May 2006

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements:

Evan Baum, campus community director of CLLC, presented “Leadership Program Alumni Speak: Gains, Gaps & Outcomes of Student Leadership Programs” at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) conference.

Keith Betts, senior executive director of SASS strategic initiatives, and Lisa Steinberg presented “The SASS Research Consortium: Building Research and Practice Partnerships” at the Educational Symposium for Research and Innovations (ESRI), at GW.

Joseph Bondi, director of advancement, GSPM, Andy Sonn, director of SASS customer service initiatives, Ebony Jackson, executive assistant in the office of the senior VP for SASS, Josh Schimmerling and Patricia Tanner, director of the staffing and compensation in the department of human resource services, presented “George Washington’s Colonial Community: Enhancing Employee Culture Across Campus” at the NASPA conference.

Helen Cannaday Saulny, assistant vice president for student academic support services, Keith Betts, senior executive director of SASS strategic initiatives, Tim Miller, director of Student Activities Center and Andy Sonn, director
of SASS customer service initiatives, presented “Outside the Classroom: An Institutional Review and Assessment of the Campus Life Experience” at
the NASPA conference.

Kim Clemens, executive officer of the office of student judicial services, Corinne Farrell, campus community director CLLC, Harry Knabe, manager of summer housing, CLLC, and Evan Baum, campus community director of CLLC, presented “Making Training ‘Different’: An Experiential Approach to Preparing Residential Staff” at the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) conference.

Eric Cline, professor of classics, CCAS, has been named associate director (representing the US) of the Megiddo Excavations in Israel.

Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and professor of history and sociology, GWLS, presented the Magisterial Lecture, “Separados Pero Iquales,” at La Facultad de Derecho y Ciencia Political, La Universidad de San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru. Cottrol also delivered the Harold and Margaret H. Rorschach Lecture in Legal History, “Race and Comparative Law in the Americas,” at Rice University and was the Magisterial Lecturer at the Facultad de Derecho, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where he delivered “Brown Contra la Junta de Educación: Pensamientos Sobre su Desarrollo y Significancia.”

Henry Hale, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, ESIA, presented “How the Mighty Fall: The ‘Colored Revolutions’ and Eurasia’s Democratic Prospects” at the Association for the Study of Nationalities annual meeting. He also served as a panel discussant on Yoshiko Herrera’s book, Imagined Economies: The Sources of Russian Regionalism (NY: Cambridge, 2005), at the meeting.

Emily Jankowski, an undergraduate academic advisor in CCAS Office of Undergraduate Studies, presented “The Sanctuary Program: Guiding Others to Religious Open-Mindedness” with Cathy Roberts-Cooper, University of West Georgia, at the 2006 ACPA convention.

Tim Miller, director of the Student Activities Center, and Matthew Keidan, master’s student, GSEHD, presented “The Millennial Graduate Student: A Look at GW’s Grad Life Model” at the ACPA convention.

Leo P. Ribuffo, professor of history, CCAS, has been selected by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) to receive an OAH-JAAS short term residency at Sophia University in Twentieth-Century US History. The OAH and the Japanese Association of American Studies select three US historians to spend two weeks at Japanese universities giving lectures, seminars and advising students and researchers interested in the American past.

Peter Rollberg, associate professor of Slavic and film studies and international affairs, CCAS, ESIA, presented “Fathers and Terrorists: The Shadow of Dostoevskii’s Devils in Belyi’s Petersburg” at the 2006 International Conference on Narrative.

Geralyn Schulz, CCC-SLP, associate professor of speech and hearing, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to research use of visual feedback of lingual movements in speech remediation following neurologic damage. In collaboration with GW’s computer engineering department, she is developing a system for visual feedback of lingual movements during speech using the 3-D EMA.

David Shambaugh, director of the China Policy Program and professor of political science and international affairs, ESIA, delivered the 46th Annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture, “Power Shift: China, the United States and the Regional Order in Asia,” sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University.

Andrew Sonn, director of SASS customer service initiatives, presented “‘Customer’ is Not a Dirty Word: Serving Millennial Students and Parents” at the Maryland Student Affairs Conference.

Charles Toftoy, associate professor of management, GWSB, received the “Leading Educators of the World, 2005” award.

Robert C. Waters, professor of engineering management, SEAS, presented a paper, “What Has Made GE Special?” at the American Society for Engineering Management annual conference. The paper is to be published in an upcoming special issue of the Engineering Management Journal under the title, “Evolution of Leadership Development at GE.” He also presented a paper,
“What Happened to Boulding’s Evolutionary Economics?” at the Association for Evolutionary Economics annual meeting. The paper will be published in the June issue of the Journal of Economic Issues.

Roger Whitaker, dean of the College of Professional Studies, presented two keynote speeches at international conferences: “Alternative Futures: Lifelong Learning and Higher Education” to the annual meeting of the University Association for Lifelong Learning, hosted by University of Warwick, England, and “Current Issues in US Higher Education: The Creative Role of Continuing Education” to the annual meeting of deans and directors, Canadian Association of University Continuing Education.

Martin G. Zysmilich, assistant professor of chemistry, CCAS, spoke on “Innovations in Contemporary Science for Non-Science Majors” at the 231st American Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting, in Atlanta, GA. The presentation focused on the incorporation of different kinds of classroom technologies in large lecture courses.

Publications
Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection development librarian, Gelman Library, published a review of the book Kafka in Bronteland and Other Stories by Tamar Yellin in the February/March 2006 issue of the Association of Jewish Libraries newsletter.

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, CCAS, published a monograph with study and complete translations of the 40 inscriptions on a newly discovered Chinese Coromandel lacquer screen of the 17th century entitled: The Grass is Deep—Good for Hiding Deer; The Pine-needles Seem to be Turning to Dragons (Marseille, France: Cédric Curien Art Asiatique, 2006). Chaves also served as a panelist on the subject of “Scholarly Collaboration in Asian Studies” at the Stephen Addiss Tribute Symposium, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Murli Gupta, professor of mathematics, CCAS, published the paper, “A New Paradigm For Solving Navier-Stokes Equations: Streamfunction-Velocity Formulation,” co-authored with Jiten Kalita, which has been listed number two in the Top 25 Hottest Articles list in the Journal of Computational Physics.

Patrick McHugh, associate professor of management, GWSB, published “Revisiting General and Specific Union Beliefs: The Union-Voting Intentions of Professionals” with co-authors Heejoon Park of Seoul National University, and Matthew Bodah of the University of Rhode Island in the April 2006 issue of Industrial Relations.

Fernando Robles, professor of international business and international affairs, GWSB, published “Leveraging Internal Competency and Managing Environmental Uncertainty: Propensity to Collaborate
in International Markets” in International Marketing Review, Vol 23, no1, 2006. Co-authored with S. Akther.


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