ByGeorge!

Feb. 3, 2005

Kudos!

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


Acknowlegements:
Murli Gupta, professor of mathematics, CCAS, chaired two sessions on grid computing and pattern recognition at the International Conference on Computational and Information Sciences in Shanghai. Gupta also presented a research paper “A Streamfunction — Velocity Formulation for the Navier — Stokes Equations,” co-authored with Jiten Kalita.

Dawn Nunziato, associate professor of law, GWLS, presented her paper, “The Death of the Public Forum in Cyberspace,” at the University of Pennsylvania-Wharton-Temple Law School Legal Research Colloquium.

Appointments:
Joel Kuipers, professor of anthropology, CCAS, was elected president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. He will be president-elect for 2004–05; he will begin his two-year term 2005–07.

Vahid Motevalli, associate research professor of engineering, SEAS, and Cing-Dao (Steve) Kan, associate professor of engineering and applied science, SEAS, will co-direct the first project of The George Washington University Aviation Institute since it was recently designated as a partner in the Airworthiness Assurance Center of Excellence (AACE), by the FAA. The project is entitled “Explicit Finite Element Analysis of Uncontained Aircraft Engine Failure.” GW is one of 30 partners in the AACE. Motevalli also presented “Overview of Challenges in Civil Aviation Security” at the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Aviation Security Seminar for the Americas in Merida, Mexico.

Awards:
James M. Goldgeier, professor of political science and international affairs, CCAS, was awarded the 2004 Georgetown University Lepgold Book Prize for the best book on international relations published in 2003, for Power and Purpose: US Policy Toward Russia After the Cold War, co-authored with Micahel McFaul.

Ralph Steinhardt, professor of law and international affairs, GWLS, was recently nominated to be named a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

Publications:
Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection development librarian, Gelman Library, published a review of the book “Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film” by Joseph Cunneen in Film Quarterly, v. 58, n. 2 (Winter, 2004–05), pp. 62-63.

Cheryl Block, professor of law, GWLS, recently published Corporate Taxation: Examples & Explanations.

Paul Butler, professor of law, GWLS, published his essay, “Should Radicals Be Judges?” in the Hofstra Law Review symposium on judicial ethics. His essay, “An Ethos of Lying,” appeared in a symposium issue of the University of the District of Columbia Law Review devoted to the work of Monroe Freedman. The American Bar Assocation’s Litigation magazine featured Butler’s article “Jury Nullification in Black and White,” and in October, the Boston Globe published his review of Kevin Boyle’s Arc of Justice.

Arturo Carrillo, visiting associate professor of clinical law, GWLS, contributed entries on Peru and Fujimori for the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity published by Thomson Gale/Macmillan in November. Dinah Shelton, professor of law, GWLS, is the encyclopedia’s editor in chief. Carrillo’s paper, “Problems of Law and Race Relating to the Ethnic Haitian Minority in the Dominican Republic,” was published in October as part of the Latin American Studies Association’s 2004 Congress proceedings.

Steve Charnovitz, associate professor of law, GWLS, published “Using Framework Statutes to Facilitate US Treaty Making,” and “La jurisprudence de l’OMC,” in American Journal of International Law, October 2004. He also wrote the chapter “Recent Developments and Scholarship on WTO Enforcement Remedies” in Inter-Governmental Trade Dispute Settlement: Multilateral and Regional Approaches, a multi-author volume organized by the Inter-American Development Bank.

Jonathan Chaves, professor of chinese and Columbian Professor, CCAS, published the article “Boating Beneath the Red Cliff,” in the Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, v. XXXVI, n. 3, Winter 2004–05, pp. 18–23.

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, CCAS, co-published “Pi-1-1 Relations and Paths Through O” with Sergei Goncharov, Russian Academy of Sciences; Julia Knight, University of Notre Dame; and Richard Shore, Cornell University, in Journal of Symbolic Logic, v. 69, 2004, pp. 585–611. Harizanov also gave two invited lectures at Cornell University entitled “Intrinsically Sigma-0-Alpha Relations on Computable Structures” Nov. 30, and “Inductive Inference of Classes of Computably Enumerable Vector Spaces,” Dec. 1.

Susan McMenamin, associate director of Disability Support Services, published “Dual Motor Task Coordination in Children With and Without Learning Disabilities” in Adaptive Physical Activity Quarterly, v. 22, 21–38.

Natalie Milman, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and of education technology, GSEHD, co-authored The Digital Teaching Portfolio Workbook: Understanding the Digital Teaching Portfolio Process, with Clare R. Kilbane

Kathryn Newcomer, director of School of Public Policy and Public Administration, CCAS, published “Quali sono le conseguenze della misurazione delle performance e della rendicontazione sull'esercizio dell'accountability nell'amministrazione federale statunitense?” (“What are the effects of performance measurement and accountability report practices on federal administration in the United States?’) in Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione, v. 29. pp. 59–71.

Johan Rene van Dorp, associate professor in the engineering management and systems engineering management department, SEAS, recently co-published Beyond Beta, Other Continuous Distribution with Bounded Support and Applications, with Samuel Kotz, senior research scholar, SEAS. In addition van Dorp published “Statistical Dependence through Common Risk Factors: With Applications in Uncertainty Analysis,” in the European Journal of Operations Research. v. 161, n. 1, pp. 240–255.

Jonathan Siegel, professor of law, GWLS, published “Zone of Interests,” in the Georgetown Law Journal.

Gregory Squires, chair and professor of sociology and public policy and administration, CCAS, published, Why the Poor Pay More: How to Stop Predatory Lending (Praeger, 2004). Squires co-wrote the article, “Build Homes, Not Jails,” in Dollars and Sense, September/October 2004, with Charis Kubrin.


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