March 2007

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements:

John F. Banzhaf, professor of law, provided commentary for a variety of media outlets including WRAL.com, abcnews.com, the Herald-Sun, The Washington Post, St. Petersburg Times, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Los Angeles Times, and Cleveland’s The Plain-Dealer.

Turker Ozdogan, professor of ceramics, and Jeff Stephanic, associate professor of design, exhibited their recent work in Washington, D.C.’s Ninth Street Gallery from Feb. 24-March 24.

Pradeep A. Rau, professor of marketing, presented “Mining Market Basket Data to Discover Localized Associations,” co-authored by Xiaojun Li, doctoral candidate in decision sciences; Srinivas Prasad, associate professor of decision sciences; and Sanal Mazvancheryl, University of Maryland, at the Second International Conference on Research in Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, Jan. 3-5.

Appointments:

Alberto Miguel Fernandez, director of the Office of Press and Public Diplomacy in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Near East Affairs, will join GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs as a public diplomacy fellow in fall 2007. Each year, the State Department assigns a career diplomat to the School of Media and Public Affairs’ Public Diplomacy Institute where he or she writes, teaches, and directs colloquia.

J. Houston Miller, professor of chemistry, was appointed Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Cambridge University. His proposed field of study for the five-month appointment is the development of laser diagnostics for application in biotechnology.

William Quandt, Edward R. Stettinius Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, has accepted a two-year appointment as James Clark Welling Visiting Professor at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Quandt will deliver lectures on American foreign policy in the Middle East and discuss Arab-Israeli relations with the community.

Awards:

Gary Confessore, professor emeritus of higher education administration, received the Malcolm Knowles Memorial Award for significant lifelong contribution in the field of self-directed learning from the International Society for Self-Directed Learning.

Daniel T. de Lill has received a $1,000 grant from the Trustees of the Cosmos Club Foundation in support of his research proposal titled “High-Pressure Cystallography and Luminescence of Metal-Organic Framework Materials.”

GW MBA students—Michael Clarke, Austin Henderson, Amy Connelly, Alessandro Carrani, Andy Price, and Kimya Gharib—won first place in a national business ethics case competition hosted by Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.

The Office of Medical Center Communications and Marketing received three awards in the 20th Annual International Mercury 2006/07 Awards Competition, recognizing outstanding achievement in public relations and corporate communications. Progress and the GW Cancer Institute Annual Report received bronze awards, while the GW Medicine and Health magazine’s “Creativity and Aging” cover story won a silver award.

Omega C. Logan Silva, professor emeritus of medicine, will become an emeritus member of the American Chemical Society. Last year, she was reappointed consultant to the American Legion Veterans Planning and Coordinating Medical Advisory Committee, elected a fellow of the African American Institute, and elected to the board of the National Research Center for Women and Families.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president, was honored by the National Association of Presidential Assistants in Higher Education for his significant contributions to higher education.

Publications:

Amitai Etzioni, University Professor and professor of international affairs, recently published “The Community Deficit” in The Journal of Common Market Studies, “Controlled Maintenance” in Society, “Wilson Carey McWilliams’s Conservative Communitarianism” in Perspectives in Political Science, “Reconstruction: An Agenda” in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, and “Self-Evident Truth (Beyond Relativism)” in the book Universalism vs. Relativism: Making Moral Judgments in a Changing, Pluralistic, and Threatening World.

Stefan Gunther, director of Summer Sessions, recently published “The Holocaust as the Still Point of the World in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants” in W. G. Sebald: History – Memory – Trauma, edited by Scott Denham and Mark McCulloh.


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