ByGeorge!

December 2004

Kudos!

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


Acknowlegements:
Sameh S. Badie, assistant professor of engineering and applied science, SEAS, received a “Certificate of Special Merit” from the Technical Activities Committee of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute.

Christine Core, part-time professor of earth and environmental sciences, CCAS, and Achim D. Herrmann, professor of earth and environmental sciences, CCAS, presented “Bioindicators of Environmental Change in the Chesapeake Bay,” based on a detailed study north of Annapolis, MD, illustrating the change in the water quality over the last 200 years.

Kavita Daiya, assistant professor of English, CCAS, presented “Transnational Belongings: Scenes of Violence and Migration in Modern South Asian Literature” at the 33rd Annual South Asia Conference at the University of Wisconsin.

Richard K. Green, the Oliver T. Carr, Jr, Professor of Real Estate Finance, presented a paper about housing supply elasticity at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

Lynn Leonard, director of GW’s Office of Study Abroad, received the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) Professional Development Award at the 54th IES Annual Conference in Chicago.

Sharon McDade, associate professor of higher education administration, GSEHD, presented the paper “Mentorship as a Means of Transferring Leadership Knowledge to Future College and University Presidents,” at the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations in London.

Patricia A. Seminetta, senior secretary, graduate student enrollment management, presented “Politics, Violence, and Expression: The Role of Memory and Identity in Guatemala’s War-Torn Past” at the Fifth Global Conference Diversity within Unity: Cultures of Violence.

Charles Toftoy, coordinator of the Cooperative Education Program, adjunct associate professor of management science, GWSB, recently competed in the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics. Toftoy took home a pair of gold medals in the running long jump and the standing long jump.

Appointments:
Patrick McHugh, associate professor of human resources, GSEHD, has been invited to join the editorial board of Human Resource Management Journal.

Publications:
Subhasish Dasgupta, associate professor of management science, GWSB, co-published, with W. Lee Meeks, a GWSB doctoral candidate, “Geospatial Information Utility: An Estimation of the Relevance of Geospatial Information to Users,” in the Decision Support Systems Journal.

Ernie Englander, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, GWSB, co-published, with Allen Kaufman, University of New Hampshire, “The End of Managerial Ideology: From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Indifference,” in Enterprise & Society, v. 5, no. 3, pp. 404–450.

Kenneth C. Hergenrather, assistant professor of rehabilitation counseling, GSEHD published three articles: “The Employment Perspectives Study: Identifying Factors Influencing the Job-seeking Behavior of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS,” in AIDS Education & Prevention; “Correlates of Job Placement: Public Rehabilitation Counselors and Consumers Living with HIV/AIDS,” in the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin; and, “Using a Theory-based Approach to Identify Factors Facilitating the Employment-seeking Behavior of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS,” in the Journal of Rehabilitation. Hergenrather also presented papers at the American Public Health Association annual conference in San Francisco, the National Association of Multicultural Rehabilitation Concerns annual conference in Chicago, and the National Rehabilitation Association annual conference in Philadelphia.

Young Hoon Kwak, assistant professor of management science, GWSB, published “Developing Project Management Capability — Benchmarking, Maturity, Modeling, Gap Analyses, ROI Studies” in The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects. Kwak also co-published, with J. Stoddard, “Project Risk Management: Lessons Learned from Software Development Environment” in Technovation.

Michael Marquardt, professor of human resource development and international affairs, GSEHD, published his 16th book, HRD in the Age of Globalization. Marquardt recently co-published, with Deborah Waddill, the article, “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 also recently published a chapter entitled, “Action Learning” in Connotative Learning: The Trainer’s Guide to Learning Theories and Their Practical Application to Training Design.

Natalie B. Milman, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, and of education technology, GSEHD, co-authored, with Clare R. Kilbane of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “The Digital Teaching Portfolio Workbook: Understanding the Digital Teaching Portfolio Process” (Allyn & Bacon).

Kathryn Newcomer, professor of public administration and director SPPPA, CCAS, co-published, with Harry Hatry and Joseph Wholey, The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation.

Lars Noah, visiting professor of law, GWLS, published “Trends in Assisted Reproductive Technology,” in the New England Journal of Medicine, in v. 351, p. 398; “A Postmodernist Take on the Human Embryo Research Debate,” in the Connecticut Law Review, v. 36, p. 1133; “Deputizing Institutional Review Boards to Police (Audit?) Biomedical Research,” in the Journal of Legal Medicine, v. 25, p. 267; “Ambivalent Commitments to Federalism in Controlling the Practice of Medicine,” in the University of Kansas Law Review, v. 53; and, “Medical Education and Malpractice: What’s the Connection?” in Health Matrix, v. 15.

Ronald Palmer, professor of the practice of international affairs, ESIA, published “Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines” in The Global War on Terror: An Assessment of the American Response (NY: Nova, 2004). Former Ambassador Palmer also has written on this subject for the Web site americandiplomacy.org. His recent article on Africa, “Problems and Prospects of Africa 2003,” was published on this site. Palmer’s essay, “AME Bishop William Paul Quinn: The Biography of an American Original,” was published by the AME Church Review.

Richard Pierce, Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, GWLS, wrote the 2004 supplement to Administrative Law Treatise and the fourth edition of Administrative Law and Process (with Shapiro and Verkuil). He also published “Judge Lamberth’s Reign of Terror at the Department of Interior,” in the Administrative Law Review, v. 56, p. 239. Pierce will publish “Environmental Regulation, Energy, and Market Entry,” in a forthcoming issue of Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum and “Realizing the Promise of Restructuring the Electricity Market,” in a forthcoming issue of the Wake Forest Law Review.

Arnold Reitze, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, and director of the environmental law program, GWLS, published Stationary Source Air Pollution Law (Environmental Law Institute).

Jorge Rivera, assistant professor, GWSB, recently published “Is Greener Whiter? The Sustainable Slopes Program and the Voluntary Environmental Performance of Western Ski Areas,” in the Policy Studies Journal, v. 32, n. 3, p. 417–437.


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