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November 2004
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowlegements:
Amitai Etzioni, University Professor, along
with former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and
current Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, served as the keynote
speakers at the “Europe: A Beautiful Idea” conference at the
Hague on Sept. 7. Etzioni has recently co-edited with Andrew Volmert and
Elanit Rothschild The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials.
He also co-edited with Daniel Doherty Voluntary Simplicity, as
well as Rights vs. Public Safety After 9/11 which was co-edited
with Jason Marsh.
Christine Meloni, associate professor emerita
of English as a foreign language, CCAS, presented the plenary, “Golden
Opportunities with the Internet: The Role of Technology in Humanizing
Language Learning,” at the eighth annual national conference of English
teachers in San Salvador, El Salvador. She also conducted two workshops,
“Using the Internet to Teach Reading and Writing and “Developing
Internet Projects in Small, Medium, and Large.”
Jennifer Nutefall, instruction coordinator
at Gelman Library, and Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, acting director of the
First-Year Writing Program, presented “Putting Heads Together: Librarian-Faculty
Collaboration to Build an Information Literacy Curriculum for Freshmen”
at the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy.
Appointments:
Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor
of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, has been reappointed
as a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
for the period Sept. 1, 2004, through Aug. 31, 2006. Reich, who also is
a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, CCAS, has been a Senior
Scholar at the center since 1998.
Awards:
Shelley Brundage, assistant professor of
speech and hearing science, CCAS, in collaboration with VirtuallyBetter,
Inc., in Decatur GA, received a $150,000 STTR grant from the National
Institutes of Health. The grant, entitled “Virtual reality environments
for stuttering treatment,” involves the development of a virtual
job interview for use in stuttering treatment.
Eric H. Cline, associate professor and chair
of classics and archaeology, CCAS, has been elected by the Governing Board
of the Archaeological Institute of America to receive the fifth Excellence
in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Cline’s book, Jerusalem Besieged:
From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel, has just been released by the
University of Michigan Press.
Jessica Gohs, Luther Rice Fellow, received
full support for travel and housing to go to the American Physical Society
Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting at the end of the month to partake
in the Conference Experience for Undergraduates (CEU). She will be making
a poster presentation on her work: “Photoproduction and Photodisintigration
Processes of the Deuteron.”
Charis E. Kubrin, assistant professor of
sociology, CCAS, and Gregory D. Squires,
chair of sociology department and professor of sociology and of public
administration, CCAS, won the Urban Affairs Association/Fannie Mae Foundation
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.
Akbar Montaser, Columbian Professor of Chemistry,
CCAS, received the Distinguished Alumni Award at the Shiraz Pahlavi University
Reunion. The award recognizes Montaser’s 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.
Publications:
Jennifer Brinkerhoff, associate professor
of public administration, international business, and international affairs,
CCAS, published the lead article, “Emerging Trends in Development
Management: Tension and Complexity in the Continuing Search for Solutions,”
in International Public Management Journal, v. 7, n. 2, pp. 149–161.
She also co-edited “Emerging Perspectives on Development Management,”
International Public Management Journal, v. 7, n. 2.
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese and
Columbian Professor, CCAS, has published a new edition of his book, Heaven
My Blanket, Earth My Pillow: Poems From Sung Dynasty China By Yang Wan-Li
(1127–1206), (White Pine Press).
James M. Clark, Ronald Weintraub Associate
Professor, CCAS, co-published with Xing Xu, Catherine A. Forster, and
Yuan Wang “A Middle Jurassic ‘Sphenosuchian’ from China
and the Origin of the Crocodylian Skull,” in Nature, v. 430,
pp. 1021–1024.
Robert J. Cottrol, professor of law, of history,
and of sociology, and Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, GWLS,
published an article-length review of Stuart Banner’s, The Death
Penalty: An American History entitled “Finality with Ambivalence:
The American Death Penalty’s Uneasy History,” in Stanford
Law Review.
Charles Craver, Freda H. Alverson Professor
of Law, GWLS, published “The Negotiation Process,” in the American
Journal of Trial Advocacy. He also co-authored the third edition of
the Employment Law Treatise, to be published by West in September, and
the 2004 supplement to the Employment Discrimination Law casebook. He
recently made presentations on negotiating to the council on state taxation
in Sonoma, CA, and to IRS attorneys in Washington, DC.
Mark Feldstein, associate professor and director
of journalism, SMPA, has published two recent peer-reviewed articles:
“Kissing Cousins: Journalism and Oral History,” in Oral History
Review, v. 31, n. 1, pp. 1–22; and “Fighting Quakers: The
1950s Battle Between Richard Nixon and Drew Pearson,” in Journalism
History, v. 30, n. 2, pp. 76–90.
William Halal, professor of management, GWSB,
has recently published an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Halal also gave the keynote address at the Conference on Technology and
Innovation recently held in Tapei, and was invited to contribute the emerging
technology chapter of the Asian Environmental Outlook 2005, prepared by
the Asian Development Bank.
Susan Jones, professor of clinical law, GWLS,
published “Will New Markets Tax Credits Enhance Community Economic
Development?” in Journal of Small and Emerging Business, v
8, p. 229.
Orin Kerr, associate professor of law, GWLS,
published “Deterring Computer Crime Outside of Criminal Law: A Skeptical
View of Civil Liability, Self-Help, and Architectural Solutions,”
in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Law, Economics and Policy.
Michael Marquardt, professor of human resource
development and international affairs, GSEHD, authored HRD in the Age
of Globalization (Perseus Press). Marquardt also co-authored with Deborah
Waddill “The Power of Learning in Action Learning: A Conceptual Analysis
of How the Five Schools of Adult Learning Theories are Incorporated within
the Practice of Action Learning,” in Action Learning Research
and Practice, v. 1, no. 2, pp. 185-202. Marquardt authored a chapter
entitled “Action Learning” in Connotative Learning: The Trainer’s
Guide to Learning Theories and Their Practical Application to Training
Design.
Jim Mason, assistant baseball coach, published
“Setting up Hitters” in the most recent issue of Coaching
Digest, pp 27–29.
Liesl Riddle, assistant professor of international
business and international affairs, GWSB, co-published with Kate Gillespie,
associate professor of international business at The University of Texas
at Austin, “Export Promotion, Organization Emergence and Development:
A Call to Research,” in International Marketing Review v.
21, n. 4/5, pp. 462–473. Riddle and Gillespie also published “Case-Based
Business Education in the Arab Middle East and North Africa” in Business
Education in Emerging Markets: Perspectives and Best Practices, (NY:
Kluwer).
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