November 27, 2007
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Agreement signed with Chengchi University
(Photo by Jeff Watts)
AU Interim Provost Ivy Broder and Chung-chian Teng of National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taiwan signed a dual degree agreement on Nov. 19.
Both institutions will now permit students to earn degrees from each university. The reciprocal agreement encompasses both graduate and undergraduate students in AU’s School of International Service (SIS) and NCCU’s school of international affairs.
There are currently seven NCCU graduate students studying at SIS. The program began at the graduate level this semester, while the undergraduate dual degree will be offered beginning in fall 2008. When the students complete all the required course work at each university, they will earn two degrees, one from each university.
Above from left: Meng-yang Li, director, Taipei Economic and Cultural Division; Ming Lee, cochair, Committee of International Exchange and Cooperation, College of International Affairs, NCCU; Chung-chian Teng, cochair, Committee of International Exchange and Cooperation, College of International Affairs, NCCU; Louis Goodman, dean, SIS; Interim Provost Ivy Broder; Quangsheng Zhao, professor, SIS. —MU
Honors/Awards/Appointments
John Douglass, SOC: received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Washington, D.C., chapter of the International Television Association (ITVA-DC) during the organization’s 2007 Peer Awards ceremony, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., October.
Claudio Grossman, dean, WCL: was reelected as a member of the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UN CAT), which supervises compliance with the obligations laid down by the 1984 Convention Against Torture, Geneva, October.
Lectures/Presentations
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: delivered two papers at the international meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers in Vancouver—one compared text messaging on cell phones with instant messaging, and the second explored the presentation of self on Facebook and in IM away messages, October.
Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: “ESL and Foreign Language Instruction in the U.S.” and “New Approaches to Teacher Education,” to participants in the State Department International Visitor Project for Latvia, Washington, D.C., October.
Daniel Dreisbach, SPA: featured lecturer at a Teaching American History seminar titled “Legal and Constitutional Developments in Colonial America,” Fresno, Calif., October.
Matthew Nisbet, SOC: “New Directions in Science Communication,” presentation and panel discussion sponsored by the Bell Museum of Natural History, the Hubert Humphrey School of Public Policy, and the Center for Science Journalism, University of Minnesota, October.
Bernard Ross, professor emeritus, SPA: taught a seminar on federalism to visiting state and local government officials from Israel, October.
David Snyder, WCL: “A Consideration of Detrimental Reliance and Personal Bar in Two Mixed Jurisdictions,” University of Edinburgh Law School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, June.
Brian Yates, psychology, CAS: “Costs Are All That Matters: Three Quantitative Studies Show That Costs Are Important to Evaluate, and That Outcomes Often Are Not,” invited presentation to the Government Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., October.
Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: “Gandhi’s Satyagraha: A Pragmatic Linguistic Analysis of Its Meanings,” in The International Journal of Language, Society and Culture, issue 20, 2007.
Phil Brenner, SIS: coedited with William LeoGrande, dean, SPA; Marguerite Rose Jimenez, MA student, SIS; and John Kirk: A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
Larry Engel, SOC: “Interfering with an animal’s pursuit of freedom and happiness,” in Double Take, Points of Entry, fall-winter 2007.
Brent McCallum, Kogod, and Philip Jacoby, Kogod: coauthored “Medical Outsourcing: Reducing Clients’ Health Care Risks,” in Journal of Financial Planning, October 2007.
Herman Schwartz, WCL: “Still Stuck Down There,” in Legal Times, May.
Brenda Smith, WCL: coauthored with Jamie Yarussi, Breaking the Code of Silence: A Correctional Officer’s Handbook on Identifying and Addressing Staff Sexual Misconduct With Offenders, DOJ/National Institute of Corrections Project on Addressing Prison Rape, Washington, D.C., June 2007.
Younghee Sheen, language and foreign studies, CAS: “The Effect of Corrective Feedback, Language Aptitude and Learner Attitudes on the Acquisition of English Articles,” in A. Mackey, editor, Conversational Interaction in Second Language Acquisition, Oxford University Press.
Arnold Trebach, professor emeritus, SPA: The Trebach Trilogy, a set of three of his books, which are being brought out by Unlimited Publishing. Included in the set are The Heroin Solution, Yale University Press, 1982, Unlimited Publishing, 2006; The Great Drug War, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, Unlimited Publishing, 2005; and Fatal Distraction: The War on Drugs in the Age of Islamic Terror, Unlimited Publishing, 2006.
Media
Daniel Bradlow, WCL: interviewed by Agence France Presse regarding the task of revitalizing the credibility of the World Bank and the IMF that faces the new heads of the institutions, October.
Joseph Campbell, SOC: interviewed by WRC-NBC regarding the death since March 2003 of more than 100 journalists in Iraq, October.
Amanda Frost, WCL: interviewed by the Los Angeles Times regarding the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a lawsuit from a German car salesman who said he was wrongly abducted, imprisoned and tortured by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity, October.
Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: interviewed by the Southeast European Times regarding the passage by the House Foreign Affairs Committee of a nonbinding resolution defining the early twentieth century mass killings of Armenians in Turkey as genocide, October.
Katherine Montgomery, SOC: interviewed by WTTG, Washington, D.C., regarding the expectations of young people to be constantly connected with the people they know, October.
Diane Orentlicher, WCL: quoted in the Washington Post article “Genocide and Foreign Policy,” October.
Judith Shapiro, SIS: interviewed by the Associated Press on whether or not the presentation of the Congressional Medal to the Dalai Lama will affect U.S.-China relations, October.
Roger Volkema, Kogod: interviewed by the News Journal on the art of haggling, October.
