April 5, 2005

Kudos!

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

Acknowlegements:
Elizabeth Chacko, associate professor of geography and international affairs, CCAS, was among 20 invited speakers at the Russell Sage Conference “Immigration to the United States: New Sources and Destinations” held in New York City, Feb. 3-4. Chacko presented her paper “Making it in America: The Role of Ethiopian Ethnic Institutions in Immigrant Adjustment and Community Building in the Washington Metropolitan Area.”

Kavita Daiya, assistant professor of English, CCAS, presented “Postcoloniality, Migration and the Global City in Queer British Cinema,” at the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University on Feb. 10.

Murli Gupta, professor of mathematics, CCAS, attended the seventh annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, Feb. 4–6, and presented “Ten Years of Running Summer Programs for Women at The George Washington University.”

Awards:
Paul Churchill, professor of philosophy, CCAS, was the critical commentator on a panel, “Author Meets Critics,” for the book, A Just Society, at the American Philosophical Association. Churchill was elected president of Concerned Philosphers for Peace for 2004–06. He presented the Presidential Address “Globalization and Terror” Oct. 30, at the 17th Annual Meeting at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Geralyn M. Schulz, associate professor and chair, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, CCAS, received a GW Institute for Biomedical Engineering 2005 IBE Interdisciplinary Research Fund grant for her project, “Translation of 3-D Articulatory Signals Acquired by Electromagnetic Articulography to On-Line Visual Display of Lingual Movements for Biofeedback.” Schulz also co-published with M. Greer and W. Friedman, “The Effects of Pallidotomy Surgery on Sentence Rate Measures Across Three Tasks in Parkinson’s Patients,” in the Journal of Medical Speech Language Pathology, v. 12, pp. 195–205.

Pat Schwallie-Giddis, assistant professor and director of graduate programs, counseling/human and organizational studies, GSEHD, received the “Outstanding Service Award” from the Guidance Division of the American Association of Career and Technical Education at its annual conference held in Las Vegas, NV. She was cited for her tireless work on legislation to fund career guidance through the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act and her work with the National Guidelines for Career Development.

Publications:
Sudip Bose, associate professor of statistics, CCAS, published “On the Robustness of the Predictive Distribution for Sampling from Finite Populations,” in Statistics and Probability Letters, v. 69, 2004, pp. 21–27.

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, ESIA, published “Digital Diasporas and International Development: Afghan-Americans and the Reconstruction of Afghanistan,” in Public Administration and Development, v. 24, n. 5, pp. 397–413.

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese and Columbian Professor, published “Four Poems in Paint,” in Praesidium: A Journal of Literate and Literary Analysis, Fall 2004, pp. 48-51. Chaves also presented the lecture, “Kodojin: Poet and Painter of Japan” to the Library of Congress Asian Friends Society.

Maurice A. East, professor of international affairs and political science, ESIA, published Diplomacy and Developing Nations: Post-Cold War Foreign Policy Making Structures and Processes, co-edited with Justin Robertson. East also published “Educating for 21st Century International Affairs” in The State Education Standard, v. 6, n. 1, pp. 32–35.

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, CCAS, co-published “Dependence Relations in Computably Rigid Computable Vector Spaces,” with Rumen Dimitrov and Andrei Morozov, in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, v. 132, February 2005, pp. 97–108.

Carol Hoare, professor of human development and HRD, GSEHD, published two articles. “Erikson’s General and Adult Developmental Revisions of Freudian Thought: ‘Outward, Forward, Upward’” appeared in the January 2005 edition of the Journal of Adult Development. “Impact of a Career Intervention on At-Risk Middle School Students’ Career Maturity Levels, Academic Achievement, and Self Esteem,” co-authored by Harry Legum, appeared in the December 2004 edition of Professional School Counseling.

Macabe Keliher, doctoral student in Chinese history, CCAS, published his second book, Small Sea Travel Diaries: Yu Yonghe’s Records of Taiwan.
Eran Lupu, adjunct assistant professor of classics, CCAS, published Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (Brill Academic Publishers, December 2004).

Rajat Mittal, associate professor of engineering and applied science, SEAS, authored a review paper titled “Immersed Boundary Methods,” which appeared in January 2005 edition of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. Mittal also presented the paper “A Numerical Study of Resonant Interaction in a Canonical Separated Flow” at the 43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibition.

Tjai M. Nielsen, assistant professor of management science, GWSB, published two journal articles recently. “Group Personality Composition and Performance in Military Service Teams,” appeared in the Journal of Military Psychology, co-authored with Terry Halfhill (Penn State, New Kensington), Eric Sundstrom (University of Tennessee), and Adam Weilbaecher (Impact Associates). “Group Personality Composition and Group Effectiveness: An Integrative Review of Empirical Research,” co-authored with Terry Halfhill (Penn State, New Kensington), Eric Sundstrom (University of Tennessee), Jessica Lahner (University of North Texas), and Wilma Calderone (University of North Texas) appeared in Small Group Research.

Steve Schooner, associate professor of law and co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program, GWLS, published “Mismanaged Competition,” in the May 15 issue of Government Executive magazine. Schooner’s article, “The Paper Tiger Stirs: Rethinking Suspension and Debarment,” introduced was published in the UK-based Public Procurement Law Review.

Richard Soland, professor of operations research, SEAS, co-authored “Attrition Through a Partially Coordinated Area Defense” with Dhaifalla Al-Mutairi, University of Kuwait, in Naval Research Logistics, v. 52, 2005, pp. 74–81.

Daniel Solove, associate professor of law, GWLS, published, “The Virtues of Knowing Less: Justifying Privacy Protections Against Disclosure,” in the Duke Law Journal, v. 53, p. 697. His article “Reconstructing Electronic Surveillance Law,” will appear in The George Washington University Law Review as part of a symposium on surveillance law after Sept. 11, 2001. Solove also completed an extensive supplement to his casebook, Information Privacy Law, and his new book, The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age, (NYU Press, 2004).

Hildy Teegen, associate professor of international business, GWSB, co-authored “The Importance of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) in Global Governance and Value Creation: An International Business Research Agenda” with Jonathan P. Doh (Villanova University) and Sushil Vachani (Boston University), in the Journal of International Business Studies.

Branimir Vojcic, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, SEAS, co-published the book The cdma2000 System for Mobile Communications (Prentice Hall, 2004) with Vieri Vanghi and Aleksander Damnjanovic, alumni of SEAS.

Sergio Waisman, assistant professor of Spanish, published his first novel titled Leaving (Oakland: InteliBooks, 2004). He also published the article “Minas Creadoras, Sitios de Resistencia: Ricardo Piglia y la Traducci” in Ricardo Piglia: Una Poética sin Límites (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004).

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