| Performances/Media Productions/ Exhibitions
Randall Packer, art, CAS: created the sound score for Ballet Mori, debuting with the San Francisco Ballet at the Opera House in San Francisco, April. Honors/Awards/Appointments
Brigid Maher, SOC: received a Second Place Award for Best Short from the CineNoir Film Festival, March. Lectures/Presentations
b j Altschul, SOC: “Communicating Where We Are and Where We Want to Be: Trash-free Potomac in 2013,” Potomac Watershed Trash Summit 2006, sponsored by the Alice Ferguson Foundation, Washington, D.C., March. Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and the Center for Global Peace: panelist, “Non-Governmental Organizations in Africa,” Voice of America’s Africa Journal television show, January. Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Exploring NNESTs’ Professional Self-Esteem and Confidence”; “Unpacking Academic Discourse for Student Academic Success”; “New Techniques in Pronunciation Mirroring and Modeling; Fundraising 101”; 40th Annual TESOL Convention, Tampa, Fla., March. Deborah Brautigam, SIS: “The Unexpected Politics of Taxation and State-Building,” Political Science Department, University of California at San Diego, and the Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies, Political Economy of Development Speaker Series, February. Daniel Dreisbach, SPA: participated in a book forum entitled “Discovering Washington’s God” the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., March. The forum was broadcast on C-SPAN’s Public Lives series. Walter Effross, WCL: spoke on online trademark infringement for the Pike and Fischer (BNA) conference, “The Emerging Law of Search Engines,” March. David Rosenbloom, SPA, and Helene Rene, doctoral student, SPA: “After Reform: Accommodating Old Values and Assimilating New Ones,” international conference, “The Continuing Transformation of Public Administration,” City University of Hong Kong, March; lecture also given at National Taiwan University, March. Papers Presented
Tom Hertz, economics, CAS: “Regressing to a Different Mean: Trends in the Black/White Mobility Gap,” at the conference “Social and Economic Inequality: The Role of Race in Law, Markets, and Social Structure,” cosponsored by Georgetown University Law Center and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, March. Nanette Levinson, SIS: “Improvisational Learning and Interorganizational Change: New Approaches to Communication and Development,” Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, March. Published Works
Mary Garrard, professor emerita, art, CAS: “Who Was Ginevra de’ Benci? Leonardo’s Portrait and Its Sitter Recontextualized,” in Artibus et Historiae, February 2006. Kiho Kim, biology, CAS, and Kara Shuster, undergraduate, biology, CAS: coauthored with others “Longitudinal study of aspergillosis in sea fan corals,” Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 69. Marwan Kraidy, SIS: “Reality Television and Politics in the Arab World (Preliminary Observations),” in Transnational Broadcasting Studies, 2(1). Alan Kraut, history, CAS: coedited American Immigration and Ethnicity: a Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Julie Mertus, SIS: “Slobodan Milosevic: Myth and Responsibility,” Open Democracy, March. Abdul Aziz Said, director, Center for Global Peace, and Benjamin Jensen, PhD candidate, SIS: op-ed “Islamic Democracy Is Achievable Goal,” Philadelphia Enquirer, March. Vivian Vasquez, SETH, CAS: “Resistance, power-tricky, and colorless energy: What Engagement with Everyday Popular Culture Texts Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy,” in Popular Culture, Media and Digital Literacies in Early Childhood, Falmer Press, 2005. Media
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was quoted in the New York Times in an article on the effects of computer technology on letter writing, March. Ethan Burger, WCL: discussed developments in connection with events in Belarus, Voice of America’s Russian Language Service, March. Jack Child, language and foreign studies, CAS: interviewed on translation and interpretation, Voice of America, March. Kathleen Duignan, director, National Institute of Military Justice, WCL: was interviewed by the Financial Times regarding the Hamdan oral argument at the Supreme Court, March. Christine Haight Farley, WCL: was quoted in the article “WIPO Aims to Revise Global Trademark Rules,” IPLaw360, March. Gene Fidell, president, National Institute of Military Justice at WCL: was interviewed by Bloomberg News, Newsweek, and ABC TV News regarding the Hamdan case March. Tamar Gutner, SIS: quoted in Green Horizon (Hungary) on the environmental behavior of multilateral development banks. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: appeared in El Colombiano in June 2005 for participation in the Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellin. Sarah Paoletti, WCL: was interviewed by CNN Spanish about the panel discussion “Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions,” March. Joshua Sarnoff, WCL: was interviewed by Sarah Stirland for National Journal “Technology Daily” article on the Supreme Court eBay v. MercExchange case regarding injunctive relief for patent infringement, March. Brenda Smith, WCL: was interviewed by the Associated Press about prison rape, March. Leonard Steinhorn, SOC: op-ed about the legacy of the Baby Boom generation, Washington Post; he also appeared on WUSA CBS9 to discuss his book The Greater Generation, February. James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: quoted regarding lobbying reform, the Hill, February. Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on EFE News Service on the U.S. debate on immigration reform and the impact it could have on Republicans in the next election; on Radio Netherlands on Iran and uranium enrichment; and on Univision on the announced arrests of a terrorist cell in Ohio, February. WCL students who went to New Orleans and Mississippi for alternative spring break were quoted in the article “New Orleans Working Vacations Catch On,” Washington Post, March.
Photos by Jeff Watts
Kogod volunteers assist taxpayers
Just two days before the tax man came calling, Kyle Taylor and Jen Chapman discussed Washington residents’ tax returns at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Chinatown. Taylor and Chapman are part of the Kogod School of Business’ Washington Initiative program, in which business students participate in community service. The students are volunteering with Community Tax Aid Inc., a nonprofit organization that offers free tax preparation and representation services for low-income taxpayers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. —MU
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