Oct. 15, 2002

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Barry Berman, professor of physics, CCAS, presented the paper, “Photoreactions on 3He and 4He up to 1.6 GeV at Jefferson Lab,” at the Second Asia Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, in Shanghai, China, Aug. 30. The conference was sponsored by the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (representing 17 physics societies). Berman’s paper will be published in the Conference Proceedings later this year.

William J. Chambliss, professor of sociology, CCAS, received the “PASS Award” for 2001 from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for his book “Power, Politics and Crime” (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2001).

Philip Joyce, associate professor of public administration, SBPM, delivered the paper “Federal Budgeting After September 11th: A Whole New Ballgame, or is it Déjà vu All Over Again?” as part of a panel on “Budgeting During Wartime: Dueling Priorities” sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars, Sept. 13. Joyce appeared on a panel with former OMB Director Jack Lew, Senate Budget Committee Staff Director Bill Hoagland, and Jonathan Weisman of The Washington Post.

Krisha Kumar, professor of accountancy, SBPM, presented “The Information Content of the Deferred Tax Valuation Allowance” at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association. The paper was co-authored by Gnanakumar Visvanathan, a former GW faculty member now at George Mason University.

Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of accountancy, SBPM, participated in the panel discussion, “Corporate Accounting and Accountability,” which was part of the American Automotive Leasing Association’s 2002 annual meeting held in September in Washington. Singleton also spoke at “Red Ink? Black Ink? America Inc.!,” a Public Relations Society of America conference in New York.

Mark Starik, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, presented the paper “Organizational Responses to Environmental and Energy Security Challenges and Opportunities” at the Conference on Global and Human Security, hosted by the Globalization Research Network, Sept. 20.

Appointments
Abby Strunk has been appointed as director of communications for the Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

Publications
Jerome Barron, Harrold H. Greene Professor of Law, Law, published the paper “Globalism and National Media Policies in the United States and Canada: A Critique of C. Edwin Baker’s Media Markets and Democracy” in Brooklyn Journal of International Law v. 42, p. 971 (2002). In August, Barron and C. Thomas Dienes, Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, Law, co-authored the supplement to the casebook Constitutional Law: Principles and Policy, Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2002) with Lexis.

William Bratton, professor of law, Law, published the article “Venture Capital on the Downside: Preferred Stock and Corporate Control,” in Michigan Law Review v.100, p. 891 (2002).

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, assistant professor of public administration, SBPM, published, Partnering for International Development: Rhetoric or Reality?

W. Burlette Carter, professor of law, Law, published the article “Sounding the Death Knell for In Loco Parentis: A Nonprofit Organization to Protect Student Athletes,” in the fall edition of Indiana Law Review.

D. Christopher Kayes, assistant professor of human and organization studies, SBPM, published “Dilemma at 29,000 Feet: An Exercise in Ethical Decision-Making Based on the 1996 Mt. Everest Disaster” in the Journal of Management Education, v. 26, n. 3, pp. 307–321. He also published two chapters in Conversational Learning: An Experiential Approach to Knowledge Creation (Quorum Books): “Conversational Learning in Organization and Human Resource Development” and “The Practice of Conversations Learning in Higher Education” with A. Kolb, A. Baker, and P. Jensen.

Mirghani Mohamed, assistant director of the data center, ISS, published the article “Points of the Triangle” in the Sept. 3 edition of Intelligence Enterprise Magazine.

Gary Selby, assistant professor of communication, CCAS, published “Mocking the Sacred: Frederick Douglass’s ‘Slaveholder’s Sermon’ and the Antebellum Debate over Religion and Slavery” in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, v. 88, n. 3 (August 2002).

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