Sept. 5, 2003

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements:
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, CCAS, delivered the lecture “The Scholarly Arts of East Asia” to the Luce Scholars at Princeton University on Aug. 20.

Randye Jones, Gelman Library manager, and Francis Conlon, assistant professor of music, CCAS, released their debut recording, “Come Down Angels,” which includes 14 Negro spiritual settings that express the gamut of emotions conveyed by the slaves who originally created them.

Naval ROTC Color Guard will present colors prior to the Baltimore Orioles game on Sept. 5.

Moses Schanfield, professor and chair of the Department of Forensic Sciences, CCAS, is the co-organizer of third European-American School in Forensic Genetics and Mayo Clinic Course in Advanced Molecular and Cellular Medicine, to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, Sept. 1–5. Schanfield will be presenting a plenary session talk entitled “Forensic DNA Testing: Its Past and Future.”

Appointments:
Joan Ziemba has been appointed marketing and communications director at the Virginia Campus. Ziemba has worked at Virginia Tech and George Mason University.

Awards:
Rajat Mittal, associate professor of engineering and applied science, SEAS, recently received a grant titled “Integrated Artificial Muscle, High-Lift, Bio-Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Biorobotic Autonomous Undersea Vehicles” funded by the Office of Naval Research. This is a five-year grant worth $796,000. Mittal also recently received an associated grant from the Office of Naval Research for this research with a funding amount of $195,000, which brings the total funding close to $1 million. Collaborators on this work are from Harvard and MIT.

Publications:
John Philbeck, assistant professor of psychology, CCAS, along with L. Levy and S. Potolicchio, GW Medical Center, and other researchers, published “Path Integration Deficits During Linear Locomotion After Human Medial Temporal Lobectomy” in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. The article explores brain deficits and how to remediate them.

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