Nov. 6, 2001

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Prabir K. Bagchi, professor of business administration, SBPM, presented a paper co-authored with Seung-Kuk Paik, SBPM, entitled, “Supply Chain Management Challenges in Electronic Commerce,” at the International Conference on Supply Chain Management, in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June. The conference was sponsored by the Scandinavian Logistics Council in association with Chalmers Institute of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden and the University of Iceland.

Diane Harris-Cline, visiting associate professor of classics and art history, CCAS, discussed “Reflections on Reflections in Greek and Roman Art” at the conference of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States held in Towson, MD, on Oct. 12.

Vahid Motevalli, associate research professor of engineering and director of the Aviation Safety and Security Program, SEAS, and Irwin Price, executive dean of the Virginia Campus, were awarded a three-year, $9 million grant under a Cooperative Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to develop a program in aviation safety and security for senior executives of civil aviation authorities of foreign countries.

Aseem Prakash, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, and international affairs and political science, SBPM, presented the papers “Biopolitics: Comparing American and European Experiences,” 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,” co-authored with Kelly Kollman; and “Bargains Old and New: Multinationals in International Governance,” co-authored with David Levy. Prakash also served as a discussant for the panel on, “Governments, Firms, and Non-Governmental Organizations: How NGOs Matter to Corporate Strategy, Public Policy, and Business-Government Relations, at the annual conference of the Academy of Management in Washington, DC, August 4–8.

Awards
Amitai Etzioni, University Professor (sociology), has been selected to receive the Smithsonian’s John P. McGovern Behavioral Science Award, in recognition of his contributions to furthering an understanding of American family life.

Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology and international affairs, CCAS, received an Honorable Mention for the 2001 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing for his biography of the late anthropologist and GW faculty member Colin Turnbull, titled “In the Arms of Africa,” (St. Martin’s Press 2000). The award was presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, University president and professor of public administration, received the “Key of Life” award from Egypt’s International Economic Forum, the premier non-governmental organization in Egypt, for his efforts to strengthen US/Egyptian relations.

Publications
David DeGrazia, associate professor of philosophy, CCAS, published “Ethical Issues in Early-Intervention Clinical Trials Involving Minors at Risk for Schizophrenia,” in Schizophrenia Research (V. 51, 2001, pp. 77–86).

Paul B. Duff, associate professor and chair of the religion department, CCAS, published “Who Rides the Beast? Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse” (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Amitai Etzioni, University Professor (sociology), published his book “Next: The Road to the Good Society” (New York: Basic Books, 2001), in German and in Spanish.

Raymond L. Pickholtz, professor of engineering and applied science, SEAS, co-wrote with Sang G. Kim and Byung K. Yi, “Coded Performance of Dual-Rate Decorrelators Combined with an Array of Antennas for Synchronous Multiuser DS/CDMA Systems,” in Journal of Communication and Networks (V. 3, N. 3, p.219).

Kenneth Schaffner, University Professor of Medical Humanities, and professor of philosophy, CCAS, co-edited “Ethics of Early Treatment Intervention in Schizophrenia” in Schizophrenia Research, (V. 51, N. 1) with P. McGorry.

Frederic R. Siegel, professor emeritus of geochemistry, CCAS, authored the book “Environmental Geochemistry of Potentially Toxic Metals,” published October 2001 by Springer-Verlag.

Jennifer Spencer, assistant professor of international business, SBPM, published “Firms’ Knowledge-Sharing Strategies in the Global Innovation System: Empirical Evidence from the Flat Panel Display Industry,” with support from the Institute for Global Management and Research.

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