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April/May 2009
Kudos! Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of the GW faculty and staff Acknowledgements Shmuel Ben-Gad, reference and collection development
librarian, Gelman Library, spoke about
the Jewish underground leader Avraham Stern
on the 67th anniversary of Stern’s assassination
by the British on the Jewish Activist Network
radio program on WSNR 620 AM in New York. Ali Eskandarian, senior associate dean for strategic
initiatives and research in the College of
Professional Studies, presented “The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox and Quantum Mysteries
a la Mermin” as an invited speaker at the
28th Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications,
Quantum Knots, at GW, Feb. 27-March 1.
The conference was sponsored by the National
Science Foundation. Azim Eskandarian, professor of engineering
and applied science, was invited to serve on
the IEE-USA Committee on Transportation and
Aerospace Policy, one of IEEE legislation committees
to advise Congress on policy issues.
Dr. Eskandarian also was elected to the board
of governors of IEEE ITS society for a three-year
term. Mark Feldstein, associate professor of media
and public affairs, has been awarded an Alicia
Patterson Foundation Fellowship to study“Muckraking in a Digital Age.” Last year, he
travelled to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
through a State Department-funded program Rodney L. Johnson, director of parent services, received a certificate of recognition for outstanding contributions and service to parents and family members on the GW campus. He and his staff also presented a session titled “Planning a Successful Parents Weekend” at the Administrators Promoting Parent Involvement conference in Boston. Frank X. Lee, associate professor of physics, was
invited to serve on a high-profile panel to
review multimillion-dollar budget proposals for
the cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation
program of the National Science Foundation. Marcia Norton, associate professor of history,
won the Society of Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies’ best first article prize for “Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European
Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics,” which was published in American Historical
Review. William Parke, professor of physics; Kalvir
Dhuga, associate professor of physics; Ali Susan Phillips, dean of GW’s School of Business, was elected to the board of directors for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International. Phillips is one of 10 prominent management education and business professionals joining the board effective July 1 and will serve as secretary-treasurer. Dolores Stafford, chief of police, and the GW
Police Department received accreditation Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry and of biochemisty
and molecular biology and co-director
of the W.M. Keck Institute for Proteomics Technology
and Applications, was profiled in the
March issue of The Scientist. Dr. Vertes was
interviewed about his biological imaging with
mass spectrometry techniques. Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green research
professor of law, co-authored a chapter, “Public
Safety and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms,”
in The Bill of Rights in Modern America: Revised
and Expanded Edition. He also worked on several
amicus briefs supporting respondent
Richard Heller in the landmark Second
Amendment case District of Columbia v. Heller
and was co-counsel on the amicus brief filed
by the Congress of Racial Equality. Michael Marquardt, professor of human and
organizational learning and international Leonard Maximon, research professor of
physics, and collaborators at the Institut fur Patrick McHugh, associate professor of labor
relations, published “Batter Up, Student on
Deck: The Utility of Moneyball in Management
Education” in the April issue of the Journal of
Management Education. Gail Weiss, professor of philosophy and human
sciences, published myriad articles and book
chapters, including “Refiguring the Ordinary,”
“Intertwinings: Interdisciplinary Encounters
with Merleau-Ponty” and “Freedom F/or the
Other” in Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of
Influence. Dr. Weiss also delivered invited talks
at Ryder University in Toronto, University of
Mary Washington, Rikkyo University in Tokyo
and University of Helsinki’s Collegium for
Advanced Studies in Finland. David Fifer was hired as GW’s Police Department
coordinator of the Emergency Medical
Response Group, known as EMeRG. Prior to
GW, Fifer was an emergency medical technician
in Virginia and Kentucky and holds
national EMS certification as an emergency
medical technician. Kudos is a recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of GW faculty and staff. To submit information for Kudos, e-mail ByGeorge! at bygeorge@gwu.edu and write Kudos in the subject line.
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