2007 commencement to feature prominent media and policy figures

Broder’s speech highlights year of accomplishments

Design firm to begin presenting research results on AU’s Web presence

SPA students develop community ties during Leadership Program

WCL and Maryland high schoolers stage trial by jury

AU honors faculty at annual awards ceremony

Trustees hear campus concerns during town hall meeting

Jackson welcomed to general education post

The Other Class of ’07

Students honored for academics and service

Staff Appreciation Week

Photo by Jeff Watts Singapore scholar and alum delivers Hunsberger lecture RELATED LINK > School of International Service Leo Suryadinata, left, earned his doctorate from AU in 1975 and is now a respected Singapore-based scholar and author and director of the Chinese Heritage Center at Nanyang Technological University in the Southeast Asian city-state. He came to his alma mater to deliver the 10th annual Warren Hunsberger Lecture last week at the School of International Service titled “China and Ethnic Chinese in a Globalizing Southeast Asia.” Dean Louis Goodman listens at right. —SA

Honors/Awards/Appointments
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: presented the Excellence in Scholarship and Service Award by the African Studies and Research Forum at the Association of Third World Studies 2006 Annual Meeting, Winston Salem University, N. Car., November.

Danny Kelley, Office of the Dean of Students: was selected as the National Advisor of the Year for Alpha Lambda Delta Freshmen Honor Society.

Tony Varona, WCL: appointed cochair of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) Leadership Awards, scheduled to take place in May 2007 in Washington, D.C., February.

Perry Wallace, WCL: was elected to the Board of Directors of the Environmental Working Group, based in Washington, D.C., February.

Lectures/Presentations
Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Suprasegmentals in English Pronunciation Instruction,” “Principles and Practices of Teaching Pronunciation,” and “Rethinking Assessment in Large Classes,” at the annual TESOL Arabia Convention, Dubai, UAE, March.

Claudio Grossman, WCL: delivered the keynote address at the conference “Beyond Borders in the Classroom: The Possibility of Transnational Legal Education,” University of Ritsumeiken School of Law (Kyoto, Japan), February.

Marcos Orellana, WCL: observer at the meeting of the UNCITRAL Working Group on Commercial Arbitration, which is revising UNCITRAL’s Arbitration Rules, February.

Michael Tigar, WCL: was a panelist on “Trying Cases in the Media: The Role of the Prosecutor and the Press,” Duke Law Program, Durham, N.Car., January.

Robert Vaughn, WCL: presented “What Lies Beneath? The Scope of Protected Disclosures Under the Whistleblower Provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act” to the Attorneys Group.

Rick Wilson, WCL: served as an invited expert at Amnesty International’s “Experts’ Meeting on Terrorism and Human Rights,” New York University, New York City, February.

Published Works
Richard Breitman, history, CAS: lead editor, Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932–1935, vol 1, Indiana University Press.

Todd Eisentadt, SPA: “Usos y Costumbres and Post-Electoral Conflicts in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1995-2004: An Empirical and Normative Assessment,” in Latin American Research Review, February 2007.

Robert Losey, Kogod: invited op-ed on accident compensation, for the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, April.

Leonard Steinhorn, SOC: has been asked to be a regular contributor to the “Thought Leaders” section of a new Web site that focuses on baby boomers, Growing Bolder (www.growing bolder.com), April.

Emilio Viano, SPA: “International Criminal Tribunals: Society’s Evolving Response to Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity,” in Du Monde Penal: Droit Penal, Criminologie et Politique Criminelle, Helbing and Lichtenhahn.

Steve Wermiel, WCL: wrote the introduction for an issue of Human Rights, the quarterly publication of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the ABA, for which he also served as coeditor, summer 2006.

Charles White, professor emeritus, philosophy and religion, CAS: The Garden of Loneliness, a translation of the long (190 stanzas) poem, ANSU, “Tears,” by the modern Hindi poet Jayshankar Prasad, published in New Delhi by Motilal Banarsidass, 2006.

Media
Lynn Addington, SPA: was interviewed about the killings at Virginia Tech and violent crime trends in the United States by Sir David Frost and appeared on his program Frost: Over the World, which airs on al Jazeera English, April.

Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed by the Atlanta Journal Constitution on the use of text messaging abbreviations in spoken language; was interviewed by Agence France-Presse on the role of French words in contemporary English, March.

Stephen Cohen, SIS: was interviewed by the Voice of America about the growing U.S. trade pressures being applied to China, April.

Kathleen Duignan, WCL: interviewed by Reuters regarding free speech issues in the case of Ehren Watada, who is facing court-martial for refusing to deploy to Iraq, February.

Eugene Fidell, WCL: interviewed about the Watada court-martial by KGMB TV (Honolulu), January and February, and Fox News, February; quoted on the case by the Denver Post, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Nichi Rei Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post Intelligencer, and Washington Times, February.

Tamar Gutner, SIS: was quoted in USA Today on the leadership crisis at the World Bank, April.

Thomas Hertz, economics, CAS: quoted in the article “Dice loaded against moving beyond parents’ level,” in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April.

Colman McCarthy, SIS: appeared on C-SPAN to discuss his book All of One Peace, November.

Diane Orentlicher, WCL: quoted in “Uganda’s Peace at Mercy of Court,” in the National Journal, and in “World Court’s Big Move on Darfur,” in the Christian Science Monitor, February.

Sabiyha Prince, anthropology, CAS: appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews (guest hosted by David Gregory) to discuss the opportunities to learn and teach from the racial and sexual discrimination exposed on the Don Imus Show, April.

Jeffrey Schaler, SPA: quoted in the article “The Search for Meaning in a Killer’s Hieroglyphics,” in the Washington Post, April.

David Spratt, WCL: interviewed by the Associated Press about the Virginia Court of Appeals case Stroud v. Stroud and its implications for same-sex couples in Virginia, February.

Dennis Ventry, WCL: was interviewed by Univision for a feature on WCL’s podcasting program, February.