November 2006

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements:

John F. Banzhaf, professor of law, provided commentary for a variety of publications, including The Rocky Mountain Times, The Sunday Times, The Omaha World Herald, Columbus Dispatch, The Baltimore Sun, The Daily Colonial, and The Washington Times. Banzhaf also published a letter to the editor in The Washington Times Oct. 3.

James O. Horton, the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History, was presented with the President’s Medal at a ceremony hosted by President Trachtenberg on Oct. 26. The President’s Medal is the highest honor conferred by the president of the University.

Frank Lee, associate professor of physics, gave a talk titled “Hadron Magnetic Moments and Polarizabilities in Lattice QCD” at the fifth International Workshop of Chiral Dynamics, Theory, and Experiment in September.

Michael Marquardt, professor of human and organizational learning, delivered the keynote address, “Developing Great Leaders via Action Learning Programs,” at the 35th annual Conference of the International Federation of Training and Development organizations held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August 2006.

Appointments:

Val Berry was appointed chief human resources officer Sept. 1. This new position, which reports directly to the president, was created to bring a more strategic focus to human resources for staff services. Berry comes to GW from Western Washington University, where he served as the chief human resources officer for four years.

Awards

Ernie Englander, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, received the 2006 Best Article Award from the International Association for Business and Society with co-author Allen Kaufman from the University of New Hampshire. Their paper, “The End of Managerial Ideology: From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Indifference,” was published in Enterprise & Society.

Robert M. Entman, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs, received the Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Political Communication Division of the American Political Science Association in recognition for his contributions to political science scholarship.

Young-Key Kim-Renaud, professor of Korean language and culture and international affairs and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, received the Republic of Korea Order of Cultural Merit (Jade class) for her life-time contribution to the advancement of Korean language and culture. The order was conferred by President Roh Moo-hyun at the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul on Oct. 9, the Korean Alphabet Day, in a ceremony commemorating the 560th year of King Sejong's invention of the remarkable Korean writing system.

Publications

Eugene Abravanel, professor of psychology, published a study of the development of spatial understanding in young children titled “Which Way Did S(he) Go: Following a Trail of Footprints Should Help” in Cognitive Development, September 2006. Ramezan Dowlati, a former GW doctoral student in psychology, co-authored the study.

Christopher Cahill, associate professor of chemistry, published “Synthesis, Structure and Fluorescent Studies of Novel Uranium Coordination Polymers in the Pyridinedicarboxylic Acid System,” with graduate student Mark Frisch,
in Dalton Transactions.

Mark Feldstein, associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs, published “A Muckraking Model: Investigative Reporting Cycles in American History” in the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics and “The Journalistic Biography: Methodology, Analysis, Writing” in Journalism Studies.

Frank Lee, associate professor of physics, published an article titled “Spin-3/2 Baryons from an Anisotropic Lattice QCD Action” in the Physical Review D, with graduate student Leming Zhou.

Akbar Montaser, professor of chemistry, published “Interferometric Droplet Imaging for in situ Aerosol Characterization in an Inductively Coupled Plasma,” with Ryan G. Brennan, Kaveh Jorabchi, and Jonathan A. Levine, in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.


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