Feb. 4, 2004

Kudos!

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

Acknowledgements:
Martin Adelman, professor of law, and director Intellectual Property Programs, LS, delivered the keynote lecture “A New Spin on Festo and its Ramifications,” at a joint meeting of the Oregon Patent Law Association and the Washington State Patent Law Association in September. In October, he delivered the lecture “The Economics of Pharmaceutical Innovation in the Developed World,” at the conference on Intellectual Property and International Public Health, held at Georgetown University. In November, Adelman delivered the lecture “A Modern Perspective on the Patent Infringement Cases Enforcing the Wright Brothers Patent,” at the Symposium on Patents & Innovations: Lessons from the Wright Brothers, held at the University of Dayton School of Law.

Linda Lemasters, assistant professor of educational administration, GSEHD, and Glen I. Earthman, professor emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, presented “The Long-Term Effect Upon and Contribution of Air-Conditioning on Student Achievement” at the 80th Annual Conference on Educational Facility Planning in Chicago, IL. Sharon Dannels, visiting professor of research methods, GSEHD, contributed to this project. While at the CEFPI conference, Lemasters was honored with a distinguished service award by the Council. Lemasters and two doctoral students, Jarred Cotton and Cassandra Barksdale, presented “Teachers Are Staying in the Classroom: How Do We Fill Principal Vacancies?” at the Phi Delta Kappa International 2003 Conference and Exhibition in St. Louis, MO. Lemasters also co-authored with Earthman “School Maintenance & Renovation: Administrator Policies, Practices & Economics” (Pro-Active Publications, Lancaster, PA).

Christine Meloni, senior research associate, National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC), GSEHD, and Abigail Bartoshesky, research associate, NCLRC, GSEHD, presented the paper “Cyber Resources: Accessing and Using Web-Based Target Language Materials” at the annual national convention of the American Council on The Teaching of Foreign Languages in Philadelphia, PA.

Sherry Molock, associate professor of psychology, CCAS, presented “Cultural Aspects of Suicidality with Black Teens” at the American Association of Suicidology conference in Santa Fe, NM. Molock also presented the invited paper “The Role of Culture in Community-based Suicide Interventions: Utility of Public Service Announcements” to the Science of Public Messages for Suicide Prevention Conference in Washington, DC.

Akbar Montaser, professor of chemistry, CCAS, presented the invited lecture “Fundamental Nebulization Processes and Analyte Transport” at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry held in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 1–10. Montaser’s students Kaveh Kahen, Kaveh Jorabchi and Jonathan Levine won the Best Poster Prize at the conference for their poster session entitled, “Direct Droplet Imaging for Two-dimensional Aerosol Characterization in Inductively Coupled Plasmas.”

Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of acountancy, SBPM, discussed current issues in accounting and their potential impact on legal professionals at a meeting of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Jan. 15, in Washington, DC.

Marisa Tjerandsen, coordinator of student involvement, Student Activities Center, will present “A Whole New World Wide Web for Student Organizations” at the April 1–5 convention of the American College Personnel Association.

Awards:
Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology, international affairs and human sciences, CCAS, and Valentina Harizanov, associate professor of mathematics, CCAS, were named Columbian Research Fellows for academic year 2004–05. While on fellowship, Grinker will complete his book, “One in Three Hundred: an Atlas of Autism.” Harizanov will complete her book, “Computable Model Theory.”

Susan Jones, professor of clinical law, LS, was named the 2003–04 Haywood Burns Visiting Chair in Civil Rights at City University of New York Law School at Queens College. She is the first clinician and the first woman to hold this post.

Peter Smith, associate professor of law, LS, won honorable mention in the AALS Call for Scholarly Papers for “The Sources of Federalism: Federalists, Anti-Federalists and the Court’s Quest for Original Meaning.”

Publications:
Naomi Cahn, professor of law, LS, published “Battered Women, Child Maltreatment, Prison and Poverty: Issues for Theory and Practice,” as part of the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law symposium issue on domestic violence (2003), “Perfect Substitutes or the Real Thing?” in Duke Law Journal, v. 52, pp.1077 (2003) and “Parenthood, Genes, and Gametes: The Family Law and Trusts and Estates Perspectives,” as part of a symposium at University of Memphis Law Review, v. 32, pp. 563 (2002).

Peter Konwerski, executive director for administrative partnerships and assistant to the senior vice president, SASS, recently published “College Union Security Two Years after September 11: A Case Study,” in The Bulletin, the magazine of the Association of College Unions, International, November 2003, v. 171, n. 6.

Bernard Mergen, professor of American studies, CCAS, published “Children and Nature in History,” in Environmental History, v. 8, n. 4, pp. 643–669.

Elaine Murphy, adjunct professor of global health, SPHHS, published the article “Being Born Female is Dangerous to Your Health,” in American Psychologist. March 2003.

Mary Faith Pankin, cataloging librarian, Gelman Library System, published “A Second Great-Grandfather Discovered” in Manuscripts, v. LV, n. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 313–323.

Yaron Peleg, assistant professor of Hebrew, CCAS, published the book “Derech Gever, Homoeroticism in Hebrew Literature, 1880–2000” (Shufra Publishing, Tel-Aviv, 2003).

Joan Roddy Regnell, associate professor of speech and hearing, CCAS, co-published “Incidence of Supraglottic Activity in Males and Females: A Preliminary Report” in the Journal of Voice, v. 17, n. 3, pp. 395-402, with Sheila V. Stager (Voice Treatment Center), Rebecca Neubert (University of Virginia Medical Center), Susan Miller (Voice Treatment Center), and Steven A Bielamowicz (Voice Treatment Center).

Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, CCAS, and graduate student Yong Chen co-wrote “Pumping Rate and Surface Morphology Dependence of Ionization Processes in Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization,” in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Vertes, along with colleagues from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, also recently published the results from a benchmark study on modeling laser ablation, entitled “Laser Ablation for Analytical Sampling: What Can We Learn from Modeling?” Spectrochim, Acta B, v. 58, pp. 1867–1893.

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