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Awards and Honors
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Leopold May, professor emeritus of chemistry, was awarded a certificate of appreciation for significant and continuing contributions to the Chemical Society of Washington for the preparation and dissemination of the “Monthly Historical Events in Chemistry,” a listing of historical chemistry-related events published in Capital Chemist magazine. The Chemical Society of Washington is a local section of the American Chemical Society.
In a nationwide competition among universities that provide educational programs for adult learners, Metropolitan College received these three 2005 Marketing and Publications Awards from the University Continuing Education Association for its advertising campaign:
• Gold award in the Overall Marketing Campaign for Mixed Media category
• Silver award in the Single Ad (Print) category
• Bronze award in the Advertising Poster (Metrorail) category
On the Road
Andrew Abela, assistant professor of business and economics, will give the keynote address at the 2005 Microsoft International Market Intelligence Meeting, to be held May 17 in Paris. The speech will be titled “Embedding Market Intelligence into Decision-Making.” Microsoft market intelligence managers from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia will participate in the meeting. While there, Abela will run two workshops: one on prioritizing research projects and another on designing research presentations to achieve business impact.
Maria Sophia Aguirre, associate professor of economics, participated in a Feb. 26 video conference organized by the U.S. Department of State to address the needs of American women. The conference was part of a U.N. campaign designating 2005 “The Year of the Woman.” Conference participants included representatives from Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina and the United States.
Aguirre also spoke at the U.N.’s 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, held March 2 in Beijing.
Stephen Czarkowski, a graduate student of music working toward a Graduate Artist Diploma in conducting, was named conductor of the Georgia Governors Honors Program Orchestra for summer 2005. GHP is the longest running summer enrichment program for gifted high school students in the United States.
William Dinges, associate professor of theology and religious studies, gave a Feb. 19 lecture in Washington, D.C., titled “Polarizing Movements Within the Church” at the Association of Diocesan Social Action Directors’ 2005 annual symposium.
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Lisa Lynch's "Guantanamobile."
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Lisa Lynch, assistant professor of media studies, traveled through six U.S. states last summer interviewing and filming people for a documentary about those detained at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In order to make her project possible, Lynch bought and equipped a van, calling it the “Guantanamobile.” In March of this year, Lynch spent two weeks in Bremen, Germany, interviewing lawyers and family members of a German detainee at the Guantanamo Naval Base. More information on Lynch’s project can be found at www.guantanamobile.org.
Michael Noone, professor of law, presented a paper titled “Unprivileged Belligerency: The IRA” at the annual Conference of the Society for Military History, co-sponsored by The Citadel and held in Charleston, S.C.
Publications
Professor Aguirre recently published a number of articles:
• “The Family and Economic Development: Socioeconomic Relevance and Policy Design” appeared in Family and Policy (2004).
• “The Value of Water and Theories of Economic Growth” appeared in Water Crisis: Myth or Reality? (2004).
• “The Family and Economic Development” appeared in the December 2004 issue of Legatus Magazine.
• “Hindered Growth: The Ideology and Implications of Population Assistance,” co-authored with Cecilia Hadley, appeared in vol. 32 of the International Journal of Social Economics (2005).
• “Socioeconomic Implications of the Family” appeared in the February 2005 issue of Legatus Magazine.
Professor May recently published an article titled “U.S. Chemist: Colonial Period to the Gay Nineties” in Science Seminar Miniseries on March 15.
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