Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements

Kalvir Dhuga, associate professor of physics; Ali Eskandarian, associate professor of physics; William Parke, professor of physics; Leonard Maximon, research professor of physics; doctoral student Tilan Ukwatta; and post-doctoral fellow David Morris were among the co-authors of “Spectral Lags of Gamma-Ray Bursts from Primordial Black Hole (PBH) Evaporations,” which Ukwatta presented at the Sixth Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium 2008 in October.

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, presented an invited paper “Computability and orders on structures” at the International Meeting on Computability, Reverse Mathematics and Combinatorics at the Banff International Research Station in Canada in December 2008. She also presented an invited paper “Computable properties of abelian p-groups” at the Meeting of the American Mathematical Society at Wesleyan University in October.

Vanessa Northington Gamble, University Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of History, will receive the 2009 American Medical Student Association Women Leaders in Medicine Award March 13 at the AMSA National Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Arlington, Va.

Appointments

Harry Harding, former dean of GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs and University Professor of International Affairs, has been named the first dean of the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten Sr. School of Leadership and Public Policy effective July 1.

Donna Scarboro was named associate vice president of the newly established Office of International Programs. The office, which replaces the Office of Special and International Programs, will focus on study abroad, international exchanges of students and scholars, and GW’s relationships with institutions around the world.

Kristin Williams was promoted to assistant vice president of the Office of Graduate and Special Enrollment Management, a newly created office that expands the existing Office of Graduate Student Enrollment Management to assume oversight of the University’s special programs, including summer sessions and pre-college programs.

Publications

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, and GW graduate student Jennifer Chubb, co-published “Partial automorphism semigroups” in the December 2008 issue of the Elsevier journal Annals of Pure and Applied Logic.

Kip Kosek, assistant professor of American Studies, published Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy with Columbia University Press.

Barry Berman, professor of physics, and GW graduate student Sarah Han-Oh co-published “Usefulness of Guided Breathing for Dose-Rate-Regulated Tracking” in the February issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. Berman also presented the paper, as well as “Tumor Tracking with Dose-Rate Regulation of Multileaf-Collimator Motion,” at the 2009 Joint Conference of the 12th International Workshop on Nuclear Physics and the 6th International Symposium on Nuclear & Related Techniques in Havana, Cuba, in February.

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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