Sept. 8, 2004

Kudos!

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

Acknowlegements:
Lisa Benton-Short, assistant professor of geography, CCAS, presented expert witness testimony before the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee. She testified on “Issues Concerning the National Heritage Areas Program.”

Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese, CCAS, presented “On the Scholary Arts of China,” to the Luce Scholars at Princeton for the 25th consecutive year.

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, CCAS, gave a plenary lecture “Effectiveness in Algebraic Structures” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic in Pittsburgh, PA. She also gave an invited presentation “Kleene’s O, Harrison Orderings and Turing Degree Spectra,” at the 10th South Eastern Logic Symposium in Gainesville, FL. Harizanov published “Turing Degrees of Hypersimple Relations on Computable Structures” in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, v. 121, pp. 209–226. She also co-published “Trivial, Strongly Minimal Theories Are Model Complete After Naming Constants,” with Sergei Goncharov, Chris Laskowski, Steffen Lempp and Charles McCoy, in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, v. 131, pp. 3901-3912.

Frank Lee, associate professor of physics, CCAS, recently presented several invited lectures in France, Poland and Japan. Lee presented “Baryon Resonances in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics” at the biennial International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons held at the Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology in Grenoble, France. He presented “Excited Baryons and Pentaquarks on the Lattice” at the eighth Biennial International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction held at the Institute of Physics of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Lee presented “Pentaquarks on the Lattice” at the Second International Workshop on Pentaquarks held at the Spring-8 Accelerator Facility, Japan. And Lee presented “Hadron Magnetic Moments in the External Field Method” at the XXII Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory held at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Chicago, IL.

J. Houston Miller, professor of chemistry, CCAS, presented several invited talks highlighting his research group’s work on developing optical sensors for air constituents on spacecraft: “Development of Cavity Ringdown Sensors for NASA Human Space Flight,” at Rice University; “Development of Optical Sensors of Air Constituents for NASA Human Space Flight,” at Johnson Space Center; “Development of Optical Sensors of Air Constituents for NASA Human Space Flight,” at MD Anderson Cancer Center; “Recent Developments in Diode Laser Based Optical Sensors for Combustion Monitoring and Control,” at Lean Combustion Technologies Tomar, Portugal; and “Development of Optical Sensors of Air Constituents for NASA Human Space Flight,” at NASA-Glenn Space Center.

Awards:
Prabir K. Bagchi, professor and associate dean, GWSB, and co-author Professor Tage Skjoett-Larsen, Copenhagen Business School, received the Accenture Award for the outstanding paper, “Integration of Information Technology and Organizations in a Supply Chain” published in the International Journal of Logistics Management.

Christopher Cahill, assistant professor of chemistry, CCAS, received a $300,000 collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation, Earth Sciences Division to study “Crystal Chemistry of U,Th and other Radionuclides in Apatite: Environmental and Geochemical Implications.” Lauren Borkowski, Cahill’s graduate student, recieved a full scholarship, stipend and travel expenses to attend the 2004 National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering at Argonne National Laboratory.

Mary Faith Pankin, catalog librarian, Gelman Library, received the 2004 Community Service Award by the District of Columbia Library Association for her 16 years of volunteer work as an archives processor in the Virginia Room of the Arlington County Public Library.

Richard Skolnik, assistant research professor of global health, and director of the Center for Global Health, SPHHS, and William Waters, associate professor of global health, SPHHS, received teaching excellence awards for undergraduate and graduate programs, respectively.

Zhengtao Xu, assistant professor of chemistry, CCAS, received the 2004 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universites (ORAU). The award consists of $5,000 (with an equal amount of matching funds from GW), and will be used for Xu’s research on soluble hybrid semiconductors with potential impacts on the fabrication of electronic devices.

Publications:
Jennifer Brinkerhoff, associate professor of public administration, of international business, and of international affairs, SPPPA, published “Partnerships Between International Donors and Non-governmental Development Organizations: Opportunities and Constraints,” with Derick W. Brinkerhoff, in International Review of Administrative Sciences, v. 70, n. 2 pp. 253–270.

Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, and Professor of History and Sociology, GWLS, published “Finality with Ambivalence: The American Death Penalty’s Uneasy History” an article-length review of Stuart Banner’s, The Death Penalty: An American History, in the May 2004 edition of the Stanford Law Review. Cottrol also presented “A 50 AZ’s del Fallo Brown vs. Board of Education” before La Facultad de Derecho de La Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Dennis W. Johnson, associate dean, Graduate School of Political Management, CCAS, published Congress Online: Bridging the Gap Between Citizens and Their Representatives (Routledge, 2004).

Shivraj Kanungo, associate professor of management science, GWSB, co-authored “Reaping Returns of Information Technology Investments: An Empirical Study” in the Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference of Information Systems, with Vikas Jain, a doctoral candidate and adjunct professor, GWSB, and Ashok Nayal of Wipro Infotech. Jain and Kanungo co-authored “Analyzing IS-enabled Productivity Using Technology Acceptance Model” in the Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference of Information Systems (PACIS), 2004. The two also co-authored “Relationship Between Risk and Intention to Purchase in Online Context: Role of Gender and Product Category” in the Proceedings of European Conference of Information Systems, 2004 held in Finland.

Peter F. Klaren, professor of history and international affairs, CCAS, published “Nacion y Sociedad en la Historia Del Peru, Lima” (Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes) in the publication Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2004, pp. 593 (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Akbar Montaser, Columbian Professor of Chemistry, CCAS, and graduate students and colleagues S. E. O’Brien, K. Kahen, J. R. Chirinos, M. E. Ketterer, D. D. Hudson, co-authored the paper “Aerosol Diagnostic and Analytical Studies of a Demountable Concentric Nebulizer for Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry,” Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrum, v.19, pp. 666–674 (2004). Montaser also recently presented three invited lectures at major research institutes and universities in Germany and Switzerland. He presented “Direct Injection’s Edge in Plasma Mass Spectrometry: The Next Diet for a Small Planet” at the Central Department of Analytical Chemistry, Research Centre Juelich. The second lecture, “Direct and Indirect Sample Introduction in Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry: The Light Bulb Comes On,” was presented at the Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Germany. Montaser presented “Scaling the Myth in Direct and Indirect Sample Introduction in Plasma Mass Spectrometry” at the Department of Chemistry, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland. Montaser and graduate students and colleagues C. M. Benson, D. A. Levin, J. Zhong, S. F. Gimelshein, published “A Kinetic Model for the Simulation of Aerosol Droplets in a High-Temperature Environment,” in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, v. 18, n. 1, pp. 122–134.

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