Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements

Azim Eskandarian, professor of engineering and applied science, co-authored “Enhanced Active Steering System for Collision Avoidance Maneuvers” in Proceedings of the 11th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems; “Investigation of Control Design of Vehicle Active Steering” in Proceedings of ASME 2008 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference; and “Efficient Certificate Distribution for Vehicle Heartbeat Messages” in Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications.

Sanjay Jain, assistant professor of decision sciences, was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to research how modeling and simulation applications can improve disaster management practices.

Mustafa V. Koc, M.B.A. ’84, chairman of Koc Holding, Turkey’s largest industrial conglomerate and one of Europe’s biggest companies, has been named the 2008-09 Robert P. Maxon Lecturer by GW’s School of Business.
Michael Plesniak, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. The society’s fellowship program recognizes members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology.

Scheherazade S. Rehman, professor of international business and international affairs, was on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer Nov. 14 to discuss the G20 meeting in Washington, D.C.

Publications

Jonathan Gil Harris, professor of English, published Matter in the Time of Shakespeare with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Frank X. Lee, associate professor of physics, and GW graduate student Scott Moerschbacher, published an article titled “Magnetic moments of vector, axial, and tensor mesons in lattice QCD” in the November 2008 issue of Physical Review D, a publication of the American Physical Society.

Deepa Ollapally, associate director of GW’s Sigur Center for Asian Studies and professorial lecturer, published The Politics of Extremism in South Asia with Cambridge University Press.

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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