SOC’s Richard Stack tries to shift death penalty debate in new book

SIS International Communication Conference focuses on global media

SPA’s Tobias reveals best places to work in government

AU reexamines security protocols

Campus construction projects set for summer

2007 multicultural and international awards

SIS alumna honored during anniversary celebration

Breaking in on the Bay

Photo by Jeff Watts Politicos debate range of issues RELATED LINK > AU Kennedy Political Union Political heavyweights George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, center, strategist James Carville, right, and former ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, left, were the featured guests Apr. 16 during a Kennedy Political Union event at Bender Arena. Stephanopoulos, who served as an aide in the Clinton White House, moderated a discussion between Carville, a Democrat, and Bolton, a Republican who has served under President Bush. The evening’s topics ranged from the controversy surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to the 2008 presidential election. —MU

Honors/Awards/Appointments
Richard Cassidy, director of IT and New Media, WAMU: received a Meritorious Achievement award for service to public radio at the annual dinner of public radio engineers sponsored by the Association of Public Radio Engineers (APRE) at the conclusion of the Public Radio Engineering Conference (PREC), April.

Karen O’Connor, director, Women and Politics Institute, and SPA: and her coauthor won the 2005 Marion Irish Award from the SPSA for the best paper on women in politics.

Margaret Safrit, professor emerita, former Department of Health and Fitness now the School of Education, Teaching and Health, CAS: the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has established the Safrit Lecture Series, to be initiated in 2007. Speakers will be distinguished scholars in the field of kinesiology, with a preference given to women.

Media
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed by the Winnipeg Free Press on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the smiley in e-mail, January; was interviewed by the Lincoln Star Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska) on the growth of computer-mediated communication in the United States, February

Erran Carmel, Kogod: interviewed by KLFY CBS 10 on ways companies are structuring their outsourcing, February.

Robert Durant, SPA: was quoted in the Baltimore Sun regarding Vice President Cheney’s influence in the Bush administration after the Libby trial, March.

Colman McCarthy, SIS: quoted in an article on the life of Father Robert Drinan, Washington Post, January.

Howard McCurdy, quoted in the Washington Post in an article on astronaut Lisa Nowak, February.

Ezra Rosser, WCL: interviewed by the Navajo Times for a story on the Navajo housing fiasco, February.

Jeffrey Schaler, SPA: was interviewed about American and European contemporary psychiatric ideas and practices, and the accuracy of information concerning illegal drugs and addiction sent from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) to the people of Slovenia, by Radio Student, which broadcasts from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, April.

Brenda Smith, WCL: quoted in the St. Petersburg Times and the St. Petersburg Star-Banner regarding the growing number of women in U.S. prisons, February.

Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed several times on CNN, NBC, National Swiss Radio, National Spanish Radio, CNN Radio, Radio Guado (New York), Radio Mitre and Radio America (Argentina), Radio Emisora de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Radio Union (Venezuela) on President Bush’s visit to five Latin American countries, March.

Lectures/Presentations
Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Governance and Policy in TESOL,” “Building External Awareness of Our Profession,” “Preparing Students for EFL Teaching in the Practicum,” and “Oral Literacy for Academic Endeavor,” at the 41st Annual TESOL Convention, Seattle, March.

Robert Losey, Kogod: invited presentation to the Maryland Racing Commission on the actuarial basis of accident compensation, February.

Alina Israeli, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Repetitions (reduplications and tautologies) in Russian: Egg Yolks and Witch Hats,” University of Kansas at Lawrence, April.

Christian Maisch, WSP and SIS: chaired two conference panels: “Recent Elections in Latin America and their Aftermath” and “World Events and Latin America,” at the 28th Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies. Albright College, Reading, Pa.

Robert Marshak, SPA: “The Hidden Dimensions of Organizational Behavior,” invited lecture for the Crossroads Seminar Series, George Washington University, April.

Lucinda Peach, philosophy and religion, CAS: “The U.S. War on Sex Trafficking as a War on Women,” Women’s Studies Program, Towson University, Towson, Md., April.

David Rosenbloom, SPA: “Constitutional Powers: The Iraq War,” International Correspondents Committee, National Press Club, April.

Susana SaCouto, WCL: participant on the panel “Prosecuting Heads of State,” at the conference “Transitional Justice: Accountability in the Wake of Mass Atrocities,” Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., January.

Joshua Sarnoff, WCL: “History of Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter and Patent Law Morality,” the Edward D. Manzo Scholar Presentation, Depaul University College of Law, Chicago, January.

Herman Schwartz, WCL: provided consultation to USAID-Kosovo regarding a constitution for Kosovo, February.

Ann Shalleck, WCL: “The Dual System of Family Law: Social Welfare as Income Redistribution among the Poor,” at the conference “Up Against Family Law Exceptionalism,” sponsored by the Program on Law and Social Thought and the European Law Research Center and Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., February.

Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: two chapters, “The Political System and Parties of Guinea” and “The Political System and Parties of the Gambia,” in World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties, 4th edition, Facts On File, 2006.

Richard Benedetto, SOC and SPA: op-ed, “GOP Abandoning Bush? Not Quite,” in USA Today. He also discussed the piece on several radio talk shows, including the nationally syndicated Lars Larson Show and Radio America’s Dateline Washington. He also was quoted in news stories on the subject that appeared in several McClatchy newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News, Kansas City Star, Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald, and Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, February.

Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Si yo fuera Lisístrata,” in Revista de la biblioteca de México. Letras de América. Revista, May-June 2006.

Naima Prevots, professor emerita, performing arts, CAS: contributing author to The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries and the Dance Canon, Wesleyan University Press.