June 2006

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements:

Karen Ahlquist, associate professor of music, CCAS, gave a paper, “‘Our Gift’: German Musical Traditions and the Limits of Anglo-Conformity in 1870s Cincinnati,” at the Society for American Music annual conference in Chicago.
She also gave an invited paper, “Adaptation and Effect: Mozart’s Operas on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage,” at the symposium Opera in the Americas—American Opera at the University of Michigan.

Robert Baker, visiting assistant professor of music, CCAS, sang the role of Ishmael in the premiere production of Peter Westergaard’s opera Moby Dick. The opera was commissioned by and performed at Princeton University and has been released on the Albany label with Baker in the same role.

Douglas Boyce, assistant professor of music, CCAS, has won first prize in the Salvatore Martriano Memorial Composition Award Competition for his string trio “102nd and Amsterdam.” The work will be performed at a winners’ concert at the University of Illinois.

Jocelyne Brant, assistant professor of French, CCAS, and Christine Meloni, associate professor emeritus of English as a foreign language, CCAS, presented the paper, “Using E-Mail and Blogs to Encourage Comprehensible Output” at the annual conference of the Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. Meloni also presented the paper, “Using Weblogs to Improve Student Writing” at the annual convention of international TESOL in Tampa, FL.

Robert J. Callahan, public diplomacy fellow, SMPA, received the Superior Honor Award from the U.S. State Department for his outstanding Foreign Service record. Callahan dedicated over 25 years to the Foreign Service. Prior to joining
the SMPA in 2005, he served as the director of public affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Yvonne Captain, associate professor of Spanish and international affairs, CCAS, recently read a paper, “South-South Relations in the 21st Century,” at the 47th annual conference of the International Studies Association. At the same conference she presided over a session celebrating Phi Beta Delta’s 20th anniversary, an organization for which she is executive director.

Gene D. Cohen, director of the Center on Aging, Health and Humanities, SMHS, received the Outstanding Citizen Award from IONA Senior Services. His new book, The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Human Brain, was published in January.

GW Graphic Design & Printing Services recently won two bronze CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Awards. The winning entries included the “Real Estate Mailer” for GSEHD Advancement designed by Sara Matyas, assistant director, and the “Law Neighborhood Guide” for the GW Law School designed by Amanda Davies, senior graphic designer.

William E. Halal, professor of science, technology, & innovation, GWSB, gave a keynote on “Inventing the Collaborative Enterprise: Time to Redefine Business for the Knowledge Age” at the 7th International Conference on Corporate Governance in London.

Henry Hale, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, ESIA, presented “The Formation of Strong Party Systems: Russia in Comparative Perspective,” at the Institute for Public Programming (INOP) in Moscow, Russia, as part of the “Russian Debates” series. Discussants included a member of the Russian State Duma and a member of the Russian Public Chamber.

Kaveh Jorabchi, chemistry doctoral student, CCAS, received the Chorafas Prize, an international prize for exceptional achievements in research. The Swiss-based Chorafas Foundation awards are devoted to doctoral students who are under 30
at the time of application and conduct outstanding work in selected fields
of engineering, computer science, medicine, and the natural sciences. This is the sixth award he has received for his research. He is also the author/
co-author of 10 papers, two patent applications, and 11 presentations
at major conferences.

Kip Lornell, adjunct professor of music, CCAS, presented a paper,
“The Most Localized Genre of Popular Music in the United States: Go-Go—Traditional African American Music in a Popular Guise,” at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University.

Malinee Peris, adjunct associate professor of music, CCAS, has released a second CD in her geographical series for solo piano, From Spain
to Mexico, on Brioso Recordings.

Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, ESIA, has been named a founding member of the Council on Global Terrorism. The council is an independent, permanent, standing committee of the world’s leading experts on international terrorism that, through research, consultation and public communications, will formulate strategies aimed at improving the ability of governments to combat global terrorism.

Berta Rojas, adjunct assistant professor of music, CCAS, has released a CD of solo guitar music, Cielo Abierto (Open Sky) on the On Music label.

Nina Gilden Seavey, director of the Documentary Center and assistant research professor of history and media and public affairs, SMPA, was named this year’s “Woman of Vision” by Women in Film and Video of Washington, DC.

David J. Silverman, assistant professor of history, CCAS, won the Lester J. Cappon prize for best article of 2005 in the William and Mary Quarterly for his essay, “Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha’s Vineyard.”

Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of accountancy, GWSB, presented “Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets: The Effects of the New US Rules Thus Far,” at the 29th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association. He also spoke at a meeting of the Human Resource Association of the National Capital Area about accounting issues facing human resources professionals.

Publications

Jagdish Chandra, research professor of statistics, CCAS, and Josh Landon, graduate student, published “Toward a Reliable and Resilient Mobile Wireless Architecture,” in the Journal of Stochastic Analysis and Applications.

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, CCAS, published a paper, “Effective Categoricity of Equivalence Structures,” co-authored with Wesley Calvert, Doug Cenzer and Andrei Morozov, in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, v. 141, 2006.

Emmet Kennedy, professor of European history, ESIA, and Catherine Bosley, former Gamow fellow and alumna, published an article, “Public Entertainment and the French Revolution: A Quantitative Analysis
of Play Titles,” in Nottingham French Studies (Spring 2006.)

Mirghani Mohamed, assistant director of ISS, published an article, “How to Evaluate Knowledge Management Technology,” in the Sterling Report: The Monthly Journal of Venture Partners and Enterise Software Executives.


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