Aug. 27, 2002

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Karen Ahlquist, associate professor of music, CCAS, presented a paper entitled “Hardly to be Expected: The Verdi Requiem in Germany and the United States, 1874-80,” at the 17th Biennial Congress of the International Musicological Society in Leuven, Belgium.

Howard Eisner, distinguished research professor and professor of engineering management and systems engineering, SEAS, presented his paper “Success Stories in Partnering for Engineering Education” at the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Conference and Exposition in Montreal June 16-19.

Peter Klaren, professor of history and international affairs, ESIA, signed a contract for the translation of his book “Peru: Society & Nationhood in the Andes” (Oxford, 2000) to be published later this year by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos in Lima.

Bernard Wood, Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Origins, was one of the plenary speakers at a three-day conference entitled “Assembling the Tree of Life” convened by The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Yale University at the AMNH, May 30-June 1.

Awards
GWBlitz! recently received three awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Region Two Mark of Excellence competition, including a first place award. The student newspaper received third place for best newspaper printed more than once a year and took home the first place award for best online newspaper, recognizing the GWBlitz’s efforts in 2001 and our entire staff, including Editor-in-Chief Nell McGarity, News Editor Jane Black, Sports Editor Sal Cardoni, and Founder and Publisher Derek Grosso. Cardoni also took home second place for online sports reporting.

Neil Helm, deputy director of GW’s Institute for Applied Space Research, ESIA, was awarded the Aerospace Communications Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The award “for leadership in the development of mobile and emergency satellite communications and their application to disaster management” acknowledges Helm’s seminal work at Consat Laboratories in the early and mid-1970s when he led the development, test, and demonstration of the first small, mobile satellite ground terminals.

Dina Rizk Khoury, associate professor of history and international affairs and director of the Middle East Studies Program, CCAS, ESIA, has been awarded a grant for international and area studies by the American Council of Learned Societies in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Science Research Council. This grant, covering the academic year 2002–03, will allow her to develop her project, “The Rebellious City: Popular Politics in the Middle East in the Age of Crisis and Reform, 1770s-1830s,” and to start the research and writing for a book on popular politics in the Middle East with a focus on the city of Baghdad.

Nina Gilden Seavey, director of GW’s Documentary Center, CCAS, and her new film, “The Ballad of Bering Strait,” won the Audience Prize at the Washington International Film Festival. The film, which follows seven Russian teenagers who came to America to become country music stars, was shot in hi-definition over a period of three years in Russia and Nashville, TN.

Ronald Spector, professor of history and international affairs, CCAS, ESIA, won the 2002 Distinguished Book Award in European History from the Society for Military History.

Publications
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, chair, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, CCAS, published the article, “Gathering Tea for God,” in Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XXIV (2002), pp. 6-23.

John M. Lachin, professor of biostatistics and epidemiology, and of statistics; and director of the graduate program in biostatistics and in epidemiology, GWUMC, has published the book: “Randomization in Clinical Trials: Theory and Practice,” (John Wiley and Sons, 2002) with W. Rosenberger. This is the first comprehensive guide to the theoretical properties of randomization, or the random allocation of treatment assignments to patients, that is the core statistical and scientific basis for a clinical trial of a new treatment. Lachin co-authored, with Sarah Fowler, research professor of biostatistics and epidemiology and director of the Biostatistics Center, the article: “Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin.” New England Journal of Medicine, 2002, 346: 393-403. This nationwide study of 3,234 pre-diabetic subjects with impaired glucose tolerance showed that lifestyle modifications reduced the risk of onset of Type 2 diabetes mellitus by 58 percent relative to control therapy, while treatment with the drug metformin reduced the incidence by 31 percent.

 

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