April 15, 2003

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, CCAS, was a discussant on the panel, “The Complete Picture: Poetry and Painting in Late Ming China,” at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York City.

Bernard Demczuk, assistant vice president for government, corporate, and international affairs, presented the paper on Frederick Douglass entitled “Unknown in His Own Backyard?” at the Frederick Douglass conference at the University of Rochester, March 28.

Christine Meloni, associate professor of English as a foreign language, CCAS, and Margaret Gonglewski, associate professor of German, CCAS, presented a paper “Developing Writing Skills through Web Site Creation” at the 38th Annual Convention of International TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) in Baltimore, MD. Meloni also was invited to lead a discussion on “Creating Communicative Environments in Cyberspace” and to demonstrate, with Abigail Bartoshesky, research associate, GSEHD, their Web site “ESL Study Hall” at TESOL’s Internet Classics Fair.

J. Houston Miller, professor of chemistry, CCAS, presented “Cavity Enhanced Methods for the Detection of Trace Air Constitutes Using Continuous Wave Diode Lasers,” at a National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division seminar, March 11.

Charlene Rivera, research professor and executive director of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, GSEHD, addressed the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Academy of Sciences. Her invited presentation was entitled “State Assessment Policies for English Language Learners (ELLs), School Year 2000–01: Preliminary Findings.” The study will join two other complementary point-in-time analyses in “A National Review of State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners,” a volume to be edited by Rivera.

Appointments
Caren Goldberg, assistant professor of human resource management, SBPM, has been elected to the editorial board of Human Resource Management Journal.

Awards
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, professor of finance, SBPM, was honored with the best paper in investments award for “Dynamic Portfolio Optimization Under Tracking Error Constraints,” for the 2003 Eastern Finance Association meetings. 

Christopher L. Cahill, assistant professor of chemistry, CCAS, and graduate student Lauren Borkowski received full scholarships to attend the Joint Institute for Neutron Science workshop on Neutrons in Solid-State Chemistry and the Earth Sciences; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 11–15.

Cynthia Richardson-Crooks, director, Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, received the Public Service Award for outstanding efforts to increase the hiring of persons with disabilities from the Social Security Administration March 21, on behalf of GW’s EEOC Office, and the District of Columbia Business Leadership Network (DCBLN). The DCBLN, in which GW is the lead employer, is a business-led initiative that promotes the hiring of persons with disabilities by educating employers on the benefits they receive from hiring candidates with disabilities.

Publications
Christopher L. Cahill, assistant professor of chemistry, CCAS, recently published a review of “The Physics and Chemistry of Materials” by Joel I. Gersten and Frederick W. Smith, in the Journal of Chemical Education, 2003, V. 80, pp. 387–388. Cahill also co-wrote with S. V. Krivovichev and P. C. Burns, “A Novel Open Framework Uranyl Molybdate: Synthesis and Structure of (NH4)4[(UO2)5(MoO4)7](H2O)5,” in Inorganic Chemistry, 2003, V. 42, pp. 2459–2464.

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese and Columbian Professor, CCAS, published the article, “Kicking the Stone and Viewing the Icon: Realist Epistemology Between Heaven and Earth,” in Praesidium: a Journal of Literate and Literary Analysis, (Spring 2003), pp. 5–23.

Amitai Etzioni, University Professor and director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, will publish his memoirs entitled “My Brother’s Keeper: A Memoir and Message,” (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers). The book chronicles Etzioni’s journey from a commando in the Israeli War for Independence, to the White House, to academica as a social philosopher.

Caren Goldberg, assistant professor of human resource management, SBPM, published “Who Responds to Surveys: Assessing the Effects of Nonresponse on Cross-Sectional Dyadic Research,” in the current issue of Assessment.

Young-Key Kim-Renaud, professor of Korean language and culture and international affairs and chair of the East Asian languages literatures department, CCAS, published “Korean Linguistic Analyses in the United States,” in Korean Linguistics, the journal of the Association for Korean Linguistics, v. 18, February 2003, pp. 323–388.

Young Kwak, assistant professor of management science, SBPM, published “In Search of Innovative Techniques to Evaluate Pharmaceutical R&D Projects” in the April 2003 edition of Technovation, v. 23 (4), pp. 291–296.

Christine Meloni, associate professor of English as a foreign language, CCAS, published “Powdered Peas and Other Blessings: Growing Up in An Orphanage in Naples, Italy,” (Xlibris, 2003).

Ginger Smith, associate professor of tourism studies, SBPM, co-wrote with Barry Pitegoff the article “Measuring the ROI of Destination Welcome Centers: The Case of Florida” in the Journal of Tourism Economics. Smith also wrote the chapter “Tourism Economy: The Global Landscape,” for “The Seduction of Place” by C. Cartier and A. Lew.

Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, CCAS, founder and co-director of Institute for Proteomics Technology and Applications, published the book “Medieval Identity Machines” (University of Minnesota Press). Vertes recently was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for next year for his project “The Flow of Blood in Medieval Norwich.”


Kudos is a recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of the GW faculty and staff.