October 2013 Accolades

Accolades recognizes the professional achievements of George Mason University faculty and staff. Send submissions to univnews@gmu.edu. Deadline for the November column is Friday, October 25.

Administration

Jeff Allcroft, Commissioning and Warranty, Facilities Administration, published the article “Technology for Technology’s Sake,” in the September/October 2013 Facility Management Journal, a publication produced by the International Facility Management Association.

Mariama Boney, University Information, presented “Redefining Work Life Balance: What Can Well-being Do for You?” at the Annual Conference of Women Administrators in Higher Education, D.C. Chapter of the ACE Women’s Network on September 20 in Washington, D.C. She also presented “Building a Magical and Innovative Historical Tour Program” at the 2013 Annual Conference of the Collegiate Information and Visitor Services Association.

Jo Ann Henson, University Libraries, published an article, “Librarians and the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans: Helping Disabled Veterans With Business Research,” in the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship.

College of Education and Human Development

Rick Brigham received an Outstanding Author Contribution Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2013 for his book chapter titled “Chapter 10 Families and Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.” The chapter was published in “Advances in Special Education.”

Bill Brozo was in Romania from May 23 to June 1 and again from August 22 to 25 as an expert consultant on a project funded by the Romanian-American Foundation titled “Reading to Learn.” He participated in project team and research planning sessions in Iasi, newspaper and TV interviews in Iasi and Bucharest, meetings with teachers and administrators, and school visits in the Moldavian region. He will be returning to Romania multiple times over the next five years to provide research and technical assistance.

Rita Chi-Ying Chung was awarded fellow status in the American Psychological Association (APA) in September. Fellow status is an honor bestowed upon APA members whose work has had a national impact on the field of psychology beyond a local, state or regional level. She was awarded the Commonwealth of Virginia General Assembly Commendation Award in May for her work on social justice, multiculturalism and human rights.

Sonya Douglass Horsford, a new faculty member in the Education Leadership program, published her latest book titled “Advancing Equity and Achievement in America’s Diverse Schools: Inclusive Theories, Policies, and Practices” with co-editor Camille M. Wilson of Wayne State University.

Layne Kalbfleisch gave a keynote speech in June titled “Getting to the Heart of the Brain: Educational Neuroscience, Constructivist Learning and Environmental Influences on Learning and Creativity” at the Brain Motivation Research Institute at Korea University as part of the bMRI Symposium on Motivation: The Emergence of Neuroeducation in Seoul, South Korea.

Seth Parsons, Stephanie Dodman, and Sarah Burrowbridge published the article, “Broadening the View of Differentiated Instruction,” in the September issue of Phi Delta Kappan, 95(1), 38–42. Parsons co-authored an article with Melony Allen and Catherine Matthews of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The article, titled “A Second-Grade Teacher’s Adaptive Teaching During an Integrated Science-Literacy Unit,” was published in Teaching and Teacher Education, 35, 114–125.

Colleen Vesely, with doctoral students Marriam Ewaida and Katina Kearney, published “Capitalizing on Early Childhood Education: Low-Income Immigrant Mothers’ Use of Early Childhood Education to Build Human, Social, and Navigational Capital” in Early Education & Development, 24, 744–765. Vesely participated as one of 10 researchers invited from across the United States in a working meeting on July 29 sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The purpose of the meeting was to facilitate the development and refinement of a national research agenda related to child care subsidies and child care decision making.

Shahron Williams van Rooij co-edited a book, “Cases on Educational Technology Planning, Design, and Implementation: A Project Management Perspective,” with University of Alabama colleague Angela D. Benson and University of Missouri colleague Joi L. Moore that has been published by IGI Global.

College of Health and Human Services

Lisa Eckenwiler received a grant from le Fondation Brocher, based in Geneva, to organize and host a workshop, Counterterrorism, Ethics, and Global Health, in spring 2014. Participants will include representatives from the U.S. military and national security agencies, international humanitarian health organizations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, along with moral and political philosophers working in bioethics and global health ethics.

Lynn Gerber is the 2013 Walter J. Zeiter lecturer for the 45th Walter J. Zeiter Lecture and Awards Ceremony on Saturday, October 5, at the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s annual assembly at National Harbor, Maryland.

Randall Keyser presented a lecture titled “Clinical Measures and Exercise Intervention for Fatigue” at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Nursing Research, Fatigue and Sleep Methodologies Boot Camp on July 23, which was held at NIH.

Holly Matto, along with M. G. Vaughn and M. DeLisi, wrote a book titled “Human Behavior: A Cell to Society Approach” (Wiley 2014).

Ali Weinstein, Lisa Chin and Randall Keyser along with M. Kennedy, S. D. Nathan, J. G. Woolstenhulme, G. Connors and L. Chan wrote “Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training on Fatigue and Physical Activity in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension” in May 2013 issue of Respiratory Medicine. Weinstein, Chin and Keyser also wrote, with Kennedy, Nathan, Woolstenhulme, Connors, Chan, N. A. Weir, B. Drinkard and J. Lamberti, “Benefits of Intensive Treadmill Exercise Training on Cardiorespiratory Function and Quality of Life in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension” in February 2013 issue of CHEST.

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Alan J. Abramson, Public and International Affairs, has been elected president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). ARNOVA, founded in 1971, connects scholars, teachers and practice leaders interested in research on nonprofit organizations, voluntary action, philanthropy and civil society around the world.

Meg Brindle, Public and International Affairs, trained 400 northern Ugandan and South Sudanese women in the creation of an intellectual property-based cooperative in Gulu and Pader, Uganda. She designed IP curriculum being implemented by the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania.

Jaime Lester, Higher Education Program, Jeannie Brown Leonard, Provost’s Office, and David Mathias, a doctoral student in the Higher Education Program, wrote “Transfer Student Engagement: Blurring of Social and Academic Engagement” in Community College Review, 41(3), 202-222.

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media received an Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History for the K-12 history education website, Teachinghistory.org.

Linda J. Seligmann, Sociology and Anthropology, has published the book “Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation” (Stanford University Press).

Frank Shafroth, Public and International Affairs, interviewed outgoing Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell for the magazine Tax Analysts. Shafroth received the Bernard P. Friel medal for distinguished service in the field of public finance from the National Association of Bond Lawyers at the NABL’s 38th annual national workshop in Chicago on September 25.

Andrew Wingfield, New Century College, and Dann Sklarew, Environmental Science and Policy, presented their Office for Student Scholarship, Creative Activities and Research (OSCAR)-supported work on cultivating sustainability studies scholars at the 2013 conference of the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education in Nashville, Tennessee.

College of Science

Kirk Borne, School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences, gave an invited talk in September on “Human-Machine Collaboration in Information Extraction for Data-to-Decisions” at the Big Data Retreat sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. He was also a guest speaker on “Best Practices in Data Mining” during the live online DM-Radio broadcast sponsored by Information Management News, and he was guest presenter at the WashingtonExec Big Data Council dinner meeting in September.

Brian D. Engler, School of Physics, Astronomy and Computational Sciences, was elected Board Chair of the Fairfax Library Foundation, a private nonprofit corporation that exists to raise supplementary funds in support of the Fairfax County Public Library system.

Dann Sklarew, Environmental Science and Policy, served this year as Potomac River Goodwill Ambassador to the Potomac’s “sister river,” Tokyo’s Arakawa. He shared knowledge of the Potomac’s watershed and its ecological challenges, stewardship and sustainable development through invited presentations at an international “green infrastructure” workshop, a Kanto Plain rivers workshop, and seminars at Hosei University and Tokyo University of Agriculture. He has since also briefed the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin regarding management lessons from its Arakawa counterparts. He was lead author for Fairfax County’s first Community Greenhouse Gas Inventory report, covering the period 2006 to 2010 for transportation, residential, commercial and local government sectors. He led “Water Management and Sustainability,” the first workshop for undergraduate fellows from eight nations with universities participating in the Global Problem Solving Consortium, including Mason. With Cindy Smith and R. Christian Jones of Mason’s Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center, he completed a successful four-year, NOAA-supported watershed stewardship education project that brought “Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences” to more than 16,000 Prince William County secondary school students. Dozens of Mason students and alumni also served as field interpreters for this project.
Multidisciplinary

Erin McSherry, Global Affairs, Wayne Adams, School of Art, and Liz Kalinowski, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, co-presented “Building an Academic Advisor Network: A Grassroots Approach” at the NACADA Virginia Drive-In Conference in Fairfax, Virginia.

Jill Nelson, Electrical Engineering, Margret Hjalmarson, College of Education and Human Development, and Cody Edwards, Provost’s Office, have received funding from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $572,190 for their project “Designing Teaching: Scaling up the SIMPLE Design Framework for Interactive Teaching Development.”

Nathalia Peixoto, Bioengineering, Daniel Anderson, Mathematical Sciences, and John Cressman, Krasnow Institute, received $360,000 from the National Science Foundation for their project “Identification and Control for Pattern Steering in Dynamical Networks.”

Amarda Shehu, Computer Science, and Nadine Kabbani, Krasnow Institute, received $22,000 from the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth for their project “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Menthol Cigarette Addiction.”

Robinson Professors

Shaul Bakhash, Robinson Professor of History, published “Iran at the UN: from Khomenei to Rouhani,” in the September19 issue of Foreign Policy (re-circulated on the Al-Monitor magazine web site).

Spencer R. Crew, Robinson Professor of American, African American, and Public History, presented at the Brown University Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Symposium: “The Slave: Freedom on My Mind/Knowledge/Memory and the Arts of the Enslaved.” The title of his paper was “Demanding Freedom: Preserving the History of African American ‘Contrabands’ during the Civil War.” Crew spoke on the historical background of the March on Washington and then moderated the panel at the Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center’s panel discussion titled “Voices from the Frontlines.” He presented “The Issue of Provenance and Mining the Museum” at the American Association of Museums Conference Session. The event was titled “What We Talk About When We Talk About Race: Mining the Museum After 20 Years.” He spoke on a program about the movie “The Butler” at the Newseum with the author of the book, the son of the real “butler,” a Freedom rider from that period, the producer of the film, one of the directors and two additional guests. The program was co-sponsored by the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Hugh Heclo, Robinson Professor of Public Affairs, had his book “On Thinking Institutionally” adopted as a core text by the Council of Independent Colleges in its educational program for college presidents.

Harold Morowitz, Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy, wrote the forward to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s annual research magazine, Teknos, titled “Smashing Paradigms.” He wrote an article in Astrobiology magazine on NASA’s first theoretical biology meeting, which took place the weekend of President Kennedy’s assassination.

John Paden, Robinson Professor of International Studies, presented “Countering Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria: Development Options,” at a USAID conference in Washington, D.C., on “Development in Nigeria.”

School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution

Leslie Dwyer received a $276,678 grant from the U.S. Department of State for a Youth Leadership Program that will bring Indonesian youth to Mason and U.S. youth to Indonesia to practice leadership skills in peace-building and inter-religious dialogue.

School of Management

Long Chen, Accounting, presented the paper titled “Mandatory IFRS Adoption, Accounting Proximity, and International Cross-Listings” at the 2013 DC Area Accounting Symposium in Fairfax, Virginia.

Min Chen, Information Systems and Operations Management, presented the paper titled “An Analysis of Click Fraud Auditing in Pay-Per-Click Advertising” at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix. Chen also presented the paper titled “The Effect of Fraud Investigation Cost on Pay-Per-Click Advertising” at the annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) in Berlin, Germany. The paper was published in the conference proceedings.

Sidhartha Das, Information Systems and Operations Management, Maheshkumar Joshi, Management, and Nacef Mouri, Marketing, published a presentation titled “Technology Orientation and Product Innovativeness in Technology Services Firms” in the proceedings from the American Marketing Association (AMA) Marketing Educators’ Conference. The paper won “Best Paper Award” at the conference. Das, Joshi and Mouri also had the presentation titled “Proactiveness and Innovativeness in Service Firms: Too Much of a Good Thing?” published in the proceedings from the AMA Summer Marketing Educators’ Conference.

Robert Grosse, Management, published an article titled “Learning Through Imports in the Internationalization Process” in the Journal of International Management.

Derek Horstmeyer, Finance, presented the paper titled “When Do Governance Mechanisms Matter Most?” at the Finance Research Association in Las Vegas.

Jim Hsieh, Steve Christophe, and Mike Ferri, Finance, presented the paper titled “Why Investors Want to Know the Size of Your Shorts” at the European Finance Association annual meeting in Cambridge, England.

Keith Jones, Accounting, received a teaching award from Beta Alpha Psi.

Karen Kitching, Accounting, received a service award from George Mason School of Management to recognize outstanding service to the school, to the profession and to the discipline.

Richard Klimoski and Yan Ling, Management, presented the papers, “Profiting from Empowerment at the Top: The Role of CEO-TMT Members Dissimilarity” and “Using Large-Scale Archival Data Sets for Human Resource Management Research” at the Academy of Management annual conference in Boston.

Richard Larsen, Accounting, published presentations titled “Distance Learning” and “Managing Knowledge in the Issue Practice Groups and International Practice Networks” in the proceedings from the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council. Larsen also was the first to receive the MSA Outstanding Faculty Award from George Mason’s School of Management.

Ning Li, Marketing, presented the paper titled “Consumers’ Alliance Encounter Satisfaction, Attributions, and Behavioral Intentions Toward Partners” at the AMA Winter Educator’s Conference in Las Vegas.

Ling Lisic, Accounting, presented the paper titled “Accounting Fraud, Auditing and the Role of Government Sanctions in China” at the Mason/JBR Competing in China: Local Firms, Multinationals, and Alliances Conference in Fairfax, Virginia.

Anant Mishra and Cheryl Druehl, Information Systems and Operations Management, presented the paper titled “Incentives and Competition in Unblind Innovation Contests” at the POMS Annual Conference in Denver.