Oct. 7, 2003
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowledgements:
Steven Hilmy, director of the electronic
library in the music department and assistant professorial lecturer in
music, CCAS, received a 200304 grant from the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers. The award is granted by an independent
panel based upon the unique prestige value of each writers
catalog of original composition, as well as recent performances in areas
not surveyed by the society.
Jack Kvancz, director of
athletics, was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame on
Sept. 19 at the University of Rhode Island. Kvancz was honored for his
outstanding playing career at Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport,
CT.
Bruce McBarnette, instructor with the GW
Center for Professional Development, was featured in Sports Illustrateds
article Faces in the Crowd, September 2003 edition p. 36,
for winning his eighth National Masters USA Track and Field Championship
in the high jump on Aug. 8. McBarnette jumped six feet three inches to
win the national championships, held at the University of Oregon, which
features the nations best track and field competitors over the age
of 35. Earlier this year, McBarnette broke the indoor world masters record.
He also has won two world championships.
Akbar Montaser, professor of chemistry, CCAS,
presented the 2003 Fassel Lecture at the Department of Chemistry and Ames
Laboratory at Iowa State University during a three-day visit in May. His
lecture was entitled Micro- and Nanonebulization in Plasma Spectrometry:
Thinking Small Yields Big Returns. Another lecture centered on Droplet
Formation, Heating, Desolvation, and Coalescence in High-Temperature Plasma
Spectrometry.
Stephen Saltzburg, Howrey Professor of Trial
Advocacy, Litigation, and Professional Responsibility, LS, was recently
appointed chair of the newly created ABA Justice Kennedy Commission by
ABA President Dennis Archer.
Awards:
Dana Tai Soon Burgess, assistant professor of dance, CCAS, has been selected
as a winner of this years Pola Nirenska Award for outstanding contributions
to dance. The award will be presented at the world premiere of Burgesss
new work, Tracings: A Korean American Centennial Project,
at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Nov. 6.
Publications:
Prabir K. Bagchi, professor of business administration,
SBPM, published Integration of Information Technology and Organizations
in a Supply Chain Network with Tage Skjoett-Larsen in the International
Journal of Logistics Management, v. 14, no. 1 (2003).
Paul Butler, professor of law, LS, published
Terrorism and Utilitarianism: Lessons from, and for, Criminal Law,
in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. His essay on the
Supreme Courts recent affirmative action cases was published in
The Legal Times.
Steven R. Eastaugh, professor of finance
and health economics, SPHHS, has published his eighth text, Health
Care Finance and Economics (Jones and Bartlett: Boston).
Martha Finnemore, associate professor of
political science and international affairs, CCAS, published The
Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs About the Use of Force
(Cornell University Press, 2003).
Joan Meier, professor of
clinical law, LS, published Domestic Violence, Child Custody and
Child Protection: Understanding Judicial Resistance and Imagining the
Solutions, in the symposium issue of the American University Journal
of Gender, Social Policy & the Law.
Akbar Montaser, professor of chemistry, CCAS,
and graduate student and colleagues (K. Kahen, A. Strubinger, J. R. Chirinos),
published a paper entitled Direct Injection High Efficiency Nebulizer-Inductively
Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Analysis of Petroleum Samples
in Spectrochimica Acta, part B, v. 58, pp. 397413 (2003).
Spencer Overton, associate professor of law,
LS, published the essay, Judicial Manageability and the Campaign
Finance Thicket, in the University of Pennsylvanias Journal
of Constitutional Law.
Peter Raven-Hansen, professor of law, LS,
published 2003 Supplement to National Security Law (Aspen).
He has submitted Securitys Conquest of Law Enforcement,
to be published as a chapter in In Democracys Shadow,
by Marcus Raskin and Carl Levan.
Richard H. Schlagel, Elton Professor Emeritus
of Philosophy, published the article, The Waning of the Light: the
Eclipse of Philosophy, in the September issue of The Review of
Metaphysics.
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