Dec. 5, 2002

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, CCAS, chaired a panel on the translation of poetry at the second annual DC International Poetry Festival Nov. 9 in GW’s Jack Morton Auditorium. The panel consisted of poet-translators from France (Claire Malroux), Mexico (Pura López-Colomé), South Africa (Breyten Breytenbach), as well as Michael Palma, whose new rhymed translation of Dante’s “Inferno” has been highly praised, and Randy Blasing, translator of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet.

Caren Goldberg, assistant professor of management science, SBPM, chaired an interactive paper session about personality and individual difference at the Southern Management Association conference in November. Goldberg also was a discussant for the paper, “The Role of Physical Disability in Early Career.” Also at the conference, SBPM doctoral candidates: Harry William Holt, Jr., presented the paper, “How Information Technology Driven Change Expedited the Organizational Change Process in a Public Sector Organization”; J. Richard Ray, Jr. presented the paper, “A Framework for Organizational Learning in Healthcare: From Individual to the Organizational Learning Systems Model”; and Diane Bridge served as a reviewer.

Kathryn Newcomer, professor of public administration, SBPM, presented “Building Evaluation Capacity: A Case Study of USAID and USHHS,” at the American Evaluation Association’s annual conference.

Appointments
Robert Cottrol, professor of law, of history, and of sociology, Law School, was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Holmes Devise, a committee charged with overseeing the writing of the official history of the United States Supreme Court.

Gabrielle Julien-Molineaux has been appointed as assistant director of admissions for the Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

Awards
Joseph Gastwirth, professor of statistics and of economics, CCAS, received the “Outstanding Application Award” at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Society for the article “Change Point Tests Designed for the Analysis of Hiring Data Arising in Equal Employment Cases,” co-authored with B. Freidlin, published in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, V. 18, pp. 315–322.

Publications
Joseph Gastwirth, professor of statistics and of economics, CCAS, co-wrote “Estimation of Upper Quantiles and Model Uncertainty,” R. Modarres and T.K. Nayak, in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, V. 39, pp. 529–554. Gastwirth also co-wrote: “Statistical Properties of Teng and Risch’s Sibship Type Tests for Detecting an Association between Disease and a Candidate Allele,” with Zhaohai Li associate professor of statistics, CCAS, and D. Pee, published in Human Heredity, V. 53, pp. 114–129; “Trend Tests for Case-Control Studies of Genetic Markers: Power, Sample Size and Robustness,” with B. Freidlin, G. Zheng, and Zhaohai Li, published in Human Heredity, V. 53, pp. 146–152; “Efficiency of DNA Pooling to Estimate the Joint Allele Frequencies and a Measure of Linkage Disequilibrium,” with R. Pfeiffer, J. Rutter, J. Struewing, and M. Gail, published in Genetic Epidemiology, V. 22, pp. 94–102; “Robust TDT-type Candidate-Gene Association Tests,” with G. Zheng and B. Freidlin, published in Annals of Human Genetics, V. 66, pp. 145–155; and “The Asymtotic Distribution of the S-Gini Index,” with R. Zitikis, to be published in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, V. 44, pp. 439–446.

Tyra Hilliard, assistant professor of event and meeting management, SBPM, published “Trust Me: A Lesson in Antitrust Issues,” in the November 2002 issue of Successful Meetings magazine.

Cynthia Lee, professor of law, Law School, wrote “Murder and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom,” to be published by NYU Press during the spring of 2003.