Accolades celebrates the professional achievements of George Mason University’s faculty and staff. The next column will be published on Tuesday, April 1. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, March 25. Send submissions to univnews@gmu.edu.
College of Education and Human Development
Sheri Berkeley and Peggy King-Sears, Graduate School of Education, with B. Hott and K. Bradley-Black, CEHD alumnae, wrote “Are History Textbooks More ‘Considerate’ After 20 Years?” which was published in the Journal of Special Education.
Susan Bon and Anne-Marie Balzano, Graduate School of Education, with J. Bathon, wrote “Social Media Use — and Misuse — by Teachers: Looking to the Courts for Human Resource Policy Guidance,” which appeared in the Journal of School Public Relations.
Elizabeth Levine Brown and Colleen Vesely, Graduate School of Education, and others co-wrote “Promoting Desirable Outcomes Among Culturally and Ethnically Diverse Children in Social Emotional Learning Programs: A Multilevel Heuristic Mode,” which was published in Educational Psychology Review.
Bill Brozo, Graduate School of Education, with Gary Moorman and Carla Meyer, Appalachian State University, wrote “Wham! Teaching With Graphic Novels Across the Curriculum,” which was published by Teachers College Press. Brozo also wrote “From Manga to Math,” which appeared in Educational Leadership.
Nada Dabbagh, Graduate School of Education, presented “Strategically Designed Personal Learning Environments (PLEs): A Natural Recipe for Integrating Formal and Informal Learning Using Social Media” at the annual conference of MobiLearnAsia 2013 in Singapore in October.
Maggie Daniels, School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism, and Mason alumna Carrie Loveless, MBA ’95, released the second edition of their book, “Wedding Planning and Management: Consultancy for Diverse Clients.” The book was published by Routledge.
Ilham Nasser and Shelley Wong, Graduate School of Education, wrote “Examining Social Political Contexts in Teacher Preparation in Palestine.” The article was published in Teaching Education.
Seth Parsons, Graduate School of Education, with Margaret Vaughn, University of Idaho, wrote “Adaptive Teachers as Innovators: Instructional Adaptations Opening Spaces for Enhanced Literacy Learning,” which appeared in Language Arts.
Erin Peters-Burton, Graduate School of Education, was a co-author of “Inclusive STEM High School Design: 10 Critical Components,” which was published by Theory into Practice.
Colleen Vesely, Graduate School of Education; doctoral student M. Ewaida; and E.A. Anderson wrote “Cultural Competence of Parenting Education Programs Used by Latino Families: A Review,” which was published in the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science.
Farnoosh Shahrokhi, in collaboration with Bev Shaklee and the Center for International Education, lead a U.S. Department of State grant program, which brought 20 teachers from 20 different countries to campus for six weeks to enhance their teaching skills and learn about the United States. The International Fellows were from Argentina, Bolivia, Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Senegal, Turkey and Venezuela. Each teacher was assigned a partner teacher at four local schools (Oakton High School, Westfield High School, Robinson Secondary School and Holmes Middle School) to experience American-style active classrooms, problem-based teaching and technology-infused instruction for eight consecutive days. Other faculty members involved in the project were Supriya Baily, Priscilla Norton, Dawn Hathaway and Beverly Woody.
College of Health and Human Services
Lisa Campo, School of Nursing, wrote a chapter titled “Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment” in the book “Healthy Aging: Principles and Clinical Practice for Clinicians,” which will be published March 31 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Lisa Chin, Rehabilitation Science, will present the abstract “Cardiorespiratory Function and Aerobic Exercise Training in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury” at the American College of Sports Medicine annual conference for research done with Randall Keyser, Rehabilitation Science, at the National Institutes of Health.
Michele R. Davidson, School of Nursing, wrote the book “Fast Facts for the Antepartum and Postpartum Nurse,” which was published by Springer Publishing Company in 2013. Davidson also was a finalist for the March of Dimes Nurse of the Year Awards.
Sina Gallo, Nutrition and Food Studies, was a co-author of “Methodological Issues in Assessing Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D Concentration in Newborn Infants,” which will appear in the March issue of Bone. It is available online at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24473373.
Andrew Guccione, Rehabilitation Science, was a co-author of “Effect of Therapeutic Exercise on Pain and Disability in the Management of Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials,” an article that ran in the August 2013 issue of Physical Therapy. Guccione also co-wrote the article “The Italian Version of the Physical Therapy Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties,” which appeared in the July issue. He also was a co-author of the article, “Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Physical Therapy Outpatient Satisfaction Survey in an Italian Musculoskeletal Population,” published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorder. The third edition of Guccione’s book, “Geriatric Physical Therapy,” was translated into Polish and Portuguese.
Jeffrey Herrick, Rehabilitation Science, received a Summer Research Funding for Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty grant in the amount of $4,500 through Mason’s Office of Research and Economic Development.
Dayna Kuhar, College of Health and Human Services, recently completed one year as president of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Under her leadership, the chapter increased its membership, making it the largest chapter in the United States.
R. Kevin Mallinson, School of Nursing, was awarded the 2013 Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) Researcher Recognition Award at the organization’s annual conference in Atlanta, Ga. He also delivered two oral presentations at the ANAC conference titled “An Evaluation of Outcomes for a Nurse-Managed Clinic for Health Care Workers in Swaziland” and “A Journey through a Program of Research: Grief, Trauma, and Adherence.” Mallinson co-wrote an article describing his Fulbright research project in the Kingdom of Swaziland titled “Nurse-Managed Care for Health Care Workers in Southern Africa” in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
Maureen Schafer, School of Nursing, was selected as a Science Case Fellow by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. The organization promotes the development and dissemination of materials and practices for case teaching in the sciences. Her fellowship is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the U.S. Department of Education.
Shirley Travis, former CHHS dean, and Ronda Talley, Western Kentucky University, co-edited a new textbook, “Multidisciplinary Coordinated Caregiving: Research, Practice and Policy.” The 2014 text is part of a caregiving series by Springer and is an official publication of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving.
Frank Whittington, College of Health and Human Services, along with Suzanne Kunkel (Miami University) and Scott Brown (Miami University), co-wrote a book titled “Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course,” published by Springer Publishing Company in February 2014. Whittington served as a discussant for a symposium on “Exploring the “How” of International Aging Research: Concepts, Data Sources, Measurements, and Methods,” which was presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in New Orleans in November 2013.
Michael Wolf-Branigin, Social Work, has achieved Accredited Professional Statistician status through the American Statistical Association.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Meg Brindle, Public and International Affairs, has been building education curriculum in Uganda and Tanzania since 2010. In February 2014, her team completed training 700 Ugandan women in IP business strategies for their own cooperative. In March, she will lead training for the Tanzanian government’s Big Results Now program funded by the USPTO, a strategy to help Tanzania achieve middle income status by 2025.
Jo-Marie Burt, Public and International Affairs, with Mason alumna Casey Cagley, wrote the article “Access to Information, Access to Justice: The Challenges to Accountability in Peru,” which was published in the journal SUR—International Journal on Human Rights. The biannual journal is published in English, Portuguese and Spanish by Conectas Human rights in Brazil.
Robinson Professors
Shaul Bakhash, Robinson Professor of History, served on a panel assessing Iran’s revolution at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His paper was published in the center’s Viewpoint series under the title “Iran’s Tumultuous Revolution: 35 Years Later.”
Robert Hazen, Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences, delivered the Carnegie Institution’s Capital Science Lecture on “The Story of Earth.”
John Paden, Robinson Professor of International Studies, participated in a high-level dialogue on Nigeria and Its 2015 National Elections at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He also presented a paper on “APEC Tipping Points in 2001: Issues of Dispute Settlement and Trade Security” at the Osaka University International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Asia-Pacific Region in Osaka, Japan.
Steven Pearlstein, Robinson Professor of Public and International Affairs, appeared on a panel on media coverage of business at the annual meeting of the Adam Smith Society in New York. He also appeared on the Charlie Rose show to speak about his paper on 21st-century capitalism and the tyranny of maximizing shareholder value. In addition, Pearlstein moderated a debate at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation about tax credits for research and development.
School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Thomas E. Flores wrote “Vertical Inequality, Land Reform, and Insurgency in Colombia,” which was published in a special issue of Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy that focused on violence in Colombia.
Karina Korostelina’s book “Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power: Self-Imagination in a Young Ukrainian Nation,” published by Lexington Books, provides a comprehensive outlook on Ukraine as it is presented through the views of intellectual and political elites. She also wrote the book “History Education in the Formation of Social Identity: Toward a Culture of Peace,” which was released by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. This book examines the critical points in identity formation that history education helps create.
School of Management
Catherine Cramton, Management, wrote “An Embedded Model of Cultural Adaptation in Global Teams,” an article that appeared in Organization Science.
Edward Douthett, Accounting, wrote “Venture Capital and Risk Management: Evidence From Initial Public Offerings,” which appeared in the Journal of Managerial Issues.
Matthew Theeke, Management, presented the paper titled “Innovation and External Risk Assessments” at the Academy of Management annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. The paper was also published in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
George Wang, Finance, wrote “Intraday Liquidity Provision by Trader Types in a Limit Order Market: Evidence from Taiwan Index Futures,” which appeared in the Journal of Futures Markets. In addition, Wang’s article, “Jumps and Trading Activity in Interest Rate Futures Markets: The Response to Macroeconomic Announcements” appeared in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies.
School of Public Policy
Katrin Anacker presented “Finding Funding at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development” at the national Housing Collaborative Workshop at the Center for Housing and Urban Development at Texas A&M University on Jan. 6. She also moderated a housing panel and interviewed a transportation expert at the Emerging Leaders Institute of Leadership Fairfax in Lorton, Va., on Jan.16.
Kenneth Button gave written and oral testimony to the House of Representative’s Committee on Small Business on the “FAA’s Impact on Small Businesses in the General Aviation Industry.” He recently presented “A Book, the Application and the Outcomes; How Right Was Alfred Kahn About the Impacts of the Deregulation of the U.S. Domestic Airline Market?” at the 93rd annual meeting of the Transportation Board. His recent publications include “Sharing Out the Costs of a Public-Private Partnership” and “Demand Forecasting Errors and the Ownership of Infrastructure,” both appearing in Applied Economics Letters. He also wrote “Economic Efficiency of European Air Traffic Control Systems,” which appeared in the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy.
Wade Channell participated in a UN working group on improving the business-enabling environment for micro, small and medium enterprises. The work is part of the UN Centre on International Trade Law and will focus for the next five years on reducing excessive regulation that keeps businesses, especially women-owned businesses, from prospering in the formal sector.
John Earle presented “Large Shocks, Employment Adjustments and Financial Constraints: The Case of Small Businesses in the U.S.” at the meetings of the American Economic Association in Philadelphia in February. He also was invited to speak in March at the Small Business Lending and Investment Summit in the U.S. Senate. The program includes representatives of most major business organizations in the United States, as well as two U.S. senators.
A. Lee Fritschler and Catherine Rudder wrote “U.S. Tobacco Control: Six Lessons in Public Policy for Medical and Science Professionals,” which was published in Conflicts in Health Policy: Regulation, Rhetoric, Theory and Practice, a journal edited by Bonnie Stabile.
Jonathan Gifford met with the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee staff, which is working on a report on public-private partnerships. Gifford presented on the work that Mason’s P3 Transportation Center does and how it can serve as a resource.
Frank Manheim had three working papers on SSRN published: “A 19th-Century French Observer Sheds Light on America’s Unstable Politics,” “An Overview of Trade Books That Warned of the 2008 Real Estate and Financial Meltdown,” and “A Brief History of United States Forest Management Policy.”
Hilton Root presented “Sources of Variation in Global Development: A Complex Systems Approach” at the University of Surrey.
Louise Shelley wrote “Human Smuggling and Trafficking into Europe: A Comparative Perspective” for the Migration Policy Institute.
Roger Stough presented “Cluster Life-Cycles, Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development With a Case Study of the Korean Shipbuilding Cluster” at the Western Regional Science Association meeting.
Anne Washington was an invited panelist at the National Science Foundation-funded Workshop on the Social, Economic and Workforce Implications of Big Data Analytics and Decision-Making, during the Big Data and SocioTechnical Infrastructures session in Washington, D.C.
Volgenau School of Engineering
C. Chang, Systems Engineering and Operations Research, received $60,000 from Intelligent Fusion Technology Inc. and the U.S. Air Force for his project Decision Making Under Uncertainty for Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems in Space Application.
Bijan Jabbari, Electrical and Computer Engineering, was selected as one of the keynote speakers of the 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Communications, which will be held in Sydney, Australia, from June 10 to 14. The conference theme is Communications: The Centrepoint of the Digital Economy.
Sam Malek, Computer Science, received $84,000 from the University of Southern California and the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command for his project Testing Privacy — Preserving Distributed Systems on DETERLab.
Bob Simon, C4I Center, received $42,000 from VECTARE Inc. and the U.S. Department of Defense for his project Stateless Machine to Machine Communication Phase III.
Duminda Wijisekera, Computer Science, received $386,000 from Howard University and the U.S. Department of Transportation for his project PTC Systems Identity Management. He also received $330,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation for his project Mapping GSM-R Into US Wireless Frequency Intervals for High-Speed Rail.
Jie Xu, Systems Engineering and Operations Research, received $5,000 from Oak Ridge Associate Universities for his project Revenue Management in the Cloud.