| Performances/Media Productions/ Exhibitions
Brigid Maher, SOC: her video short AWOL was screened at the Arizona Black Film Showcase and at the Fifth Annual Cine Noir: A Festival of Black Film in Wilmington, N.C., March. It also will screen at the Durango Independent Film Festival, May. Lectures/Presentations
Ethan Burger, SIS and WCL: “International Legal Malpractice,” at “Emerging Issues in Trademark Law Forum,” Savannah, February. Tamar Gutner, SIS: “The IMF and Its Poverty Reduction Efforts,” International Studies Association-Northeast, Philadelphia, November. Jocelyn Johnston, SPA: “The Nonprofit-Government Relationship: A Joint Discussion of Research Agendas,” at the roundtable “Changes and Challenges in Relationships between State Government and Nonprofit Agencies under Contracting,” 2005 Annual Conference of Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Washington, D.C., November. Robert Marshak, SPA: copresented “Facilitating and Managing Complex System Change,” Gulita Training Centre, Mumbai, India, February. Paul Oehlers, audio technology, CAS: “Identity Theft: Concerns and Solutions for Professional Musicians,” Hawaiian International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January. Robert Pastor, vice president, international affairs: member of the panel “Election Reform and Voter ID: Access and Integrity,” National Press Club, February. James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: testified at the Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing on Indian tribes and the Federal Election Campaign Act, February.
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Papers Presented
Christian Maisch, Washington Semester Program: “Is There an Inter-American International Law?—A Case Study of Latin American Juridical and Intellectual History as Seen through the Debate of the Existence of a Regional International Legal System in the Western Hemisphere,” Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), Ponce, Puerto Rico, March 14. Published Works
Melissa Becher and Janice Flug, American University Library: coauthored “Using Student Focus Groups to Inform Library Planning and Marketing,” in College and Undergraduate Libraries. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Medellín, capital Mundial de la poesía. Así viví el XV Festival Intenacional de poesía en Medellín,” www.redyaccion.com. Adel Iskandar, SIS: “Is Al-Jazeera Alternative? Mainstreaming Alterity and Assimilating Discourses of Dissent,” Transnational Broadcasting Studies Journal, 15, winter 2006. Ira Robbins, WCL: Prisoners and the Law, Thomson/West, 14th ed., 2006. David Rosenbloom, SPA: “President George W. Bush’s President’s Management Agenda and Executive Power,” Administrative Change, vols 32 and 33, nos 2 and 1, February 2006. Leonard Steinhorn, SOC: op-ed, “Where baby boom outshines ‘greatest generation,’” Baltimore Sun, February. Media
Padideh Ala’i, WCL: was interviewed by the Washington Times regarding the conflict of outsourcing the operation of six major U.S. ports to a Dubai company, February. Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS: was quoted in the Contra Costa Times in an article about Muslim diversity in America, November. Erran Carmel, Kogod: was quoted in an article describing the culture clash in the global business world, Computer World, February. Joni Comstock, director, athletics: was quoted in Sports Illustrated about the move to Monday of the women’s basketball selection show, February. Kathleen Duignan, WCL: was interviewed by ARD German Public TV on the U.S. court-martial system, specifically the Abu Ghraib cases and what the future holds for justice in the remaining cases, February. Sara Dumont, director, AU Abroad: was quoted in an article that cited AU as one of the top area universities to send students abroad to study, Northwest Current, February. Randall Eliason, WCL: was interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered about the Abramoff bribery case; interviewed by NPR on the CIA leak case; interviewed on The World Tonight by CHQR radio (Canada) on Enron, February. Robert Goldman, WCL: was featured in the story “Un Juez Para Colombia,” in Cromos (the Colombian equivalent of Time and People), February. Faith Leonard, dean of students, and Kyle Taylor, president, Student Government: were interviewed by NBC4 WRC for a segment about how the university and student government leaders are working together to educate students and campus administrators about the usage of online social community networks, February. Peter Lewis, SIS: was quoted in an Online Newshour (PBS) article about the controversy surrounding Nigerian President Obasanjo, February. Daniel Marcus, WCL: was interviewed by WTTG Fox5 on Alberto Gonzales’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on wiretapping and other government surveillance and by CNN regarding declassification of government documents, February. Robert Pastor, vice president, international affairs: was mentioned in an Associated Press article regarding voter identification requirements, February. Jamin Raskin, WCL: was quoted regarding gay marriage, Washington Post, February. Susana Sacouto, director, War Crimes Research Office, WCL: discussed Saddam Hussein’s courtroom theatrics and diatribes, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, February. Joshua Sarnoff, WCL: was quoted in an article about the court case then pending between BlackBerry and RIM, Washington Times, February. Jeffrey Schaler, SPA: was interviewed for the article “The Business of Treatment: Getting Help Online,” San Jose Mercury News, Monday, February. Michael Tigar, WCL: was interviewed about the Moussaoui penalty trial, NPR’s All Things Considered, February. Robert Vaughn, WCL: was quoted by the Associated Press regarding a whistle-blower case, February. Emilio Viano, SPA: was interviewed on French television TF1 on the penalty phase trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person prosecuted for the 9/11 events, February. Stephen Wermiel, WCL: was quoted about the significance of Sandra Day O’Connor’s tie-breaking vote in a recent ruling, Associated Press, January. Richard Wilson, WCL: was interviewed by Radio France, on the legal situation of Guantanamo, February.
Photo Jeff Watts
Ms. Wheelchair America encourages students to reject stereotypes
“Anyone of us, at any given time, can be someone’s hero,” said Juliette Rizzo, Ms. Wheelchair America 2005, during an inspiring March 6 lecture. “There’s always someone out there who looks up to you.”
Rizzo offered leadership tips to about 40 students as part of Give-a-Push Week, which promotes awareness for people with disabilities. The week’s festivities were sponsored by AU’s Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.
Rizzo, who at age three contracted a systemic infection that resulted in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and fibromyalgia, encouraged students to be an advocate for the 54 million disabled Americans.
“Push Week is about more than pushing a wheelchair. It’s about pushing down negative stereotypes about the disabled in this country.
“Remember that people with disabilities are all striving for the American dream,” she continued. “We’re all going after the same things.”
Rizzo, who holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism, is national communications director for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
The Rockville resident, who named gardening, cooking, and fashion among her passions, was crowned Ms. Wheelchair Maryland in 2004. —AF |
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