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A Guide to Arts and Sciences' News, Events and People |
July 2009 |
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Contents A Jurassic Discovery Historian Named Smith Chair Program Aims to Secure the Nation's Future A Special Grad Interns' Lives Lead to Emmy In the Spotlight See the World Latest in Print
Upcoming Events
“Neighborhood Watch,” a photographic exhibition by GW alumna Claudia Smigrod GW Alumni
Reception at Joint Statistical Meetings
Alumni Weekend
Comedian Jon Stewart
GW Global Forum
Kudos Allison Bybee, BA ’09, received a Pickering Graduate Fellowship and was presented with the Department of Geography’s Campbell Prize for scholarship and leadership. Qing Pan, assistant statistics professor, was a co-winner of the Canadian Journal of Statistics Award for her article, “Proportional hazards models based on biased samples and estimated selection probabilities,” published in the journal in 2008. Greg Domber, PhD ’08, was awarded the 2009 Betty M. Unterberger Prize
for best dissertation, given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations.
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Jurassic Discovery: Professor Finds
Jenna Weissman Joselit Named Smith Chair in Judaic Studies “I’m energized by the prospect of drawing on the wealth of resources at GW and in Washington, D.C.,” said Professor Weissman Joselit, who will begin her tenure at Columbian College this fall.
Internship Program Aims to Secure the Nation’s Future
In Our Mailbox:
A Note from a Special Grad
Interns' Lives Lead to Emmy-winning Effort
In the Spotlight
See the World
with Columbian College
Latest in Print Elise A. Friedland, assistant professor of classics, reviewed an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, “Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples,” in the March 2009 issue of Near Eastern Archaeology. American Studies Professor Chad Heap’s book, Slumming, Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, recently received high marks in The New Yorker. David Rain, assistant professor of geography and a consultant for the United Nations Statistics Division, prepared the Handbook on Geospatial Infrastructure in Support of Census Activities, a key primer in the field of census cartography. Francys Subiaul’s work with primates at the National Zoo was featured in the January/February issue of Smithsonian Zoogoer, a magazine published by the Friends of the National Zoo. Subiaul, an assistant professor of speech and hearing science, compares the learning processes of gorillas and orangutans with that of human children.
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GW
biologist James Clark’s latest search for dinosaurs in China has led to a
significant discovery—the remains of a beaked creature that had three
digits on each foot. The ground-breaking finding suggests birds could have evolved
from larger creatures during the Jurassic period.
Celebrated historian Jenna Weissman Joselit has been named the Charles E. Smith
Chair in Judaic Studies, joining the Judaic studies program and the Department
of History to teach and explore American Jewish history and culture.
Columbian
College’s National Security Internship program is providing 31 students an
insider’s perspective on the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The
students, proficient in Arabic and qualified for high-security clearances,
receive on-the-job training in addition to their class work. 
GW
interns armed with video cameras earned an Emmy Award for their work on a
subject they know well—the daily lives of interns! A series of
videos produced by the students in Columbian College’s Semester in Washington
Program aired as a half-hour show in summer 2008 on WRC-TV, the Washington, D.C.
NBC affiliate. Students worked under GW Associate Professor Amos Gelb,
director of the Semester in Washington journalism program.
The latest issue of
GW Magazine features award-winning actress
was a 2008 Recent Alumni Achievement Award recipient.