April 1, 2003
Kudos!
Acknowledgements
David DeGrazia,
associate professor of philosophy, CCAS, served as a respondent to Martha
Nussbaums 2003 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Cambridge University
on March 67.
Ted Glickman, associate professor of management
science, SBPM, presented Decision Analysis for Crisis Management
at a National Science Foundation workshop, Cyberinfrastructure
and Homeland Security, in California in February.
William Halal, professor of management
science, SBPM, recently presented the keynote address at a strategic
planning workshop for the Air Force Research Laboratories and spoke
to the executive council of the Environmental Protection Agency. He
also will keynote the Annual Software Technology Conference.
Appointments
Tyra Hilliard, assistant professor of event
and meeting management, SBPM, has been appointed executive director
of the GW/SBPM International Institute of Tourism Studies.
Jiawen Yang, associate professor of international
business, ESIA, SBPM, has been named a policy research scholar at The
George Washington Institute of Public Policy. Yangs two-year appointment
will include a summer stipend for two semesters.
Publications
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese,
CCAS, wrote the article, Confucianism: The Conservatism of the
East, published in Intercollegiate Review, v. 38, no. 2
(Spring 2003), pp. 4450.
Bruce J. Dickson, associate professor of
political science and international affairs, ESIA, wrote Threats
to Party Supremacy, published in the Journal of Democracy,
v. 14, no. 1 (January 2003), pp. 2735, as part of a special issue
on Chinas Changing of the Guard.
Peter Rollberg, associate professor of
Slavic languages and film studies, CCAS, and director of the University
Honors Program, published two articles in v. 272 of Dictionary of Literary
Biography: Russian Prose Writers Between the World Wars (Bruccoli Clark
Layman, 2003) Leonid Maksimovich Leonov (pp. 212226)
and Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin (pp. 336344).
Refik Soyer, professor of management science,
SBPM, published A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Analysis of the Reliability
and Maintenance of Machine Tools in the American Statistical Association
journal Technometrics. The article was co-authored by Jason R.
Merrick and Thomas A. Mazzuchi. Soyer also published Optimal Stopping
Rules for Software Testing in Naval Research Logistics, with Nilgun
Morali.
Michael Wagner, associate professor of
chemistry, CCAS, published a paper entitled, Nanocrystalline Y2O3:
Eu Phosphors Prepared by Alkalide Reduction, in the February issue
of the American Chemical Society Journal Chemistry of Materials,
2003, v. 15, pp. 688-693.
Kudos is a recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff.