May 2007

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgments:

David DeGrazia, professor of philosophy, won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 prize for his book Human Identity and Bioethics, published by Cambridge University Press.

Daina S. Eglitis, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar. She will be spending the fall semester in Riga, Latvia.

Murli Gupta, professor of mathematics, visited the Indian Institute of Technology—Guwahati in February as an official guest and consulted on research and curriculum with the mathematics department. He delivered two invited lectures in the IIT Guwahati Mathematics Seminar Series: “Two Decades of HOC (Higher Order Compact) Schemes for Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics” and “Multigrid Methods and Parallel Computations.”

GW Housing Programs was the recipient of two national awards presented by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA): the Outstanding Innovation Award and the Outstanding Use of Technology Award. ACPA has nearly 8,000 members representing nearly 1,500 private and public institutions from across the U.S. and the globe.

Mirghani Mohamed, assistant director of the Foggy Bottom Data Center, was named Emerald Group Publishing’s “Highly Commended Winner” for his paper “Knowledge Management and Information Technology: Can They Work in Perfect Harmony?” published in the Journal of Knowledge Management. He also published “The Key Requirements for Deploying Knowledge Management Services in a Semantic Grid Environment” in the International Journal of Knowledge Management.

Peter Rollberg, associate professor of Slavic and film studies and international affairs, gave a lecture on “The Cinema of the Post-Soviet Republic of Georgia” at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies on March 13.

David J. Silverman, assistant professor of history, received the American Council of Learned Societies’ Oscar Handlin Fellowship for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Charles N. Toftoy, associate professor of management, received the 2007 American Medal of Honor, awarded by the American Biographical Institute Inc. The medal is bestowed upon men and women of exceptional distinction who have significant individual accomplishments and contributions to society.

Publications:

John Banzhaf, professor of law, was quoted in a variety of media outlets, including the Associated Press, Durham Herald-Sun, Duke Chronicle, and NewsDay.

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese and Columbian Professor, gave two presentations: “Secularism as a Force in the Foundation of Modern China” for the colloquium “Religion and Secularism,” presented by GW’s History Department, and “CLOUD GATE SONG: Poetry in Tang China and the Poetry of Zhang Ji (766-830)” for the symposium “The Golden Age of the Silk Road: the Tang Dynasty in China” at the Smithsonian Institution. Chaves also authored a chapter and an appendix in Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush, Yale University Press, the catalogue to the exhibition currently showing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Robert J. Cottrol, professor of law, of history, and of sociology and Harold Green Research Professor of Law, published the essay “Normative Nominalism: The Paradox of Egalitarian Law in Inegalitarian Cultures—Some Lessons from Recent Latin American Historiography” in Tulane Law Review and “Beyond Invisibility: Afro-Argentines in their Nation’s Culture and Memory” in Latin American Research Review.

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, co-published “On the Learnability of Vector Spaces” with Frank Stephan in the Journal of Computer and System Sciences. She also co-published “Bounding Homogeneous Models” with Barbara Csima, Denis Hirschfeldt, and Robert Soare in Journal of Symbolic Logic, and gave an Association of Symbolic Logic plenary address titled “Back and Forth Through Computable Model Theory” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans in January.

Frank Lee, associate professor of physics, published an article titled “Spectroscopy of Light Hadrons in Anisotropic Lattice QCD” in International Journal of Modern Physics A.

Harry Nau, professor of political science and international affairs, published “Why We Fight Over Foreign Policy” in Policy Review.

Walter Reich, the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, co-authored a new book on terrorism State of the Struggle Report on the Battle against Global Terrorism, published by Brookings Institution Press.

Gayle Wald, associate professor of English, published Shout, Sister, Shout: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The project was supported by a GW University Facilitating Fund grant.
Kudos is a recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of GW faculty and staff.

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