Honors/Awards/Appointments
Margaret “Jo” Safrit, professor emerita, health and fitness, CAS: the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) has established the Jo Safrit (Margaret J. Safrit) Award in honor of her work with the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. The funds will be earmarked for the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to provide an award of $1,000 each year for a student pursuing a graduate degree in the Department of Kinesiology. Abdul Aziz Said, director, Center for Global Peace, and SIS: honored as a “Living Legend” at the 100th Anniversary of the Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity, New York City, October. Lectures/Presentations
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS: “Minority Voting Trends and Prognosis for the 2004 Presidential Election,” lecture given to the eight-member Swedish delegation observing the American election process, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Visitors Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Washington, D.C., October. Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Principles and Practices of Teaching Pronunciation,” Arlington Education and Employment Program, Arlington, Va., November. Brett Ashley Crawford, performing arts, CAS: “Event Planning and Management” and “Marketing and the Holistic Organization,” University of Helsinki’s Theatre Institute. Susan Hammond, SPA: lecturer and workshop leader at the Institute on Congress and American History for Texas High School Teachers, Texas Council on the Humanities, June. Vladimir Kvint, Kogod: participated in the annual Bretton Woods Committee Meeting and Joint Annual Meeting of the World Bank and IMF, Washington, D.C., September. Chris Palmer, SOC: “The Documentary Dilemma: What Role Should Science Play on the Screen?” meeting of the D.C. Science Writers Association, Washington, D.C., November.
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H. Kent Baker
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Papers Presented
H. Kent Baker, Kogod: “Distributing Excess Cash: The Role of Specially Designated Dividends,” Twentieth Annual Faculty Research Forum of the Washington Consortium of Business Schools, School of Business at Howard University, November. Erik Benrud, Kogod: “The Predictive Power of the WSJ Yen/$ Exchange-Rate Forecasts,” Southern Finance Association meeting, November. Robert Blecker, economics, CAS, and Center for North American Studies: “The North American Economies After One Decade of NAFTA,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) meetings, Las Vegas, October. Jin Park, philosophy and religion, CAS: “Zen Buddhist Ethics and Songcheol’s Buddhist Hermeneutics,” at the conference “Reflection on Modern Korean Buddhist Thought,” Seoul, Korea, November. Paul Winters and Jessica Todd, economics, CAS: “CAFTA and the Rural Economies of Central America: A Conceptual Framework for Policy and Program Recommendations,” Inter-American Development Bank, Regional Management Committee for Mexico, Central America, and Hispanola, November. Performances/Media Productions/Exhibitions
Brigid Maher, SOC: her documentary, The King, the Lawyers, and the Cheese, screened opening night at the Portland Underground Film Festival, December. Published Works
Ethan Berger, SIS and WCL:
coauthored “Legal Malpractice in Countries with Transitioning Economies and Legal Systems: Is Suing in the U.S. (English or Canadian) Courts a Viable Option?” World Trade Executive: Russia/Eurasia Executive Guide, vol 14, no 18. Robinder Sachdev, SIS: “Bush II Needs an Aggressive India,” ORF Monitor, a publication of the Observer Research Foundation (India), November. Ana Serra, language and foreign studies, CAS: review of Looking at Cuba by Rafael Hernandez, The Americas. A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, October 2004. Charles White, professor emeritus, philosophy and religion, CAS: “Raskhan, A Muslim Vaishnava,” The Journal of Vaishnava Studies, vol 13, no 1, fall 2004. The article includes White’s original translations from the medieval Braj Bhasa (Hindi) poetry of Raskhan. Brian Yates, psychology, CAS: [abstract] “Translating Findings from Research into Working Program Models: Integrating Cost-effectiveness Analysis and Cost-benefit Analysis into Services Research,” in Developing Partnerships: Science, Policy, and Programs Across Cultures. Proceedings of the Second World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services. Media
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: discussed Osama Bin Laden’s latest video and threat, ABC’s Nightline, October. Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: interviewed by the Fresno Bee on the effect of instant messaging on grammar and spelling, October. Howard McCurdy, SPA: quoted in an Associated Press article about NASA’s budget, November. Julie Mertus, SIS: interviewed by Voice of America on the elections in Kosovo, October.
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Saul Newman
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Saul Newman, SPA: quoted by the BBC regarding Arafat’s death, November. Jamin Raskin, WCL: quoted by AP regarding Justice Rehnquist and vote swapping; interviewed by ABC-7 about the prospects for the Supreme Court, October. Leonard Steinhorn, SOC: wrote an op-ed for frontpagemag.com, November. Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on the presidential election by CNN, NBC Telemundo, Voice of America (French, English, Spanish), Swiss National Radio, BBC, TV5 Channel of Spain; Radio Suramericana, Argentina; Radio Caracol, RCN, and Radio Emisora Universidad Nacional, Colombia; Radio Oriental, Uruguay; Radio Cadena 13, Cordoba, Argentina; Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires, Cadena 3, and Antena 3N, Argentina; Radio Educacion, Mexico; Radio Inter-Economia and Radio Nacional de Espana (Catalan), Spain; Radio Netherlands; Radio Centro, Ecuador; Radio Panamericana, Peru, November. Joan Williams, WCL: interviewed by NBC’s Dateline regarding couples trying to balance a family when both parents work, November. Lewis Wolfson, SOC: interviewed on President Bush’s agenda by Voice of America, Australian national public radio, and La Prensa (Buenos Aires); on the makeup of the new Congress, by the Guardian; and on voter patterns by the Boca Raton News, November.
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Photo courtesy of Frank Turaj
Poland honors CAS faculty member
In a recent ceremony at the Polish Embassy, Longin Pastusiak, left, president of the Polish senate, awarded College of Arts and Sciences professor Frank Turaj the Officer Cross of the Medal for Services for Poland on behalf of Poland’s president Aleksander Kwasniewski. The second highest honor Poland awards to foreigners, the medal recognized Turaj’s efforts to build bridges between American and Polish cinema scholars and filmmakers.
In addition to writing The Modern Cinema of Poland, a seminal work on Polish film that won an outstanding book award from Choice magazine, Turaj helped bring to the United States such Polish filmmakers as the academy award–winning Andrzej Wajda, whose controversial and critically acclaimed Men of Iron had its North American premiere at AU in 1981. —MG
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