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Feb. 18, 2004
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowledgements:
Huynh-Nhu (Mimi) Le, assistant professor
of psychology, received a $1,192,300 grant from the Department of Health
and Human Services to fund her research on “Preventing Postpartum
Depression in High-Risk Pregnant Latinas: Effects on Maternal and Infant
Health.”
Edward McCord, associate professor of history
and international affairs, associate dean, ESIA, presented “War,
Ethnic Rebellion and State-building” at the annual meeting of the
American Historical Association, in Washington, DC, Jan. 11.
Christine Meloni, associate professor of
English as a foreign language, GSEHD, was the featured speaker at
the 20th Annual National Conference for Teachers of English in San Jose,
Costa Rica, appearing via satellite on the US State Department’s
program “Dialogue,” discussing “Integrating the Internet
in English Language Teaching.”
George Paturca, assistant professorial lecturer
in French, CCAS, will present the paper “Le Francais entre idealisme
et pragmatisme, etude de cas: la Francophonie en Romanie” at the
World Congress of Professors of French in Atlanta, GA.
Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of
accountancy, SB, addressed the World Bank on the subject of financial
management at World Bank headquarters, Washington, DC, January 2004.
Appointments:
Maureen A. Ryan joined the Universal Health
Services marketing department as the communications manager for the GW
Hospital. She will coordinate all media relations and hospital publications,
including Health News Magazine and MedStat.
Awards:
Charles Toftoy, associate professor of management
science, SB, won the top workshop award at the 18th Annual National Conference
of the United States Association for Entrepreneurship and Small Business,
Jan. 15–18 in Dallas, TX, for his program “Optimizing the Use
of Student Teams to Assist Local Businesses.”
Abby Wilkerson, adjunct assistant professor
of English, CCAS, and Robert McRuer, assistant
professor of English, CCAS, co-editors of “Desiring Disability: Queer
Theory Meets Disability Studies,” received the Special Issue Award
from The Council of Editors of Learned Journals for the special issue
A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies (2003).
Publications:
Christopher J. Deering, professor of political
science, CCAS, published “La Evolución del Parlamento Americano,”
in El Parlamento En El Tiempo (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Eusko Legebiltzarra,
2003).
Edith Henderson Grotberg, adjunct associate
professor, SPHHS, co-wrote “Resilience for Today: Gaining Strength
from Adversity.”
Susan Jones, professor of clinical law, LS,
published an article on the Community Reinvestment Act in the November/December
issue of Business Law Today, a publication of the ABA Section of
Business Law.
Jonathan Molot, associate professor of law,
LS, published “An Old Judicial Role for a New Litigation Era,”
in Yale Law Journal (2003).
Sergio Waisman, assistant professor of Spanish,
CCAS, published “The Thousand and One Nights in Argentina: Translation,
Narrative and Politics in Borges, Puig and Piglia” in Comparative
Literature Studies, v. 40, n. 4, pp. 351–371. He also translated
“Dreams and Realities: Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti”
(Oxford Univ Press, Library of Latin America, 2003).
William Waters, associate professor of global
health, SPHHS, published “Sociology: Ecuador,” In D.M. Martin
(ed.), Handbook of Latin American Studies, n. 57. Hispanic Division
of the Library of Congress (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003).
Ryan Watkins and Michael
Corry, assistant professors of educational technology leadership,
GSEHD, recently co-published the book “E-Learning Companion: A Student’s
Guide to Online Success” (Houghton-Mifflin, 2005).
Mark Yoffe, adjunct professor of Slavic languages
and literatures, CCAS, and curator, International Counterculture Archive
and Slavic Librarian, Gelman Library, published the book “Perun:
The God of Thunder” (New York: Peter Lang, 2003).
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