January Accolades
January 5, 2004
Accolades is a monthly column recognizing the latest achievements of George Mason faculty and staff members. Submit Accolades information by the 15th of the month preceding to Attn: Daily Gazette, by mail to 4C5, by fax to (703) 993-8784, or by e-mail to gazette@gmu.edu. Electronic photos with submissions are welcome.
College of Arts and Sciences
Changwoo Ahn, Environmental Science and Policy, wrote "A Dynamic Model of Moist-Soil Plants to Restore Illinois Floodplain-River Ecosystem," which was published in River Research and Application.
Bianca Diaz, English, has poems appearing in the literary magazines Alligator Juniper, Blue Mesa Review, and The Mochila Review.
Stephen Goodwin, English, wrote an essay, "Breaking the Silence: A Writer Returns," which was published in the November/December 2003 issue of Poets & Writers. He was also a guest on National Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show in November and discussed his latest novel, Breaking Her Fall.
Cindy Lont, Communication, presented a paper, "The Face of the Front Page: A Content Analysis of U.S. Newspapers," at the 89th National Communication Association Convention in Miami. She also served on the Mass Communication Competitive Papers Panel on Gender and the Media at the convention.
Randy McBride and Rick Diecchio, Environmental Science and Policy, wrote with T.F. Moslow and H.H. Roberts the article, "Late Quaternary Geology of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Shelf: Sedimentology, Depositional History, and Ancient Analogs in a Major Shelf Sand Sheet of the Modern Transgressive Systems Tract," which was published in a Society for Sedimentary Geology special publication, Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin.
 Hazel McFerson |
Daniele Struppa, dean, was invited to deliver a talk, "A World of Light and Shadows: The Mathematics of Perception," at the Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci in Milano, Italy. The magazine Scienza ed Esperienza published an article on the speech.
 Anita Taylor |
College of Visual and Performing Arts
Linda Apple Monson, Music, gave a lecture-recital that focused on the piano music of contemporary American composer Ross Lee Finney at the national conference of the College Music Society in Miami.
Laura Mann, Music, is a touring artist under the auspices of the Virginia Commission for the Arts. In this connection, she performed her one-woman opera, The White Cliffs, at the University of Virginia's College at Wise and at Mount Empire Community College.
Graduate School of Education
Gerald Bracey delivered keynote talks to the Colorado Society of School Psychologists; the Washington and Oregon Association of School Personnel; the Vancouver, Washington, School District; the New England Association of Schools and Colleges; and the School of Education, Castleton College, Vermont. He received the John Dewey Research award from the Vermont Society for the Study of School Evaluation, Middlebury College, Vermont.
Steve Constantino delivered the keynote address and presided over concurrent training sessions at the annual National Community Education Association Conference held in New Orleans.
The Education Leadership Program (EDLE) was awarded national recognition by the Educational Leadership Constituency Council at the national conference of the National Council for Professors of Educational Administration. This national recognition elevates the EDLE Program at George Mason to participate in an elite group of institutions that have demonstrated the ability to prepare educational administrators for the challenges they will face leading our nation's schools and school districts.
 Debra Sprague |
Betty Sturtevant wrote a policy paper, "The Literacy Coach: A Key to Improving Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools," which was published by the Alliance for Excellent Education. She presented the paper at the American High School Policy Conference, held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The complete paper is available here.
David Weaver has recently joined the editorial board of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. He now serves on five editorial boards of international, peer-reviewed tourism and hospitality journals.
David Wiggins co-edited with Patrick Miller of Northeastern Illinois University Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth-Century America, published by Routledge.
Susan Yamamoto, Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities, and president of the Hemophilia Association of the Capital Area, was presented with a Meritorious Service Award and a Chapter Recognition Award at the National Hemophilia Foundation's annual meeting in Salt Lake City. In making the presentation, Jordan Lurie, the foundation president, lauded Yamamoto for her advocacy efforts and her tireless work on fundraising events.
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
 Terrence Lyons |
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
Kim T. Blackwell and Ji Ling Mo, also in the School of Computational Sciences, wrote the article, "Comparison of Hermissenda Type A and Type B Photoreceptors: Response to Light as a Function of Intensity and Duration," which was published in the September 2003 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. Blackwell, along with Uwe Czubayko and Dietmar Plenz, co-wrote "Quantitative Estimate of Synaptic Inputs to Striatal Neurons During Up and Down States In Vitro," which appeared in the October 2003 issue of the same journal.
School of Computational Sciences
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Center for Social Complexity, was invited to join the Washington Academy of Sciences.
School of Information Technology and Engineering
Gheorghe Tecuci, Computer Science, has been recognized by the Department of the Army with the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service while a visiting professor of artificial intelligence at the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College. Tecuci led a team of researchers and experts from George Mason and the war college in studying the development of intelligent agents for center of gravity analysis and their use in the education of strategic leaders at the war college.
 Jeff Offutt |
School of Management
Ellen Fagenson-Eland participated in a session of scholars who helped in the search for a new editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.
Vernon Hsu was appointed to the editorial review board of the research journal Production and Operations Management.
Minder Chen and Mary Meixell wrote a paper, "Web-Services Enabled Procurement in the Extended Enterprise: An Architectural Design and Implementation," which appeared in the November issue of the Journal of Electronic Commerce.
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