Oct. 1, 2002

Kudos!

Acknowledgements:
Dana Tai Soon Burgess, associate professor of dance, CCAS, and owner of the dance company Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co., won the top award at the Second Annual DC Metro Dance Awards. Burgess was presented with the award for Outstanding Overall Dance Production, specifically for a trilogy of dances that were commissioned by the Kennedy Center and premiered at the Eisenhower Theater last December. The DC Metro Dance Awards were held at Lisner Auditorium Sept. 9.

Caren Goldberg, assistant professor of human resource management, SBPM, presented “The Effects of Gender Context: A Meta-Analysis,” a paper she co-authored with Alison Konrad (Temple University), at the Academy of Management annual meeting. The two also coordinated a symposium, “The Impact of Gender Context on Individuals and Organizations,” at the same conference.

Donald Hawkins, Eisenhower Professor of Tourism Policy, SBPM, presented “Developing a National Ecotourism Strategy for Bulgaria,” to the Biodiversity Conservation and Economic Growth Working Group within the Bulgarian ministries of Environment and Waters and Economy and USAID-Bulgaria.

Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of accountancy, SBPM, addressed the 2002 Arizona State Society of Human Resource Management Conference, Sept. 4–5, in Tucson, AZ.

Stuart Umpleby, professor of management science, SBPM, presented “The Design of Intellectual Movements” at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in August in Shanghai, China.

Appointments:
Gerard Cunningham has been appointed part-time chaplain at GW’s Newman Catholic Student Center by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Rev. Cunningham will split his time between GW and St. Stephen Martyr Parish on 25th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Cunningham takes over for the Rev. Rob Panke, who now leads the Washington Archdiocese in its vocation efforts.

Michael J. Worth, professor of nonprofit management, SBPM, has been appointed to be the editor of CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement. Worth succeeds founding editor Don Hossler, vice chancellor of enrollment services at Indiana University.

Awards:
Paul Swiercz, associate professor of management science, SBPM, won the Best Case Award from the Critical Management Studies Interest Group at the Academy of Management meeting in August. The case, “Food Lion vs. the UFCW: Time for a Change?,” placed first in a 20-case field. Three of Swiercz’s papers have been accepted for publication. “FourSquare: Toward an Integrative Competency Based Model of Competitiveness” will be published in Managerial Finance; “Rational, Human, Political and Symbolic Text in Harvard Business School Cases: A Study of Structure and Content,” co-authored with Kathie Ross, will be published in the Journal of Management Education; and “Entrepreneurial Leadership in High-Tech Firms: A Definition and Process,” co-authored with Sharon Lydon, was published in Leadership and Organization Development Journal, v. 24, n. 7.

Publications:
David M. Anderson, associate research professor of political management, GSPM, and Michael Cornfield, associate research professor of political management, GSPM, co-edited The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). The pair also wrote the introduction and Anderson wrote the chapter, “Cautious Optimism About Online Politics and Citizenship,” while Cornfield wrote the chapter, “Adding in the Net: Making Citizenship Count in the Digital Age.”

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, assistant professor of public administration, SBPM, published “Global Public Policy, Partnership, and the Case of the World Commission on Dams” in Public Administration Review, v. 62, n. 3, pp. 317–329, and “Assessing and Improving Partnership Relationships and Outcomes: A Proposed Framework” in Evaluation and Program Planning, v. 25, n. 3, pp. 215–231.

Christopher J. Deering, professor of political science, CCAS, published “Alarms and Patrols: Legislative Oversight in Foreign and Defense Policy,” in Congress and the Politics of Foreign Policy (Prentice Hall, 2003).

William Frawley, professor of anthropology and psychology, dean, CCAS, co-edited with Pamela Munro (UCLA) and Kenneth Hill (U of Arizona), “Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas,” Berkeley, (University of California Press). A special issue of the journal Computational Intelligence, v. 18, n. 1, was devoted to Frawley’s work. Included in the journal are his articles “Control and Cross-Domain Mental Computation: Evidence from Language Breakdown,” pp. 1–28, and “Mental Computation and Language Breakdown: Clarifications, Extensions and Responses,” pp. 59–87. These papers begin and end the special issue; in between are eight other papers that comment on, and analyze, the first paper.

Donald Hawkins, Eisenhower Professor of Tourism Policy, SBPM, published “Emerging Information Technologies: Implications for Tourism and Human Resources” and “Education and Training in Tourism” in Human Resources in Tourism: Toward a New Paradigm, which was published by the World Tourism Organization.

Jozef H. Przytycki, professor of mathematics, CCAS, published “Burnside Obstructions to the Montesinos-Nakanishi Three-Move Conjecture” with his PhD student Mieczyslaw Dabkowski in Geometry and Topology, July 2002. Przytycki also published “Topological Insights From the Chinese Rings ” with his former student Adam S. Sikora, in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2002; “Surgeries on Periodic Links and Homology of Periodic Three-Manifolds” with his former student Maxim Sokolov in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; “The Fourth Skein Module and the Montesinos-Nakanishi Conjecture for Three-Algebraic Links” with his former student Tatsuya Tsukamoto, in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications; and “Estimating the Size of Skein Homologies” with his former students Sikora and Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska in the Series on Knots and Everything, v. 24.

Fernando Robles, professor of international marketing and international affairs, SBPM, co-wrote “Winning Strategies for the Latin Markets,” with Françoise Simon, professor of marketing at Columbia University, and Jerry Haar, director of the inter-American Business and Labor Program at the University of Miami.

 

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