002–04.

Michael Worth, professor of nonprofit management, CCAS, presented a workshop on board development committees at the Association of Governing Board of Universities and Colleges annual meeting for private colleges and universities. Worth also presented “Fund Raising for Schools and Departments” to the chancellor, deans, and department chairs at Purdue University-Calumet.

Appointments:
Royce Hanson, research professor of public policy, SPPPA, was named the new director for the Center for Washington Area Studies. He is working on projects on urban sprawl, education reform, the civic engagement of business elites, and the ethics of political campaigns.

Awards:
Eric H. Cline, chair and associate professor of classics, CCAS, has been elected by the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America to receive the fifth Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award to “acknowledge and applaud the invaluable service [he has] given the archaeological community as an educator.”

Mark Feldstein, associate professor and director of journalism, SMPA, received an award for “outstanding faculty paper” from the American Journalism Historians Association, for the second consecutive year, for his paper, “A Muckraking Model: Cycles of Investigative Reporting in American History.” Feldstein also received the “Fritt Ord” (Free Speech) prize from University of Oslo’s Institute for Media & Communication and delivered an acceptance speech, “From Afghanistan to Iraq: The Failure of the Western Media During the War on Terrorism.”

Kaushik Ghosh, assistant professor of statistics, CCAS, received a National Institutes of Health Award of Merit for improving the methodology for prediction of current US and state cancer mortality counts. The award was jointly received with co-authors Eric J. Feuer and Ram C. Tiwari of the National Cancer Institute.

James Goldgeier, professor of political science and international affairs and director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, CCAS, was awarded the Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations published in 2003. The book, Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy Toward Russia After the Cold War, was co-authored with Micahel McFaul.

Charles Toftoy, associate professor of management science, GWSB, has been awarded The IBC Leading Educators of The World award for significant contributions to his field.

Publications:
Douglas Carroll, director of the Virginia Campus library and doctoral student in GW’s higher education program, GSEHD, published “The Librarian as Mentor in the Research Process” in Proceedings of the International Symposium of the Society of Research Administrators (SRA), October 2004. He previously co-authored “The Meeting of Education and Technology: A Critical Assessment of Distance Learning Strategies in the Higher Education and Library Learning Center Environments” with SRA members Archie Earl, Stephanie Gray, Andrew Young, and Edward Gabriele in the 2002 symposium.

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, CCAS, published “Four Poems in Paint,” four original ekphrastic poems (inspired by paintings and drawings), in Praesidium, v. 4, n. 4.

Martha Finnemore, professor of political science and international affairs, ESIA, published “Rules for the World.”

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, CCAS, co-published “Relatively Hyperimmune Relations on Structures,” with Sergei Goncharov, Julia Knight, and Charles McCoy, in Algebra and Logic, v. 43. She also presented the invited paper “Effectively and Relatively Effectively Categorical Structures,” at the meeting of the American Mathematical Society.

Carol Izumi, associate dean for clinical affairs, GWLS, published the chapter, “The Use of ADR in Criminal and Juvenile Delinquency Cases,” in The ADR Handbook for Judges published by the American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution.

Vikas Jain, adjunct professor for department of management science, GWSB, published “Understanding the Dynamics of IS Value Creation in an Inter-organizational Context” in International Journal of Computers, Systems, and Signals, v. 5, n. 1.

Davis L. C. Lee, associate professor of Chinese and international affairs, CCAS, ESIA, published Readings in Chinese Newspapers (2003–04), a textbook for advanced level Chinese language students.

Huynh-Nhu Lee, associate professor of psychology, CCAS, published “Identification of Risk for Onset of Major Depressive Episodes During Pregnancy and Postpartum,” with R.F. Muñoz, J. Soto, K. Delucchi, and Ippen C. Ghosh in the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, v. 26, n. 4, pp. 463–482.

Yuri Leving, visiting assistant professor for the department of German and Slavic literatures and languages, CCAS, published the book Train Station ‘Garage’ Hangar: Vladimir Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism. The book has been recently short-listed as the nominee for the Andrey Bely Prize, the oldest independent literary award in Russia.

Michael Matheson, visiting research professor of law, GWLS, published “ICJ Review of Security Council Decisions,” in The George Washington International Law Review, v. 36, p. 615.

Mirghani Mohamed, assistant director of Information Systems and Services, Michael Stankosky, associate professor of systems engineering, Institute for Knowledge Management, SEAS, and Arthur Murray, CEO, Telart Inc., published the article “Applying Knowledge Management Principles to Enhance Cross-Functional Team Performance,” in Journal of Knowledge Management.

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