Sept. 17, 2002

Business Adds Bakers Dozen
The School of Business and Public Management has recruited 13 new faculty members into five of the school’s eight academic departments. The new full-time SBPM faculty members are:

Senay Agca, assistant professor of finance — Agca, who earned a PhD at Virginia Tech, has research interests that focus on fixed-income securities, derivatives and risk management, and investments.

Norman Brenner, assistant professor of management science — With a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brenner comes to GW with solid background in information systems research, management, and consulting.

Theodore Glickman, associate professor of management science — Glickman earned his PhD at Johns Hopkins University. He brings experience in teaching, research, and consulting in the field of operations.

Maliha Haddad, assistant professor of management science — Haddad earned a DSc in engineering management at GW.

Tyra Hilliard, assistant professor of tourism studies — Hilliard earned a JD at Georgia State University and a master of tourism administration at GW. In addition to teaching, Hilliard will assist with GW’s Event Management Certificate Program.

Gergana Jostova, assistant professor of finance — Jostova comes to GW directly from her PhD program at Boston College.

D. Christopher Kayes, assistant professor of management science — Kayes earned his PhD from Case Western Reserve in organizational behavior. He joins SBPM from GW’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development. He will teach courses in leadership and organizational behavior.

Homayoun Khamooshi, assistant professor of management science — With a PhD from Lancaster University (United Kingdom), Khamooshi will teach courses in project management.

Lihong Liang, assistant professor of accountancy — Liang joins GW directly from her PhD program in accounting at Penn State University. She has a solid research agenda focusing on managerial and analyst forecasts of corporate earnings.

Lincoln Marshall, associate professor of tourism and hospitality management — Marshall earned a PhD at The American University and joins GW from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Vanessa Perry, assistant professor of marketing — Perry earned a PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been a visiting instructor in GW’s Department of Marketing for the past year.

Vikas Sahasrabudhe, assistant professor of management science — Sahasrabudhe earned his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in computer science. He will teach undergraduate courses in information systems.

Susan White, assistant professor of management science — White, who earned her PhD from Texas A&M University in the field of management science, joins GW’s full-time faculty after serving for a year as a visiting professor. She will teach courses in production and operations management.

ISS Takes a Bite Out of Spam
GW’s ISS Help Desk currently offers assistance to all University E-mail account users as the growing numbers of spam E-mails hit campus systems.
Spam E-mail is usually commercial in nature, trying to get you to visit a Web site or buy some product. Due to increasing student and staff spam complaints, ISS suggests a few tips to weed through the barrage of E-mail overload. If you have been spammed, you can always contact Information Security at abuse@gwu.edu. The Information Security team will then E-mail a warning to the spammer and their Internet Service Provider.

Most listserves offer the option to remove your account from their service. Simply follow the instructions at the end of the E-mail to remove your address from the company’s address book. If you need assistance removing yourself from a list, you can contact the ISS Help Desk at ithelp@gwu.edu or 994-5530. However, some spammers will use your unsubscribe request as proof that your account is active, and will then send you more spam.

You may be able to filter out annoying messages to be automatically deleted or filed to a spam folder. ISS has written directions for mail filtering for Netscape Messenger, Microsoft Outlook, and Pine. Those instructions are available on the ISS Virtual Help Desk, located online at http://helpdesk.gwu.edu. Click on Online Manuals and select the guide for your client. Webmail does not currently offer client-level filtering.

While handling multiple E-mail accounts may be inconvenient, many people find it useful to have separate public and private E-mail accounts.
ISS currently helps to screen out dangerous viruses with server level-filters and is exploring options so that you can set your own server-level filtering to stop spam.

Elliott School Co-Sponsors State Department Forums
The Elliott School of International Affairs is now a co-sponsor of the US State Department’s “Secretary’s Open Forum” series. These discussions feature guest speakers on a variety of topics. So far this month, forum topics have covered food safety and global security, China, HIV/AIDS, and Atlantic Monthly’s Robert Kaplan discussing “The World in 2005.”
To register for future forums, send your name, date of birth, and social security number or passport number to Alan Lang, chairman, Secretary’s Open Forum, at A.Lang@state.gov at least one day prior to the event you wish to attend. Arrive at the 23rd Street entrance of the Harry S Truman Building, US Department of State, 2201 C St., NW. Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place in the Loy Henderson Conference Room. For more information and future topics, see www.state.gov/s/p/of/ or call 647-0532.

Miner Rescue Leaders Headline Sept. 25 Forum
The Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management will host a forum Sept. 25 at 4 pm with the rescue team leaders who helped retrieve the coal miners who were trapped in a flooded shaft in western Pennsylvania. The Special Medical Response Team (SMRT) is a volunteer group of emergency physicians, paramedics, and other specialists. They are specially equipped and trained to respond to deep mine, structural collapse, and other prolonged rescue operations where sophisticated medical care may be required under difficult circumstances. SMRT’s expertise was called upon immediately as the Quecreek mine entrapment incident unfolded. Dr. Richard Kunkle, SMRT physician commander, and Dan Sacco, SMRT chief of operations and director of safety and security at Indiana (PA) Regional Medical Center, will provide an in-depth view of all facets of the incident: the difficult decisions, the uncertainties, and the elation of success.

The forum is co-sponsored by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). To RSVP, send an E-mail to glshaw@seas.gwu.edu or call 994-6736.

 

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