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Jan. 20, 2004
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowledgements:
Scott Jones, associate director of Marvin
Center Conference Events and Student Programs, was recognized by the Association
of College Unions International for outstanding service to the region,
for dedication and outstanding contributions to the profession and the
association at its regional conference in November.
Melvin P. Lader, professor of art history,
CCAS, organized and co-curated the exhibition “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
of Drawings,” the first major retrospective of the artist’s
drawings in over three decades, which opened Nov. 19 at the Whitney Museum
of American Art, NY. The show continues at the Whitney Museum through
Feb. 15.
Edward McCord, associate professor of history
and international affairs, ESIA, was invited to present “Prospects
for Democracy in China: Historical Perspectives” at the Asia Pacific
5 Summit on Democracy and Regional Security, organized by the Institute
for Taiwan Defense and Strategic Studies in Taipei, Taiwan, on Nov. 18.
Patrick McHugh, associate professor of management
science, SBPM, and Diane Bridge, doctoral student in management science,
SBPM, presented the paper “Mediation of Workplace Disputes: Disentangling
the Efficacy of Alternative Mediation Techniques” at the Southern
Management Association Conference.
Tim Miller, associate director, Student Activities
Center, and Anne Scammon, director of Student Employment and Experiential
Education, Career Center, presented “Building Successful Partnerships”
at the National Society of Experiential Education’s Annual Conference
in Minneapolis, MN, in October and at the Northeast Association of Student
Employment Administrators in Pittsburgh, PA.
Christina Puchalski, associate professor
of medicine and director of GWish, SMHS, served on a panel for the Heritage
Foundation debating whether or not prayer and religious faith are connected
to recovery from illness and better health.
Charlene Rivera, research professor and executive
director of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, GSEHD,
was selected as a 2003–04 Visiting Scholar in Education by the Wisconsin
Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Geralyn Schulz, associate professor of speech
and hearing and chair of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science,
CCAS, presented two invited lectures, “Parkinson’s Disease:
Evaluation and Diagnosis” and “Parkinson’s Disease: Treatment,”
to the fifth Congresso Internacional, Fortelaza, Brazil, Oct. 2 and 4.
Michael Stankosky, associate professor of
engineering management and systems engineering, SEAS, was recognized as
Academic Leader of the Year 2003 by the National Knowledge & Intellectual
Property Management Taskforce during its Fifth Annual Executive Briefing
in November. Stankosky also recently presented a paper on the knowledge-based
economy at Global Forum 2003 in Rome.
Charles Toftoy, associate professor of management
science, SBPM, presented two workshops, at the 18th Annual National Conference
of the United States Association for Entrepreneurship and Small Business
(USASBE), Jan. 15-18 in Dallas, TX. The two workshops were entitled, “Optimizing
The Use Of Student Teams to Assist Local Businesses,” and “The
Most Troublesome Small Business Issues: Interactive Discussion With Four
Small Business CEOs.”
Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, CCAS,
was an invited speaker at the National Institute for Standards and Technology
in Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 13. His talk at the Mass Spectrometry of Synthetic
Polymers Workshop entitled “Sample Morphology and Laser Pulse Length
Dependence of Ionization Processes and Internal Energy Transfer in UV-MALDI-MS”
reported on the work of three graduate students (Yong Chen, Guanghong
Luo and Ioan Marginean) and a student performing undergraduate research
(Louise Ye).
Christy Willis, director of Disability Support
Services, hosted a meeting on “Improving the Quality of Education
for Students with Disabilities: A Multi-State Collaborative Network of
Colleges and Universities.” She also coordinated a consortium conference
on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Appointments:
Eric H. Cline, assistant professor of classics
and archaeology, CCAS, was appointed to the executive committee, elected
to the nominating committee and voted interim chair of the committee on
the annual meeting and program at the annual meeting of the American Schools
of Oriental Research, held in Atlanta, GA, Nov. 19–23. Cline also
published a chapter entitled “Trade and Exchange in the Levant,”
in Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader; pp. 360–366, edited
by Suzanne Richard (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003). He also published
a review of D.W. Jones, “External Relations of Early Iron Age Crete,
1100-600 BC” (Philadelphia: The University Museum, 2000), in the
Journal of the American Oriental Society 123.1 (2003) pp. 189–191.
Publications:
David DeGrazia, associate professor of philosophy,
CCAS, published “Identity, Killing and the Boundaries of Our Existence,”
in Philosophy and Public Affairs, v. 31, n. 4, pp. 413–442;
and “Common Morality, Coherence, and the Principles of Biomedical
Ethics,” in Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, v. 13, n.
3, pp. 219–230.
William Frawley, professor of anthropology
and dean, CCAS, co-published with R.N. Smith (College of Computer Science,
Northeastern University) and John Murray (clinical psychotherapist, Boston)
“Semantics and Narrative in Therapeutic Discourse” in Narrative
Theory and the Cognitive Sciences, 2003, pp. 85–114, D. Herman,
ed. (Stanford: Stanford University/Center for the Study of Language and
Information).
James M. Goldgeier, associate professor of
political science, CCAS, published “Power and Purpose: US Policy
toward Russia after the Cold War,” co-authored with Stanford Professor
Michael McFaul (Brookings Institution, 2003).
Kim J. Hartswick, associate professor of
art history, CCAS, recently published “The Gardens of Sallust: A
Changing Landscape” (University of Texas Press, 2003).
Dennis W. Johnson, associate dean, GSPM,
published “The US Congress Responds to Online Communication Needs”
in the Journal of Political Marketing, v. 2, n. 3/4 (December 2003).
The work will be co-published in The World of E-Government (Haworth,
2003) edited by Gregory G. Curtin, Michael H. Sommer and Veronika Sommer.
Johnson also serves on the editorial board of a new publication, The
Journal of E-Government.
Leonard C. Maximon, research professor of
physics, CCAS, published “The Dilogrithm Function for Complex Argument”
in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A 459, 2807,
2003.
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