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Oct. 20, 2004
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowlegements:
Susan Duffy, director of the Women’s
Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative, GWSB, discussed the initiative
as a global best practice in entrepreneurship education at the Accelerating
Women’s Entrepreneurial Forum.
Akbar Montaser, Columbian Professor of Chemistry,
CCAS, recently presented two invited lectures in France and Italy. The
first lecture, “Application of Stark-Broadened Profiles of Hydrogen
Lines for the Calculation of Electron Number Density in High-Temperature
Plasmas,” was presented at the 17th International Conference on Spectral
Line Shapes, Paris, France. The second lecture, “Fundamental Nebulization
Processes and Analyte Transport in High-Temperature Plasmas,” was
presented at the Plasma Science and Technology at the 16th International
Vacuum Congress, Venice, Italy. Along with graduate students C. S. Westphal,
K. Kahen, W. F. Rutkowski, B. W. Aco, Montaser published “Demountable
Direct Injection High Efficiency Nebulizer for Inductively Coupled Plasma
Mass Spectrometry,” Spectrochimica Acta, 59B, 353–368.
Montaser also received the Distinguished Alumni Award at the Shiraz Pahlavi
University Reunion held in Los Angeles. The award recognizes his leading
role for over 30 years in the development of inductively coupled plasma-based
techniques for the quantitative determination of the elemental composition
of materials in diverse fields such as semiconductor industry, energy
generation, materials science, forensic chemistry, nuclear chemistry,
environmental pollution, nutrition, biomedicine and pharmacology.
Sergio D’Onofrio, administrative director
for the Department of Management Science, received the President’s
Award from the International Council for Small Business for his commitment
and service to the ICSB.
Susan Phillips, dean and professor of finance,
GWSB, participated in a panel discussion, “Memories and Lessons from
the Fed,” hosted by the Center for Strategic & International
Studies to help launch former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence Meyer’s
new book, A Term at the Fed.
Larry Singleton, associate professor of accountancy,
GWSB, addressed members of the National Investor Relations Institute and
Public Relations Society of America in June about recent accounting and
reporting events and their impact for investor relations officers.
Stuart Umpleby, professor of management science,
GWSB, presented “Physical Relationships Among Matter, Energy and
Information” at the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research.
Appointment:
Leon Wieseltier, currently the literary editor
of The New Republic, was named a Welling Presidential Fellow. The
fellowship is named after James Clark Welling, who was president of GW
for most of the last quarter of the 19th century, during which time GW
assumed many of the attributes of a modern research university.
Awards:
James H. Williams, assistant professor of
international education and international affairs, received a travel grant
from the International Research and Exchanges Board to study the transformation
of Romanian higher education 1989–2004, in collaboration with former
visiting scholar Remus Pricopie. Williams and Stephen Smith, professor
of economics and international affairs, ESIA, won a three-year, $150,000
grant from the US Department of State to work with BRAC University of
Bangladesh on faculty development, curriculum in education and development,
and research. The agreement includes short-term faculty travel and exchange,
hosting of Bangaldeshi faculty and administrators, and research by faculty
and doctoral students.
Publications:
Steve Charnovitz, associate professor of
law, GWLS, recently published four articles. His article “The WTO
and Cosmopolitics,” was published in the September 2004 Journal
of International Economic Law. He also participated in an Internet
roundtable on the World Trade Organization Appellate Body’s decision
in the Tariff Preferences case. The full roundtable was published in the
July 2004 World Trade Review. Additionally, Charnovitz reviewed
the edited volume World Social Forum: Challenging Empires in Transnational
Associations (2004, n. 2), and reviewed the treatise “Like Products
in International Trade Law “ (by Choi) in the American Journal
of International Law, July 2004.
William Handorf, professor of finance, published
“Economics Trends and Credit” in Business Credit magazine.
Vikas Jain, adjunct professor and doctoral
candidate, GWSB, co-authored “IS Value at Individual Level: Role
of the Nature of IS Use” with Shivraj Kanungo,
associate professor of management science, GWSB, in Proceedings of Americas
Conference of Information Systems. This paper was nominated for best paper
award at the conference.
Richard P. Lanthier, associate professor
of human development, GSEHD, published, along with doctoral student Craig
Windham, “Internet Use and College Adjustment: The Moderating Role
of Gender,” in Computers and Human Behavior. Also presented
papers at the: American Psychological Association in Honolulu, American
Educational Research Association in San Diego, Conference on Human Development
in Washington, DC, and the Society for Research on Adolescence in Baltimore.
Kathryn Newcomer, professor of public policy
and public administration and chair, SPPPA, recently co-authored “Federal
Offices of the Inspector General: Thriving on Chaos” with George
Grob, US Department of Health and Human Services, in the American Review
of Public Administration, v. 34, n. 3, pp. 235–251.
Steve Schooner, associate professor of law,
co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program, GWLS, recently
published “Competitive Sourcing Policy: More Sail Than Rudder,”
in the Public Contract Law Journal, v. 33.
Lois G. Schwoerer, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor
of History Emerita, published “Law, Liberty, and Jury ‘Ideology’:
English Transatlantic Revolutionary Traditions in Revolutionary Current
Nation Building in the Transatlantic World, pp. 35–64. A second
edition of Schowerer’s book, The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care: London’s
First Spin Doctor was published by Tempus Press in London in May 2004.
Schworerer also was named Scholar in Residence at the Folger Shakespeare
Library.
Peter Smith, associate professor of law,
GWLS, published the article “Sources of Federalism: An Empirical
Analysis of the Court’s Quest for Original Meaning,” in the
UCLA Law Review, v. 52.
Gregory Squires, professor of sociology and
of public policy and public administration, CCAS, and Charis E. Kubrin,
the Urban Affairs Association/Fannie Mae Foundation, won Best Paper in
Housing or Community Development Award for their paper, “The Impact
of Capital on Crime: Does Access to Home Mortgage Money Reduce Crime Rates?”
presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association.
Bing-Sheng Teng, assistant professor of strategic
management and public policy, GWBS, published “The WTO and Entry
Modes in China” in Thunderbird International Business Review.
Charles Toftoy, associate professor of management
science, GWSB, published “Mission Statements and The Small Business,”
in the Business Strategy Review Journal,
Autumn, 2004.
Ron Weitzer, professor of sociology, CCAS,
and Steve Tuch, professor of sociology and
public policy and public administration, CCAS, had their research on policing
featured prominently in a September 2004 Amnesty International report
on racial profiling in America.
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