Sept. 4, 2001

Kudos!

Acknowledgments
Counseling/Human and Organizational Studies program hosted a record number of attendees for the annual Executive Leadership Program at the Marriott-Omni-Hilton. The conference theme was “How Governments Matter.” Presentations on elements of this theme were given by scholars and practitioners from all over the world. The event was a collaboration with the Executive Leadership Program and SBPM Associate Dean Jeff Lenn.

Edward Cherian, professor of information systems, SBPM, served as the electronic business panel chair at the ABAS International Conference in Brussels, Belgium, in July. Cherian presented “The Leap from Electronic Commerce to Electronic Business.”

Hope M. Harrison, assistant professor of history and international affairs, CCAS, has just returned from a year at the White House, where she served as director for European and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council in the Clinton and Bush administrations. Harrison was at the NSC as an International Affairs Fellow, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. She represented the White House in US relations with the five countries of former Soviet Central Asia, as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus.

Jeffrey Stephanic, associate professor of design, CCAS, recently concluded a three-man exhibition, “Monuments,” at the Anton Gallery. The show, which included work by Jeremy Jelenfy and Peter Waddell, took a post-modernist approach to the monuments that dot the Washington skyline. The exhibition received high praise in a review by Joanna Shaw-Eagel in the Aug. 4 issue of the Washington Times.

Bing-Sheng Teng, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, attended Cooperative Strategies and Alliances, a conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. The conference was an invitation-only event organized by the International Institute for Management Development. Teng presented “A Social Exchange Theory of Strategic Alliances,” a paper he co-authored with TK Das of Baruch College.

Charles Toftoy, adjunct associate professor of management science, director of the entrepreneurship program, SBPM, was recently the featured speaker at a business seminar in South Korea sponsored by Beauty News, Co. and Kookmin University. Toftoy addressed more than 90 beauty salon owners about increasing revenues.

Appointments
Tracy Pannozzo, appointed communications director for the School of Media and Public Affairs, CCAS. Pannozzo brings several years of experience in publications, media relations, and Web management to SMPA most recently serving at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Previously she managed communications for the National Airline Passenger Association.

Kathleen E. Reilly, appointed director of communications for the Elliott School of International Affairs. Reilly comes to ESIA from the Institute for International Research in New York, NY, where she has been a program development manager engaged in the organization and production of conferences and seminars on public issues. Prior to this, Reilly served as a public affairs officer from 1993 to 1999 for the US Information Office with postings in Washington, DC; Lagos, Nigeria; and Sydney, Australia. She received her BA from Hunter College, in 1983, and her MA in education from San Francisco State University in 1992.

Publications
Jerome Barron, professor of law, GWLS, published “Capturing the Canon” in Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 17, No. 2, as part of a symposium on “The Canon(s) of Constitutional Law.”

C. Thomas Dienes, professor of law, GWLS, published “Trial Participants in the Newsgathering Process,” in the University of Richmond Law Review, p. 1107 (2001), as part of the Allen Chair Symposium 2000 on “Trying Cases in the Media: Legal Ethics, Fair Trials, and Free Press.”

Matthew Mehaffey, assistant professor of music, CCAS, recently co-authored, “Choral Ensemble Intonation: Methods, Procedures, and Exercises,” and an accompanying video with James Jordan, Westminster Choir College of Rider University. 

Barbara Miller, professor of anthropology and international affairs and associate dean, ESIA, published “Cultural Anthropology,” 2nd edition, Allyn & Bacon, 2001.

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