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Dec. 6, 2005

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements

Muriel Atkin, professor of history, CCAS, presented “Tajikistan: From De Facto Colony to Dependent Sovereignty,” Empire and After in the Middle East and Central Asia, at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Oct. 22.

Barry L. Berman, professor of physics, CCAS, presented “Two-Body Photodisintegration of 3He, 4He, and 2He up to 1.5 GeV” at the second joint meeting of The American Physical Society and the Physical Society of Japan. The topic of the meeting was “New Aspects of Nuclear Forces.”

Andrea Casey, assistant professor of human resource development, GSEHD, was elected to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management (AOM), a senior professional society primarily composed of professors who conduct research and teach management in universities and research centers, as well as doctoral students, senior managers, and consultants.

Neal Chalofsky, associate professor of human resource development and director of human resource development programs, GSEHD, accepted a position on the Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ) editorial board. He will serve a two year term.

Zsuzsa Csergo, assistant professor of political science and coordinator of the women’s leadership program in US and International Politics, CCAS, has been selected by the University of North Carolina-Wilmington to deliver the Fourth Annual Sherman Emerging Scholar Lecture. Her topic will be “Cultural Division and Integration: Lessons from New European Democracies.”

Amitai Etzioni, University Professor and professor of international affairs, delivered the Director’s Cultural Lecture at the National Institutes of Health on Sept. 25. This talk, entitled “How Societies Reach New Shared Moral Understandings,” was part of the most distinguished lecture series at NIH. Etzioni is the sole speaker on this topic for 2005.

Mark Feldstein, associate professor and director of journalism, SMPA, recently discussed the jailing of journalist Judith Miller on two panels at Cardozo Law School in New York and American University in Washington, where the presentation was broadcast live on National Public Radio.

Michael Freedman, vice president for communications, was a panelist of a roundtable discussion group hosted by The Strategist. The panel discussed the evolving definition of a journalist and changes affecting the media world.

Appointments:

Wendy Carey was appointed as a media relations specialist. Her beats will include Virginia Campus, Engineering & Applied Sciences, Physical Sciences (Columbian College), School of Media and Public Affairs, Graduate School of Political Management, and School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Carey spent four years working for Senator Max Baucus (D–MT). For the past two year, Wendy has served as the deputy press secretary on the Senate Finance Committee, where Senator Baucus is a ranking member.

Matthew Lindsay was appointed assistant director of media relations — filling the position previously held by Matthew Nehmer, who left to accept a position as director of communications at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Awards:

Mary Buckley, assistant professor of dance, CCAS, was presented with the Elizabeth J. Somers Leadership Award in Women’s Education honoring her work with the International Arts and Culture Program on GW’s Mount Vernon Campus.

Ali B. Cambel, professor emeritus of engineering and applied science, SEAS, received a 2005 Immigrant Achievement Award from the American Immigration Law Foundation for his contributions to the USA.

William C. Handorf, professor of finance, GWSB, was one of two Americans recognized by the Ordem Dos Economistas Do Brasil (Order of Economists) for outstanding contributions to both the public and private sector in Brazil.

Dean Kessmann, assistant professor of photography, CCAS, was among the winners in this year’s Trawick competition, which drew more than 400 applicants. Six of Kessmann’s inkjet prints from his “Cover to Cover” series earned second place from the three-person jury.

Renata Kosova, assistant professor of international business, GWSB, was awarded the Farmer Dissertation Award at the Academy of International Business 2005 Conference in Quebec, Canada.

John M. Logsdon, director of GW’s Space Policy Institute and professor of political science and international affairs, was awarded the 2005 John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award by the American Astronautical Society (AAS). The award recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to public service through leadership in promoting space programs for the exploration and utilization of outer space. The award was presented Nov. 15 at the annual AAS banquet, at the South Shore Harbor Resort in Houston, TX.

Jozef Przytycki, professor of mathematics, CCAS, has been named as a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences. The Washington Academy of Sciences was incorporated in 1898 as an affiliation of eight Washington, DC area scientific societies. The founders included Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Brian Richmond, assistant professor of anthropology and anatomy and cell biology, and a member of the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, CCAS, received an award from the National Science Foundation to use high resolution CT imaging to examine the relationships between bipedal walking and the internal structure of the weight-bearing bones of the lower limb. Richmond also was invited to conduct fieldwork at the famous Koobi Fora site in Kenya.

Publications:

Lisa Allen, librarian Virginia Campus, co-published an article on a Librarians’ Journal Club with Theodore Hickman in the College and Research Libraries News (October 2005, v.66, n.9, pp. 642–644).

Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection development librarian, Gelman Library, had reviews of three books appear in the Sept./Oct., 2005 issue of the newsletter of the Association of Jewish Libraries: “The Five: a Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the Century Odessa by Vladimir Jabotinsky,” “The Neconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy by Murray Friedman,” and “The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and Its Ideological Legacy by Eran Kaplan.”

George R. Bozzini, associate professor emeritus of English, CCAS, published an article, “Teaching the Literature of Global English,” in Teaching English from a Global Perspective, Anne Burns, ed. The volume is included in the Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series, Jill Burton, series editor. It was published by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in 2005.

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, CCAS and ESIA, co-published Working for Change: Making a Career in International Public Service, with Derick W. Brinkerhoff. She also published “Digital Diasporas and Semi-Authoritarian States: The Case of the Egyptian Copts,” in Public Administration and Development, v. 25 n. 3, as well as “Paths to International Public Service: The Service-Choice Spiral and Implications for Graduate Education Programs,” in the Journal of Public Affairs Education, v. 11, n. 2, also co-authored with Derick W. Brinkerhoff.

Jaumeiko C. Brown, assistant professor of speech and hearing sciences, CCAS, published The Assessment of Literacy and Language (Harcourt Assessment, Inc.) with Linda J. Lombardino and R. Jane Lieberman.

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese and Columbian Professor, CCAS, published a new edition of his book Pilgrim of the Clouds: Poems and Essays from Ming-Dynasty China, (White Pine Press, Buffalo, New York). The first edition of this book was published by Weatherhill in 1978 and nominated for the National Book Award in the translation category. Together with Prof. Chaves’ “Heaven my Blanket, Earth my Pillow,” it forms part of the series, “Companions for the Journey,” recently launched by White Pine Press. Chaves also chaired a panel and was a roundtable participant at The Hsia Brothers and Chinese Literature: An International Symposium, Columbia University, Oct. 28–29.

Reid Click, associate professor of international business and international affairs, GWSB, published “Financial and Political Risks in US Direct Foreign Investment” in the Journal of International Business Studies.

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