December 2006

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements:

John F. Banzhaf, professor of law, provided commentary for a variety of publications, including The Tennessean and United Press International, on insurance premiums for the obese and smokers.

Marli Gupta, professor of mathematics, received a letter of appreciation from the National Security Agency for “outstanding leadership” of the GW Summer Program for Women in Mathematics. Gupta has served as director of the highly successful program since its inception in 1995.

William E. Halal, professor of information systems and technology management, School of Business, was invited to make a lecture tour of South Korea. He spoke on “The Technology Revolution & the Knowledge Organization” at the Global HR Forum, met with members of the Korean Parliament to discuss their interest in emerging technologies and his TechCast system, and spoke to groups of Korean business executives and economists. Halal was also interviewed by several media outlets, including the Korea Economic Daily, Chosun Daily, EBS TV, and Dong-A ILBO Magazine.

Rhys Price Jones, professor of computer science, was listed as co-inventor on seven patents granted by the U.S. Patent Office to be licensed and used by the Xerox Company. The patents cover inventions related to automated measurement and analysis of qualities of documents.

Brian Richmond, associate professor of anthropology, was featured on a NOVA documentary about a family of five adults in Turkey who walk on all fours. The documentary aired nationally on PBS stations Nov. 14.

Awards:

Alexandre M. Baptista, assistant professor of finance, won the 2006 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting Competitive Paper Award in Risk Management for “Risk Management with Stress Testing: Implications for Portfolio Selection and Asset Pricing,” co-written with Gordon J. Alexander from the University of Minnesota.

Stephen Hess, distinguished research professor of media and public affairs, received the 2006 USA Book News Best Book Award in the media journalism category for his book, Through Their Eyes: Foreign Correspondents in the United States, published by the Brookings Institution Press.

Marvin Kalb, journalist and scholar, was awarded the National Press Club’s 2006 Fourth Estate Award. The award, which is the National Press Club’s top honor, goes annually to an individual who has achieved distinction for a lifetime of contributions to American journalism. Kalb is the host of the acclaimed The Kalb Report, which is jointly produced by GW, Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center, and the National Press Club, and underwritten by a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

GW and its Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management (OPSEM) was recognized with a record number of awards from the International Association of Emergency Managers, including “The Partners in Preparedness Award,” jointly awarded to the D.C. Emergency Management Agency and OPSEM first-place news story for “Capital Cooperation,” an article in Homeland Protection Profesional; second-place Web site for “GW Campus Advisories,” a partnership between University Relations and OPSEM; and second-place brochure for “Safety at GW: Working TOGETHER.”

Publications:

Alexandre M. Baptista, assistant professor of finance, published “Does the Basle Capital Accord Reduce Bank Fragility? An Assessment of the Value-At-Risk Approach” in the Journal of Monetary Economics. The paper was co-written by Gordon J. Alexander from the University of Minnesota.

Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection development librarian at Gelman Library, published a review of Naomi Ragen’s “Woman’s Minyan: A Play” in the September/October 2006 newsletter of the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Ken Kryvoruka, adjunct professor of law, published Courage in Blue and Gray: Tales of Valor from the Civil War, a collection of essays focusing on courageous acts during the American Civil War.

Derek Malone-France, assistant professor in the University Writing Program, recently published his first book, Deep Empiricism: Kant, Whitehead, and the Necessity of Philosophical Theism. He has also recently published several articles, including “Hartshorne and Popper on Existential Necessity: A Deep Empiricist Interpretation” in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and “Process and Deliberation” in Process Studies.


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