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March 16, 2004
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowledgements:
Yvonne Captain, associate professor of Spanish
and international affairs, CCAS/ESIA, recently conducted a series of lectures
related to “Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Multicultural Societies
in Guatemala — a Country Grappling with Issues of Inclusion for Its
Indigenous Mayan Majority.”
Akbar Montaser, Columbian Professor of Chemistry,
CCAS, recently presented three invited lectures: “Direct Sample Introduction
into Plasma Mass Spectrometry: Going for the Gold in Ultrasensitive Chemical
Analysis,” at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; “Fundamental
Nebulization Processes and Analyte Transport in High-Temperature Plasmas”
at the Department of Energy Contractor’s Meeting held in Annapolis,
MD; and “Direct vs. Indirect Nebulization in Atomic Emission and
Mass Spectrometry with Plasmas: Fundamentals and Practical Benefits and
Drawbacks” at the Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, DC.
Michael Peller, managing director, Marvin
Center and University Conferences, served as a judge for the Hotel Association
of Washington, DC, Stars of the Industry Awards. The awards go to individuals
and properties that epitomize the service and spirit of the industry through
employee and achievement categories.
Appointments:
Eric H. Cline, assistant professor of ancient
history and archaeology, CCAS, was appointed by the American School of
Oriental Research Board of Trustees as chair of the Committee on the Annual
Meeting and Program for its November meeting in Atlanta.
Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, CCAS,
was elected a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation.
Awards:
Christopher L. Cahill, assistant professor
of chemistry, CCAS, received a five-year, $570,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation to examine the “Design of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid
Lanthanide and Actinide Materials.”
Donald Dew, professor of counseling, GSEHD, received the Lifetime Distinguished
Leadership Award from the National Council of Rehabilitation Education
(NCRE) at the national conference in Tucson, AZ. The award was for his
contribution to NCRE and rehabilitation education.
Forrest Maltzman, associate professor of
political science, CCAS, received a grant from the National Science Foundation
for support of his project “Creating Cross-Institutional Preference
Measures: Methodological Improvements for Studying Constraints on the
Supreme Court.” The GW portion of the grant is $45,192.
Jean McLaughlin, assistant director of the
F. David Fowler Graduate Career Center, SB, received the 2004 Innovation
Award for her outstanding contributions to career development from The
American College Personnel Association (ACPA).
Charles Toftoy, associate professor of management
science, SB, won the GW-wide “Special Academic Programs” competition
for his proposed online course, “Contemporary Entrepreneurship,”
to be taught this summer.
Publications:
Lori A. Brainard, assistant professor of
public administration, SPPPA, published “Citizen Organizing in Cyberspace:
Illustrations from Health Care and Implications for Public Administrators”
in the December 2003 issue of American Review of Public Administration.
She co-authored with Jennifer Brinkerhoff,
assistant professor of public administration, SPPPA, “Digital Diasporas
and Human Rights: Strengthening National Governments” and “Globalization,
the Internet and the Voluntary Sector: The Emergence of Cyber-Grassroots
Organizations,” both published by the Center for the Study of Globalization
at GW. Brainard also presented “Cyber-Grassroots Organizations: From
Personal Fulfillment to the Greater Good?” at the Annual Meeting
of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary
Associations.
Jerome Danoff, associate professor in exercise
science, SPHHS, co-wrote “Fitness as a Determinant of the Oxygen
Uptake/ Work Rate Relationship in Healthy Children and Children with Inflammatory
Myopathy” in Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, v. 28,
n. 6, pp. 888–897, and “Evidence-based Rating of Upper-Extremity
Motor Function Tests Used for People Following a Stroke” in Journal
of Physical Therapy, v. 84, pp. 62–74.
Muhiuddin Haider, assistant professor of
global health, SPHHS, and Gary L. Kreps (National Institutes of Health)
published “Forty Years of Diffusion of Innovations: Utility and Value
in Public Health,” in Journal of Health Communication: 40 Years
of Diffusion of Innovations: Utility and Value in Public Health, February
2004, published in conjunction with Taylor & Francis and funded by
a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Chester Hartman, adjunct professor of sociology,
CCAS, co-authored “Evictions: The Hidden Housing Problem,” in
the Fannie Mae Foundation journal Housing Policy Debate, v. 14,
n. 4, with David Robinson of Legal Services of NYC.
James C. King, professor emeritus of German,
CCAS, co-authored “Notker latinus zu den kleineren Schriften (Notker
latinus to the smaller writings)” (Tuebingen, Germany, December 2003)
with Petrus W. Tax, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This is
the latest volume in the series Die Werke Notkers des Deutschen,
which began in 1972.
Catherine J. Ross, associate professor of
law, LS, published “The Tyranny of Time: Vulnerable Children, “Bad”
Mothers, and Statutory Deadlines in Parental Termination Proceedings,”
in Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law (Winter 2004).
Frederic R. Siegel, professor emeritus of
geochemistry, CCAS, co-authored “Geochimica Ambientale — Metalli
Potenzialmente Tossici,” with professors Benedetto DeVivo and Annamaria
Lima, University of Naples, in Liguori Editore, Naples, Italy,
p. 464.
Bing-Sheng Teng, assistant professor of strategic
management and public policy, SB, published “Collaborative Advantage
of Strategic Alliances: Value Creation in the Value Net” in the Journal
of General Management, v. 29, n. 2, pp. 1–22.
Ruth A. Wallace, professor emeritus of sociology,
CCAS, published the book “They Call Him Pastor: Married Men in Charge
of Catholic Parishes” (Paulist Press, Mahwah, JN, 2003).
Cathy Zeljak, director of the Eckles Library,
Mount Vernon Campus, and head, Slavic East European and Asian Reading
Room, Gelman Library, published the article “The Patriot Act”
in Problems of Post-Communism, v. 51, n.1, pp. 63–65.
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