Oct. 4, 2001

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Diane Harris-Cline, visiting associate professor of art history and classics, CCAS, lectured to an audience of 100 at the Shakespeare Theatre Sept. 2. The program, “Windows on Sophocles, The Oedipus Plays,” is part of its audience education program in conjunction with the theatrical performances of “The Oedipus Plays,” which runs from Sept. 4 through Oct. 22.

Vera Fullerton, reference/instruction librarian, Gelman Library, gave a presentation, “E-mail Reference: Refocus and Revise,” at the 67th International Federation of Library Associations General Conference, “Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age” Aug. 20, in Boston, MA.

William C. Handorf, professor of finance, SBPM, lectured to graduate students about risk management at the University of Sao Paulo and also delivered several presentations about the US economy with investment banks in May. In June, he was the featured speaker at a major conference sponsored by Banco do Brasil. In August, Mark Eppli, associate professor of finance, SBPM, accompanied Handorf, in the presentation of a seminar on mortgage securitization.

Aseem Prakash, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, presented a paper co-authored with Kelly Kollman, political science, entitled “Biopolitics in the US and EU: From a Race-to-the-Bottom to a Convergence-to-the-Top,” at the invitation-only, “International Seminar on Political Consumerism,” in Stockholm, Sweden, May 30–June 2. Prakash also served as a discussant for Rudiger Wurzel’s (University of Hull, UK) paper “Convergence or Divergence in European Environmental Governance: National Eco-Labeling Schemes in Comparative Perspective.” This multi-disciplinary seminar was convened by the City University of Stockholm to investigate consumer movements and how they impact business strategy and public policy.

William E. Roper, professor and chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, SEAS, organized and chaired an international conference on “Geo-Spatial Image and Data Exploitation” in Orlando, FL, in April. The conference was sponsored by the International Society for Optical Engineering. Roper also edited the recently published book of the meeting proceedings.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, University president and professor of public administration, SBPM, was recently reappointed to the position of associate fellow of Morse College for a term of four years by the Yale University Council of Masters.

Appointments
William A. Mayer has been appointed to serve as the director of library information technology for the Gelman Library, effective Nov. 5. Mayer comes to GW from the Washington Research Library Consortium where he served as a systems librarian for public services since June 1999.

Awards
Eric H. Cline, assistant professor of ancient history and archaeology, CCAS, received the 2001 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award in the category, Best Popular Book on Archaeology, for his book “The Battles of Armageddon.” This award was formally announced in the September/October 2001 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review and in the October 2001 issue of Bible Review.

Publications
Prabir K. Bagchi, professor of business administration, SBPM, and Seung-Kuk Paik, SBPM, published the paper, “Information Technology in Port Supply Chain Reengineering: A Case Study,” in the journal The International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 11, No. 1.

David Bjelajac, professor of art and human sciences, CCAS, recently published his book “American Art: A Cultural History,” (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.).

Jeffrey L. Cummings, instructor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, authored “Identifying Who Matters: Mapping Key Players in Multiple Environments,” published in the Winter 2000 issue of California Management Review, which has been reprinted in “Annual Editions: Organizational Behavior 01/02,” published by McGraw-Hill/Dushkin.

Kathryn Newcomer, professor of public administration, SBPM, and Phil Joyce, associate professor of public administration, SBPM, contributed to “Memos to the President: Management Advice from the Nation's Top Public Administrators.” GW was the only university in the anthology to be represented more than once. The anthology was published by the Government Performance Coalition and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government.

Richard H. Schlagel, Elton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, CCAS, authored the book, “The Vanquished Gods,” recently published by Prometheus Books.

Gary Selby, assistant professor of communication, CCAS, published an essay, “Framing Social Protest: The Exodus Narrative in Martin Luther King’s Montgomery Bus Boycott Rhetoric,” in the Journal of Communication and Religion, 24, pp. 68–93, and a book review, “An Eloquent Life: The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass in Biographical Perspective,” in the Review of Communication, 1, pp. 93–96.

Richard Turner, research instructor of engineering management and systems engineering, SEAS, co-authored “CMMI Distilled: A Practical Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement,” with Dennis Ahern (Northrop-Grumman) and Aaron Clouse (Raytheon). Published in June by Addison-Wesley in “Software Engineering,” its prestigious SEI Series. The book offers executives, project managers, systems and software engineers, and process improvement practitioners a concise, authoritative, and experience-rich introduction to the capability maturity model integration framework.

Ryan Watkins, assistant professor of educational technology leadership, GSEHD, co-authored “Performance Improvement: More Than Just Bettering the Here-And-Now” in Performance Improvement, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 10–15.

 

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