Sept. 6, 2002

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Peter Caws, University Professor of Philosophy presented the paper “Lesser Evils and Greater Goods,” at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, on April 10. Caws also presented “Psychoanalysis as the Idiosyncratic Science of the Individual Subject,” at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, on April 26.

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, CCAS, presented the paper, “Wu Li (1632–1718) and the First Chinese Christian Poetry,” at the conference, Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and The Arts, 1540–1773, at Boston College, June 7. Chaves also presented his 23rd consecutive annual lecture to the Luce Scholars, “The Scholarly Arts of East Asia,” Princeton University, Aug. 21.

Mary Findley, adjunct assistant professor of music, CCAS, performed music by women composers from China, Korea, Israel, and the United States at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in June. The pieces were winners of a competition sponsored by the International Alliance for Women in Music. Findley, a violinist, also served as site and rehearsal coordinator for the event, co-sponsored by the Museum, the Alliance, and GW.

Liesl Riddle, assistant professor of international business, SBPM, presented “Building Effective Exporter Networks” at the Academy of Management conference in Denver, CO, in August. She also presented “An Argument for Examining Export Promotion: Organization Emergence and Development” with co-author Kate Gillespie at the American Marketing Association conference in San Diego, CA, in August, and “Emergence and Development of the Export Promotion Organizations in Istanbul’s Clothing Cluster” at the Academy of International Business conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in July.

Rita K. Roosevelt, visiting associate professor and interim associate dean, GSPM, delivered a paper entitled “Best Practices: Global Communications Strategies” co-written with Nick L. Laird, adjunct professor, GSPM, at the Consortium of Interdisciplinary Studies Section of the International Studies Association’s Fourth Annual International Conference in Brugge, Belgium, July 5.

Awards
Lowell Abrams, assistant professor of mathematics, CCAS, received the Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for academic year 2002–03.

Alasdair Bowie, associate professor of political science, CSAS, received a Henry Luce Foundation-funded Faculty Research Grant in Vietnamese Studies from the Asia Foundation. With this award, he will undertake five months of research on business-government relations in Vietnam during the 2003–04 academic year.

Appointments
James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Civilization and History, CCAS, was nominated to be president of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for 2004–05. Horton served on the executive board of the OAH during academic year 2001–02.

Raymond L. Pickholtz, professor of engineering and applied science, SEAS, was named co-editor in chief of the Journal of Communications and Networks starting in January 2002. The journal is an international archival quarterly dedicated to technical aspects of telecommunications and computer networks. It is a publication of the Korean Institute of Communications Sciences and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Publications
Young Hoon Kwak, assistant professor of management science, SBPM, published “Project Management Process Maturity Model” in the July 2002 Journal of Management in Engineering.

Thomas Nagy, associate professor of expert systems, SBPM, and Theresa Jefferson (SEAS) published “A Domain-Driven Approach to Improving Search Effectiveness in Traditional Online Catalogs” in the July 2002 issue of Information and Management, 39 (7): pp. 559–570.

Patrick McHugh, associate professor of human resource management and labor relations, SBPM, and Matthew Bodah (University of Rhode Island) published “Challenges to Professionalism and Union Voting Intentions: The Case of Pharmacists” in the Journal of Labor Research, 23 (4): Fall 2002.

Bing-Sheng Teng, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, published “Trade-Offs in Managing Resources and Capabilities,” in the May 2002 issue of Academy of Management Executive. The paper was co-authored with Jeffrey L. Cummings, assistant professor at Loyola College in Maryland.

 

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