Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements

John Banzhaf, professor of law, was an invited speaker at a tea cosponsored by the Yale Political Union and the Pre-Law Society at Yale University March 31.

Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection development librarian, Gelman Library, spoke about the Jewish underground leader Avraham Stern on the 67th anniversary of Stern’s assassination by the British on the Jewish Activist Network radio program on WSNR 620 AM in New York.

Ali Eskandarian, senior associate dean for strategic initiatives and research in the College of Professional Studies, presented “The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox and Quantum Mysteries a la Mermin” as an invited speaker at the 28th Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications, Quantum Knots, at GW, Feb. 27-March 1. The conference was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Azim Eskandarian, professor of engineering and applied science, was invited to serve on the IEE-USA Committee on Transportation and Aerospace Policy, one of IEEE legislation committees to advise Congress on policy issues. Dr. Eskandarian also was elected to the board of governors of IEEE ITS society for a three-year term.

Mark Feldstein, associate professor of media and public affairs, has been awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to study“Muckraking in a Digital Age.” Last year, he travelled to Sri Lanka and the Maldives through a State Department-funded program
to train journalists in investigative reporting.

Rodney L. Johnson, director of parent services, received a certificate of recognition for outstanding contributions and service to parents and family members on the GW campus. He and his staff also presented a session titled “Planning a Successful Parents Weekend” at the Administrators Promoting Parent Involvement conference in Boston.

Frank X. Lee, associate professor of physics, was invited to serve on a high-profile panel to review multimillion-dollar budget proposals for the cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation program of the National Science Foundation.

Marcia Norton, associate professor of history, won the Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies’ best first article prize for “Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics,” which was published in American Historical Review.

William Parke, professor of physics; Kalvir Dhuga, associate professor of physics; Ali
Eskandarian, senior associate dean for strategic initiatives and research in the College of Professional Studies; Leonard Maximon, research professor of physics; David Morris, GW/NASA astrophysics post-doctoral fellow; and Tilan Ukwatta, doctoral student, completed research on “Spectral Lags of Gamma-Ray Bursts from Primordial Black Hole (PBH) Evaporations,” which Ukwatta presented at the Sixth Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium 2008, Oct. 20-23. The research was conducted in collaboration with colleagues at the University of North Florida and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Susan Phillips, dean of GW’s School of Business, was elected to the board of directors for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International. Phillips is one of 10 prominent management education and business professionals joining the board effective July 1 and will serve as secretary-treasurer.

Dolores Stafford, chief of police, and the GW Police Department received accreditation
for the second time by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies
Inc in March.

Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry and of biochemisty and molecular biology and co-director of the W.M. Keck Institute for Proteomics Technology and Applications, was profiled in the March issue of The Scientist. Dr. Vertes was interviewed about his biological imaging with mass spectrometry techniques.

Publications

Steve Charnovitz, associate professor of law, co-wrote “Global Warming and the World Trading System.”

Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green research professor of law, co-authored a chapter, “Public Safety and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms,” in The Bill of Rights in Modern America: Revised and Expanded Edition. He also worked on several amicus briefs supporting respondent Richard Heller in the landmark Second Amendment case District of Columbia v. Heller and was co-counsel on the amicus brief filed by the Congress of Racial Equality.

Michael Marquardt, professor of human and organizational learning and international
affairs, published Action Learning for Developing Leaders and Organizations with the American Psychological Association Press.

Leonard Maximon, research professor of physics, and collaborators at the Institut fur
Kernphysik at Universitat Mainz and Arizona State University published “Angular Distribution of scattered electrons associated with collimated bremsstrahlung and the tagging technique” in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research.

Patrick McHugh, associate professor of labor relations, published “Batter Up, Student on Deck: The Utility of Moneyball in Management Education” in the April issue of the Journal of Management Education.

Gail Weiss, professor of philosophy and human sciences, published myriad articles and book chapters, including “Refiguring the Ordinary,” “Intertwinings: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty” and “Freedom F/or the Other” in Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence. Dr. Weiss also delivered invited talks at Ryder University in Toronto, University of Mary Washington, Rikkyo University in Tokyo and University of Helsinki’s Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland.

Appointments

Sarah Gegenheimer Baldassaro has been named assistant vice president for communications in GW’s Division of External Relations. Baldassaro previously served as communications director for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). She has also worked as deputy communications director to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), communications director to Teresa Heinz Kerry, and senior media strategist for the Glover Park Group, a local public affairs agency.

David Fifer was hired as GW’s Police Department coordinator of the Emergency Medical Response Group, known as EMeRG. Prior to GW, Fifer was an emergency medical technician in Virginia and Kentucky and holds national EMS certification as an emergency medical technician.

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