May 2002

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Robert Baker, adjunct associate professor of music, CCAS, completed an engagement with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York, performing in Sergei Prokofiev’s “War and Peace,” conducted by Valery Gergiev. Baker is finishing the opera season at the Washington Opera performing in productions of Richard Strauss’ “Salome” and Georges Bizet’s “Carmen.”

George R. Bozzini, associate professor emeritus of English, CCAS, presented “Teaching the Literature of Global English” at the 36th Annual Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, April 9–13, at Salt Lake City, UT.

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese and chair, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, CCAS, presented the lecture “Derrida or the Devil? — Counter-attacking Against ‘Postmodernism,’” for the Orthodox Christian Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, April 18.

Amitai Etzioni, University Professor, director of The Communitarian Network, was one of a few select American panelists invited to speak with 20 international representatives on The Center and the Peripheries: Challenges and Divergences, April 26–28 at the International Center for Dialogue Among Civilizations in Tehran, Iran.

William Handorf, professor of finance, SBPM, discussed the state of the US economy before members of the FDIC, the Department of Justice, and the FBI at the Federal Strategies Against Bank Fraud Conference, held April 15–18, in Long Beach, CA.

Donald E. Hawkins, Eisenhower Professor of Tourism Studies, SBPM, presented “Sustaining Tourism in an Unstable World,” as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, RI, April 2. Hawkins also presented “Protected Areas Ecotourism Competitive Cluster Approach to Biodiversity Conservation and Economic Growth” at the International Ecotourism Colloquium: Sustaining The Business Of Ecotourism, Jan. 17–18, in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Jozef H. Przytycki, professor of mathematics, CCAS, and PhD student Mieczyslaw Dabkowski, solved the 20-year-old Montesinos-Nakanishi “Three-Move Conjecture” (Feb. 2002). Przytycki and Dabkowski have been invited to present their result at the special session of the American Mathematical Society in June 2002; and at the international conferences: “Knots in Montreal,” April 2002; “Graphs-Operads-Logics,” Cuautitlan, Mexico, May 2002; and “Topology in Matsue,” Japan, June 2002.

David Shinn, adjunct professor of international affairs, ESIA, presented, “Somalia: Another Foreign Policy Challenge for the United States” at the Somali Confederation in Minneapolis, MN, March 30.

Mark Starik, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, delivered “Sustaining Future Generations of Environmental Managers and Policy Makers: How Practitioners Can Network with University Environmental Programs” at the GLOBE 2002 Seventh Biennial Conference and Trade Fair on Business and the Environment, on March 14 in Vancouver, Canada.

Donald Weasenforth, assistant professor of English as a foreign language, CCAS, Christine Meloni, associate professor of English as a foreign language, CCAS, and Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas, American University, presented “Using Web Boards to Construct Meaning” at the 36th annual convention of international Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages in Salt Lake City, UT. Meloni and Weasenforth also presented “Putting A Course Online is Easy!”

Appointments
David Shambaugh, professor of political science and international affairs and director of the China Policy Program, ESIA, has been appointed as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for the academic year 2002–03. Shambaugh will write his book entitled, “Hanging On: The Chinese Communist Party After the Demise of Global Communism.”

Kristin S. Williams, director, Graduate Student Enrollment Management (EdD ’96), was elected president of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals, a professional organization devoted to issues concerning graduate and professional student recruitment and admissions professionals. Williams’ two-year term as president began April 26.

Awards
Robert Lindeman, assistant professor of computer science, SEAS, and John Philbeck, assistant professor of psychology, CCAS, received the GW Dilthey research grant, valued at more than $15,000, to explore the use of virtual reality in studying the navigational skills of people.
Publications:

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, assistant professor of public administration, SBPM, published “Government-Nonprofit Partnership: A Defining Framework” in Public Administration and Development, February 2002. She also co-edited, with Derick Brinkerhoff, “Government-Nonprofit Relations in Comparative Perspective” and co-authored its overview piece, “Evolutions, Themes, and New Directions.” They also co-authored “Afghanistan and Pakistan at the Crossroads,” in the World Bank’s winter 2002 issue of Development Outreach.

Murli M. Gupta, professor of mathematics, CCAS, authored “High Accuracy Solution of Three-Dimensional Biharmonic Equations,” with Irfan Altas and Jocelyne Erhel, in Numerical Algorithms, v. 29, n. 1–3, pp. 1–19.

Kathryn Newcomer, professor of public administration, SBPM, published “Tracking and Probing Program Performance: Fruitful Path or Blind Alley for Evaluation Professionals?” in the American Journal of Evaluation.

Aseem Prakash, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, wrote “Factors in Firms and Industries Affecting the Outcomes of Voluntary Measures,” published in New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures, edited by Thomas Dietz and Paul C. Stern for the National Research Council’s Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Prakash also authored “Beyond Seattle: Globalization, the Non-Market Environment, and Business Strategy,” in the Review of International Political Economy, v. 9, n. 3. He co-authored (with Kelly Kollman) “EMS-Based Environmental Regimes as Club Goods: Examining Variations in Firm-level Adoption of ISO 14001 and EMAS in UK, US, and Germany,” in Policy Sciences, v. 35, n. 1.

Fernando Robles, associate professor of international marketing and international affairs, SBPM/ESIA, published “The Evolution of Global Portal Strategy” in the January/February issue of Thunderbird International Business Review.

Lois G. Schwoerer, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History Emerita, CCAS, wrote, The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care: Restoration Publicist (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Schwoerer also wrote the article “To Hold and Bear Arms: The English Perspective,” published in Chicago-Kent Law Review, v. 76, n. 1, pp. 27–60.

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