Akbar Ahmed named D.C.’s Professor of the Year

Former AU president Joseph Sisco dies

AU’s Grenada aid prompts ambassador’s thanks

Global report on child soldiers launched

AU Abroad numbers are on the rise

Communitarian guru outlines goals for new social order

D.C. restauranteur, partner share secrets of success

Greenberg seminars prepare PhD students for rigors of academia

Kojo’s crew

Honors/Awards/Appointments
b.j. Altschul, SOC: her paper, “From Debate to Dialogue: Understanding International Differences over Genetically Modified Food Aid for Zambia,” won the top prize from the Public Relations Society of America’s Educators’ Academy, October.

Jeffrey Schaler, SPA: profiled in Marquis Who’s Who in America, 59th edition, 2004.

Lectures/Presentations
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: discussed his reissued book Resistance and Control in Pakistan along with his book Postmodernism and Islam, Politics and Prose book store, Washington, D.C., September.

Mary Garrard, professor emerita, art, CAS: “Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalen in Seville: The Spanish Connection,” Georgetown University (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and Catholic Studies Program), Washington, D.C., September.

Gail Short Hanson, vice president, Office of Campus Life: served on the faculty of the New Senior Student Affairs Officers Institute for the NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Washington, D.C., October.

Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: “La Casa De Las Dos Palmas De Manuel Mejía Vallejo: Documento de una época de una región y su cultura,” XXV International Congress, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, October.

David Stemper, Center for North American Studies: chaired the panel “North America’s Second Decade,” Latin American Studies Association meeting, Las Vegas, October.

Papers Presented
Angela Dadak, literature, CAS: “No ESL Allowed: What’s a College Writing Program to Do?” Fourth Symposium on Second Language Writing, Purdue University, October.

Susan Lloyd, Kogod: “Illuminating the Voice of Technology in the Techno-Experience,” HCR conference, Portland, Ore., October.

Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS: “The Problem with the Special Court for Sierra Leone,” Black Commentator Journal, The Independent, Expo Times, allAfrica.com, The Progress, June.

Richard Kay, physics CAS: coauthored “Efficient, Reliable, Long-lifetime, Diode-pumped Nd:yag Laser for Space-based Vegetation Topographical Altimetry,” Applied Optics, v 43, September.

Renee Marlin-Bennett, SIS: Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information and Privacy, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004.

Jon Wisman, economics, CAS, and PhD student Aaron Pacitti: chapter “US Labor Reexamined, 1880–1930: Success, Ideology, and Reversal,” in The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics, M.E. Sharpe, 2004.

Media
Sharon Alston, director, Admissions: interviewed with AU students by ABC about the new SATs, September.

Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: interviewed by the Harrisburg Patriot News on the use of instant messaging by teenagers and young adults, July.

Robert Blecker, economics, CAS: quoted in the International Herald Tribune regarding the deficit and the budget, September.

Maria Floro, economics, CAS: wrote an article for the Financial Times regarding women’s concerns and politics, September.

Jane Hall, SOC: quoted by the New York Times and interviewed by Fox News regarding the CBS Bush memo scandal, September.

David Jaffe, WCL: interviewed by the Legal Times regarding use of exam software, September.

Laura Juliano, psychology, CAS: quoted in Prevention magazine in an article about weekend headaches due to caffeine withdrawal, September.

Peter Kuznick, history, CAS: interviewed by the St. Petersburg Times about the planned protests at the Republic Convention and their likely impact on the elections and by the Los Angeles Times regarding the controversy over Kerry’s Vietnam record and why Vietnam still resonates so deeply with the American people, August.

Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: was quoted by Agence France Presse and AP regarding the Watergate 30th anniversary and the 9-11 Commission Report and by AP regarding Bush overhauling the tax code, August.

Richard Linowes and Frank DuBois, Kogod: “Bottleneck on the Border,” article on their study that customs problems in Mexico lead companies to move their operations to China, Journal of Commerce, September.

Diane Orentlicher, WCL: quoted in the Baltimore Sun about handover and prosecution of Saddam Hussein, June.

Jamin Raskin, WCL: was interviewed by the New York Times regarding college students registering to vote in swing states and by Seventeen magazine regarding teens and privacy rights, September.

Abdul Aziz Said, director, Center for Global Peace, and SIS: was interviewed by Cable News Channel 8 about Iraq, June.

Bradley Schiller, SPA: was quoted in the Cleveland Plain Dealer regarding the working poor, September.

Herman Schwartz, WCL: featured in the Legal Times article “Supreme Tipping Point” regarding Bush’s Supreme Court nominees, September.

Judith Shapiro, SIS: discussed the importance of teaching cross-cultural communication in U.S. universities, Voice of America Mandarin, September.

James Thurber, SPA: discussed the Electoral College on WAMU’s The Diane Rehm Show, quoted by the Los Angeles Daily News regarding the 9-11 Commission Report, and quoted in Packetonline.com regarding Microsoft’s decision to give $75 million back to its significant shareholders and what that says about the election, August.

Richard Ugelow and Danny Bradlow, WCL: interviewed for a Kyrgyzstan documentary about academic integrity and plagiarism, September.

Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on CNN, NBC, Telemundo, BBC, Voice of America, Radio Mitre, Radio America, Radio Diez, Radio, Cadena ECO, Radio Sudamericana (Argentina), Radio Educacion (Mexico), Emisora de la Universidad Nacional De Colombia, Radio Centro (Ecuador), Swiss National Radio, National Spanish Radio during the Democratic National Convention, July, and the Republican National Convention, August

Howard Wachtel, economics, CAS: interviewed on NPR’s Marketplace on U.S. Air labor contracts and bankruptcy proceedings, September.

Photo by Jeff Watts

Lee Hamilton honored at CCPS 25th anniversary dinner Lee Hamilton, right, who for 34 years served in the House representing Indiana, was the guest of honor Nov. 16 at a dinner hosted by AU President Benjamin Ladner to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, directed by SPA professor James Thurber, left. Hamilton now is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.