Contents
A View through Her Lens
Students Honor Lee Sigelman
Center is Hidden Gem
Mallon to Lead Creative Writing
Dean Barratt's Blog Takes Off
Risk Analysis Certificate Introduced
Grad Programs Rank High
An Evening to Remember
A Blood-Sucking Economy
Solar Symposium Offers Vision
Women and Philanthropy
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Michael P. Akin, BA '03, MBA '07, and Steven Frenkil, BA '74, received GW Alumni Association Outstanding Alumni Service Awards.
Russian Language and Literature Major Alexander Bouchard was named a 2010 Russian Scholar Laureate by the American Council of Teachers of Russian.
Jeffrey Burson, PhD '06, authored the book The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment.
The 2010 Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prizes were awarded to Political Science Professor Bruce Dickenson (Teaching), Statistics Professor John Lachin (Scholarship), and Human Services Professor Honey Nashman (Service).
Classical and Near Eastern Professor Elise Friedland received a fellowship award from the American Center for Oriental Research.
Doctoral candidate Felicia Gomez was awarded the American Anthropological Association's Minority Dissertation Fellowship for 2010-2011.
Ravi Kalpathy (Statistics) received the 2010 Philip Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Michele Jurkovich (Political Science) and Karine Posbic (Biological Sciences) received Honorable Mentions.
American Studies PhD candidate Matt Kohlstedt was awarded a $2,500 grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center.
Associate Professor of Hebrew Yaron Peleg received the Simon Dubnow Institute Fellowship.
Assistant Professor of American Studies Elaine Pena was selected to participate in the 2010-2012 Young Scholars in American Religion Program.
Dana Rosenstein,
BA'02, (with James Feathers) won a R. E. Taylor Poster Award at the
Society for American Anthropology 75th Anniversary Meeting.
Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Young-Key Kim-Renaud and Professor of Korean Language Miok Pak were awarded a Summer 2010 Faculty Research Grant by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies.
Graduate Teaching Assistant of History Julia Sittmann received the Fonds québecois de la recherche sur la société et la culture fellowship—Quebec's answer to the U.S. Fulbright.
Steven A. Tuch, chair of the Department of Sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Poland for 2010-11.
Doctoral candidate Chongzhi Zang was awarded the $4,000 Dimitrius N. Chorafas Foundation Prize for his dissertation research on Computational and Biophysical Studies of Epigenomes.
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A View through Her Lens
Luther Rice Fellow Forged Unique Path
Graduating senior Francesca Greggs creates
her opportunities. During her years at GW, the Luther
Rice Undergraduate Research Fellow developed her own major in
Visual Communications, traveled and researched extensively abroad,
began a graphic and website design company, and successfully completed
a photo-documentary on Muslim immigration in Ireland. Read more.
A Special Tribute
Political Science Students Memorialize Professor through Service, Support
Among the hundreds of GW students crowding the track at the Lerner
Health & Wellness Center to raise money for the American Cancer
Society last month was a cluster of Columbian College political science
graduate students running in the Relay for Life. They were there to
memorialize a very special person in their lives: Professor Lee
Sigelman, who died of cancer in December.
"We saw this event as a
good opportunity to remember Lee and to show the department how much
we, as students, appreciated him and his work," said Christina Caan, a
doctoral candidate and the co-coordinator of the graduate students'
effort.
Read more.
Hidden Gem on Foggy Bottom Campus
GW Speech and Center helps campus community and beyond
Walking around the Foggy Bottom campus, you may not realize that an
unassuming street level entrance at the corner of 21st and G Streets NW
leads to GW's state-of-the art Speech and Hearing Center. Within its 16
multifaceted treatment, training, and conference rooms, faculty
and staff certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association have been providing a full range of speech, language, and
hearing services for individuals with communication disorders for more
than 64 years. Read more.
Critically Acclaimed Novelist to Lead Creative Writing Program
Thomas Mallon, who has been named director of Columbian College’s
Creative Writing Program,, didn't begin writing fiction until he was in
his 30s. In his youth, he lacked the confidence to invent his own
stories.
“More than anything I wanted to be a novelist, but it seemed
like such a daunting ambition,” said Mallon. “The odds seemed too high
against it." Read more.
Dean Barratt's Blog Takes Off
Dean Barratt has moved from budding to full-blown blogger! Her posts range from highlights of antics on campus to reviews of
Broadway shows in New York. Read her latest posts and catch a glimpse
of life at GW from the Dean's perspective. And stay tuned, Dean Barratt's busy
summer should keep her blog bustling with her latest adventures. She
welcomes your comments! Read more.
Announcing New Graduate Certificate Program
Quantitative Risk Analysis Prepares Professionals for an Uncertain World
During the last decade, we have felt the impact of natural and manmade
disasters such as 9/11, Katrina, and the global economic meltdown. The
new Graduate Certificate Program in Applied Quantitative Risk
Analysis - housed in Columbian College's Department of
Statistics - addresses these challenges and empowers participants to
devise strategies and implement decision tools in crisis situations. Read more.
Top Ranking for Columbian College Graduate Programs
US News and World Report released 2011 graduate school rankings, revealing the top programs in the nation in sciences, social sciences and humanities,
and other
areas. Ranked in the top 15 are three programs in Columbian College's
Trachtenburg School of Public Policy and Public Administration: Public
Affairs, Public Management Administration, and Public Finance and
Budgeting. In addition, Public Policy Analysis,
Political Science, Speech and Hearing Pathology, and Statistics ranked
in the top 50. Among the programs in the top 100 were Biological
Sciences, Computer
Science, English, History, Math, Physics, and Psychology. Read more.
For Arabic Language Students, an Evening to Remember
Forty students from Columbian College’s Arabic Language Program recently
spent a very special evening at the Embassy of Bahrain as guests of
Ambassador Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo. Spearheaded by Arabic Instructor
Rana Casteel, the event was part of the program’s ongoing efforts to
immerse students not only in a country’s language but also in the
culture, politics, and socio-economic structure of the region.
“We’ve
made an effort to take advantage of our location in the nation’s
capitol and establishing a mutually beneficial dialogue with the
diplomatic community,” said Mohssen Esseesy, coordinator of the Arabic
Program and assistant professor of Arabic and International Affairs.
“We’re brought the culture into the classroom to foster a better
understanding of the language.” Read more.
A Blood-Sucking Economy
Studying Emergent Markets – and Dracula
When Elizabeth Davis,
director of Columbian College's Organizational Sciences Program, told
her comparative management students their course would expose them to
other cultures, she was not exaggerating.
This spring, Davis and
her students spent 10 days in Romania and Albania studying Eastern
European emerging democracies in a program sponsored by the Office for
Study Abroad. The class had a private tour of the Romanian Parliament
and visited a variety of sites, including Dracula’s castle in
Transylvania, the University of Tirana, the mobile phone company
Vodafone Albania and the Romanian Banking Institute.
Read more.
Solar Symposium Offers Vision for the Future
Last month's GW Solar Institute Symposium offered a fascinating look at
key issues surrounding the development of solar energy through the eyes
of top experts in the field. Several of the panel participants were GW
alumni, including Debra Jacobson, JD '77, co-director of GW's Solar
Institute; John Lushetsky, MBA '94, manager of the U.S. Department of
Energy's Solar Energy Technology Program, and Jerry Bloom; BA '74, MA '76, moderator of the Solar Vision panel. Read more.
Forum Spotlights Women Philanthropists
On April 28, GW hosted the second annual Women and Philanthropy
Forum, which brought together prominent women philanthropists to
discuss the scope and impact of women's wealth, and to highlight the
social and economic change driven by women's philanthropy. Among the
Columbian College alumnae speaking at the event were Ellen Zane, BA '73, president & CEO of the Tufts Medical Center and the Floating Hospital for Children, and Steffanie Burgevin, BA '68, senior vice president–investment officer with Wells Fargo Advisors.
Read more.
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