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November 2007 Kudos! Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of the GW faculty and staff Acknowledgements Michael Akin, director of D.C. and Foggy Bottom/West End affairs, has accepted the position of vice president of the board of directors for St. Mary’s Court, a nonprofit organization that operates a residential living facility in Foggy Bottom for senior citizens and individuals with accessibility needs. John Banzhaf, professor of law, was quoted in a variety of media outlets, including Slate and Citizen-Times.com and in CBS News correspondent Peter Maer’s online blog, “S-CHIP: Up In Smoke?” on the CBS News Web site. Ali Eskandarian, senior associate dean for strategic initiatives and research in the College of Professional Studies and associate professor of physics, has been elected as a fellow to the Washington Academy of Sciences. Murli Gupta, professor of mathematics, organized a mini-symposium titled “High Order Compact Schemes for Partial Differential Equations” at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Zurich, Switzerland, in July. At the conference, he presented a paper titled “On the Choice of Initial Conditions of Difference Schemes for Parabolic Equations,” which was co-authored with professors Givi Berikelashvili and Manana Mirianashvili of the Republic of Georgia. Maida Withers, professor of dance, received a special citation from Dance Place, a premiere community arts center in Washington, D.C., at its Season Opening Gala performance on Sept. 15. Appointments Brad Sabin Hill, former dean of the library and senior research librarian at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, has been appointed administrator of the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection of GW’s Gelman Library. Mark Klock, professor of finance, has been appointed visiting professor of business and law for the spring 2008 semester at Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law in University Park, while on sabbatical from GW. Anne V. Scammon, former director of student employment and experiential education in the Career Center, has been appointed the center’s director of career learning and experience. Publications Simon Berkovich, professor of computer science, co-published “Increasing the Efficiency of Bit-Counting” with Eyas El-Qawasmeh, Marilyn Strauss, and Michael Mack, all students in GW’s Department of Computer Science, in the International Journal of Computers and Applications. Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, published an essay, “Wu Li Lives in Poetry,” which included a translation of contemporary Hong Kong poet Leung Ping-kwan’s poem “Wu Li Paints a Picture at the Bayside” in Chinese Cross Currents. He also published two articles, “An Eighteenth-Century Poem on Infanticide by Chiang Shih-ch’üüan (1725-1785)” and “A Chang Jui-t’u (1570-1641) Poem in Honor of Giulio Aleni, S.J. (1582-1649)” in the current issue of the Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal. Charles Karelis, research professor of philosophy, published The Persistence of Poverty—Why the Economics of the Well-off Can’t Help the Poor. He spoke about his book on National Public Radio’s “Tell Me More” program on Sept. 3 and his August book talk at Politics and Prose was broadcasted on CSPAN’s Book TV. Peter F. Klaren, professor of history and international affairs, published “Time of Fear (1980-2000): Modern Violence in the Long Sweep of Peruvian History” in Historicizing the Living Past in Latin American, a bilingual online publication sponsored by the Ford Foundation. The article was edited by A. Perotin Dumon. Davis L. C. Lee, associate professor of Chinese and international affairs, published Readings in Chinese Newspapers 2007, his fifth textbook for fourth-year college-level students. Frank X. Lee, associate professor of physics, published “Excited Decuplet Baryons from QCD Sum Rules” in the July 2007 issue of Nuclear Physics A. William Parke, Leonard Maximon, and Ali Eskandarian, professors in GW’s Department of Physics, presented on “X-ray continuum sources and astrophysical origins of high-energy electromagnetic radiation,” at the 5th International School in X-ray Astrophysics at GW, Aug. 6-10. Tad Zawidzki, assistant professor of philosophy, published Dennett with Oneworld Press in May. Kudos is a recognition of the GW faculty and staff. To submit information for Kudos, please E-mail ByGeorge! at bygeorge@gwu.edu, subject Kudos. Submit Kudos online at the top of the ByGeorge Web site www.gwu.edu/~bygeorge.
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