March 15, 2005

Kudos!

Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of the GW faculty and staff

Acknowlegements:
Gordon Adams, director of the Security Policy Studies program, ESIA, presented the findings of a two-year study on the state of current and planned European C4ISR capabilities before the CSIS Forum on Transatlantic Defense Cooperation.

Vittal Anantatmula, director of the Project Management Program, GWSB, presented the paper “Establishing and Structuring Criteria for Measuring Knowledge Management Efforts” co-authored with Shivraj Kanungo, associate professor of management science, GWSB, at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Rebecca Dedmond, assistant professor of counseling, GSEHD, was invited to conduct a one-day workshop at the Center on Education and Work’s 19th annual conference.

Ted Glickman, associate professor of management science, GWSB, received funding from the Homeland Security Institute, a federally funded research and development center, to analyze the applicability of industry and government standards to homeland security concerns.

William Halal, professor of management science, GWSB, presented the keynote address at the annual meeting of the National Knowledge and Intellectual Property Management Task Force. GW’s Institute for Knowledge & Innovation co-sponsored the meeting. Halal and Michael Stankosky, associate professor of systems engineering, SEAS, co-direct the institute.

William Handorf, professor of finance, GWSB, presented “The Business Cycle and Financial Markets” at the Baltimore Security Analysis Society.

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, CCAS, gave two invited lectures at Cornell University: "Intrinsically Sigma-0-alpha relations on computable structures" on November 30, and "Inductive inference of classes of computably enumerable vector spaces" on December 1, 2004. Harizanov also co-published "Pi-1-1 relations and paths through O" with Sergei Goncharov (Russian Academy of Sciences), Julia Knight (University of Notre Dame), and Richard Shore (Cornell University), in Journal of Symbolic Logic, v. 69, 2004, pp. 585ˆ611.

Gergana Jostova, assistant professor of finance, GWSB, presented two papers, “Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Betas ” and “Corporate Credit Risk Changes: Common Factors and Firm Level Fundamentals” at the 2005 American Finance Association Meeting. “ Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Betas” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Timothy H. McNicholl, assistant professor of mathematics, Columbian Teaching Fellow, CCAS, presented an invited paper “Ramsey Theory on Trees,” co-authored with Jeff Hirst, at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Atlanta, Jan. 5.

John Rollins, a part-time faculty member and a member of the GWSB Board of Advisors, is serving as the vice president of the technology division for the US Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Charles N. Toftoy, associate professor of management science, GWSB, conducted three workshops at the recent United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) annual meeting in Palm Springs, CA.The three workshops were: “Developing Partnerships To Assist Global Companies”; “Guidelines For Exporting to the United States by Latin American Companies”; and “The Most Troublesome Small Business Issues : Interactive Discussion With Three Small Business Presidents.”

Stuart Umpleby, professor of management science,GWSB, gave a series of lectures about organizational cybernetics in a doctoral seminar at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Appointments:
Pamela Davidson, assistant professor of sociology, CCAS, has been named a Policy Research Scholar by the GW Institute of Public Policy for her project, "Children’s Developmental Outcomes in Single Mother Households.”

Donald Dew, director of the Regional Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program and professor of counseling and research and of psychiatry & behavioral science, GSEHD, was appointed by the DC Administrator, Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to a three-year term on the RSA Medical Advisory Committee (MAC). This is the third consecutive appointment to the MAC for Dew.

Richard Green, Oliver T. Carr, Jr. Professor of Real Estate Finance, GWSB, has been elected second vice president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.

Sharon Lambert, assistant professor of psychology, CCAS, has been named a Policy Research Scholar by the GW Institute of Public Policy for her project “Neighborhood Effects on Children and Families.”

Gina Lambright, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, CCAS, has been named a Policy Research Scholar by the GW Institute of Public Policy for her project “Policymaking in Africa: Do Parties Matter?”

Carl Stern, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs, CCAS, has been appointed to serve on a committee that will review and update the program policies and standards of the Public Broadcasting Service.

Awards:
Stephen Hansen, assistant professor of accountancy, GWSB, co-authored a paper that has been recognized as the “Best Paper Published in the Journal of Management Accounting Research for 2002–04.” Rajiv Banker (University of California – Riverside) collaborated with Hansen on “The Adequacy of Full-Cost-Based Pricing Heuristics,” which was published in the journal’s volume 14 in 2002.

Salah Hassan, professor of global marketing, GWSB, will be recognized by the Academy of Marketing Science as one of four “Outstanding Marketing Teachers” at its upcoming 2005 annual conference.

William Mayer, associate university librarian for information technology, has been accepted by the Frye Leadership Institute to attend this year’s session at Emory University.

Jeffrey Levi, assistant research professor of health policy, has been named a Policy Research Scholar by the GW Institute of Public Policy for his project “Racial, Ethnic, and Economic Disparities in Access to Flu Vaccine.”

Srinivas Prasad, associate professor of management science, SBPM, has been named a Policy Research Scholar by the GW Institute of Public Policy for his project "Responding to Bioterrorism."

Scheherazade Rehman, associate professor of international finance, GWSB, was recognized with the best paper award at the Association for Global Business 2004 annual meeting.

Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of accountancy, GWSB, was elected to the Human Resource Certification Institute’s board of directors.

Greg Squires, professor of sociology and chair, Department of Sociology, CCAS, has been named a Policy Research Scholar by the GW Institute of Public Policy for his project “Cybersegregation.”

Erik Voeten, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, CCAS, has been named a Policy Research Scholar by the GW Institute of Public Policy for his project “Anti-Americanism and Its Foreign Policy Consequences.”

Publications:
Nate Allen, a doctoral candidate, co-authored Company Command: Unleashing the Power of the Army Profession with Nancy Dixon, Tony Burgess, Pete Kilner, and Steve Schweitzer. The book was published by the Center for the Advancement of Leader Development & Organizational Learning.

Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection development librarian, Gelman Library, published a review of the book Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film by Joseph Cunneen in Film Quarterly, v 58, n 2, (Winter, 2004–05), pp. 62-63.

Christopher L. Cahill, assistant professor of chemistry, CCAS, along with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, published “Mica Surfaces Stabilize Pentavalent Uranium” in the journal Inorganic Chemistry.

Amitai Etzioni, University Professor and director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, CCAS, published “Comment of Jonge and Young” in the Socio-Economic Review, v. 3, pp. 153–155.

Peter P. Hill, emeritus professor of history, CCAS, published “The Savannah Riots: A Burning Issue in Franco-American Hostility, 1811–12” in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, V. LXXXVIII (Winter 2004), n. 4, pp. 499–510.

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