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Activities and
Achievements.... October 6, 1997
Appointments
Gim Seow, Accounting, will spend a year with the Financial Accounting
Standards Board (FASB) as a faculty fellow.
Articles
Robert Gilmour, Political
Science, and Holly Sellers, Ph.D. student, Political Science, "Legal
Authorities and Administrative Actions," in Handbook of Public
Law and Administration, Phillip J. Cooper and Chester A. Newland
eds. (Jossey-Bass 1997).
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Activities and Achievements is a
new section, replacing Campus
Chronicles. In order to increase the number and range of faculty,
staff, and graduate student accomplishments we are able to publish,
the Advance invites you to submit your own entries.
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are available from the Advance. Entries typed according to these
guidelines are welcome and will be published as space permits
and in the order in which they are received. E-mail submissions
are encouraged and can be sent to:
advance@uconn.edu.
Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu, editor, compiles this section and questions
may bedirected to her at (860) 486-3530.
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Fred Ogden, Civil and Environmental
Engineering, and Bahram Saghafian, "Green and Ampt Infiltration
with Redistribution," American Society of Engineers Journal of
Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Vol. 123, No. 5 (Sept./Oct.
1997), pp. 386-93.
John Walko, Ph.D. student, Political Science,
"Isolationism: How would we know if we saw it? Reopening the
case of the 1930s" The Public Perspective, (Aug./September 1997).
Books
Evvie
Becker, Psychology, and Annette Rickel, Keeping Children From
Harm's Way: How National Policy Affects Psychological Development
(American Psychological Association, 1997).
Nitis Mukhopadhyay,
Statistics, M. Ghosh, and P.K. Sen, Sequential Estimation (John
Wiley Inc., New York, 1997).
Grants
Mark Boyer, Political Science,
$20,000 from the Summer University Board of Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary, to create a unit "Teaching Negotiation across
the Internet," to be offered during the 1998 program.
Roger Buckley,
History and Institute for Asian American Studies, $5,000 from
the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, for "Executive Order
9066: Lessons of the Journey East."
Presentations
Carmen Cirincione, Political
Science, Thomas Darling, and Timothy O'Rourke presented "Does the
Supreme Court Have It Right? Toward a Quantitative Standard for
Evaluating Congressional Redistricting Plans After Shaw v. Hunt
and Bush v. Vera," at the American Political Science Association
conference, in Washington, DC, in September.
Professional Socities
Dipak K. Dey, Statistics,
has been named a fellow of the American Statistical Association
for outstanding contributions to research in statistical decision
theory, reliability, and Bayesian topics, and for excellence
in teaching and service to the profession.
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