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September 2009 |
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Contents SMPA Hosts Clinton, Gates, Mondale Alumni Weekend Celebration Alumnus ID's War Victims Learning Through Research Students Get Head Start Back to Mount Vernon GW-D.C. Partnership Poll Spotlights Gov't Work Students Perform Songs, Service Cuba in the World Solar Institute Advisors Named
Kudos Theatre and Dance Chairman Dana Tai Soon Burgess, MFA '94, was named the State Alumni Member of the Month for September by the U.S. Department of State. "Color Inspirations," paintings by Sharon Doran Callagy, BA ’72, were exhibited at Orchard Gallery in Bethesda. Read more From Eden to Exile by Eric Cline, chair of the Department of Classical & Semitic Languages and Literature, was named most popular archaeological book in 2007-2008 by the Biblical Archaeology Society. Michael Greenwald, BA ’06, has been selected to join The Next Generation Board, part of The Wings of Memory Society at The Holocaust Memorial Museum. Read more Philip Joyce, professor in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, won the 2009 Elmer Staats Award from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. Photography Professor Dean Kessmann spent July as an artist-in-residence at Light Work in Syracuse. His recent solo exhibition at Conner Contemporary was reviewed in Art Papers. Professor Forrest Maltzman, chair of the Department of Political Science, received the American Political Science Association Law and Courts Section’s Best Article Award for "Does Legal Doctrine Matter? Unpacking Law and Ideology on the U.S. Supreme Court," coauthored with Michael Bailey and published in the August 2008 issue of American Political Science Review. Marvin Phaup, professor in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, has been named a project director of the Pew Charitable Trusts, Federal Budget Reform Initiative, and is consulting with the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform. Clare Rowland, BS ’09, was awarded the Alpha Chi Sigma award from the Department of Chemistry for having the highest academic record in chemistry courses. Sociology Professors Gregory Squires and Chester Hartman released a book, The Integration Debate: Competing Futures for American Cities. In addition, Squires will receive the Joseph B. Gittler Award for 2009 from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Chriselle Tidrick, BA ’94, will direct
Ascendance, a program featuring circus-infused dance, Sept. 10-12 in Manhattan.
Donn Weinberg, BA ’75, has been elected chairman of the
Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation, which awards grants to nonprofits that provide services to the poor.
Upcoming Events
“Going for Broke? The Fiscal Future After the Economic Crisis”
Conversation Series: Walter Mondale
Alumni Weekend
Educating World Citizens for
the 21st Century
“Cuba in the World:” A Public Reading and Symposium
GW Global Forum
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School of Media and Public Affairs to Host Clinton, Gates, Mondale
“We are thrilled to be playing an integral role in advancing the public policy debate,” said Peg Barratt, dean of the Columbian College. “Hosting a forum of this caliber with national leaders is a remarkable example of the breadth and depth of our work in engaging Washington and the world.” The conversation series is free and open to the public but registration is required. To register for the Mondale event, click here. Details about the Clinton/Gates conversation are being formulated but will be posted at www.columbian.gwu.edu when available.
Join Fellow Alumni for a Weekend of Celebration
In addition, Columbian College graduate and D.C. City Councilman Vincent Gray, BA ’64, will be honored during a ceremony on Oct. 1 as one of five recipients of GW’s Distinguished and Recent Alumni Awards.
For War Victims, GW Alumnus Finds Missing Pieces of the Puzzle
Columbian College Immerses Undergraduates in Research Experience
Freshmen Get Head Start in U.S. with Summer Program
Back to Mount Vernon: "George Washington and His World"
Partnership Advances Opportunity for D.C. Students
Government Work OK, but Not Workers
Music Students Perform Songs, Service in South Africa
Cuba in the World: A Symposium
New Members Join Solar Institute Board |
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In what is being billed as a unique joint appearance in a public forum, Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates are coming to Lisner Auditorium on
Oct. 5 as guests of GW’s Public Affairs Project Conversation Series.
Clinton and Gates will discuss the reach of American influence and power as well
as “smart” methods of conducting foreign policy. Moderated by the Columbian College’s School of Media and Public Affairs Director
Frank Sesno, the series will also feature a “conversation” with former Vice President
Walter Mondale on Sept. 23.
Join
Columbian College classmates for GW's Alumni Weekend, Oct. 1-4! Events
include a "Taste of GW" carnival, comedy events, green tours of campus, a State
of the University address by President Steven Knapp, movie screenings,
class reunions and more. It's a great chance to reconnect with classmates and
old friends, to network with fellow alumni, and to rediscover what you loved
about Columbian College and Washington, D.C. Special celebrations will be held
for the classes of 2004, 1999, 1989, 1984,
John Crews’ education at Columbian College is helping to provide closure to grieving families on a global scale. As a forensic geneticist, he brings modern science and a tireless commitment to war-ravaged countries through on-site analysis and identification of slain loved ones. Crews, who graduated from GW in 2000 with a
master of science in genetics, has been working in Guatemala, linking the DNA found in skeletal remains to surviving family members unable to find loved ones who disappeared during decades of civil war.
One student used hair samples to measure hormone levels of primates. Another determined what kind of proteins can make an invasive hookworm dormant. And a third used nanowires made from gold particles to detect protein molecules in biological samples. This type of hands-on research isn’t common for undergraduates, but 18 aspiring scientists took the plunge into the scientific world this past summer through Columbian College’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
The students looked like typical college freshmen—wearing the traditional summer attire of T-shirts, flip-flops and sneakers—but they were new to more than just the George Washington campus: These residents of China and Korea were adjusting to life in America through the Columbian College’s new Summer Academic English program. 
“George Washington and His World”—a hands-on undergraduate course that debuted last fall through a partnership between GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens—has returned for the 2009-2010 school year. The class offers a unique opportunity for students to immerse themselves in the study of the University’s namesake and the nation’s first president at his home on the Potomac. 
Thanks to Columbian College’s partnership with Washington D.C. Public Schools and School Without Walls, 14 rising high school juniors are jump-starting their college educations through GW’s first-ever Early College Program. The 15- and 16-year-old students, enrolled in their first on-campus college credit course this summer, will earn a D.C. Public School high school diploma, as well as an associate of arts degree from Columbian College at the end of two years.
When applications for graduate study in Columbian College’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration soared following the 2008 presidential election, Professors
William Adams and Donna Lind Infeld enlisted the GW Battleground Poll to track attitudes toward careers in public service. They found that while the majority of respondents endorse careers in the federal government, many Americans lack confidence in government workers.
Columbian College has a tradition of giving choral students the opportunity to
tour as musical ambassadors of both the university and the United States. This
year, as part of a program sponsored by the Department of Music and the Office
for Study Abroad, 40 students traveled with Professor Giselle Becker to
South Africa, where they performed concerts and took part in service projects
during a 10-day trip.