Courtesy of Maralee Csellar
Trojan guards café at Katzen
A donkey with a rooster in its belly has become the sixth “party animal” with a spot on AU’s campus. “Trojan Donkey,” by the famed pop artist Larry Rivers, was purchased by Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen and now stands guard by the new café at the Katzen Arts Center.
The donkey was the last piece to be sold from the 2002 public art project, because Rivers died during the course of the project, and the piece couldn’t be transferred to its new owner before his estate was settled.
Mayor Anthony Williams, right, thanked Myrtle and Cyrus Katzen, left and center, for the “very generous donation to the city” of $26,000, the most money paid for one of the party animals. The money will go to arts programs and arts education in the District. —SA |
Honors/Awards/Appointments
Ira Robbins, WCL: has been named to the Editorial Advisory Board of Corrections & Sentencing Law & Policy (Social Science Research Network). David Sadker, SETH, CAS: has been invited by the U.S. State Department to offer a series of lectures on gender issues and to meet with government officials and media representatives in Mumbai and New Delhi in an effort to improve the status of women in India, September. Lectures/Presentations
Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Issues in Content-Based English Instruction in India, South Africa, and the U.S.,” presented to members of the U.S. State Department Special Project for India Program, Washington, D.C., September. W. Joseph Campbell, SOC: discussed and signed his new book, The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms, as part of the “Books and Beyond” author lecture series, Library of Congress, October. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: lecture and presentation, Poems from Debris and Ashes, graduate program on humanistic and literary translation, University of Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia, July. Julie Mertus, SIS: workshop organizer and leader for “Advocates Committee on the Human Rights Council,” New York, June. Matthew Nisbet, SOC: “Science Blogs: Intersections with the Public, the Media, and Politics,” presentation hosted by the D.C. Science Writers Association and the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University, September. Nicholas Sakurai, GLBTA Resource Center: “Building LGBT Resources in Higher Education,” OutGames International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Human Rights Conference, Montreal, July. Jeffrey Schaler, SPA: debated the topic “Tobacco Use as a Factor in Case Decision-Making,” Annual National Center for Adoption Law and Policy Symposium entitled “Striking the ‘Rights’ Balance: Respecting Parents While Protecting Children,” in partnership with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), Columbus, Ohio, October Bilal Wahab, master’s candidate, SIS: panelist, “Getting to the Ground Truth: Voices from Iraq,” Washington, D.C., September. Papers Presented
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: “African Peace Paradigms,” at the “Social Sciences in an African Context” conference cosponsored by the Human Sciences Research Council, the Social Science Network of South Africa, and the Africa Institute of South Africa, Birchwood Conference Center, Johannesburg, South Africa, September. The paper was published in the conference proceedings, Social Sciences in an African Context. Jocelyn Johnston, SPA: presented the coauthored paper “Managerial Challenges in the Implementation of an Evolving Intergovernmental Policy: Contracting for Social Welfare Services,” American Political Science Association meeting, Philadelphia, August. Published Works
Ethan Burger, TraCCC and SIS: coauthored a chapter on U.S. nonrecognition of the results of the 1996 Belarusian presidential election in Prospects for Democracy in Belarus, German Marshal Fund. Robert Durant, SPA: “Agency Evolution, the New Institutionalism, and ‘Hybrid’ Policy Domains: Lessons from the ‘Greening’ of the U.S. Military,” Policy Studies Journal, November 2006. Chris Palmer, SOC: “Fallen ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Still Has Lessons to Teach about Wildlife,” Baltimore Sun op-ed, September. Beryl Radin, SPA: “Developments in the Federal Performance Management Movement: Balancing Conflicting Values in GPRA and PART,” in Meeting the Challenge of 9/11: Blueprints for More Effective Government, National Academy of Public Administration and M. E. Sharpe. David Rosenbloom, SPA, and Julie Dolan, AU, PhD ’97: coauthored “La bureaucratie représentative,” in Review Française d’Administration Publique, no 118, 2006. Ron Sutton, professor emeritus, SOC: “Prestige Has Its Prizes: The George Foster Peabody and Alfred I Dupont–Columbia University Awards,” in Documentary (magazine of the International Documentary Association), Sept.-Oct. Media
Anthony Ahrens, psychology, CAS: was interviewed on whether expensive homes can buy happiness in an article in the Washington Times that discussed the TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, September. Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed by the Washington Times on the ways computer-mediated communication is affecting face-to-face interaction, September. Joshua Ederheimer, SPA: quoted in the AP article “Man’s death renews debate over Taser use,” in the Louisville Courier, September. Todd Eisenstadt, SPA: quoted in the article “Mexico edges closer to presidential ruling: The electoral court rejected charges of massive fraud, making it likely Felipe Calderon will be declared winner,” Christian Science Monitor, August. Violetta Ettle, associate provost: quoted in an article in the Hill on campaign staffers that featured AU’s Campaign Management Institute, September. Mary Kennard, vice president and general counsel: interviewed for a feature in Legal Times in which she discusses her election as president of the Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association, as well as her work at AU, September. Stephen MacAvoy, biology, CAS: interviewed for Fox 5’s 10 O’clock News regarding the story “Common fish used to detect terror attacks on municipal water supplies,” September. Robert Pastor, VP, international affairs: quoted in a Washington Post article on the possibilities of polling problems in the November general elections, September. Bradley Schiller, SPA: published an op-ed that noted the profile of those living in poverty in the United States is changing, Washington Post, September. Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on Radio Diez, Radio San Juan, Radio Sur Americana, and Radio Mitre (Argentina) on the visit to the United Nations and United States of Argentina’s president Kirchner; on Radio RCN Universidad Nacional de Colombia on Colombia’s borders as the weak link in President Uribe’s security policy, September.
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