Feb. 4, 2004
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowledgements:
Martin Adelman, professor of law, and director
Intellectual Property Programs, LS, delivered the keynote lecture A
New Spin on Festo and its Ramifications, at a joint meeting of the
Oregon Patent Law Association and the Washington State Patent Law Association
in September. In October, he delivered the lecture The Economics
of Pharmaceutical Innovation in the Developed World, at the conference
on Intellectual Property and International Public Health, held at Georgetown
University. In November, Adelman delivered the lecture A Modern
Perspective on the Patent Infringement Cases Enforcing the Wright Brothers
Patent, at the Symposium on Patents & Innovations: Lessons from
the Wright Brothers, held at the University of Dayton School of Law.
Linda Lemasters, assistant professor of educational
administration, GSEHD, and Glen I. Earthman,
professor emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
presented The Long-Term Effect Upon and Contribution of Air-Conditioning
on Student Achievement at the 80th Annual Conference on Educational
Facility Planning in Chicago, IL. Sharon Dannels,
visiting professor of research methods, GSEHD, contributed to this project.
While at the CEFPI conference, Lemasters was honored with a distinguished
service award by the Council. Lemasters and two doctoral students, Jarred
Cotton and Cassandra Barksdale, presented Teachers Are Staying in
the Classroom: How Do We Fill Principal Vacancies? at the Phi Delta
Kappa International 2003 Conference and Exhibition in St. Louis, MO. Lemasters
also co-authored with Earthman School Maintenance & Renovation:
Administrator Policies, Practices & Economics (Pro-Active Publications,
Lancaster, PA).
Christine Meloni, senior research associate,
National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC), GSEHD, and Abigail
Bartoshesky, research associate, NCLRC, GSEHD, presented the paper
Cyber Resources: Accessing and Using Web-Based Target Language Materials
at the annual national convention of the American Council on The Teaching
of Foreign Languages in Philadelphia, PA.
Sherry Molock, associate professor of psychology,
CCAS, presented Cultural Aspects of Suicidality with Black Teens
at the American Association of Suicidology conference in Santa Fe, NM.
Molock also presented the invited paper The Role of Culture in Community-based
Suicide Interventions: Utility of Public Service Announcements to
the Science of Public Messages for Suicide Prevention Conference in Washington,
DC.
Akbar Montaser, professor of chemistry, CCAS,
presented the invited lecture Fundamental Nebulization Processes
and Analyte Transport at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry
held in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 110. Montasers students Kaveh
Kahen, Kaveh Jorabchi and Jonathan Levine won the Best Poster Prize at
the conference for their poster session entitled, Direct Droplet
Imaging for Two-dimensional Aerosol Characterization in Inductively Coupled
Plasmas.
Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of
acountancy, SBPM, discussed current issues in accounting and their potential
impact on legal professionals at a meeting of the Womens Bar Association
of the District of Columbia, Jan. 15, in Washington, DC.
Marisa Tjerandsen, coordinator of student
involvement, Student Activities Center, will present A Whole New
World Wide Web for Student Organizations at the April 15 convention
of the American College Personnel Association.
Awards:
Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology,
international affairs and human sciences, CCAS, and Valentina
Harizanov, associate professor of mathematics, CCAS, were named
Columbian Research Fellows for academic year 200405. While on fellowship,
Grinker will complete his book, One in Three Hundred: an Atlas of
Autism. Harizanov will complete her book, Computable Model
Theory.
Susan Jones, professor of clinical law, LS,
was named the 200304 Haywood Burns Visiting Chair in Civil Rights
at City University of New York Law School at Queens College. She is the
first clinician and the first woman to hold this post.
Peter Smith, associate professor of law,
LS, won honorable mention in the AALS Call for Scholarly Papers for The
Sources of Federalism: Federalists, Anti-Federalists and the Courts
Quest for Original Meaning.
Publications:
Naomi Cahn, professor of law, LS, published
Battered Women, Child Maltreatment, Prison and Poverty: Issues for
Theory and Practice, as part of the American University Journal
of Gender, Social Policy & the Law symposium issue on domestic violence
(2003), Perfect Substitutes or the Real Thing? in Duke
Law Journal, v. 52, pp.1077 (2003) and Parenthood, Genes, and
Gametes: The Family Law and Trusts and Estates Perspectives, as
part of a symposium at University of Memphis Law Review, v. 32, pp. 563
(2002).
Peter Konwerski, executive director for administrative
partnerships and assistant to the senior vice president, SASS, recently
published College Union Security Two Years after September 11: A
Case Study, in The Bulletin, the magazine of the Association
of College Unions, International, November 2003, v. 171, n. 6.
Bernard Mergen, professor of American studies,
CCAS, published Children and Nature in History, in Environmental
History, v. 8, n. 4, pp. 643669.
Elaine Murphy, adjunct professor of global
health, SPHHS, published the article Being Born Female is Dangerous
to Your Health, in American Psychologist. March 2003.
Mary Faith Pankin, cataloging librarian,
Gelman Library System, published A Second Great-Grandfather Discovered
in Manuscripts, v. LV, n. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 313323.
Yaron Peleg, assistant professor of Hebrew,
CCAS, published the book Derech Gever, Homoeroticism in Hebrew Literature,
18802000 (Shufra Publishing, Tel-Aviv, 2003).
Joan Roddy Regnell, associate professor of
speech and hearing, CCAS, co-published Incidence of Supraglottic
Activity in Males and Females: A Preliminary Report in the Journal
of Voice, v. 17, n. 3, pp. 395-402, with Sheila V. Stager (Voice Treatment
Center), Rebecca Neubert (University of Virginia Medical Center), Susan
Miller (Voice Treatment Center), and Steven A Bielamowicz (Voice Treatment
Center).
Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, CCAS,
and graduate student Yong Chen co-wrote Pumping Rate and Surface
Morphology Dependence of Ionization Processes in Matrix-Assisted Laser
Desorption Ionization, in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Vertes, along with colleagues from the University of Antwerp in Belgium,
also recently published the results from a benchmark study on modeling
laser ablation, entitled Laser Ablation for Analytical Sampling:
What Can We Learn from Modeling? Spectrochim, Acta B, v.
58, pp. 18671893.
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