February 2006

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements:

Alasdair Bowie, associate professor of political science and international affairs, CCAS, presented “Innovating Economic Governance: Vietnam’s Provinces and Their Response to China” at the conference on Regenerations: New Leaders, New Visions in Southeast Asia, of the Yale Southeast Asia Council, Yale University.

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, associate professor of public administration, international affairs, and international business, CCAS and ESIA, presented “Decentralization and Local Government-Citizen Partnerships: A Decision Space Analysis” with Derick Brinkerhoff, at the Eminent Scholars Workshop on Decentralizing Governance: Devolution, Capacity and Partnerships, co-sponsored by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University, and the United Nations.

William Frawley, dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and professor of anthropology and psychology, CCAS, presented “Core Issues in Linguistic Theory: ‘Cognitive’ and Other Problematic Concepts” at the Modern Language Association Session on Language Theory and the Cognitive Sciences.

Julie Ryan, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering, SEAS, was invited to provide a keynote address at the inaugural meeting of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Asia Pacific. Ryan also was invited to address the sixth Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference — Protecting the Australian Homeland at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. She presented a discussion on “Daubert and Digital Forensics” with Daniel Ryan, Esq., at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference, in Tampa, FL, Jan. 10–13.

Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of accountancy, GWSB, presented “Account-Ability” at an event sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America. Singleton also addressed a group of Investor Relations professionals at an event sponsored by the National Investor Relations Institute.

Roger Whitaker, dean of the College of Professional Studies, presented “Cultivating Innovation in Continuing Higher Education” at the University of Sydney, Australia, as well as “Higher Education in the United States: A View from the Periphery” presented at the Continuing Education Directors Annual Conference in Bathurst, Australia.

Appointments:

Christine Meloni, associate professor emeritus of English as a foreign language, CCAS, was appointed interim editor of the Essential Teacher, a quarterly publication of International Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Tjai M. Nielsen, assistant professor of management science, GWSB, has been invited to join the editorial board of the journal, Group and Organization Management.

Edward Gnehm, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor and co-director of the undergraduate program of international affairs, was named executive vice chair of the Board of Directors of the American-Kuwaiti Alliance.
Awards and Grants:

Awards and Grants:

Barry Berman, professor of physics, CCAS, has been named 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.

William J Briscoe, professor of physics, CCAS, has been elected to American Physical Society Fellowship. He is cited “For significant contributions to the understanding of ionic and electromagnetic interactions with nucleons and nuclei, fundamental symmetries such as time-reversal invariance and charge symmetry, and the design and construction of the JLab Tagged Photon Facility.”

Margaret Gnoinska, a doctorate student in history, CCAS, won a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Poland. The fellowship will run from February to October 2006. Gnoinska also won a National Security Education Program David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship that will run from July 2006 to June 2007.

Royce Hanson, director of the Center for Washington Area Studies, and Garry Young, research scientist with the GW Institute of Public Policy, received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its project, “Promoting Bicycling in Three Metropolitan Washington Counties.” Young also co-published “Presidential Rhetoric, the Public Agenda, and the End of Presidential Television’s Golden Age,” in the Journal of Politics v. 67, pp. 1190–1205 with William B. Perkins.

John N. Petrie, assistant vice president for public safety and emergency management, members of his department, and contributors from the Office of University Relations and the Neighborhood Planning Committee, received five awards from the International Association of Emergency Managers. Among the awards were: Shelter in Place poster, third place; Emergency Preparedness Tips poster, honorable mention; Advertising Campaign: Got Plans?, second place; “An Exercise in Emergency Preparedness,” Greg Licamele/ByGeorge!, first place; and “NPC Private-Private/Private-Public Partnerships,” honorable mention.

Tracy Schario, director of media relations, Office of University Relations, received the Diamond Award from the National Capital Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. The award, among the society’s highest individual honors, was presented at the chapter’s end-of-year celebration on Dec. 8. Schario currently serves as president of the National Capital Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

Publications:

Jagdish Chandra, research professor of statistics, CCAS, published “A Framework for Robust and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems,” in Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics.

Herbert J. Davis, professor of strategic management and international affairs, GWSB, co-edited Management in India: Trends and Transition, (Sage Publications/Response Books).

Howard Eisner, distinguished research professor and professor of engineering management and systems engineering department, SEAS, published his most recent book, Managing Complex Systems — Thinking Outside the Box, (John Wiley). The book is part of the Wiley Interscience Series in Systems Engineering and Management.

Ernie Englander, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, GWSB, co-published “A Team Production Model of Corporate Governance” with Allen Kaufman, University of New Hampshire, as the lead article in the current issue of The Academy of Management Executive, August 2005, v. 19, n. 3, pp. 9–22.

Cynthia Holt, science and technology librarian, Gelman Library, published Guide to Information Resources in the Forensic Sciences (Greenwood Publishing, 2005). Moses S. Schanfield, professor of forensic sciences and chair of the department, CCAS, wrote the forward.

Peter Klarén, professor of history and international affairs, CCAS, published “The Sugar Industry in Peru,” in Revista de Indias (January–April 2005), pp. 33–48. Klarén also appeared as a panelist on the History International channel program Global View, entitled “Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru,” which aired on Nov. 25. Klarén’s book Nacion Y Sociedad En La Historia Del Peru (Lima, 2004) is now in its second printing.

Jessica Krash, adjunct associate professor of music, CCAS, released Obstructed View: New Works for Solo Piano (Capstone), a recording of her performances of original compositions.

Frank Lee, associate professor of physics, CCAS, co-published an article with graduate student Leming Zhou and undergraduate Ryan Kelly, entitled “Baryon Magnetic Moments in the Background Field Method” in Physics Letters B, v. 627, n. 71 (2005). Lee also co-authored the article “Electric Polarizabilty of Neutral Hadrons from Lattice QCD,” in Physical Review D, v. 72(2005). In addition, Lee gave an invited talk entitled “Excited and Exotic States on the Lattice” at an international workshop in Cyprus.

John Lill, assistant professor of biological sciences, CCAS, recently co-authored a paper entitled “Climactic Unpredictability and Parasitism of Caterpillars: Implications of Global Warming” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v. 102, pp. 17384–17387). The paper was featured recently in The New York Times and National Geographic News.

Kerr-Jia Lu, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, SEAS, co-authored the technical brief, “Design and Application of Compliant Mechanisms for Surgical Tools” in the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 2005, v. 127, n. 6, pp. 981-989.

Yaron Peleg, assistant professor of Hebrew and Hebrew program coordinator in the Department of Classical & Semitic Languages & Literatures, CCAS, published his latest book, Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination (Cornell University Press, 2005).

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