Sept. 5, 2003
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowledgements:
Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, CCAS,
delivered the lecture The Scholarly Arts of East Asia to the
Luce Scholars at Princeton University on Aug. 20.
Randye Jones, Gelman Library manager, and
Francis Conlon, assistant professor of music, CCAS, released their debut
recording, Come Down Angels, which includes 14 Negro spiritual
settings that express the gamut of emotions conveyed by the slaves who
originally created them.
Naval ROTC Color Guard will present colors
prior to the Baltimore Orioles game on Sept. 5.
Moses Schanfield, professor and chair of
the Department of Forensic Sciences, CCAS, is the co-organizer of third
European-American School in Forensic Genetics and Mayo Clinic Course in
Advanced Molecular and Cellular Medicine, to be held in Zagreb, Croatia,
Sept. 15. Schanfield will be presenting a plenary session talk entitled
Forensic DNA Testing: Its Past and Future.
Appointments:
Joan Ziemba has been appointed marketing
and communications director at the Virginia Campus. Ziemba has worked
at Virginia Tech and George Mason University.
Awards:
Rajat Mittal, associate professor of engineering
and applied science, SEAS, recently received a grant titled Integrated
Artificial Muscle, High-Lift, Bio-Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Biorobotic
Autonomous Undersea Vehicles funded by the Office of Naval Research.
This is a five-year grant worth $796,000. Mittal also recently received
an associated grant from the Office of Naval Research for this research
with a funding amount of $195,000, which brings the total funding close
to $1 million. Collaborators on this work are from Harvard and MIT.
Publications:
John Philbeck, assistant professor of psychology,
CCAS, along with L. Levy and S. Potolicchio, GW Medical Center, and other
researchers, published Path Integration Deficits During Linear Locomotion
After Human Medial Temporal Lobectomy in the Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience. The article explores brain deficits and how to remediate
them.
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