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June 2004Raymond Akwule Akwule is an expert on Internet connectivity and global infrastructure in Africa and trends in African telecommunications, broadcasting, and computer industries. He is a member of United Nations Economic Commission for the African Technical Advisory Committee and a policy and technical advisor to the UN Development Program for Internet and Information Technology projects in Africa. He is founder of AFCOM, an organization that provides telecommunications policy, Internet Service Provider consulting, and promotes technology transfer between Africa and the world. Kenneth Alibek He served as first deputy chief of defense of the civilian branch of the Soviet Union’s offensive biological weapons program. At GMU, he oversees the development of new projects in the field of medical defense against biological weapons, immunotherapy, and immunoprophylaxis of infections and cancer. David Armor The conditions a child faces at home during early childhood play a greater role in his/her future academic success than do the conditions a child faces at school, says Armor, an expert on academic achievement who is currently studying the effects of family versus schools on academic achievement. Shaul Bakhash He is an expert on the history and politics of modern Iran. His most recent book was “Reigns of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution.” His current research interests are the debates taking place in Iran and the Islamic world on the compatibility of Islam with concepts of civil society, individual rights, religious tolerance, women’s rights, and popular sovereignty. He is frequently interviewed on radio and television on current Iranian politics and foreign relations. Richard Bausch Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Most recent works include “Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, And All The Ships at Sea,” published by Harper Collings, and “In the Night Season.” Stories appear in the “Pushcart Prize Stories". One of his short stories was made into a full-length feature film. Michael M. Behrmann His research is in assistive technology that enables individuals with disabilities to function in the world of school, work, home and community. It includes such applications as web access, computer based instructional materials, expert systems, virtual reality, and innovations in personnel development. In his more than 24 years at GMU, he has obtained over $15 million in grants, contracts and gifts for training, technical assistance and research. Fred Bemak He is an internationally-recognized scholar specializing in counseling research and practice related to linguistically and culturally diverse populations. He has written and presented extensively on refugee counseling and mental health issues in schools, communities and cross-cultural settings. His most recent books focus on refugee counseling, violent and aggressive youth, empathetic therapy, and multicultural counseling. Peter Berkowitz He is a contributing editor to The New Republic and writes on morals, politics and law for publications in the U.S. and abroad. Books he has authored include Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (winner of the 1995 Thomas J. Wilson Prize) and Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism. Also, he serves as senior consultant to the President’s Council on Bioethics and is a founding co-director of the Jerusalem Program on Constitutional Government. David E. Bernstein He is one of the most widely cited legal scholars of his generation. He is the author of over 70 scholarly articles, book chapters, and think tank studies, and is author of You Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws. Estela Blaisten-Barojas She maintains a strong interest in theoretical and simulation studies of nanostructured materials and clusters. Further, she is active in refereed publications in leading physical journals, presenting her works at conferences in funded research and in service to the research communities in the American Physical Society. Deborah Boehm-Davis She leads a team of researchers at George Mason supported by the Air Force and other organizations which has made major contributions to understanding the interaction of human cognitive capabilities with the design of major military systems, including high-performance aircraft. Her work also addresses issues here on the ground, including the effect of cognitive load on drivers of passenger autos and commercial trucks. Russell Brayley He is an internationally-recognized scholar in the area of tourism and sacred sites and Past President of the Resort and Commercial Recreation Association. In addition to dozens of articles in scholarly and professional journals, he has co-authored three popular textbooks in the recreation and tourism fields. Michael Bronzini He conducts research on transportation systems, planning and designing systems to make transportation work for everyone from commuters to shippers. Prior to coming to George Mason, he served as director of the Center for Transportation Analysis at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. James M. Buchanan His pathbreaking work with Gordon Tullock contributed immensely to the emerging field of public choice economics, which has provided a host of new insights into the motivations and causes of political and bureaucratic behavior in a wide range of institutions. His current work seeks to understand how different sets of constitutional principles influence the course of political and social development of nations. James R. Carroll His career has included performances at Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, The White House, Yokohama Stadium, The Kennedy Center, Royal Albert Hall and the Apollo Theatre. Among the performers with whom he has worked are Michael Jackson, Nancy Wilson, Billy Taylor and Zoot Sims. Alan Cheuse He is the author of three novels, two collections of short fiction, and the memoir Fall Out of Heaven. As a book commentator, his is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and serves as the host and co-producer of NPR’s syndicated fiction short story magazine, “The Sound of Writing.” His most recent book is an essay collection titled Listening to the Page, Adventures in Reading and Writing. Y. Timothy J. Conlan His research explores federalism, legislative politics, and public policy. His 1998 book, New Federalism: Intergovernmental Reform from Nixon to Reagan, was named the best of its kind published in the past ten years. In 2002, he received the Daniel J. Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award for scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations from the Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, American Political Science Association. Catherine Cramton Her current research focuses on contemporary issues of leadership and collaboration, particularly as experienced in the information technology and professional services industries. She studies distributed work, inter-organizational collaboration, cross-cultural collaboration, project team leadership, and the impact of technology on collaboration. Her research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Bechtel Foundation. Stephen E. Christophe His research focuses on the valuation characteristics of U.S. multinational corporations, and the valuation and performance of initial public offerings. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Business, Journal of Investing, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and Proceedings of the CRSP Seminar at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Management. Claudio Cioffi-Revilla He leads the university’s new interdisciplinary field dedicated to the investigation of complex social processes and systems using computer simulations and other scientific information technologies. He is an expert on quantitative and long-term analysis of warfare and international conflict, as well as the origins of government and evolution of civilizations. His book, On Politics and Uncertainty, pioneered the application of finite event analysis to historical and complex societal processes. Rita Chi-Ying Chung She is an internationally prominent scholar specializing in counseling research and practice related to linguistically and culturally diverse populations. She has written and presented extensively on refugee counseling and mental health issues in schools, communities, and cross-cultural settings. Her recent books focus on refugee counseling, violent and aggressive youth, empathetic therapy, and multicultural counseling. Timothy J. Conlan His research and writing is in the areas of federalism, legislative politics, and public policy. A most recent book is, “From New Federalisim to Devolution: Twenty-five Years of Intergovernmental Reform” (Brookings Institution Press, 1998.) An earlier book, “New Federalism: Intergovernmental Reform from Nixon to Reagan)” (Brookings, 1998), was awarded the 1998 prize for “………the best book in Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations” by the American Political Science Association. Paul D’Andrea As a scholar/playwright, he began his career as a physics major at Harvard. University. Prize-winning plays include “The Trouble with Europe,” “The Einstein Project” and “The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay.” Helped to found Theatre of the First Amendment at George Mason. Rick Davis He has directed widely in the professional and academic theater and is an active translator and essayist. He has translated several plays by the Spanish Golden Age author Celderon de la Barca. His book, Writing About Theatre, is the only college textbook specifically addressing the subject. Under his leadership, George Mason’s Theater of the First Amendment has been honored with 11 Helen Hayes Awards and 35 nominations, and has originated work that has gone on to subsequent productions across the country, as well as resulting in several publications, recordings and radio and television broadcasts. Joanmarie Davoli An expert on mental illness and the law, she spent 11 years as a criminal defense attorney and served as a staff attorney with the South Carolina Death Penalty Resource Center and as an assistant public defender. She has represented clients on charges ranging from minor misdemeanors to capital murder. Her successful use of psychiatric evidence in defending her clients includes the life sentence she procured for her client in Commonwealth of Virginia v. Muwwakkil, which is the only life sentence ever returned by a Fairfax County jury when the Commonwealth was seeking the death penalty. Suzanne A. Denham Author of major book entitled “Emotional Development in Young Children.” Studies roles of teachers, parents, and early intervention programs in pre-schoolers’ social and emotional development. Ken De Jong His research interests include evolutionary computation, adaptive systems and machine learning. An active member of the Evolutionary Computation research community, he belongs to the executive council of the Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms and is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Evolutionary Computation. Edward Douthett His research focuses on the economics of accounting and auditing in both U.S. and international security markets. He has written articles that have appeared in refereed journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research, The International Journal of Accounting, Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, and Advances in International Accounting. A Certified Public Accountant, he has also worked at Exxon Corporation in various overseeing financial analysis and reporting for operating units in oil and gas production and chemical manufacturing. Daniel Druckman He has published widely on such topics as negotiating behavior, nationalism and group identity, group processes, peacekeeping, political stability, nonverbal communication, and methodology. Among the honors he has received are the Otto Klineberg Award for Intercultural and International Relations, a Teaching Excellence Award from George Mason University, and the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Conflict Management. Amitava Dutta His research interests include telecommunications and electronic commerce, systems thinking/business simulation, and decision support systems. He serves on the editorial boards of several information technology journals, and frequently serves on the program committees of national conferences in Information Technology management. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and AT&T, and he is a member of IEEE, ACM and INFORMS. Penelope Earley Ellen Fagenson-Eland She has presented over 60 papers in academic journals, books and at national conferences, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Management Development. Her research and consulting are n the areas of organization development and change, mentoring, women in management and career success. She has served as a reviewer for approximately two dozen journals and is currently serving on the Editorial Review Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, the International Review of Women and Leadership, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Michael Ferri He has served as the Vice President for Economic Research and Deputy Chief Economist of the Nasdaq Stock Market as well as Senior Research Scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and as a Vice President of the Financial Management Association International. Additionally, he has served as a consultant and as an expert witness inlitigation and arbitration. Sheila fFolliott Her work is centered on the relationship between art and gender in the Renaissance, specifically on how the visual arts can inform us about women’s lives/women’s experience. She has concentrated on the power imagery relating to queenship, specifically that of Catherine de’ Medici when she was queen-regent of France in the mid-16th century. She is also working on a long-term project to produce a visual database on Renaissance women’s lives that will have applications for undergraduate teaching in history, literature, and art history. Carolyn L. Forche-Mattison She has published three award-winning volumes of poetry, “Gathering The Tribes,” (Yale University Press, 1976), “The Country Between Us,” (HarperCollins, 1982), and “The Angel if History,” (HarperCollins, 1994). She has also edited a major international anthology, “Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness,” (W.W. Norton & Co., 1993). She has translated poetry from French and Spanish, and her ownworks have been translated into thirteen languages. Stephen Fuller He is perhaps the most widely quoted academician by the Washington D.C. media due to his recognized expertise and work in economic forecasting. His research centers around the changing economic structure of the Washington metropolitan area and has led to the development of a series of indicators that track the current and near-term performance of the area’s new economy. Among the professional associations to which he belongs are the National Association of Business Economists, Virginia Association of Economists, and the Governor’s Advisory Board of Economists. Barbara Given She is an expert on the application of brain research to education as well as on learning disabilities, learning, working styles and learning strategies. Hassan Gomaa He is an internationally-recognized expert on software design and software reuse. The design methods head developed has been widely used in industry, and his book Software Design Methods for Concurrent and Real-Time Systems, is highly regarded. His current research focuses on methods and tools for the evolutionary design of software product lines. Jeffrey Gorrell He has 25 years experience as a professor and has conducted research in the fields of school reform, cognitive modeling, and teacher efficacy and professional development. John Grefenstette He is an internationally-recognized leader in the field of machine learning and genetic algorithms, focusing now applications in bioinformatics and computational biology. He recently organized a series of international conferences on evolutionary computation, and has edited three books on this topic. Lloyd J. Griffiths Prior to coming George Mason in 1997, he was part of the administration and faculty of the University of Colorado for 19 years. Among the positions in which he worked were assistant professor of electrical engineering, full professor of electrical engineering, associate dean for research and administration within the college of engineering and applied science, and chair of the electrical and computer engineering department. Thomas Gulledge He manages the Fairfax Electronic Commerce Resource Center funded by the U.S. Department of Defense to enable defense suppliers and other small firms to make effective use of electronic commerce opportunities. He is an expert in the areas of enterprise engineering, electronic commerce, engineering management, and extended enterprise integration. Gerald Hanweck He recently completed a year-long term as Visiting Scholar in the Division of Insurance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation where he concentrated on the use of market information in bank risk management strategies. His research interests are in financial institutions and markets performance, financial markets and their relations to public policy, economic stabilization and monetary policy, and economics of scale and scope and mergers in the financial service industries. Kingsley E. Haynes He is the author of more than 200 articles and professional reports published in such journals as Geographical Review and the Journal of Regional Sciences. He has also presented more than 100 invited conference papers and lectures in science and planning. Prior to coming to George Mason, he served as chair of the geography department at Boston University and directed two research centers: the Center for Remote Sensing and the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Robert Hazen A staff scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C., he has studied numerous materials from moon rocks to high temperature superconductors. His interests include scientific research in the properties of minerals and the origin of life, the history of science, and science writing for general audiences. Hugh Heclo Recognized as expert on government and social policies of western Europe and the U.S. Received awards for books, including “Comparative Public Policy” and “Modern Social Policies in Britain and Sweden". Kenneth Heller His teaching and research interests are in federal and state taxation. He has also examined federal tax policy and compliance issues related to joint ventures, business and tax issues related to the formation, financing and operations of joint ventures in the Northern Virginia business community, and management issues related to professional accounting firms. He is a licensed CPA in Virginia. Jenefir Isbister She has received two patents on rapid field tests for total microbes and total coliforms/E. coli in water and foods as part of an effort to facilitate real time testing for microbes of public health consequences. These three products are now commercially available. She also does research on nutrient cycling in the estuaries of the Chesapeake Bay, screening of biological metabolites for antibacterial activities, and evaluation of natural antifreezes. Pending research activities with a small drug firm will investigate the effects of timed release of drugs, kinetics of decreasing drug concentrations, and the overall effectiveness of the drugs on pathogens and their drug resistant derivatives. Sushil Jajodia He directs one of the four top-ranked academic centers of excellence in the U.S. devoted to teaching, training, and research in making modern communication systems more secure. His work mixes both advanced technical concepts and design of human systems to minimize the risk of inadvertent or hostile compromises of computer security. Boris Jukic He has worked with SEMATECH and Texas Department of Transportation as a consultant and a developer of planning and manufacturing systems. His research interests include application of economic theory in computer network resource management and application of new data bases technologies in Electronic Commerce. Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce and IEEE Internet Computing, and Journal of Computational Economics are among the publications where his research has been published. Menas Kafatos His fields of research include remote sensing/Earth observing and data information systems, coupling of vegetation to climate phenomena, theoretical and computational astrophysics, general relativity and cosmology, foundations of quantum theory and brain dynamics, and consciousness and quantum theory. He has received more than 40 grants and is in charge of several cooperative agreements with NASA, Goddard the Naval Research Laboratory, and other large projects totaling in excess of $5 million per year. His works have been cited more than 1,700 times in professional journals and books. He is the author of more more 175 articles and has written or edited 11 books. Kafatos is an honorary member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences and member of numerous advisory boards and panels. Jerome B. Kernan His teaching and research focus on consumer behavior. A founding member of the Association for Consumer Research, he has consulted with a variety of consumer-goods manufacturers and media companies in the private sector and with several government agencies and not-for-profit organizations in the public sector. Richard Klimoski He has worked with a wide variety of organizations dealing with such issues as human resource management systems, job-related stress, and quality of work life. His teaching and research interests revolve around the areas of organizational control systems in the form of performance appraisal and performance feedback programs and team performance Alexander H. Levis A fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and past president of the IEEE Control Systems Society, he is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research interests for the past 15 years include architectures for command and control, organization theory and design, human decision making, and distributed intelligence systems. Rainald Lohner Uses supercomputers to model and simulate complex natural and man-made phenomena. He simulated the World Trade Center bombing and explosions at American Embassy in Nairobi and the Challenger Space Shuttle. His simulations of the flow of blood through arterial junctions have helped surgeons improve the way they join arteries together in heart by-pass surgery. Recently, his team conducted the largest single computer simulation ever completed. Peggy J. Maddox Peter Mandaville He is an expert on Islamic political thought, Islamic fundamentalism, U.S. policy in the Middle East and U.S. counterterrorism efforts, and is the author of “Transnational Muslim Politics” (2001), a study of the global linkages between Muslim movements. He lives and conducted research in the Middle East for more than 20 years, mostly in Saudi Arabia, and held personal interviews with Saudi dissidents formerly associated wit Osama bin Laden. Scott Martin His research includes broad bandwidth 3D multipoint content interface design, 3D CBT modules, multimedia information design enhancements for network systems, and intuitive/smart search engine development. He directs the undergraduate and graduate fine arts program. Margo Mastropieri She conducts research on how students with special needs learn subject matter. Her studies have investigated what conditions must be necessary in special education to engage in learning and achieving. Few researchers in the country concentrate on the mix of special education and content learning. Carol Mattusch One of the world’s leading experts on Greek bronzes. Her book “Greek Bronze Statuary” has presented a completely new way of looking at Greek sculpture, which has revolutionized the field. Kevin McCrohan He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the School of Management, Kathmandu University, Nepal and a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Trinity College. He has also served as a chief economist at the Internal Revenue Service. His recent research is on the use of competitive information operations by organizations, barriers to electronic commerce, and the marketing and public policy implications of informal and gray markets. Laurie Meamber Her research focuses primarily on art and aesthetics, including how the arts and aesthetic-related marketing activities operate as a means of cultural production of consumers, artists, and cultural intermediaries. A member of the editorial review board of Consumption and Market & Culture, her secondary interests encompass topics related to sociological, technological and cultural aspects of daily life that impact marketing and consumption practices. Daniel Menasce’ Co-Director of the E-Center for E-Business, he was elected an ACM Fellow in 1997. Also, the Computer Measurement Group selected him as the recipient of the 2001 A.A. Michelson Award for “outstanding contributions to computer metrics.” Ryszard S. Michalski He is a founder of the field of machine learning, an initiator of several research directions in that field, and author/co-author of over 350 research publications and 13 books. Patricia A. Miller She is a world class opera performer and nationally recognized artist-teacher, giving master classes and lecture performances at leading conservatories and universities in the U.S. and abroad. Performances with the Orchestre National de Lyon, France; International Schubert Institute, Concertasall, Baden-bei-Wien, Austria; Harvard University and National Opera Association; National Cathedral; The Sorbonne, Paris, France; and Opera Festival di Roma, among others. Christopher Mitchell His research continues to revolve around the practical and theoretical aspects of peace making processes. His most recent works include The Structure of International Conflict, Peacemaking and the Consultants’ Role, New Approaches to International Mediation, Gestures of Conciliation, and A Handbook of Conflict Resolution. Harold J. Morowitz Taught at Yale where he served as Master of Pierson College. Writes extensively on popular topics in science, including the abortion debate and the origins of life. Study of origins with Robinson college Robert Hazen, funded by Carnegie Foundation and National Science Foundation. Founding director of GMU’s Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and editor-in-chief of the journal Complexity. Author of “The Origins of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis.” Jack A. Naglieri He is an internationally known scholar in the field of intelligence. His approach to intelligence has been shown to be more fair to minority children, help identify children with attention deficits and learning disabilities, and help teachers provide more effective instruction. He is ranked among the top five most influential school psychologists. Vernon Ning Hsu His research interests include quantitative models and their applications in Operations/Production Management and Information Systems. His publications have appeared in journals ranging from Management Science and Operations Research to Manufacturing and Service Operations Management to Transportation Science. Currently, his is researching analysis and design of logistics systems and dynamic inventory models. Sarah Nutter Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University, she worked as an economist at the Internal Revenue Service. Her research interests include investigating the impact of changing decision rules on individual and business behavior. It focuses primarily on the impact of taxes and tax structures on individuals and businesses. James Olds He is a neuroscientist and the author of two U.S. patents for medical imaging devices. Also, he is an expert on the neurobiology of love and romance, and neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and ALS. John Paden A distinguished Africanist, he has spent much of his career studying and teaching comparative government, international development, and urban studies. His publications range from a highly acclaimed interdisciplinary textbook series on African studies to a prize-winning study of Nigerian political culture. John Peterson A columnist for Governing magazine and member of the editorial boardsof Public Budgeting and Finance, Municipal Finance Journal, Public Works Management, and MuniNet, his areas of expertise include government finance, financial systems, public finance, international finance, taxation, bonds, and municipal securities. He is also a member of the City of Fairfax’s Economic Development Authority. James Pfiffner He is an internationally known scholar of the U.S. presidency. His eight books on the presidency include, “The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running,” now in its second edition. He recent won the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Scholarship at GMU. National security, the Presidency, public management, Presidential-congressional relations, and Congress are among his areas of expertise. Priscilla M. Regan Her principal research interest is in privacy, technology, and the Internet, as reflected in her 1995 book, “Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values and Public Policy.” She is also pursuing research in “digital government” with Prof. Julianne Mahler. Roy A. Rosenzweig He is the recipient of the 1999 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. His book, “The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life,” (Columbia University Press) was recently awarded the Historic Preservation Book Prize for Best of Book of 1998. He is a leader in the teaching of history through electronic media. Ronald Rotunda He is the author of a leading course book on constitutional law, co-author of the most widely used course book on legal ethics, author of a Treatise on Legal Ethics, co-author of a five volume Treatise on Constitutional Law, and author of many other books and articles that have been published in the U.S. and Europe. Richard Rubenstein At GMU’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, he is an expert on political and religious violence, as well as terrorism, US military interventionm and the New World Order. His most recent book, “Aristotle’s Children,” addresses the resolution of the conflict between faith and reason in the 13th century church. Another recent book is “When Jesus Became God,” about the violent struggle over Christ’s divinity in the early Church. It was made a featured selection by the Book of the Month Club and the Catholic Book Club. He also teaches a course on religious conflict on GMU-TV. Catherine Rudder Her areas of expertise range from American national government to the U.S. Congress to congressional-presidential relations. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason, she was executive director of the American Political Science Association. She was the first woman to serve in this position since the organization’s start in 1903. She was also one of two scholars in the country commissioned to write and present a paper on the Bicentennial Symposium of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives. Steve Ruth Working with several private foundations, including the Andrew P. Mellon Foundation, he has paved the way for effective Internet and advanced telecommunications access by non-profit and educational institutions in many disadvantaged nations of the world, including China, Russia, and several west African nations. He has also done pathbreaking work on assessing the costs and benefits of computer aided and remote instruction in U.S. universities, including GMU itself. Ravi Sandhu He is an authority on access control and authorization models, architectures and mechanisms for information and system security. His current research is focused on role-based access control. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the prestigious ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. Dennis Sandole Author of Capturing the Complexity of Conflict: Dealing with Violent Ethnic Conflict of the Post-Cold War Ear, he is an expert on ethnic conflicts in post-Cold War Europe. Additionally, he has been a visiting scholar with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, a NATO research fellow, and a regional research scholar for the Fulbright Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Timothy Sauer His research is directed at the interpretation of data from complex nonlinear systems of physical and biological origin. He collaborates with a wide range of scientists on such problems, including the biophysics group at the Krasnow Institute. His latest book, “Chaos: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems,” written with Kathleen Alligood of the GMU mathematical sciences department, has been widely reviewed, and has ranked #1 in sales in the Advanced Mathematics category at amazon.com for over a hear. Steven J. Schiff A neurosurgeon and scientist, he directs the Neural Dynamics Laboratory at the Krasnow Institute, which is an interdisciplinary group studying how the brain creates its patterns of behavior, and how such patterns can be controlled when they go awry, such as during epileptic seizures. The group consists of himself, Professors Gluckman and So, theoretical and experimental physicists respectively in the department of physics at GMU, post-doctoral trainees from theoretical physics and psychiatry, and PhD graduate students in neuroscience. The research is funded by over $1.5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. His research into the electrical responses of individual and groups of neurons in the nervous system of primitive organisms has made important contributions to our understanding of brain functioning in higher organisms, including human beings. Tom Scruggs He conducts research on how students with special needs learn subject matter. His studies have investigated what conditions must be necessary for students in special education to engage in learning and achieving. Few researchers in the country concentrate on the mix of special education and content learning. Frank Sesno He is the former senior vice president and Washington, D.C. bureau chief for CNN. While at CNN, he supervised the network’s largest newsgathering team and was responsible for the editorial direction of Washington coverage. He won an Emmy for coverage of the 1993 flooding in the Midwest. Colleen Shogan An expert on the American presidency and presidents’ use of moral rhetoric in their public addresses, she is studying George W. Bush’s approach to leadership, focusing on his anti-intellectual posturing. She notes that “A lot of academics are chomping at the bit to criticize Bush, but I believe that an evaluation of his leadership has to be more nuanced than that. He’s not really a statesman, but he does have the ability to reinvent himself and neutralize his opponents, which is a political asset.” Susan Shields She has performed internationally with a variety of dancers and dance companies, including Mikhail Barishnokov’s White Oak Dance Project , The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, Laura Dean Dancers & Musicians, and the Eliot Feld Ballet. Currently she is choreographing for professional dancers and students. Susan Richards Shreve Jagadish “J” Shukla Models the regional effects of global climate activity. He was the first to predict that the El Nino of 1997 would be among the strongest in history. He has been a leader in using the methods of global climate modeling to predict annual changes in average climate (so-called “seasonal interannual” modeling) that have proven to be of great commercial value to farmers, foresters, water resource managers, and coastal zone managers. Shukla has published nearly 150 scientific papers, edited or co-edited four books, and is a member of numerous national and international committees, and advisory boards. Vernon Smith He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work in the field of experimental economics. A member in the School of Law and the department of economics and a fellow of the university’s Mercatus Center, he heads a team of seven economists, all of whom came to George Mason in 2001 from the University of Arizona. Arun Sood His research is on image analysis, multimedia computing, database engineering, networks, parallel and distributed computing, and modeling and simulation of these systems. His research center has established links between academic institutes, medical centers, industry and government agencies, and develops key technologies to help industry build next-generation imaging and multimedia systems. Valery N. Soyfer His current research is on human genome damage inflicted by severe contamination of residents of one of the Russian villages in which huge amounts of radioactive materials were released due to the Chelyabinsk accidents. He also serves as an Executive Director and the Chairman of the Board of the International Soros Science Education Program that operates in four countries and supports more than 30 thousand scholars and scientists in basic sciences; the five year efforts of this program were praised highly by the presidents of Russian and Georgia – Boris Yeltsin and Eduard Shevardnadze. Donna R. Sterling Recognized for her work in helping to improve the teaching of science and technology in the primary and secondary schools. She also works with GMU mathematics and science faculty as they investigate research-based effective teaching and learning at the college level. Roger Stough Daniele C. Struppa Author of more than 100 mathematical publications and editor of several volumes, he has lectured widely in Europe, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. He is editor and co-founder of Lettera Matematica, an Italian journal dedicated to Historical and Methodological researches. He came to George Mason in 1994 as chair of the department of mathematical sciences. Three years later he was elevated to his current position. Michael Summers He is a planetary scientist who specializes in research on the origin and evolution of planetary atmospheres. Summers is a science co-investigator of the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto, the NASA Langley ARES mission to fly the first airplane on the another planet (Mars), and the NASA AIM mission to study high altitude clouds on Earth and their connection to climate change. He also does astrobiology research pertaining to possible subsurface life on Mars and serves on many scientific panels. June Tangney Her work focuses on moral emotions – shame, guilt and empathy. She is interested in how the capacity for moral emotions develops, as well as in the impact of moral emotions on people’s emotional adjustment and social behavior. Her research findings have substantial implications for parents’ disciplinary practices, teaching strategies in the classroom, and numerous aspects of the criminal justice system. Gheorghe Tecuci A member of the Romanian Academy and Chair of Artificial Intelligence in the Center for Strategic Leadership of the U.S Army War College, he developed some of the first multi-strategy learning, and originated or contributed to some important concepts in machine learning and knowledge acquisition. His contributions have led to the development of a new approach to building intelligent agents that is based on three types of synergism. Susan Tolchin She is a nationally-recognized scholar in the field of American government and politics and author of “The Angry American – How Voter Rage is Changing America.” Her works have been widely cited in newspapers and journals as well as in three Supreme Court decisions. In 1990, she was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a federally-chartered organization established to improve the effectiveness of government at all levels. Harry Van Trees He directs a program of research of around $3 million annually in command, control and communication topics. He also leads an active research group in the area of optimum antenna array processing. Antenna arrays are widely used in communications, radar, and sonar and will be a key part of the 3rd generation cellular systems. James Trefil Physicist and author, he writes extensively for general audiences and is known for his interest in teaching science to nonscientists. Among his books are The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy, The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, and Other Worlds: the Solar System and Beyond. Otto Wahl A leader in the battle against mental illness stigma, he works with advocacy groups, including the National Mental Health Association and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He has written several books on this topic, including Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness. Harry Wechsler His research is in the field of intelligent systems and focuses on computer vision, automatic target recognition, pattern recognition, neural networks, and video processing. He is well known for his contributions in the areas of face and hand gesture recognition. Author of Computational Vision, he has also penned over 200 scientific papers. Edward Wegman Founder of the Interface Foundation of North America, his pioneering work in the interface of computing science and statistics has earned him numerous honors, including the 1999 Outstanding Research Award in the School of Information Technology and Engineering and the 1999 Army Wilks Medal. Lenore J. Weitzman A sociologist, she also studies law and the social effects of legal rules, as well as the Holocaust. She wrote The Divorce Revolution and is coeditor of the collection Women in the Holocaust. Her current work, based on interviews with survivors, is on Jews who used false documents to survive the holocaust. David Weaver He serves as co-director of the tourism and events management program and an expert on ecotourism and the relationship between tourism and war. He has conducted research in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, south Africa, and the South Pacific, and plans to conduct research in the United States on ecotourism in the Appalachians, on walking trails, and on Civil War-related tourism. He is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Ecotourism. Roger Wilkins Past chairman of Pulitizer Prize Board. Served as Assistant Attorney General during Johnson administration. Distinguished journalist career, including Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for Watergate coverage, award shared with Woodward, Bernstein and Herblock. Frequent guest on national radio and television news shows. Highly acclaimed autobiography entitled “A Man’s Life.” Currently, chair of the board and publisher of the NAACP journal Crisis. Walter E. Williams David W. Wong His research involves spatial statistics, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze environmental and socioeconomic issues, including environmental justice and residential segregation. He is writing a book on GIS for Spatial Analysis. He has received grants/contracts from or served as a consultant for Department of Education, NASA, HUD, Census, and EPA.
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