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Honors/Awards

Donald T. Moore, soc: served as
a judge in the entertainment cat-
egory for the CINE International
Film Competition, August.

  

Naima Prevots, performing arts, CAS,
served over the summer on the Dance
Panel of the D.C. Commission on the
Arts; on the Panel on Services to the
Field of the National Endowment for the
Arts’ Dance Division; and on the
inaugural panel of a new grant from the
Pew Charitable Trusts: National Initiative
to Preserve American Dance.

Lectures/Presentations

Philip Brenner, sts: lectured on
U.S.-Cuban relations to the Latin
American Studies Program, and
on the Cuban missile crisis to the
International Relations Program,
Syracuse University, Syracuse,
N.Y., October.

Patrick E. Kehoe, wc : gave the
keynote address, “The Digital
Revolution and Libraries,” at the
dedication of the new law library
at Catholic University, September.

Sharon Lockwood, sis: chaired
the panel “The Role of Women in
Economic Development,” annual
conference of the Western Eco-
nomic Association, Vancouver,
British Columbia, July.

Robert D. Manning, sociology,
cas: “Washington, D.C.: The
Changing Social and Economic
Landscape of the International
Capital City,” annual meeting of
the Society for the Study of Social
Problems, Los Angeles, August;
and “NartTa, Political Liberaliza-
tion, and the Uprising in Chia-
pus: The Struggle for Native
American Rights in Mexico,”
meeting of the Native American
Council, Smithsonian Institu-
tion, Washington, May.

Howard R. Reiss, physics, Cas:
presented “Interaction of Strong,
Low-Frequency Fields with
Nuclei,” as the featured speaker
at a special mini-symposium,
“Accelerated Nuclear Decay,”
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Oak Ridge, Tenn., August.

Papers Presented

Sharon Lockwood, sis: “The
State, the Market, and Interna-
tional Trade in Taiwan,” annual
International Conference on
Socio-Economics, Paris, July;

and “Taiwan’s Entry into the
World Bank and the IME,”
National Chengchi University,
Taipei, Taiwan, August.

Howard R. Reiss, physics, cas:
“Contradictions between Strong-
Field Theories,” and “Theory and
Experiment for Photoelectron
Spectra in Short-Pulse, High-
Field Ionization,’ the Conference
on High Field Interactions and
Short Wavelength Generation,

St. Malo, France, August.

Published Works

Jamin Raskin, wc_: coauthored
“Turning the Voting Rights Act on
Its Head,” Los Angeles Times,
September.

  

Emilio Viano, SPA, wrote “Religion,
Ethnic Identity and Conflict: Is Peaceful
Co-Existence Possible?” for the Journal
of Behavioral and Social Science, 1994,
no. 3.

Charles S.J. White, philosophy
and religion, CAs: coauthored
“Review of Sonic Theology,” The
Journal of Vaisnava Studies,
spring 1994.

Media Appearances/Citations
Stephen Grebe, biology, cas: fea-
tured in a Washington Post Mag-
azine article on his teaching
methods, September.

Egon Guttman, wCcL: quoted
in a Securities Industry Daily arti-
cle on updating the commercial
code, August.

Neil Kerwin, dean, spa: cited
in a Philadelphia Inquirer article
on proposed EPA legislation, Sep-
tember.

William Kincade, sis: inter-
viewed for Christian Science
Monitor radio and Voice of
America on the effectiveness of
the White House’s air defense in
light of the recent pilot suicide
run, September.

Laura Langbein, spa: cited in
the Washington Post on student-
teacher relations, September.

  

William LeoGrande, SPA, was cited in
September in a Washington Times article
on the new head of the Organization of
American States.

 

Charles McNett, anthropolo-
gy, Cas: cited in an Allure article
on eating habits, September.

Donald T. Moore, soc: inter-
viewed by Standard News Radio
Network on whether O.J. Simp-
son will be able to obtain a fair
trial, July.

Mark Plotkin, WAMU: cited in
a Vancouver Sun article on Mari-
on Barry’s mayoral race, Septem-
ber.

Nancy D. Polikoff, wc: cited
in a New York Times article on
custody battles in divorce cases,
September.

Jamin Raskin, wc : cited in a
Washington Post article on Carol
Schwartz's D.C. mayoral cam-
paign, and in a New Yorker arti-
cle on Marion Barry’s campaign,
September.

Bernard Ross, spa: cited in a
Washington Post article on D.C.
government reform, September.

Howard Schilit, Kogod: cited
in a Boston Globe article on com-
panies’ start-up problems,
August; and featured in a Busi-
nessWeek article on his financial
investigative methods, Septem-
ber.

Ronald Shaiko, spa: cited in
an Alexandria Port Gazette arti-
cle on Marshall Coleman’s inde-
pendent bid for a Virginia Senate
seat, September.

 

Rita Simon, University Professor, was
cited in September in an American Baby
article on the effects of interracial
adoption on children.

 

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