Oct. 15, 2002
News Briefs
News From Around Campus
Sigur Center Hosts Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium
The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and the Sigur
Center for Asian Studies announce the Ninth Annual Hahn Moo-Sook (HMS)
Colloquium in the Korean Humanities under the theme, Text and
Context of Korean Cinema: Crossing Borders.
The two main speakers are Professor Hyangsoon Yi of the University of
Georgia Department of Comparative Literature, who will speak about the
innovative films the old masters have produced, and Professor Chris
Berry of the Film Studies and Dramatic Art Department at the University
of California, Berkely, who will discuss Korean cinemas success
story.
The HMS Colloquium in the Korean Humanities at GW provides a forum for
academic discussion of Korean arts, history, language, literature, thought,
and religious systems in the contexts of East Asia and the world. The
colloquium series is made possible by an endowment established by the
estate of Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Koreas most honored writers, in
order to uphold her spirit of openness, curiosity, and education.
Presented in cooperation with the Cultural Information Service of the
Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Freer Gallery of Art of the
Smithsonian Institution, it will be held at GWs Media and Public
Affairs Building, room 309, on Oct. 26 from 9 am1 pm. The event
is free and open to the public, but space is limited and reservations
are required. Please contact Young-Key Kim-Renaud, professor of Korean
language and literature and international affairs, at 994-7106 or at
korea@gwu.edu. For further details
on the colloquium visit www.gwu.edu/~call/special/.
GW Student Earns Udall Scholarship
The Morris K. Udall Foundation announces that GW student Tara OHare
is one of 80 students awarded a Udall Scholarship for the 200203
academic year.
The Udall Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit and
were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide.
The scholarship is open to undergraduate sophomores and juniors studying
fields related to the environment and to Native American and Alaska
Natives in fields related to health care or tribal public policy.
OHare, from Derry, NH, is majoring in environmental studies, business
economics, and public policy.
Established by Congress in 1992 to honor Rep. Morris King Udall and
his legacy of public service, the Morris K. Udall Foundation operates
an educational scholarship program designed to provide opportunities
for outstanding US students with excellent academic records.
Library Consortium Expands
Georgetown University has joined the Washington Research Library Consortium
(WRLC), a regional organization that allows member institutions to share
library resources.
As a WRLC member, Georgetown teams up with GW, American University,
The Catholic University of America, Gallaudet University, George Mason
University, Marymount University, and the University of the District
of Columbia.
We are very excited about this opportunity, says Artemis
Kirk, University Librarian at Georgetown. I think our participation
will not only benefit the greater Washington community by expanding
access to our resources but also assist our own students, faculty, and
staff, who will now be able to access many services at several schools
in the DC area.
The WRLC was established in 1987 to enhance the library and information
services of its member universities. For more information, see www.wrlc.org.
GW Report Links Endometriosis with Other
Disabling Conditions
Two researchers from the GW Medical Center are among the authors of
a new report in Human Reproduction, Europes leading reproductive
medicine journal, showing that women with endometriosis are significantly
more likely than other women to suffer from a number of additional distressing
or disabling conditions; including a variety of auto-immune diseases,
allergies, asthma, hypothyroidism, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyagia.
The research team from the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development in Bethesda, the School of Public Health and Health Services
at GW, and the Endometriosis Association in Milwaukee carried out and
analyzed a survey of 3,680 members of the Endometriosis Association,
90 percent of whom were of reproductive age and all had surgically diagnosed
endometriosis.
The results, which confirmed there was a typical 10-year delay between
the onset of symptoms and a diagnosis of endometriosis, have prompted
the researchers, especially those taking care of adolescents, to consider
a diagnosis of endometriosis in girls and women complaining of pelvic
pain and to watch out for other potentially serious conditions in patients.
Alumna Lerman Named MacArthur Fellow
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named GW alumna
Liz Lerman as one of 24 new MacArthur Fellows, who will each receive
$500,000 in no strings attached support over the next five
years.
Nobody may apply for the fellowship. To be considered, a person must
be nominated by one of several hundred nominators appointed each year.
Nominators, who serve anonymously, are chosen across many fields and
are challenged to identify people who demonstrate exceptional creativity
and promise.
Lerman, who earned her MFA from GW in 1982, was recognized for her work
as a gifted teacher, choreographer, and performer. Through her contemporary
dance performance company, the Dance Exchange which includes
men and women ranging in age from the 20s through the 70s and from all
walks of life she challenges the assumption that only professionals
can create dance that is aesthetically pleasing and appreciated by audiences.
GW Hosts DC Historical Studies Conference
The 29th Annual Conference on Washington, DC, Historical Studies, a
three-day public forum on the diverse urban history of Washington, will
be held at GWs Media and Public Affairs Building Oct. 1719.
The conference is sponsored by the Gelman Library, The Historical Society
of Washington, DC, and the Washingtonia Division of the District of
Columbia Public Library. The public is invited to join historians, preservationists,
neighborhood researchers, students, and history buffs in this free annual
learning fest.
Among the panels offered is a presentation examining architecture in
early Washington, in particular a look at the career of George Hadfield,
the architect who designed such federal buildings as the Marine Barracks,
the Executive Offices, and private commissions like Arlington House.
In addition there will be a walking tour of Historic Foggy Bottom.
Registration is at the door. For more information call 785-2068, x100.
SEAS Hosts Chief WTC Engineer
Leslie Robertson, the man responsible for the structural design of the
World Trade Center and hundreds of other buildings, will present the
SEAS-sponsored Frank Howard Lecture on Oct. 30, at 7 pm in the Marvin
Center Grand Ballroom. The lecture will be free and open to the public.
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