August- September 2005

Kudos!

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

Acknowlegements:
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese and Columbian College Professor, CCAS, presented, “The Sister Arts in China: Poetry and Painting Together,” for the staff of the Education Division at the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also recently presented a discussion and seminar for the Freeman Foundation Curriculum Transformation program at University of Maryland, Integrating East Asia into Undergraduate Education.

Mark Feldstein, associate professor of media and public affairs and director of the journalism program, SMPA, recently participated in a panel, “Journalism and the Use of Anonymous Sources: From ‘Deep Throat’ to Deep Six” at the National Press Club televised live on C-Span. He also wasinterviewed and quoted on related media subjects recently on CNN, NPR, Monitor Radio, BBC, CBC, French TV and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, and Bloomberg news service.

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, CCAS, presented an invited paper
“Countable Models, Computability, and Enumerations” at the National Science Foundationfunded conference Classification of Countable Models, at the University of Notre Dame May 19.

Charles N. Toftoy, associate professor of management science, GWSB, presented “The Intrapreneurial Revolution: Now is the Time for Action,” and “The Lost Entrepreneurial Trait For Success: The Virtue of Humility,” at the International Council for Small Business annual World Conference conducted June 15–18 in Washington, DC. Toftoy also received the Commemorative Medal of Honor from the American Biographical Institute.

Gail Weiss, associate professor of philosophy and director of the human sciences program, CCAS, recently presented two keynote addresses, “City Limits” at The Ohio State University and “Intertwined Identities: Challenges to Bodily Autonomy” at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Weiss also presented “Derrida’s Hospitality” at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference in Helsinki, Finland. She recently published “Death and the Other: Rethinking Authenticity” in Feministische Phänomenologie and Hermeneutik (Verlag Königshausen and Neumann) and “Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity” in Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophical Writings, v. 1 (University of Illinois Press).

Roger Whitaker, dean, CPS, presented “Where the Rubber Meets the Blue Sky” to the Summer Institute on Cultivating and Sustaining Innovation, hosted by Boston University, June 2005. Whitaker also presented the case study “Janus University: Mission Impossible” to the Executive Leadership Academy, hosted by New York University, July 2005.

Appointments:
Michael Akin, director of District of Columbia and Foggy Bottom/West End affairs, was unanimously elected to a three-year term on the St. Mary’s Court Board of Directors.

William Frawley, dean and professor of anthropology and psychology, CCAS, was named Editor of the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) journal, Dictionaries, at the society’s 15th biennial meeting June 9–11. Frawley, whose relevant work is on computational representation of meaning and definitions of forms in the less commonly studied languages, previously served on the society’s Executive Committee and serves on the Advisory Board for all Oxford University Press dictionaries where he was a senior advisorand contributor to Oxford’s New Oxford American Dictionary. Frawley, and PAUL DUFF, ASSOCIATE
DEAN FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES, CCAS, presented an invited plenary “The World as Instrument: Global Liberal Arts and Sciences” at the National University of Singapore’s Centennial Global Education Convention, July 18. They also discussed the school’s Dean’s Scholars in Globalization program.

Greg Leonard, was recently appointed director of the International Services Office. Leonard is charged with running a department responsible for coordinating immigration advising, cultural adjustment workshops, and orientation programs for
approximately 1,900 international students at GW. In addition to managing comprehensive visa and immigration services for international students, professors, researchers, visitors, and their families, Leonard will be responsible for seeing that GW complies with the federal mandates of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information Program.

Awards:
Allison Brooks, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, CCAS, received a $15,000 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for organizing the conference “The Middle Stone Age of East Africa and Modern Human Origins” in Kenya and Ethiopia July 17–25.

Donald W. Dew, professor of counseling and research professor of psychiatry and behavioral science, and director, Regional Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program, GSEHD, was honored for his five years of service as Commissioner on the Commission on Rehabilitation Counseling Certification at its annual meeting in Chicago, June 11.

Robert F. Dyer, professor of marketing, GWSB, received a Fulbright Distinguished Chair position at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Dyer will teach graduate and doctoral students as well as participate in collaborative faculty research in the areas of database marketing and customer relationship management. His research will focus on the comparative adoption of customer relationship management and e-marketing programs between US and European firms.

Charis E. Kubrin, assistant professor of sociology, CCAS, recently received the District of Columbia Sociological Society’s Morris Rosenberg Award for Recent Achievement.

Christy Willis, director of the GW Disability Support Services Office, received the Nation’s Capital Area Disability Support Services Coalition Service Award on June 3, in recognition of her long-term support of the Coalition and its activities. She has held numerous Board positions, headed and participated in various activities, assisted in coordinating, and presented sessions at the last DC AHEAD conference, and has coordinated GW’s hosting of the Coalition meeting each of the past 10 years.

Publications:
Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection development librarian, Gelman Library, published a book review of Begin: His Life, Words and Deeds, by Zvi Harry Hurwitz in the newsletter of the Association of Jewish Libraries, May/June, 2005.

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, associate professor of public administration, international affairs, and international business, CCAS, co-published Working for Change: Making a Career in International Public Service (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2005) with DERICK W. BRINKERHOFF, ASSOCIATE FACULTY, SPPPA.

Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, and professor of history and sociology, GWLS, authored the essay, “From Emancipation to Equality: The Afro-Latin’s Unfinished Struggle,” in American Quarterly, v.57.

David DeGrazia, professor of philosophy, CCAS, published Human Identity and Bioethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Tracy L. Dumas, assistant professor of organizational sciences, CCAS, co-authored “Managing Multiple Roles: Work-Family Policies and Individual’s Desires for Segmentation,” with Nancy P. Rothbard (University of Pennsylvania) and Katherine W. Phillips (Northwestern University), in Organization Science, v. 16, n. 3.

Patrick McHugh, associate professor of management science, GWSB, and Diane Bridge, doctoral candidate in the School of Business, along with Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld at MIT, published “Examining Structure and Process in ESOP Firms”
in Personnel Review, v. 34, n. 3 (2005).

Mirghani Mohamed, assistant director Information Systems and Services, co-published “ERP II: Harnessing ERP Systems with Knowledge Management Capabilities” with Adam Fadlalla (Cleveland State University) in the Journal of
Knowledge Management Practice, v. 6.

Kathryn Newcomer, director, School of Public Policy and Public Administration, CCAS, co-published “Partnering to Improve Education for Public Service” with Laila El Baradei (Cairo University) in the Journal of Public Affairs Education (April 2005).

Stephen C. Smith, professor of economics and international affairs, ESIA, published Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

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