Feb. 5, 2002

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Murray H. Loew, professor of engineering, SEAS, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers “for contributions to medical image analysis, pattern recognition, and digital image processing.”

Aseem Prakash, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, was a panelist at the invitation-only workshop on “Certification Institutions and Private Governance: New Dynamics in the Global Protection of the Environment and Workers’ Rights,” convened by Duke University’s Center for Environmental Solutions, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Nicholas School of Environment, and the Law School in Durham on Dec. 7–8. The project was funded by the Ford Foundation. Scholars from Harvard, Yale, MIT, UMD-College Park, and UNC-Chapel Hill, as well as practitioners from the EPA, Sierra Club, WWF, American Chemistry Council, and International Paper participated in this workshop.

Publications
Muriel Atkin, professor of history, wrote “Tajikistan: A President and His Rivals,” in Power and Change in Central Asia, S.N. Cummings, ed. (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 97–114.

Prabir K. Bagchi, professor of logistics and operations management, SBPM, co-authored with Seung-Kuk Paik (doctoral candidate, logistics), “The role of public-private partnership in port information systems development,” in International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 14, No. 6–7 (2001), pp. 482–499.

Peter P. Hill, professor emeritus of history and international affairs, CCAS, and University historian, published “Who’s in Chargé,” an article on the role of charges d’affaires in US foreign policy prior to 1900, in the December 2001 issue of Newsletter, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’ publication.

Roli Khare, a student majoring in international politics and economics, and president and co-founder of Free the Children in Pennsylvania, contributed a chapter, “Taking Responsibility: Waking Up to the Connection Between Privilege and Poverty,” in Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century, edited by Neva Welton and Linda Wolf (New Society Publishers, 2001).

Appointments
Jodi Felberg, appointed research technology coordinator for the Center for Academic Technologies. Felberg will be responsible for coordinating the GW SAS software distribution program; organizing statistical software and research, and technology workshops and seminars; and managing the Statistical Support Office. Most recently Felberg has worked with ISS and Gelman Library.

Richard J. Pierce, Jr., appointed to the newly created position of associate dean for faculty development at the GW Law School. Pierce will serve as a point of contact for the law faculty regarding activities designed to facilitate and enhance scholarship and improve teaching, such as works-in-progress presentations, conferences, symposia, and other collaborative endeavors. He also will provide advice and assistance to faculty regarding academic and research opportunities for sabbatical and other leaves, including sources of funding.

 

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