October 2005

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese and Columbian Professor, CCAS, for the 26th consecutive year delivered the lecture, “The Scholary Arts of East Asia” to the Luce Scholars at Princeton.

Howard Eisner, Distinguished Research Professor and professor of engineering management, SEAS presented a full-day tutorial entitled “Systems Engineering Management” to the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

Joseph L. Gastwirth, professor of statistics and economics, CCAS recently presented the seminar “Statistical Issues in the Use of Epidemiologic Evidence in Product Liability Cases” at both Harvard University and Yale University. In addition he gave the seminar “Efficiency Robust Methods in Statistical Genetics” at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania in May 2005. Gastwirth presented two invited talks with his co-authors at the 6th International conference on Forensic Statistics at Arizona State University, entitled “The Importance of Checking the Assumptions Underlying a Statistical Analysis: Normality and Independence” and “Methods for Assessing the Fairness of IPO Allocations.” Gastwirth has also recently published articles in American Statistician, v. 58; Medical Care, v. 42; Statistica Silica, v. 14; Genetic Testing, v. 8; Law, Probability and Risk, v. 3; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, v. 130; and Biostatistics, v. 6. Gastwirth also co-authored two articles with Zhaohai Li, professor of statistics and biostatistics, CCAS, which appeared in Biometrics, v. 61, and Annals of Human Genetics, v. 69.

Appointments:
John Dages was recently appointed associate director of the University Counseling Center. Dages will help coordinate and manage ongoing comprehensive educational, consultative, and outreach services for students, faculty, and staff. He will also oversee the business and marketing operations of the center. Dages will participate in the training and supervision of the Center’s postdoctoral fellows and interns, and provide individual and group therapy, innovative outreach programs and workshops, crisis intervention, and after-hours emergency counseling services for students. Dages has over 10 years of experience as a University Center psychologist, including spending the past two years managing the operations of a large counseling service in Australia.

Awards:
Kenneth Hergenrather, assistant professor of counseling, GSEHD, was awarded $1,250,000 in grants by the US Department of Education Rehabilitation Services Administration. Hergenrather was awarded a $750,000 Rehabilitation Long-term Training — Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling grant (CFDA 84.129B). He was also awarded a $500,000 Rehabilitation Long-term Training — Certificate training grant (CFDA 84.129R), on which he scored 100/100 points in the peer grant review process. The training addresses the training needs for more than 50 professionals in the rehabilitation counseling field.
Publications:

Mary Jo Binker, associate editor and project co-director of “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project,” and three other co-authors published their book A Defense Weapon Known To Be of Value: Service Women of the Korean War Era with University Press of New England and Military Women’s Press. Binker and one of her co-authors, Judith Bellafaire, discussed the book at a Women’s Equality Day presentation at the Army War College.

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