May 15, 2003

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Reba Carruth, assistant professor of business and public policy and international affairs, SBPM, presented “Transatlantic, Trilateral and Global Industry Standards Convergence” to the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) in Pretoria. During the meeting, the implications of the pending US-South African free trade area were discussed relative to the leadership role of SABS in the African region. Carruth also presented “Transatlantic and Trilateral Regulatory Harmonization and Industry Standards Convergence: 21st Century Implications for Global Market Integration and the SADC Region” to the Southern African Development Cooperation at a regional standards meeting. Both presentations were made in April.

Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of accountancy, SBPM, presented “The New US Rules Regarding Business Combinations and Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets: Some Evidence of the Effects After the First Year of Compliance,” at the 26th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, April 3, Seville, Spain.

John Ziolkowski, professor of classics, CCAS, has been selected as one of 15 participants in the 2003 Seminar for College and University Teachers entitled “St. Francis of Assisi and the 13th Century,” sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The six-week seminar, directed by William R. Cook, department of history, the State University of New York at Geneseo, will be based in Siena, Rome, and Assisi beginning June 30.

Awards
Young-Key Kim-Renaud, professor of Korean language and culture and international affairs and chair of the East Asian languages and literatures department, CCAS, was recently honored with a Festschrift — a volume of writings by different authors presented as a tribute or memorial especially to a scholar — entitled, “Pathways into Korean Language and Culture: Essays in Honor of Young-Key Kim-Renaud” (Seoul: Pagijong Press, 2003, pp. 662), with 26 articles contributed by colleagues from nine different countries. Kim-Renaud recently published two articles: “Intensity and Brightness in Korean Sound Symbolism,” in Korean Linguistics, v.11, pp. 5-27; and “Korean Linguistic Analyses in the United States,” in Han’guošhak, v.18, pp. 323-388. Kim-Renaud presented the paper “Issues in Rendering Modern Korean Fiction into English: Toward a Theory of Translation,” with Catarina Kim, an East Asian studies major and a Korean language and literature minor, CCAS, at the University of Iowa’s Third Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Writing in the Academy (Craft, Critique, Culture), in Iowa City, Iowa, March 28-30. This paper is the result of a joint research project by Kim-Renaud and Kim, as part of the George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Publications
Michael Bamdad, clinic director of The George Washington University Speech & Hearing Center, co-wrote “Functional Assessment of Executive Abilities Following Traumatic Brain Injury” with Laurie M. Ryan and Deborah L. Warden, published in Brain Injury, 2003.

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, assistant professor of public administration, SBPM, published “Donor-Funded Government NGO Partnership for Public Service Improvement: Cases from India and Pakistan,” in Voluntas, v. 14, n.1, pp.105–122.

Bruce Dickson, associate professor of political science and international affairs, ESIA, published the book “Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change” (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Patrick McHugh, associate professor of human resource management, co-wrote the paper “Professional Employees and Union Voting: Revisiting the Role of General and Specific Union Beliefs” with Heejoon Park, University of Manitoba, and Matthew Bodah, University of Rhode Island, which was selected for the Best Paper Conference Proceedings of the Academy of Management. Only 10 percent of each Academy of Management Division’s accepted conference papers are eligible for this distinction.

Christine Meloni, associate professor of English as a foreign language, CCAS, republished “Internet for English Teaching,” co-authored by Meloni, M. Warschauer, and H. Shetzer (TESOL 2000), by request from the United States Department of State. The reprinted edition is being distributed to English teachers throughout the world through US embassies and consulates.

James N. Rosenau, University Professor of International Affairs, ESIA, wrote “Distant Proximities; Dynamics Beyond Globalization” (Princeton University Press).


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