ByGeorge!

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 2003–04 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 writer’s 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 Illustrated’s 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 nation’s 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 year’s Pola Nirenska Award for outstanding contributions to dance. The award will be presented at the world premiere of Burgess’s 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 Court’s 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. 397–413 (2003).

Spencer Overton, associate professor of law, LS, published the essay, “Judicial Manageability and the Campaign Finance Thicket,” in the University of Pennsylvania’s Journal of Constitutional Law.

Peter Raven-Hansen, professor of law, LS, published “2003 Supplement to National Security Law” (Aspen). He has submitted “Security’s Conquest of Law Enforcement,” to be published as a chapter in “In Democracy’s 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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