New Books
David Holt, BA '01, published Big League City: Oklahoma City’s Rise to the NBA, the story behind the arrival of major league sports in Oklahoma City.
Jane Shore, professor of English, authored That Said: New and Selected Poems.
Awards and Recognition
Megan Buonaiuto, a senior chemistry and history major, and Heather Dingwall, a senior in biological anthropology and archeology, were honored by GW with an Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. Both will be speaking at the Columbian College Celebration ceremonies on May 19.
Kerry Crawford, a doctoral candidate in political science, received one of six 2012 Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowships to support her dissertation, “Punctuated Silence: Variation in the International Response to Wartime Sexual Predation," which examines how the international community dealt with elements of predation.
Juniors Nathaniel Diskint, biological anthropology, and Caitlin Keating, psychology, won 4th place in the GW Business Plan Competition for their proposal Imagnus Biomedical, designed to make quality and cost-effective biomedical instruments that offer advanced solutions in the areas of research and medicine.
Laura Hardwick, political communications student, and Dorothy Gilliam, research scientist in media and public affairs, are featured in a video about Prime Movers Media, GW’s intensive journalism mentorship program that aired at the recent White House Correspondents’ dinner.
Dorothy E. Holmes, professor emeritus of clinical psychology and professional psychology, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for the Advancement of Women’s and Racial Issues in Psychoanalysis from the American Psychological Association.
Garett Howardson, doctoral candidate in industrial and organizational psychology, won the International Personnel Assessment Council James C. Johnson Student Paper Competition Award for his paper “Coming Full Circle with Reactions: Toward an Understanding of Affective Training Reactions through the Core Affect Circumplex”.
Michelle Jurkovich, a graduate student in political science, was awarded a grant from the Loughran Foundation to conduct dissertation research at Oxford University.
Michael D. Larson, associate professor of biostatistics, was selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Julian Panero, a student in Chinese and economics, won first place in the D.C. 11th Annual Chinese Bridge Speech Competition.
Jozef Przytycki, professor of mathematics, is part of a collaborative international research project, “Algebraic Modeling of Topological and Computational Structures", that received a $700,000 grant from the Greek Government and European Union.
Elizabeth Saunders, asst. professor of political science and international affairs, won the American Political Science Association International History and Politics section's Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Award for her book "Leaders at War." She also received a Wilson Center Fellowship for 2012-13.
John Sides, associate professor of political science, was awarded a $76,160 grant by the National Science Foundation, to survey and assess attitudes toward two social groups—African Americans and Muslims—to determine how and why group-centrism affects political attitudes.
Cheryl Vann, adjunct honors professor, was selected to participate in the Japan Studies Association Freeman Summer Institute for incorporating Japan Studies into the undergraduate curriculum.
Ross White, a graduate student in philosophy and social policy, won a Walter Green Fellowship to support his graduate studies.
Ellen Zane, BA ’73, a GW trustee and Columbian College National Council member, was named the third most powerful woman in healthcare by HealthExecNews.com.
Selected Published Works
Catherine Snow Bailard, assistant professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs, authored “A Field Experiment on the Internet’s Effect in an African Election: Savvier Citizens, Disaffected Voters, or Both?” in the Journal of Communication.
Brandon Bartels, assistant professor of political science, authored "Political Justice? Perceptions of Politicization and Public Preferences toward the Supreme Court Appointment Process" in Public Opinion Quarterly.
Douglas Boyce, associate professor of music, released a CD “Group Theory” with his ensemble counter)induction.
Xiaoning (Julia) Chen, Hanban Teaching Fellow from China and Chinese language instructor, has been a regular contributor to a popular series entitled “Teaching Chinese in the USA” in an on-line magazine on the Chinese language 中国语言生活. Most recently she authored “Me and Chinese Bridge,” and “Positive Attitude”.
Henry Hale, associate professor of political science, published “Two Decades of Post-Soviet Regime Dynamics” in the spring 2012 edition of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization.
Professor of Mathematics Valentina Harizanov co-authored “The Computable Embedding Problem,” published in Algebra and Logic and “Isomorphism Relations on Computable Structures,” published in the Journal of Symbolic Logic 77.
Alexander Huang, associate professor of English, authored "Global Shakespeare 2.0 and the Task of the Performance Archive" in Shakespeare Survey and "The Theatricality of Religious Rhetoric: Gao Xingjian and the Meaning of Exile" in Theatre Journal.
Young-Key Kim-Renaud, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, authored “The Vowel System and Vowel Harmony in 15th-Century Korean: Alay-a (•) Revisited,” in Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 20 and co-authored “Agreement in Korean Revisited,” in Inquiries into Korean Linguistics IV: 209-222 with Miok D. Pak, teaching assistant professor in the Korean Language.
Geralyn Schulz, associate dean of research and outreach and professor of speech and hearing sciences, co-authored “Selective Left, Right and Bilateral Stimulation of Subthalamic Nuclei in Parkinson’s Disease: Differential Effects on Motor, Speech and Language Function” in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease.
Guanyu Wang, assistant research professor of physics, authored “Optimal Homeostasis Necessitates Bistable Control” in the Journal of Royal Society Interface.