September 2006
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowledgements:
Gordon Adams, professor of the practice of
international affairs; Bruce J. Dickson, professor
of political science and international affairs; Cynthia
McClintock, professor of political science and
international affairs; and Michael Yahuda, visiting
scholar at GW’s Sigur Center for Asian Studies, have
been awarded fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. The professors will
use the yearlong fellowships to advance research in
their respective fields.
Gil Brown, financial analyst for the Columbian
College of Arts and Sciences, presented “How to
Engage 30,000 People in University Finances” with
Sherman Bloomer, dean of science at Oregon State
University, and Brad Dennis, chief business officer
at Oregon State University, at “The Campus of the
Future” joint annual meeting of the National
Association of College and University Business
Officers and Society for College and University
Planning in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Jonathan Chavez, professor of Chinese,
CCAS, led the East Asian literature sessions for
George Mason University’s “Cultural Encounters,” a series of National Endowment for the Humanitiesfunded
workshops on the literatures of the world.
Liliana Florea, assistant professor of computer
science, SEAS, was awarded a prestigious Sloan
Fellowship for her work in computational techniques
addressing biomedical problems, including the
human Hepatitis C virus and E. coli. She also
received a Dilthey faculty fellowship for “An
Extensible Visualization Environment for Alternative
Splicing Genes and its Regulation.”
Dick Golden, special assistant for broadcast
operations and university events, was honored by
Cape Cod Community College for his contributions
to Cape Cod radio. For 35 years, Golden was heard
on local Cape Cod radio stations, for 28 of those,
hosting the Cape’s longest continuously-aired radio
program “Nightlights.” In his honor, the Friends of
Dick Golden established a scholarship through the
Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation
to generate at least one $1,000 scholarship per year
to a student who has been involved with its WKKL
radio club and who plans to pursue a career in the
broadcasting/entertainment industry.
Michelle Honey, director of facilities
planning, was selected to join the American Institute
of Architects prestigious College of Fellows. She is
one of 15 women and the only architect from the
District of Columbia to receive this honor. Honey
received her fellowship medal June 9 in Los Angeles.
Laura E. Maldonado, librarian at Gelman
Library System, has been selected to be a National
Chapter representative for REFORMA, the National
Association to Promote Library and Information
Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking,
an affiliate of the American Library Association.
Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor
of International Affairs and Human Behavior, has been
reappointed senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars.
Vladislav Sadtchenko, professor of
chemistry, delivered a keynote lecture at the
11th International Conference on the Physics and
Chemistry of Ice held this July in Bremerhaven,
Germany. Sadtchenko described the results of his
five-year investigation of transport phenomena,
phase transitions, and reactions in ice with the
novel experimental techniques developed in his
laboratory in the Chemistry Department.
Publications:
Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection
development librarian, Gelman Library, had his
reviews of The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God
and Other Storiesby Etgar Keret and The Triumph
of Military Zionism: Nationalism and the Origins of
the Israeli Rightby Colin Shindler published in the
May/June 2006 issue of the Association of Jewish
Libraries’ newsletter.
Lori A. Brainard, associate professor of
public policy and public administration, and Jennifer
M. Brinkerhoff, associate professor of public
administration, international business, and
international affairs, CCAS and ESIA, published “Sovereignty Under Siege or a Circuitous Path to
Strengthening the State?: Digital Diasporas and
Human Rights” in the special issue on state
hollowing and state sovereignty in the International
Journal of Public Administration.
David Alan Grier, associate professor of
international affairs and associate dean, ESIA, received
the 2006 Independent Publisher’s Award for the best
computer/Internet book of the year for his book When
Computers were Human.
Samuel Kotz, professor of engineering and
applied science, SEAS, had several articles published,
including “Survey of Developments in the Theory
of Skewed Distributions” in Metron—International
Journal of Statistics,“A Note on the Ratio of Normal
and Laplace Random Variables” in Statistical
Methods and Applications, and “Exact Distribution
of X≅Y for the Elliptically Symmetric Pearson Type II
Distributions” in the Ameri can Journal of Mathematics
and Management Sciences.
Frank Lee, associate professor of physics, CCAS,
together with graduate student Leming Zhou, published
a paper titled “Magnetic Polarizability of Hadrons
from Lattice QCD in the Background Field Method” in Physical Review.
Mirghani Mohamed, assistant director of
Information Systems and Services, and Michael
Stankosky, associate professor of systems engineering,
SEAS, with co-author Arthur Murray, published “Knowledge Management and Information Technology:
Can They Work in Perfect Harmony?” in the Journal
of Knowledge Management.
Gregory D. Squires, professor of sociology
and of public policy and public administration and
Department of Sociology chair, and Charis E. Kubrin,
associate professor of sociology, CCAS, have published
Privileged Places: Race, Residence, and the Structure
of Opportunity.
Kudos is a recognition of the GW faculty and staff. To submit information for Kudos, please E-mail ByGeorge! at bygeorge@gwu.edu, subject Kudos. Submit Kudos online at the top of the ByGeorge Web site www.gwu.edu/~bygeorge.
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