Accolades recognizes the professional achievements of George Mason University faculty and staff. Because of the winter holiday break, the next column will be published on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. The deadline for the February column is Monday, Jan.27, 2014. Send submissions to univnews@gmu.edu.
Administration
David C. Atkins, Auxiliary Enterprises, co-presented at the National Association of Campus Auxiliary Services international conference with campus partner ORCA TV on “MasonAds: The Place to be Seen” in Anaheim, Calif., in October. Atkins was also selected to participate in the International Collegiate Licensing Association 2014 Mentorship Program Inaugural Class and was appointed the ICLA Atlantic 10 Conference Representative.
College of Health and Human Services
Michele Davidson, Nursing, received the Nurse of the Year award from the March of Dimes.
Tya El, program assistant, published “No One Goes Hungry — Doddridge Ecumenical Outlet Food Pantry” in the Doddridge News.
Cara Frankenfeld, Global and Community Health, was invited to serve on the American Society of Nutrition’s Policy Committee and published “Relationship of Obesity and High Urinary Enterolignan Concentrations in 6,806 Children and Adults: Analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data” in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition and “Past Residence Outside of the United States Is Associated with Diet Quality in Adults Currently Residing in the United States” in the American Journal of Human Biology.
Renee Milligan, Nursing, was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing as a fellow and named director of the Partners for Access to Health Care by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Lora Peppard, Nursing, presented her psychiatric work with the Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Belvoir at the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation conference.
John Shiver, Health Administration and Policy, presented “Brave New World of Healthcare Reform” at the Association of University Programs in Health Administration undergraduate workshop in Chicago; “Continuum, Control, and Calculus or Healthcare When the Patient Pays” for the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Healthcare Cost Containment in San Diego; “Advanced Care Planning: A New Initiative” for the Maryland Medical Group Management Association in Baltimore; and “Role of Technology Under Healthcare Reform” for HealthTechNet in Washington, D.C.
Carlos Sluzki, Global and Community Health, presented a pre-Congress workshop titled “Evolution of Personal and Joint Social Networks as Couples Evolve” and a panel presentation titled “Emerging New Family Forms” to the Eighth Congress of the European Family Therapy Association in Istanbul, Turkey. He also presented “Research on Vicarious Traumatization” for iPSi in Barcelona, Spain; gave the closing keynote speech, “Illuminating the Field of Brief Therapy in the Light of Recent Neuroscience and Genetic Research,” for the Congress of the Spanish Federation of Family Therapy Associations; “Burnout: A Political View” at the George Washington University Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science; workshops and presentations titled “Shame and Humiliation in Clinical Practice,” “The Natural History of a Therapeutic Process” and “Trauma: An Update,” and the closing keynote, “Trauma and Resilience in the Process of Migration,” for the International Congress on Brief Family Therapy. His co-authored book, “Shame and Humiliation: A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches,” was published by Karnak.
Ali A. Weinstein, Global and Community Health, presented the paper, “Cancer-Related Fatigue is Not One Size Fits All,” at the Gerontological Society of America meeting in New Orleans. She also co-published “Racial Provocation Induces Cortisol Responses in African-Americans” in the Open Journal of Medical Psychology.
Robinson Professors
Spencer Crew, Robinson Professor of American History, served as seminar leader for a session discussing what it means be a public historian at the Seminar for Historical Administration in Indianapolis for the American Association for State and Local History. He also presented his essay, “Lincoln and the Issue of the Contraband” at Carleton University. He was the keynote speaker of the ninth annual Fairfax County History Conference, giving a lecture titled “The Underground Railroad in Fairfax County.” Finally, he co-wrote the article “Museums and Race,” which appears in the November/December issue of Museum magazine.
Robert Hazen, Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences, released “The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence” with Great Courses, a series that produces college-level audio and video courses through The Teaching Company.
John Paden, Robinson Professor of International Studies, gave a presentation at the State Department concerning the upcoming Nigerian elections. He presented “Countering Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria: Development Options” at a USAID conference. Also, he hosted two university presidents from Nigeria and facilitated in the signing of linkage agreements between George Mason and their respective universities.
Steven Pearlstein, Robinson Professor of Public and International Affairs, lectured on the morality of capitalism at Randolph Macon College.
Laurie O. Robinson, Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, chaired the Research Advisory Committee and moderated a panel on “Police Culture and Policing Research — Finding Common Ground,” organized by Mason criminology professor Cynthia Lum, at the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police conference. Robinson also was among a small group of criminal justice scholars and leaders from around the country who provided advice to Thomas Abt, the new cabinet-level head of public safety for New York Governor Cuomo.
James Trefil, Robinson Professor of Physics, presented “Scientific Literacy: Why, What, and How?” at the sixth International Conference on Science in Society in Warsaw, Poland.
School of Management
Jagadison Aier, Accounting, was nominated for an OSCAR Mentoring Excellence Award, which recognizes and rewards outstanding Mason community members who have mentored undergraduate students on research and creative activities and who foster a culture of student scholarship in support of Mason’s “Students as Scholars” initiative. He was also nominated for Mason’s Teaching Excellence Award.
Shelly Canterbury, Finance, was a mentor for a student research project, which received an award from the Quality Enhancement Plan Leadership Council.
Edward Douthett, Accounting, was selected to serve as the Virginia Society CPA, Northern Chapter, Professor of Public Accounting.
Richard Larsen, Accounting, presented the paper titled “Shooting Ourselves in Both Feet” at the George Mason University Tax and Accounting Conference. The paper was also published in the conference proceedings. He presented “Using Risk Assessment Techniques in Selecting Large Corporate Taxpayers for IRS Examination,” which was published in the proceedings from the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council.
Anne Magro, Accounting, received the School of Management Service Award. She was also nominated for the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award.
George Wang, Finance, presented the paper, “The Impacts of Individual Day Trading Strategies on Market Liquidity and Volatrility: Evidence from the Taiwan Index Futures Market,” at the Second International Conference on Futures and Derivative Markets in Beijing. He also presented “Are Algorithmic Trades Informed? An Empirical Analysis of Algorithmic Trading Around Earning Announcements” at the 2013 Financial Management Assocation annual meeting in Chicago.
School of Public Policy
Mark Addleson served on the organizing committee of the 10th International Conference on Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management and chaired a track titled “How Organizations Are Adopting Knowledge Management.”
Katrin Anacker co-published the chapter, “Five Lessons Offered by but Not Learned from the Recent Collapse of the U.S. Economy and the Housing Market,” in “From Foreclosure to Fair Lending: Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit.” She also co-presented “Immigrant Segregation Across Suburban Typologies: Findings from the 2010 Census” at a conference called “Out of Control Suburbs? Comparing Representations of Order, Disorder and Sprawl.”
Desmond Arias published “The Impacts of Differential Armed Dominance on Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil” in Studies in Comparative International Development. He also delivered an invited lecture titled “Armed Actors and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean” at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
David Armor served as a consultant and expert witness for the Arkansas attorney general, New York State attorney general, and the Pitt County, N.C., Board of Education on cases involving desegregation and education adequacy. He also presented a paper, “Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military,” at the Interuniversity Seminar on the Armed Forces and Society conference. At the same seminar, he chaired the session, “Challenges of Creating and Implementing Gender Policies,” and was a discussant for a panel on “Gender Integration in the Force.”
Allison Frendak-Blume presented “The Conceptual Model of Peace Operations in a Conflict Zone” at the International Seminar on Peace and Conflict Resolution, hosted by the National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Kenneth Button presented “The Extent Transportation PPPs Approximate to the Economic Theory of Bilateral Monopolies” at the Global Challenges in PPP: Cross-sectoral and Cross-disciplinary Solutions? conference in Antwerp, Belgium. He presented “The Economic Implications of Air Traffic Control Reforms in Europe” to the Effects of Air Transport on the Economy — How Can We Evaluate Them? IATA Workshop, in Geneva, and presented “U.S. Airlines, Competition and Sabotage” to the GARS Managing Risk in Air Transport meeting. He also served on the “Airport Competition: Myth or the End of Regulation” panel at the second European Aviation Conference and chaired “The Future of the U.S.-Japan Market” panel at the Japanese International Transportation Institute conference.
Audrey Kurth Cronin was guest speaker at the Congressional Senior Staff Roundtable series, hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations. She spoke about U.S. drone policy.
A. Lee Fritschler and Arthur M. Hauptman presented “Are Today’s University Graduates Suited for 21st-Century Demands: Sorting Out Responsibilities for Success in the U.S.,” sponsored by the Asian Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership, University of Hawaii East West Center and the East China Normal University.
Jack Goldstone met with Assistant Secretary of State Linda Thomas-Greenfield for a discussion of human rights and security training in Africa. He participated in the council meeting of the European Policy Center in Brussels, for which he has been named to the Academic Advisory Council. He was a guest speaker at the Senate Bipartisan Chiefs of Staff Foreign Affairs dinner discussion, which focused on global demographic trends and the implications for U.S. foreign policy. He gave a presentation on “Social Movements vs. Revolutions: 1848, 1968, 2011, 2013″ at the European University of St. Petersburg annual Research Conference. He also presented on “Forecasting Global Conflict” for the Transatlantic Science Week, sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council.
Andrew Hughes Hallett published “Is There an Alternative to the Fiscal Compact for Conducting Fiscal Policy in the Euro Area?” in Politik. His forthcoming articles include “Announcements as an Equilibrium Selection Device” in Oxford Economic Paper and “The Cyclicality of Automatic and Discretionary Fiscal Policy: What Can Real Time Data Tell Us?” in Macroeconomic Dynamics, and “Fiscal Sustainability Using Growth-Maximising Debt Targets” in Applied Economics.
Michael V. Hayden was a panelist with Barton Gellman at “Leakers or Whistleblowers? National Security Reporting in the Digital Age,” co-sponsored by Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.
Naoru Koizumi and Amit Patel co-wrote “Measuring Slum Severity in Mumbai and Kolkata: A Household-Based Approach,” forthcoming in the journal Habitat International.
Jeremy Mayer was a panel presenter on “America’s Political Institutions in Trouble” at the Colloquium on Social and Behavioral Science and Public Policy, hosted by the Consortium of Social Science Associations.
Amit Patel presented “Scaling Laws in Slums: An Evidence from Indian Cities” at the 60th annual North American meetings of the Regional Science Association International.
Ramkishen S. Rajan was appointed to the Editorial Board of Palgrave Communications, a new multidisciplinary Open Access initiative from Palgrave Macmillan. He was a presenter at the 2013 Annual Asia Competitiveness Institute Conference and co-published “Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Relative Importance of Nontradables” in the Journal of International Money and Finance. He co-published “South Asian Exchange Rate Regimes: Fixed, Flexible or Something In-Between?” in the South Asia Economic Journal. He has an article, “What Determines External Debt Tipping Points?” forthcoming in the Journal of Macroeconomics.
Kenneth A. Reinert, Sasidaran Gopalan and Ammar A. Malik co-published “The Renewed Hope of Multilateralism in South Asia: Applying the MFN Principle to Pakistan-India Trade” in Global Policy.
Edward Rhodes delivered a weeklong series of lectures on American foreign policy at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. He presented on “U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Effects on Regional Peace in South Asia” at the International Seminar on Peace and Conflict Resolution, hosted by the National University of Science and Technology in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Hilton Root gave a keynote speech on “The Promises and Pitfalls of Fiscal Decentralization” to members of Parliament at the International Conference on Participatory Federalism and Decentralization: from Framework to Functionality, in Islambad, Pakistan. He also presented “Global Governance and the Future of Liberal Internationalism” at the conference on Global Governance in an Unsustainable World, hosted by the School of World Economics and International Affairs of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Mark J. Rozell was a featured speaker at the monthly meeting of the Dulles Area Democrats. He spoke on “The Meaning of the 2013 Elections Results.”
Catherine E. Rudder and A. Lee Fritschler co-published “Smoking, Health and Climate Change,” in Issues and Controversies in Science and Politics, edited by B. S. Steel.
Louise I. Shelley published “The Business of Terrorism” in “Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention: Essays in Honor of Ernesto U. Savona.” She was a guest panelist at Washington College’s Human Trafficking Series event, “Human Trafficking: A Global and Local Challenge.”
Bonnie Stabile edited “Conflicts in Health Policy: Regulation, Rhetoric, Theory and Practice,” published by Westphalia Press, November 2013.
Roger Stough gave an invited presentation hosted by the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis titled “Universities in the Knowledge Age and Globalization.” He also made an invited presentation to a visiting group of Chinese economic development officials from Guangdong and nearby provinces titled “Industrial Cluster Analysis and Public Policy.” He participated in a strategic planning meeting for the Regional Science Association International. He also gave a presentation on “Industrial Cluster Dynamics, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy” to the Fellows of the Regional Science Association.
Volgenau School of Engineering
Celso Ferreira, Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, received $260,000 from Johns Hopkins University and the National Science Foundation for his project, “In Hot Water and Harm’s Way: Modeling to Promote Regional Resilience to Repeated Heat Waves and Hurricanes.”
Dan Fleck and Angelos Stavrou, Computer Science, received $434,000 from Invincea Labs and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for their project, “Tapio: The Cyber Forest Hunter.”
Sushil Jajodia, Center for Secure Information Systems, was part of a group that received a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the “Interactive Analysis of Attack Graphs Using Relational Queries” (Patent number 8,566,269 B2).
Sam Malek, Computer Science, received $949,000 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for his project, “Automated Security Testing of Mobile Applications,” and $84,000 from the University of Southern California, U.S. Space, and the Naval Warfare Systems Command for the project, “sTile: Private Computing in the Open.”
Danny Menascé, Computer Science, was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Nathalia Peixoto, Electrical and Computer Engineering, with Mohammad Asad received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Attention Assistance Device and Method” (Patent number 8,564,443 B2).
Ioulia Rytikova and Mihai Boicu, Personalized Learning in AIT laboratory, created a series of workshops, the first of which, “Customizing Higher Education: Competency-based Personalized Learning,” was held Nov. 1, 2013.
Arun Sood, Computer Science, and former Center for Secure Information Systems faculty members Anup Ghosh and Yih Huang received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Attack Resistant Continuous Network Service Trustworthiness Controller” (Patent number 8,572,735 B2).
Eric Wolman, Systems Engineering and Operations Research, received the George E. Kimball Medal from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.