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December 2007 Kudos! Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of the GW faculty and staff Acknowledgments John Banzhaf III, professor of law, was quoted in a variety of media outlets, including The Sacramento Bee Web site sacbee.com, and Red Tape Blog of the Michigan State University libraries system. GW Magazine won a CASE District II Gold Award in the category of Visual Design in Print for the spring 2007 illustration “Celebrating the Presidency of Stephen Joel Trachtenberg.” The two-page illustration depicts Trachtenberg in the Mid-Campus Quad among several campus elements to illustrate his tenure at GW. Tanya K. Hernandez, Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law, was named one of Hispanic Business magazine’s “100 most influential Hispanics.” Carol L. Izumi, professor of clinical law, was elected to the Consumers Union Board of Directors for a second three-year term. Consumers Union publishes Consumer Reports magazine, and all subscribers are eligible to vote for board members. Robert McRuer, associate professor of English, won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for his book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. The award is given annually by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus for the Modern Language Association. Vahid Motevalli, director of the Aviation Institute and associate professor of engineering and applied science, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Air Transport and Global Climate Change conference, to be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 30-April 1. Motevalli was also recently interviewed by a number of publications, including Dubai’s Khaleej Times. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, GW president emeritus and University professor of public service, received the 2008 Allen P. Splete Award for Outstanding Service from the Council of Independent Colleges. The award honors significant contributions to higher education and recognizes national leadership through ideas and commitment on behalf of private colleges and universities. Akos Vertes, deputy chair of the Department of Chemistry and director of GW’s W. M. Keck Institute for Proteomics Technology and Applications, former-post doctoral scientist Yue Li, and graduate student Bindesh Shrestha published an article, “Atmospheric Pressure Infrared MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry for Plant Metabolomics,” in the January 2008 issue of Analytical Chemistry. The article was featured on the cover page of the journal. John F. Williams Jr., provost and vice president of Health Affairs at GW’s Medical Center, was presented with the distinguished service award by the Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health on Nov. 5, during the Public Health Association conference in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes an alumnus whose career exemplifies the highest levels of achievement in public health, especially in the areas of leadership to the field, academic public health, public health practice, or sustained service to Yale University. Appointments Elliot Hirshman, GW’s chief research officer and professor of psychology, has been appointed provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Hirshman will begin his tenure there on July 1. David Pensak, computer software pioneer and creator of the Internet firewall, has joined GW’s Law School’s Creative and Innovative Economy Center as a research fellow. At GW, Pensak will embark on a series of workshops to be hosted in developing countries around the globe, the first of which took place Jan. 16 in Jordan. Pensak has conducted research at the DuPont Corporation for more than 30 years and has engaged in additional entrepreneurial business ventures, including Raptor Systems and Authentica. Publications Lawrence A. Cunningham, professor of law, has three forthcoming articles: “Securitizing Audit Failure Risk: An Alternative to Caps on Damages” in William & Mary Law Review; “Beyond Liability: Rewarding Effective Gatekeepers” in the Minnesota Law Review; and “A Prescription to Retire the Rhetoric of ‘Principles-Based Systems’ in Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, and Accounting” in Vanderbilt Law Review. Roger A. Fairfax, associate professor of law, has published an article, “Grand Jury Discretion and Constitutional Design,” in Cornell Law Review. His article, “Harmless Constitutional Error and the Appellate Subversion of the Jury,” will be published in the Fordham Law Review. Frank Lee, associate professor of physics, co-authored an article with Janardan Singh of University of Baroda, India, titled “Mass and width of strange baryon resonances using QCD sum rules,” in the December 2007 issue of Physical Review C, a publication of the American Physical Society. Ira C. Lupu, F. Elwood and Eleanor Davis Professor of Law, and Robert W. Tuttle, David R. and Sherry Kirschner Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion, published “State of the Law, 2007: Legal Developments Affecting Government Partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations.” This is their sixth annual report on the subject for the Roundtable on Religion & Social Welfare Policy organization. R.J. Shepherd, assistant professor of honors and anthropology, published When Culture Goes to Market: Space, Place and Identity in an Urban Marketplace. The book is an ethnographic study of Washington’s Eastern Market and its vendors, market staff, and customers, and examines how urban public space is produced and shaped by broader economic and social processes. Christopher Sten, professor of English and director of the Writing in the Disciplines Program, co-edited a collection of essays, “Whole Oceans Away”: Melville and the Pacific with Wyn Kelley and the late Jill Barnum. The collection includes Sten’s essay “Facts Picked Up in the Pacific: Fragmentation, Deformation, and the (Cultural) Uses of Enchantment in Melville’s The Encantadas.” Kudos is a recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of GW faculty and staff. To submit information for Kudos, e-mail ByGeorge! at bygeorge@gwu.edu and write Kudos in the subject line.
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