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THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2015

The Science and Engineering Hall opens, launching a new era of scientific inquiry and discovery at GW. 147234v1_WASWE_GWMagazinePrintAd_9x10.875_F.indd 1 11/7/14 10:59 AM CONTENTS GW MAGAZINE WINTER 2015 A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS

In South Sudan, Global Women’s Institute Director Mary Ellsberg (far right) met with International Rescue Committee workers to help plan a study of gender-based violence.

[Features] [Departments] 32 / Research Capital 3 / Editor’s Note The Science and Engineering Hall is set to open to a mosaic of researchers—from biologists to 4 / Postmarks aerospace engineers—seeking common ground in pursuit of uncommon solutions. / By Lauren Ingeno / 7 / GW News

/ Philanthropy Update 40 / The Portrait Maker 56 Esteemed realist painter, teacher and “incurable people-watcher” Bradley Stevens, BA ’76, MFA ’79, 60 / Alumni News gives us a view behind the brushes. / By Bill Glovin, BA ’77 /

46 / Acts of War On the sidelines of the civil strife that has long embroiled the people of South Sudan, women and girls are in the crosshairs. / By Danny Freedman, BA ’01/

50 / The Blank Canvas On the cover: In the remains of a 3,800-year-old palace, archaeologists seek clues about social, political and Photo illustration by

COURTESY ELLSBERG MARY economic life in ancient Canaan. / By Lauren Ingeno / William Atkins, John McGlasson

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Managing Editor Danny Freedman, BA ’01 Assistant editor Ruth Steinhardt Contributors Street-level windows aim GW Today staff: Keith Harriston (senior to invite onlookers into the managing editor), Brittney Dunkins, Science and Engineering Lauren Ingeno, James Irwin, Julyssa Hall’s three-story “high Lopez bay,” which will be used to test massive bridge beams, INTERN among other things. Rebecca Manikkam University photographer Jessica McConnell Burt Photo editor A ‘Fair Trade’ Comes to Life William Atkins Design It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time when I held the Science and GW Marketing & Creative Services Engineering Hall in my hands. Art Directors Dominic Abbate, BA ’09 Of course, it was maybe a foot tall and made of wood. But even then—before John McGlasson, BA ’00, MFA ’03 approval from the city, before the old parking garage came down and the cranes came up, before the fancy microscopes moved in, when it was just a model held up President of the university by glue and grand ideas—it still felt like something big. Steven Knapp Vice president for external Five years later, it finally is. In fact, the whole operation has been enormous. relations Architects and engineers labored over the delicate nature of large-scale Lorraine Voles, BA ’81 construction in the middle of a city, bounded by residence halls, a busy Associate vice president for thoroughfare and a subway stop. The building rose with the help of a crane so communications Sarah Gegenheimer Baldassaro large that another crane was needed to assemble it—and that crane was built with Executive director for the help of a third crane. Hundreds of construction workers helped give shape to editorial services the building, as did hundreds of administrators, faculty members and staff. Rachel Muir

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A Smash Hit at Lisner I enjoyed your overview of seven decades of Lisner Auditorium (“Stage Presence”) in the fall issue. One major event you overlooked, however, was when Of all the big appearances at the Hulk nearly destroyed the Lisner over the years, perhaps building, as documented in the none has been as large—or May 1972 issue (#151) of The as berserk—as the Incredible Incredible Hulk. Hulk, who showed up at the As you can see in the auditorium in a 1972 comic book. newspaper ad in the second panel of the first page, Ant-Man was scheduled to appear at Lisner. When he failed to show, Bruce Banner became angry, [Spring 2015 Issue Preview] turned into the Hulk and nearly wrecked the auditorium. I'm glad they were able to repair and restore the building. ... And the Baby Makes Three Stuart Gorenstein, BA '74 For our spring issue, we’re opening time Magazine and online. (Submissions may be Guilderland, NY capsules from the day that sons and edited for space and clarity.) daughters became mothers and fathers, and we want to hear from you. Can’t-Miss Wednesdays Tender or funny, sweet or sad, we’re asking Send us your stories at magazine@ Reading Mary Dempsey’s article GW alumni to take us inside the day that gwu.edu or go to the Contact Us page on Lisner Auditorium in the fall it all changed—in 300 words or less—and on our website, magazine.gwu.edu. issue brought back such great we’ll publish some of the responses in GW times and memories of my days

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4 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 There would be concerts on Voices: Lessons for Living at the [update] Wednesday evenings that cost $2 End of Life by Eric Lindner, and we never knew who would BBA ’81 (“Before Death, Lessons be performing. I recall seeing the for Life,” summer 2013). How Lettermen, and the place going I wish copies could be made crazy with dancing in the aisles available to every assisted living with the Four Tops. Perhaps the facility, hospital room and home best surprise of all was when the bedroom where an ill family curtain opened one Wednesday member lies, because the book evening and we were treated to is such a powerful testimony to Joe Cocker, on his “Mad Dogs hospice volunteers. and Englishmen” tour along with I had to learn about hospice some 20 musicians, including care the hard way, in dealing future greats Rita Coolidge and with my 93-year-old father who Leon Russell. suffered from dementia, heart Thanks and keep it coming! disease and myriad related When we profiledGW astrobiologist Pascale Ehrenfreund in Bernard J. Peters, BA ’68, illnesses while residing in an the spring 2014 issue (“Plenty of Space but no Room for Error”), MS ’73 acute care facility. When I excitement was budding anew for her and the other scientists Vero Beach, Fla. finally enlisted their services, working on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission. After the hospice volunteers kept reawakening Rosetta from a two-and-a-half-year, deep-space me informed and they kept hibernation last January, excitement reached a global fever It’s About Being Present, him comfortable and properly pitch in the fall as the Rosetta orbiter chased down the comet Not Presents medicated. When his last 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and, in a stunning first, landed a As a recent alumnus I am moments arrived, they facilitated probe, named Philae, on its surface. pleased to hear of the university’s long-distance calls whereby he Follow the latest from the mission at rosetta.esa.int. successful fundraising heard my voice, my goodbyes and campaign (“Making History, my declaration of love. One Experience at a Time”). I recently gave copies of [new addition] As an environmentalist I am Mr. Lindner’s book to each of overwhelmingly proud of this my dad's caregivers. What a issue’s article regarding GW’s wonderful gift he has given to us. Education Continues—on the investment in solar power Kathy Megyeri, MA ’69, MA ’82 (“Here Comes the Sun”). As Washington, D.C. Last Page of the Magazine a compassionate being I find This issue marks the start of a new feature, Institutional the inclusion of a gift-giving Knowledge, which uses content from the magazine as a guide (“A GW Gift Guide”) All Write! springboard for practical advice and how-tos from the experts hypocritical to the highest within the GW community. In this issue, our profile of esteemed We want to hear from degree. realist painter Bradley Stevens, BA ’76, MFA ’79 (Page 40) you, too. Please write to How can one tout progress offers as an occasion to get tips from professor Mary Coughlin, us through the “Contact towards sustainability then a former objects conservator at the Smithsonian’s National Us” link on our website, shamelessly endorse gluttonous Museum of American History, on how to care for paintings in a gwmagazine.com, or send personal collection. Let us know what you think. consumerism a few pages later? a letter to: Regardless of the item’s relation And of course our Artists’ Quarter mainstay is still found to alumni or their philanthropic GW Magazine toward the back of the magazine, just one page sooner. impact, our consumer society Letter to the Editor perpetuates impure motivations 2121 Eye Street, NW of materialistic “happiness” that Suite 501 rob our planet. Furthermore, Washington, DC 20052 gift-giving guides dilute Please include your name, the holiday season, placing degree/year, address, and importance on impermanent a daytime phone number. items, detracting from the lessons of altruism the season is Letters may be edited meant to imbue. for clarity and space. For more information, visit Stephan Franke, BBA ’14 smpa.gwu.edu/exec.

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GWThe taping of the Comedy NEWS Central show had students lining up hours in advance and afforded four undergrads the chance to work as production interns.

[Politics] Stephen Colbert was running through a tongue-in-cheek opening segment on Barack Obama’s executive powers when the Obama, Colbert Pack president of the United States walked onto the stage at a packed Lisner Auditorium. “I'm thrilled that you're here but I did not Lisner Auditorium expect you for another three minutes,” the host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report deadpanned. Two political icons of a generation matched wits and squared-off “You’ve been taking a lot of shots at my on national issues during a live taping of The Colbert Report at GW. WILLIAM ATKINS job,” Mr. Obama said. “I decided I’m going to

gwmagazine.com / 7 GW NEWS go ahead and take a shot at yours.” of their generation was a heavenly match. With that, Mr. Obama sat in Mr. Colbert’s They began to line up outside Lisner more chair at the Dec. 8 filming of the The Colbert than four hours before the doors opened, Report at GW and hosted a rollicking clutching coffee cups and huddling together version of the show’s popular segment against the 38-degree weather. “The Word”—renamed, in this case, “The “We just wanted to make sure we had Decree.” The segment involves messages on a the best seats possible,” said freshman Catie screen that undercut what the host is saying. Jennetta, there with classmate Erica Monical. Mr. Obama poked fun at a few hiccups The wait paid off. When ushers began throughout his term, joking that his health letting in a slow stream of people, the pair care rollout inspired Disney’s Frozen. (“Let it snagged seats in the fifth row. “It’s completely loooad,” a screen next to him read.) surreal,” Ms. Jennetta said. The two then sat for a lengthy interview Four School of Media and Public Affairs that covered the midterm elections, the seniors, though, got much closer to the economy, the Keystone XL pipeline and action: They were picked up as prodution Mr. Obama’s executive order offering interns for the taping. Over two long days, temporary legal status to millions of illegal they worked alongside more than 50 crew immigrants, among other topics. members that milled about the set tweaking For many of the cheering students in sound equipment and lighting, and hanging audience, who vied for tickets in a lottery, the diaphanous portraits of Mr. Colbert dressed Senior Molly Mus dons a Christmas pairing of the president for whom some had up as American presidents. sweater she made for the ocassion. cast their first-ever vote and a late-night icon —James Irwin and Julyssa Lopez

[campus safety] community refusing to tolerate sexual assault and violence,” says GW President Steven Knapp, who attended the campaign’s launch GW Students, Officials Add event at the White House in September, along with Student Association President Nick Gumas, Athletic Director Patrick Nero, Vice Voices to Campaign Against President for External Relations Lorraine Voles and other campus leaders. Sexual Assault Mr. Gumas says participation in “It’s On Us” is an important part of student The lines represent more than personal organizations’ ongoing efforts to combat resolutions. They are part of a community sexual assault on campus. Last year, students call to action. Dozens of GW students spearheaded the effort to update GW’s participated in videos released this fall for sexual harassment policy with no statute of “It’s On Us,” a White-House-facilitated limitations for reporting sexual assault. national campaign against sexual assault on This year, Mr. Gumas says, student campus. advocacy efforts will be focused on creating The seven videos feature students from a blueprint for “a comprehensive, universal across the university and from individual sexual assault education system” for student groups. incoming students. Studies estimate that one in five women “When we’re welcoming people to GW, is assaulted during her time in college— we also want to be saying, ‘This is one of the and that most of those women know their expectations we have of you as a member of attacker. “It’s On Us” is a grassroots-level our community,’” he says. “‘It’s On Us’ is just effort to bring those numbers down by one part of that larger conversation.” shifting the preventive focus from the —Ruth Steinhardt The people on-screen don’t all look, speak or victims to their entire community, reminding dress alike, but they all do the same thing. students to be protective of and responsible Looking steadily into the camera, they make for one another. To see GW videos from the initiative, pledges: “To not give our friends a pass.” “To “A culture change involves an entire visit youtube.com/user/gwitsonus. never blame the victim.” “To be more than a university. It’s not just about university bystander.” administrators and survivors. It’s about our SWEATER: WERNIKOFF ANNE

8 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 The new, 46,000-square- foot museum building, at 21st and G streets NW, will serve as an arts hub on campus.

[Museum] collection of more than 19,000 objects, “Unraveling Identity” will be an exploration the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana of the ways in which self and status are Collection, comprising nearly 1,000 objects communicated by more than 100 pieces of documenting the history of Washington, and clothing, fabrics and other adornments. Opening pieces owned by the university. That exhibit “will present some Major construction on the space of the greatest treasures from The concluded last summer, and the university Textile Museum’s permanent collection, Date Set got a first look at the museum during a representing more than 2,000 years of sneak peek event in June. The museum staff human history, while also emphasizing has been putting the finishing touches on the ongoing relevance of textiles in our for GW the building, conducting extensive testing daily lives,” says curator Lee Talbot. and calibration of sensitive climate control “Through intriguing objects and an active, systems to ensure objects are well protected. participatory format, the exhibition will Museum Others have been working to transport demonstrate how all of us communicate objects to the conservation and collections messages about our identity through clothing resource center, a 22,000-square-foot facility and accessories.” Complex on the university’s Virginia Science and The new museum also boasts a special Technology Campus. gallery that will showcase Albert H. The new museum will open with three Small’s trove of historic Washington maps, Museum housing world-class exhibitions: “Unraveling Identity: Our documents and rare treasures. collections of The Textile Textiles, Our Stories,” which is The Textile Mr. Small, a 2009 recipient of the Museum and Washingtoniana Museum’s largest-ever exhibition, as well as Presidential Humanities Medal, donated Collection to premiere first “The Civil War and the Making of Modern his collection to the university in 2011. The exhibitions March 21. Washington” and “Seat of Empire: Planning Albert H. Small Gallery runs alongside a Washington, 1790–1801,” two shows curated glass bridge in the museum that connects The new George Washington University from the Washingtoniana Collection. to the 160-year-old Woodhull House, Museum and The Textile Museum, a custom- The Textile Museum’s collection includes renovated to serve as exhibition space for the built structure on the corner of 21st and G some of the world’s finest examples of rugs Washingtoniana collection. streets NW, will open March 21. and textiles from the Near East, Central – Julyssa Lopez The 46,000-square-foot facility will serve Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Africa and the as an arts center on campus, displaying indigenous cultures of the Americas, some

JESSICA BURT MCCONNELL The Textile Museum’s globally recognized of which date back to 3000 B.C. The exhibit For more info, visit museum.gwu.edu.

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from left GW President Steven Knapp, Board of Trustees Chair Nelson Carbonell Jr., BS ’85, and trustee Mark R. Shenkman, MBA ’67, unveil the dedication plaque for Shenkman Hall.

[Honors] Shenkman Hall Dedicated in Honor of Alumnus, Trustee The university dedicated a Foggy Bottom Additional funding will enable the Fowler Campus residence hall in September in Career Center at the School of Business honor of a university trustee, alumnus and and GW career services to provide services parent whose financial donations provide a and resources to students, alumni, faculty major boost to university career services. and staff for strategic career planning and Mark R. Shenkman, MBA ’67, and lifelong experiential learning. his wife, Rosalind, donated $5 million in “The real intent of our family gift is to May to support the GW Career Services facilitate and help GW students launch their Enhancement Initiative and the F. David professional careers,” Mr. Shenkman said. Fowler Career Center at the School of “Given the complex and competitive world Business. In recognition, the GW Board of we live in, students today need more frequent Trustees voted to rename the Ivory Tower and formalized advice, guidance, coaching residence hall Shenkman Hall. and mentoring in their career planning. At a ceremony, held during Alumni Students should be afforded a greater Weekend, GW President Steven Knapp said opportunity to develop the required personal the dedication honored Mr. Shenkman’s skills and marketing techniques necessary to “long and distinguished association with secure a meaningful job upon graduation.” the university” and his “unwavering Mr. Shenkman, founder of Shenkman commitment” to it. Capital Management Inc., has made several A Sitting President GW created the Career Services gifts both individually and through his Mr. Shenkman also provided funding for a Enhancement Initiative in 2012 as an effort company in support of the university. In bronze statue of George Washington, which to strengthen the career culture for students, 2013, he established the Shenkman Seminar was installed in October in Kogan Plaza. The alumni and employers. The initiative Series at the Graduate School of Political “George Washington Bench” is the work of aims to empower students and alumni to Management and funded the move and sculptor Gary Lee Price of Utah, who has translate their academic and co-curricular expansion of Veterans Memorial Park to its thousands of sculptures in public and private experiences at the university into a lifetime of new location on Kogan Plaza.

collections around the world. productive and engaged citizenship. – James Irwin SHENKMAN DEDICATION: DAVE SCAVONE / STATUE: WILLIAM ATKINS

10 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 [International] U.S. Nuclear Regulatory GW, Koç Commission Chair Joins GW

University to Allison Macfarlane, chair of the U.S. Nuclear of radioactive materials for medical and Regulatory Commission, will join the Elliott other civilian purposes. From 2010 to 2012, Open Student School of International Affairs in January she served on the White House’s Blue Ribbon as director of the Center for International Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, Science and Technology Policy and the tasked with creating a strategy for dealing Exchange related Master of Arts program. with America’s high-level nuclear waste. Leaders from the George Washington “I am delighted to be joining the The Elliott School has significantly University and Koç University, located in Elliott School. It provides a wonderful expanded its work on nuclear issues in Istanbul, signed an undergraduate student interdisciplinary environment whose faculty recent years. Its Nuclear Policy Talks series, exchange agreement in November that I have long admired,” she says. “I am looking launched in 2009, has sponsored more than will allow students at each university the forward to returning to my academic 100 events focusing on nonproliferation, opportunity to study abroad at the other for research and to training a new generation of energy, disarmament and arms control up to one academic year. leaders in science and technology policy.” policy. The school’s Institute for Security GW President Steven Knapp and GW Dr. Macfarlane, who focuses on nuclear and Conflict Studies supports a major alumnus Mustafa Koç, BBA ’84, chairman waste issues, became chair of the commission research project on nuclear weapons and of the board of Koç Holding and grandson in July 2012 following her nomination by nonproliferation, and its Sigur Center for of the founder of Koç University, introduced President Barack Obama and confirmation Asian Studies sponsors a “Nuclear Debates the agreement at a GW alumni reception in by the U.S. Senate. In that position, she in Asia” project. Last fall, the school Istanbul. There, Dr. Knapp also participated has been responsible for the safety and launched a new field of study on nuclear in a three-day conference at Boğaziçi security of the nation’s 100 civilian nuclear energy policy in its international affairs University for the Global Humanities reactors, as well as oversight of the safe use graduate program. Project, a partnership between Boğaziçi, Al Akhawayn University in Morocco and GW that held its first conference at GW in March. “This new agreement will provide [speakers] he appeared casually at Lisner Auditorium students with educational opportunities in a red T-shirt and jeans, looking more the that will prepare them for active and part of a good-natured father than a sinister productive lives as global citizen leaders,” mastermind known for dropping characters Dr. Knapp said. Stephen into storylines teeming with terror and gore. More than 150 alumni, students, The packed audience of screaming fans prospective students and others attended made it clear that the 67-year-old with a the reception, held at the Elgiz Museum of King Takes penchant for silly humor was, in fact, the same Contemporary Art. cult hero who’s achieved rock-star status in “On behalf of myself and Koç University’s the world of suspense and science fiction. esteemed faculty members, I would like Fans Behind His love for music fueled a lot in his latest to express my sincere enthusiasm for our novel, Revival, which follows 6-year-old current and future collaborations with GW,” Jamie Morton into adulthood, chronicling said Mr. Koç, who was the 2008-09 Robert the Terror his drug-addled career as a musician and his P. Maxon Lecturer at the GW School of Most of the time, Stephen King has no idea re-encounter with a preacher he befriended Business. “I am very happy to see all of you how his books are going to end. When he’s as a child. here and to feel a part of GW again, which writing, he follows his protagonists like a The book draws inspiration from Mary brings back all the good memories. Your looming shadow, quietly observing as they Shelley’s Frankenstein and the rise of the attendance here this evening reaffirms your wind their way through the twisted technological age. Publishers Weekly commitment to our valuable community challenges he puts in front of them. calls the ending one that “stuns like and gives all of us an opportunity to further That meandering, explorative lightning,” yet the person most strengthen our relations.” approach has resulted in surprised by the jolting apex is Turkey is home to more than 200 GW more than 50 books, making Mr. King himself. alumni, and the university has participated Mr. King one of the most prolific “You have to follow the characters for many years in academic exchanges with fiction writers of his era. and the story where it leads ... I’m Boğaziçi University and other institutions, In an event not a fan of plot. I’m a lot more including semester-length and short-term presented by interested in character and study abroad opportunities, visiting faculty Politics & situation and where it arrangements and research projects. Prose in goes,” he said.

ROB STEWART November, Stephen King – Julyssa Lopez

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Volunteers from GW help with an urban sustainable farming project at ECO City Farms in Prince George’s County, Md.

[service] around the world. But we still preserve the Wards 5, 6 and 7, where they documented spirit and tradition and culture of service as issues that impair healthy living and mobility part of the heritage of our founding.” as part of GW’s involvement in the city’s age- GW volunteers attended a morning friendly initiative. GW Gets convocation at the Charles E. Smith Center “I’m from the district, so being able to that featured speakers including Jay Winuk, highlight some of these problems—or bring co-founder of the nonprofit My Good Deed, them to someone’s attention—has been a to Work at Corporation for National and Community great opportunity,” said freshman Detrick Service CEO Wendy Spencer and urban Campbell. “It’s allowed me to get more revitalization strategist Majora Carter. involved in my hometown community.” Freshman “As you work today, think of the value In McLean, Va., a group from the you place on work,” said Ms. Carter, a public university helped document the stories of radio host and founder of the nonprofit veterans and family members of veterans Day of environmental justice solutions corporation living at Vinson Hall Retirement Community Sustainable South Bronx. “Whose life is for a Library of Congress military history going to change? What benefit is created, and project. Another group of volunteers in Service who knows and values that benefit? What you Prince George’s County, Md., participated in The university’s annual Freshman Day of love and what pays the bills doesn’t have to be a sustainable urban farming project at ECO Service and Convocation drew more than mutually exclusive.” City Farms. 2,400 GW freshmen to serve on community Armed with water bottles, box lunches “One thing all the convocation speakers projects throughout the D.C. metro area as and sunblock, GW students, staff and highlighted was that this is about a part of the September 11th National Day of faculty headed out to work alongside 44 community coming together to create Service and Remembrance. local partners on projects focused on something in the long run,” said sophomore “George Washington spelled out his vision environmental sustainability, veterans’ Sherin Nassar. “At GW so much of our work for a university that would educate citizen- affairs, community beautification and is dedicated to community service, and leaders in his last will and testament,” GW healthy living. getting involved gives you an idea of the long- President Steven Knapp said at the Sept. 6 Around 300 GW volunteers, including term effect of what you are doing.” event. “Today, we draw our students from all Dr. Knapp, worked with local senior citizens —James Irwin

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12 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 [curriculum] [speakers] ‘Malala’ Teaching Guide Churchill Launched by Researchers, Kin Visits in Laureate’s Father Support of As they created a classroom guide inspired right of girls to be educated. by Malala Yousafzai’s 2013 memoir, I Am Speakers at the event emphasized New Center Malala, GW faculty members—and even that the lessons in the resource guide are Ms. Yousafzai’s father—began to re-examine intended to give students an opportunity to The relationship between British Prime their assumptions about the 17-year-old challenge assumptions and to gain a greater Minister Winston Churchill and President Nobel Peace Prize winner. understanding of Ms. Yousafzai beyond the Franklin Roosevelt helped shape the modern At one point, when the guide’s writers headlines. world, Winston Churchill’s great-grandson were reviewing a passage with Malala’s “It is intended as a tribute to Malala, to said in October, at an event in support of father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, and Jahan Zeb, honor her courage and to further spread a planned National Churchill Library and a Pakistani scholar, Mr. Zeb stopped and her message about girls’ education,” Center on campus. said, “I’m not sure about this part that calls Dr. Ellsberg said at the event. “Our hope “To my mind, Winston Churchill, for Malala a ‘feminist leader.’ Is she a feminist?” is that the resource guide, along with her American people, stands as a beacon of their Mr. Yousafzai nodded in agreement. “I was memoir, will be used here and in classrooms own liberties,” said Randolph Churchill. wondering about that myself,” he said. “So, I around the country and the world.” “Roosevelt and Churchill together stand as asked her.” Mr. Yousafzai, who contributed to the the giants who preserved our freedoms.” Malala’s response? “If feminism means resource guide’s production, reminded the The Churchill center, the first permanent equality for all people, then yes, I am a audience that though his daughter’s memoir facility in D.C. dedicated to scholarship feminist,” she told her father. may be about his family, it is “not one family’s concerning the celebrated British statesman, A full Jack Morton Auditorium erupted in story. will be located on the ground floor of the applause as GW’s Global Women’s Institute “It is the story of the millions of children Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library. It Director Mary Ellsberg recounted the story all around the world. Fifty-seven million will house both permanent and rotating during an event in November celebrating children are out of school. Out of those 57 exhibits in partnership with other Churchill the launch of the free online resource guide. million children, half of them belong to resources, including the National Churchill Created through a partnership between conflict areas,” he said. “It is the story of the Museum and the Churchill Institute, both at the institute, publisher Little, Brown and children who are in the camps of Jordan and Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. Company and the Malala Fund, “I Am who are the refugees from Syria. It is the In speeches, Randolph Churchill and Malala: A Resource Guide for Educators” story of the 300,000 children in Lebanon.” Mary Jo Binker, editor of the Eleanor is targeted to high school and university —Lauren Ingeno Roosevelt Papers, provided brief glimpses students, and draws lessons based on eight into the lives of Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt themes from the memoir. and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Ms. Yousafzai’s book chronicles the For more on this story and video of In particular, a handwritten note of Muslim teenager’s journey from schoolgirl the event, visit go.gwu.edu/ support from Franklin Roosevelt to Churchill to women’s rights activist, including her gwtodaymalala; to download the on Jan. 20, 1941—delivered by Roosevelt’s survival after a Taliban gunman shot her in guide, visit malala.gwu.edu. political opponent, Wendell Willkie, prior to the head in 2012 for speaking out about the the United States entering the Second World War—strengthened a bond between the two leaders. “It was no accident that this letter was entrusted to Wendell Willkie,” Randolph Churchill said. “His mission to see Churchill with this letter of introduction from Roosevelt was a clear statement of bipartisan support for Britain, an indication deliberately linking the British cause with that of the United States.” The letter and Churchill’s response—his Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of 17-year-old famous “give us the tools and we will finish Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, the job” speech—helped lay the groundwork greets students during his visit to campus. for the Atlantic Charter and the formation of

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[leadership changes] Influential Deans to Step Down Two George Washington University deans Dr. Johnson, who plans to take a yearlong are stepping down from long-standing sabbatical to pursue a project with colleagues administrative roles at the university. at the University of Cape Town in South Michael E. Brown, who brought global Africa, said she will return to the university recognition to GW’s Elliott School of in some capacity. International Affairs during almost 10 years The Elliott School, during Dr. Brown’s of leadership, announced this fall that he tenure, added 20 new faculty members who will step down from his position at the end have strengthened the school’s expertise of this academic year to focus on teaching in key regions—including the Middle East, and expanding his work as a tenured faculty Latin America, Asia and Africa—and critical member in the school. And School of Nursing areas of global development, international Dean Jean Johnson, who announced her security and global women’s issues. The retirement in 2013, concluded her 33-year school has sponsored major research projects career at the university in December. in democracy, climate change, U.S.-China Under Dr. Johnson’s leadership, the relations and nuclear issues. School of Nursing’s enrollment doubled These enhancements have had marked to more than 750 students since its results: The Elliott School is considered the establishment in May 2010. It is now ninth best undergraduate school and seventh recognized in the top 50 schools of nursing best graduate school for international affairs top School of in the country with a fourth-ranked online in the country, according to a survey of Nursing Dean Jean Master of Science in Nursing program, international affairs experts and scholars Johnson bottom according to U.S. News & World Report. The published in Foreign Policy magazine. Elliott School school served as an early adopter of online Only seven schools in the United of International programs, increasing educational access States are recognized in the top 10 in both Affairs Dean for military service members, parents and categories. Michael Brown working professionals. – Lauren Ingeno and Julyssa Lopez

Irish step dancer Kevin Doyle performs a traditional Irish step dance and an American tap routine from the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy in September at Lisner Auditorium, during a National Endowment for the Arts showcase of

the 2014 National Heritage Fellowship winners. DOYLE: WILLIAM ATKINS

14 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 “Despite his central role in winning independence for the American colonies, [George] Washington A representative from was shaped in the Corcoran School reviews artwork by a fundamental ways high school student. by his English heritage and [arts] its own faculty members to meet one-on-one traditions. For with prospective students and their parents. “One thing I emphasize is that the much of his life Aspiring Corcoran School is surrounded by dozens he strove to be of museums, galleries and cultural a model English Artists institutions—it really is located in a central arts hub in Washington,” said Georgia Deal, gentleman.” professor and printmaking head at the Convene Corcoran School. Barbara Lucas, regent of the Mount While National Portfolio Day helps high Vernon Ladies’ Association, speaking for National school upperclassmen narrow down the at October’s Sulgrave Symposium, colleges they want to apply to, many students which highlighted the history and joint Portfolio Day attended just to have their work examined by contributions of the United Kingdom new audiences. and the United States in diplomacy, High school students touting thick portfolios Sophomore Priya Kral, from Arlington, government and academia over the and sketchbooks showed up in droves at Va., won’t start the college application 200 years since the War of 1812 ended. GW’s Corcoran School of the Arts and process for another year, but her teachers Design, forming a line that wrapped around urged her to get a fresh pair of eyes on her the 17th Street building. art. She came armed with linoleum prints, They arrived that Saturday morning examples of her watercolor technique and in November to participate in a National countless pencil figures on loose-leaf sketch Portfolio Days event, which provides a venue paper. for high school students interested in arts “I feel like this event gives you a really education to meet with representatives from good assessment of where you are in your colleges and universities and have their work,” she said. “You get to compare yourself work reviewed by professionals in the field. to other people and see what schools want GW’s Corcoran School hosted more than versus what you have. Going as a sophomore, 50 institutions accredited by the National you can prepare yourself for the next two Association of Schools of Art and Design, years and grow as an artist.” which set up tables throughout the building. —Julyssa Lopez

ARTS: WILLIAM ATKINS / FLAGS: ©ISTOCK.COM/MARKGABRENYA The Corcoran School provided a panel of

gwmagazine.com / 15 GW NEWS headliners at university events “When people ask us what UNESCO george welcomes does, they say, ‘Oh I thought you were about “In the CIA, they have a term. It’s “We need to “You want to know what the education: no called ‘let the silence suck out worst national security threat science, no the truth.’ It’s the hardest thing deliver the we face is? It’s dysfunction in to do—to shut up. It is often the message that Washington.” culture.’ I say most effective.” groups like ISIL Leon Panetta, former director to them, ‘They Renowned Washington Post are not Islamic of the CIA and secretary of are connected journalist and author Bob defense, in an October interview because Woodward, speaking to and are not a with School of Media and Public students in an investigative state. ISIL does Affairs Director Frank Sesno education is journalism class taught by centered on Mr. Panetta’s culture.’” School of Media and Public not defend provocative new book, Worthy Affairs Professor Cheryl Muslims; ISIL Fights: A Memoir of Leadership Irina Bokova, director general W. Thompson, who like Mr. in War and Peace. of UNESCO—the United

Woodward is a Pulitzer Prize- kills.” Nations’ scientific and cultural WOODWARD, JOHNSON, PANETTA: WILLIAM ATKINS / BOKOVA: BENJAMIN HERMAN organization—speaking at a GW winning reporter. U.S. Homeland Security event hosted by the Graduate Secretary Jeh Johnson, in School of Education and Human keynote remarks at an all-day Development to celebrate symposium, “Future of the DHS the installation of GW’s Enterprise,” held at the GW Law UNESCO chair in international School and organized by the education for development. The Homeland Security & Defense appointment places GW among Business Council. a consortium of 760 UNESCO chairs and 812 institutions in 128 countries working to build peace, Jeh combat illiteracy and empower Johnson communities in conflict.

Bob Woodward

Leon Panetta

Irina Bokova

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“There is nothing ideological “We had become a U-Haul “I have been about curing cancer. There isn’t “I love being in trailer of cash for a presidential a Democratic or Republican Washington, nominee—that’s a loser fantastically way to stop the Ebola virus from D.C. You can just strategy.” lucky to be born spreading. There isn’t a liberal Republican National Committee or conservative way to prevent feel the energy when I was and chairman Reince Priebus, suicide.” of things not speaking in October at Jack to be in the Sylvia Mathews Burwell, getting done.” Morton Auditorium about a right place to GINSBURG: JESSICA MCCONNELL BURT re-focus of the RNC’s data and speaking in September at Jack Late Night host and Saturday help advance digital strategy that was forced Morton Auditorium, her first Night Live-alum Seth Meyers, BURWELL, MEYERS, PRIEBUS: WILLIAM ATKINS by election losses in 2008 and this movement major public address after being performing at the Charles E. 2012. A month later, the GOP sworn in as secretary of the Smith Center during Colonials for women’s scored a huge midterm election U.S. Department of Health and Weekend, in October. Human Services. victory, claiming a majority in equality.” the Senate. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, speaking at Lisner Auditorium during the Sixth Annual Capital City Constitution Day. Justice Reince Ginsburg discussed how the Priebus 227-year-old document has evolved to include women, and the steps still needed to ensure equality.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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are improving heart disease 2014 list of greater Washington’s At a Glance therapies, developing imaging healthiest employers. GW’s instruments to detect cancers comprehensive health model and building handheld medical focuses on helping employees diagnostic devices. with their physical health, personal and family life, financial HONORING wellness, connection to the community and workplace VETERANS fulfillment. One of the most Members of the university successful programs, Smoke- community honored GW’s Free GW, prohibits smoking on veteran and military population GW-owned outdoor spaces, as on Veterans Day with a campus well as public spaces adjacent to ceremony that included the all residential, academic, athletic, presentation of the colors by recreational and administrative the ROTC color guard and a support buildings. wreath laying. Around the same time, the university was named FIRST MOOC, to Military Times’ “Best for Vets 2015” rankings and was IN SCIENTIFIC designated as a 2015 “Military COMPUTING, Friendly School” by G.I. Jobs President of the Republic of HELD IN FALL INDONESIAN magazine. The School of Nursing Indonesia Susilo Bambang also recently received $1 million GW hosted its first-ever “massive Yudhoyono UNIVERSITY, GW from the U.S. Health Resources open online course” this fall, PAVE WAY FOR and Services Administration a class aimed at first-year PARTNERSHIPS for a project designed to reduce graduate engineering students In September, during Republic barriers for veterans who wish to and advanced college seniors of Indonesia President Susilo become nurses. that provided a foundation Bambang Yudhoyono’s visit to for tackling computational the United States, GW President $2.7M AWARDED modeling problems using “We see this Steven Knapp met with Desi the programming language Albert Mamahit, rector of the FOR MIDDLE Python. The 12-week, noncredit worrying trend course, called Practical in relations Indonesian Defense University, EAST, ASIAN to sign a letter of intent STUDIES Numerical Methods with between Russia signifying future cooperation Python, was developed through between the two institutions. The Elliott School of a collaboration between GW’s and Europe, International Affairs received School of Engineering and between Russia BIOMEDICAL three federal grants totaling Applied Science and three other and the U.S., more than $2.7 million in institutions across the world, and ENGINEERING November. The awards, part was led by GW mechanical and between China DEPARTMENT of the U.S. Department of aerospace engineering professor and the U.S.” Education’s Title VI program, Lorena A. Barba. LAUNCHED will support the work of two President of the Republic of The School of Engineering research institutes at the school: GW AMONG Indonesia Susilo Bambang and Applied Science launched the Institute for Middle East Yudhoyono, urging global a Department of Biomedical Studies and the Sigur Center for TOP TEACH powers to preserve cooperation Engineering this fall as well Asian Studies. The Department FOR AMERICA and the harmony that he said had as a PhD program in the field, of Education also designated allowed his country to prosper. which joins existing bachelor’s IMES a National Resource CONTRIBUTORS He spoke in September at Jack and master’s degree programs. Center for Middle East studies. For a third year in a row, GW was Morton Auditorium—his only To chair the department, the listed among the top 20 medium- public address while in D.C.—the school recruited a leader in GW NAMED size universities that contributed month before the end of his term. cardiovascular disease research, students to Teach for America. Igor Efimov, who comes to GW ONE OF D.C.’S The 5,300 individuals who made from Washington University HEALTHIEST up the 2014 Teach For America in St. Louis. A rapidly growing corps include 35 GW alumni— field, biomedical engineering EMPLOYERS third-most among colleges and is changing modern medicine. The university was named to universities with 3,000 to 9,999

Researchers at GW, for example, Washington Business Journal’s undergraduate students. WILLIAM ATKINS

18 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 [5 Questions] Do you see this happening today? Absolutely. When we’re afraid, we want to feel that something is being done. So we take people’s temperatures at airports, which is ... On Fear and probably an ineffective gesture; an infected traveler might not be symptomatic yet. Meanwhile, we’re not worrying about the real dangers. The measles and influenza are Epidemics in America much more infectious and deadly than Ebola, and increasing numbers of people aren’t This spring will mark a largely forgotten vaccinating their children against them. centennial in the history of American But because we’re not as scared of those medicine: On March 27, 1915, Mary Mallon, diseases as we are of Ebola, they don’t get the a cook and asymptomatic carrier of typhoid attention they need. fever popularly known as Typhoid Mary, was forced into her second quarantine on North How can health care authorities fight fear? Brother Island in New York’s East River. She The No. 1 way is to share information without would remain there until her death in 1938. creating stigma. Uncertainty breeds fear. Vanessa Northington Gamble, University In the late 1890s there was a smallpox Professor of Medical Humanities and professor epidemic in Milwaukee. Authorities hauled of health policy and American studies, off immigrants and the poor to isolation explains why—in the age of AIDS, H1N1, and hospitals — and they rioted, in part because the Ebola virus—Mary Mallon’s story still the wealthy were allowed to be quarantined matters. in their homes. In 1947, there was fear of another epidemic, but this time the head of In your class on the history of American the Department of Public Health gave as epidemics, you make a point of referring much information as possible to as many to Mary Mallon by name, rather than her groups as possible. And people lined up to be better-known sobriquet. Why is that? vaccinated. In history, stories matter. People’s lives matter. Mary Mallon was a person: a woman, a cook, an Irish immigrant. She suffered “WHEN A PERSON OR GROUP notoriety and the loss of her livelihood and OF PEOPLE, RATHER THAN A 26 years of isolation. And the name “Typhoid DISEASE IN ITSELF, IS FRAMED Mary” makes her sound like a pest—a germ, a virus—rather than a human being. AS THE PROBLEM, PEOPLE This happens over and over again. We ACT ON FEAR RATHER THAN want to blame the disease on someone, INFORMATION.” because it’s comforting: “I won’t get sick, I’m not like them.” But when a person or group of people, rather than a disease in itself, is What lessons can we draw from Mary framed as the problem, people act on fear Mallon’s story? rather than information. And their fear We have to remember to be careful about our might be directed at the wrong things. responses. Are we responding to reality, or to stigma? Public fear led to Mary Mallon’s How does that fear affect the way these exile, but by the end of her life, many epidemics progress? prominent health authorities thought she It takes our energy away from where it needs should be released. to be. We try to suppress the fear, rather Stigma is a form of victim-blaming. I read than the disease. Take Ebola as an example. a story about a man who was dying of Ebola, When you start talking about “West in isolation, and a health worker in a hazmat Africans” carrying Ebola, some people suit was the only person with him. How must suggest solutions like “Let’s stop all air travel it feel to die alone, your hand being held by from West Africa.” OK, but then you can’t a stranger in a spacesuit? That patient was a treat the disease. You can’t get equipment person. It’s crucial to remember that. or supplies or medicine into affected areas; —Ruth Steinhardt volunteers aren’t willing to go, because they might not be able to get back; healthy people can’t get out. So the untreated epidemic Read more from this interview at

WILLIAM ATKINS spreads. Vanessa Northington-Gamble magazine.gwu.edu.

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[From the archives] The Case of the Traveling Terrapin In the fall semester of 1948, a mysterious kidnapping rippled through the D.C. college community. The crime was unmistakable: At over 400 pounds of solid bronze, the victim could hardly have crawled off by himself. Testudo, the University of Maryland’s mascot, had vanished from his pedestal in College Park, Md. Suspicion turned quickly to GW, which would be meeting Maryland on the gridiron in October for GW’s homecoming. The president of Maryland’s Student Government Association published a letter in The Hatchet asking, “Do YOU have Testudo?” According to the paper, the letter was followed up by “a task force of some 500 College Park stalwarts,” who arrived on campus determined to search the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. The search was fruitless, but Maryland would have its revenge. Three days after Testudo returned home unharmed, the rivals’ football game ended in a gruesome 47-0 defeat for the Colonials. Testudo’s own homecoming, however, was less of a victory. By the next night, The Washington Post reported, the terrapin “was on the loose again.” –Ruth Steinhardt

top and left Photos of shenanigans with the massive, bronze Maryland mascot appeared in the 1949 edition of the GW yearbook, The Cherry Tree, including Testudo as a dissolute gambler in a picture captioned simply, “In Reno.” right Among the memorabilia of Testudo’s adventure was this mocked-up application to GW,

sternly marked “Rejected.” ARCHIVES UNIVERSITY

20 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 These splotches on the glass may be remnants of the wax that Bees from this observation hive recently once capped the stored honey were used by undergraduates for a study at the top of the frame, recently on the effects of certain types of pesticide harvested by Dr. Doebel and on bees’ associative memory, using a his team. GW’s hives produced maze built by the student researchers. nearly 700 pounds of honey this summer, to be used by restaurant partner Founding Farmers. A healthy hive protects its young, or “brood,” in the warm center of the frame. Some of these cells contain eggs and larvae, but most Bees perform unique have been capped by their older sisters. (All choreography, known worker bees are female.) Inside, the young scientifically as “waggle bee is entering the final stage of development. dances,” to direct others to food sources. In previous years, the observation hive has been used to observe and study that behavior.

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Nectar collected from flowers is used to make On Their Best honey, which is stored in some of the beeswax cells of the honeycomb. Other Bee-havior cells might contain pollen, which workers “Once you get to know them, you can’t mix with honey to make help loving them,” Hartmut Doebel says. a kind of bee baby food “They’re like little puppies.” called “bee bread.” The “fuzzy and docile” little beasts he’s talking about are honeybees, and Dr. Doebel, an entomologist and assistant professor of biology, wants “getting to know them” to be easy. Students don’t even need to venture to the 10-hive apiary atop Lisner These worker bees have Hall: In a second-floor laboratory next door formed a scaffold with in Bell Hall, a unique glass-walled hive lets their bodies, allowing their watchers observe these furry wonders in ISTOCK.COM/ ANTAGAIN

© hivemates to get in and out their own habitat. more easily. This behavior, About one mouthful in three of the called “festooning,” is also American diet benefits from honeybee used to build honeycombs. pollination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the species’ mysterious decline threatens flora A tube at the bottom across the continent. By observing bee of the hive provides colonies firsthand, Dr. Doebel and his access to the outdoors. team hope to discover ways to get them

HIVE: WILLIAM ATKINS / BEES: flourishing again.— Ruth Steinhardt

gwmagazine.com / 21 GW NEWS showcasing new books by gw professors and alumni bookshelves

The first trolleys emerge from the Boston subway on Sept. 1, 1897.

The original plan was to America’s first subway. A Tale of write about Boston’s subway In that great expanse no detail system, which opened on is lost. The book recounts, for Sept. 1, 1897. But a year into instance, the 1883 death of William Two Cities his research, Mr. Most knew Whitney’s 6-year-old daughter, that New York—which Olive, and how, before her funeral, struggled with the same street The Race Mr. Whitney “clipped a lock of Move over, Red Sox-Yankees congestion and wrestled with Underground: Olive’s blond hair. He placed it rivalry. Doug Most, BA ’90, the same economic, political Boston, New York inside an envelope and would hold maps out a Beantown-Big Apple and social pressures in and the Incredible on to it for the rest of his life.” competition with even larger launching its own subway— Rivalry That Built The focus on such intricate needed to be a part of the America’s First details avoids a textbook feel and, stakes: the grand, underground book. Subway (St. Martin’s as Mr. Most says, makes it “almost evolution of U.S. mass transit. Following a colleague’s Press, 2014) like a fictionalized tale, but all true.” / By Menachem Wecker, MA ’09 / advice, he created a timeline Doug Most, BA ’90 (This fall, the book was named one and recorded every date he of Amazon’s “Best Books of the Over lunch about five years ago, a high- came across in his research—all told, some Year So Far.”) ranking Boston transportation official 2,000 entries, he says. The effect, which So how does researching a book that mentioned to Doug Most, deputy managing weaves together a staggering amount of covers everything from the march of editor at The Boston Globe, that the city detail and teases out fascinating character technology to 19th-century anxieties about was home to the country’s oldest subway. overlaps, recalls James Joyce’s Ulysses. Many going underground—at the time associated “It’s one of those pieces of trivia you pick of Mr. Most’s protagonists are obscure, but with corpses and worse—and aboveground- up when you live around here. But I never others are famous: Thomas Edison, William but-no-less-shady political maneuverings, really thought about it beyond that,” says Mr. Magear “Boss” Tweed, and the brothers affect its author? “I will never look at Most, who knew a great book idea when it Henry and William Whitney, who, in some subways the same way again,” Mr. Most says, serendipitously arose. ways, found themselves competing to create “because I don’t take them for granted.” TROLLEYS: COURTESY DOUG MOST / BOOK: WILLIAM ATKINS

22 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 The Traumatic Colonel: The Barely There: Short Poems Founding Fathers, Slavery, and (Wipf and Stock, 2013) the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr Yahia Lababidi, BA ’96 (NYU Press, 2014) Mr. Lababidi’s LinkedIn profile Michael J. Drexler and Ed identifies him as a “Thinker, White, BA ’87 Poet, Seeker,” and it’s easy to see Aaron Burr is best known why from his poetry. His latest for being the third U.S. vice volume includes references to president, for killing Alexander “the heavy breath of the very Hamilton in an 1804 duel, and earth/carrying along the prayer for his 1807 arrest for treason. of all things.” A particular focus But reading about the Founding within the book of poems is Fathers can yield both titillating poetry itself: Mr. Lababidi notes gossip and distorted views that “Bodies are like poems,/a that turn men into myths, Drs. fraction of their power/resides Drexler and White observe. in their skin,” and elsewhere, “I The two study Aaron Burr’s cannot bear/the perfumed air/of life through the lens of literary Srebrenica in the Aftermath certain poets.” analysis, exploring fiction of Genocide (Cambridge and other period writings for University Press, 2014) broader meaning behind the Lara J. Nettelfield and myth that came of the man. Sarah E. Wagner When they gather annually for a Peace March commemorating the more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys killed in the Srebrenica genocide, mourners are “intervening” in the space, Character: The Ultimate write Dr. Wagner, assistant Success Factor (Fortis, 2013) professor of anthropology at J. Phillip London, DBA ’71 GW, and Dr. Nettelfield. In When Jack London, the executive their analysis of this march chairman and chairman of the and other postwar responses board of the $3.8 billion company to the genocide in Bosnia, the His latest CACI International, considers authors note that interventions his rise from humble beginnings, are complex enterprises that volume includes it boils down to “character.” are more ambitious than mere references to Informed by his years in the reaction. “the heavy Navy and as an executive, parent, student and teacher, he cautions breath of the that the term is not the same as very earth/ personality. The book, he writes, carrying along was spurred by seeing many books focused on getting ahead, the prayer of all but little mention of things like

ALL: WILLIAM ATKINS things.” taking responsibility.

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24 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 Hoops and Hollers

The ball sailed down from the mezzanine and onto the court, bouncing into the hands of a leaping Patricio Garino, who nabbed it and polished off this dunk- contest-winning alley-oop. Fans cheered, the bench cleared. It was a raucous, rousing finale for the 2,800 students, family members and friends who came to the Charles E. Smith Center in October for Colonials Invasion. The annual, GW Athletics-sponsored event serves as the kickoff for Colonials Weekend and marks the start of basketball season at GW.

To see slow-motion video of Mr. Garino’s dunk, visit go.gwu.edu/ dunk2014. For photos from Colonials Invasion, visit go.gwu.edu/invasion2014. WILLIAM ATKINS

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[GYMNASTICS] academic and athletic awards athletes, appreciate the meaning [basketball] from a variety of governing of a team and family, and what bodies. it means to dig deep during Gymnastics Despite all the individual stressful times and overcome Stars Beck, accolades, championships and any obstacle that comes along. I Gears Up for record-setting performances, the have carried Margie’s life lessons Brown to be most lasting and evident feature with me for over 20 years—as a 30th Season of Ms. Foster-Cunningham’s run friend and colleague to others, as Honored as as head coach is the vast network a daughter and sibling, as a wife Under Head of gymnastics alumnae who are and as a mother. These lessons Atlantic 10 spread across the country. define who I am today.” Coach CEOs, doctors, investment “I wouldn’t live in Legends bankers, lawyers and teachers Washington, D.C., today if it Foster- are among the dozens of wasn’t for Margie,” says Susan She was the leader of the GW gymnastics student-athletes Block Moores, BA ’90. “I had the women’s basketball team during Cunningham who have passed through privilege of being on Margie’s one of the storied program’s Ronald Reagan was president, George Washington. Many view first recruited team. There is most dominant eras. He was Lionel Richie’s “Say You, Say their time as a gymnast under so much to thank her for. I will known as “The New Washington Me” was the No. 1 song on the Ms. Foster-Cunningham as a never forget her loyalty, support Monument,” a force to be Billboard Hot 100 list and Rocky defining moment in their lives. and her ability to take me in and reckoned from day one and a IV was the top movie at the box In recruiting student-athletes, make me a part of a family.” future NBA draft pick. office the first time the GW Ms. Foster-Cunningham is “Whether it is reciting Now Kimberly Beck and Mike gymnastics team competed known to use the line that when the ‘attitude statement’ or Brown will be recognized as under head coach Margie Foster- one makes a commitment to GW, understanding that sweaty Atlantic 10 Basketball Legends Cunningham, in January 1986. it is not a four-year decision. “It is hands and butterflies in my during the women’s and men’s Just four years after earning a 40-year decision,” she has said. stomach means that what I’m championships in March. her undergraduate degree That mantra rings true when about to do is important and Ms. Beck, a point guard, was from Penn State, Ms. Foster- gymnastics alumnae are asked I’m prepared for it, not a day the floor general for four straight Cunningham was leading a about her impact on them. goes by without the use of a NCAA Tournament teams, Division I gymnastics program. “When my mother met life lesson from Margie,” says leading the Colonials to 101 wins, Thirty years later, the Colonials Margie in the summer of 1992, Stephanie Stoicovy, BS ’13. four Atlantic 10 regular-season open their 2015 season in she looked at me and said, ‘This is “While coaching us at practice titles and back-to-back Sweet 16s January under the guidance of where you are going to school,’” to become better gymnasts, she in 2007 and 2008. the same head coach. says Lori Chaitman, BA ’96, was also preparing us for the real “There have been so many Over the past 29 years the MBA ’99. “My mother saw world, whether we realized at the amazingly talented players gymnastics program has seen something in Margie, something time or not. The only part that that have played in the Atlantic tremendous success under Ms. that I didn't appreciate until I has changed since graduation is 10 over the years, so just to be Foster-Cunningham, including became a mother myself. no longer seeing Margie almost thought of [as an A-10 Legend] four Atlantic 10 Championships, “Margie has been an every day. She continues to is a huge honor,” says Ms. Beck, eight straight appearances at incredible mentor, friend, be there to answer questions, BA ’10. “Honestly, I just have NCAA Regionals, from 1991 confidant and role model,” she give advice and celebrate the coach Joe McKeown and my to 1998, and scores of student- says. “But most importantly, she milestones of life. Having Margie teammates to thank, because athletes who have garnered both knows how to find the best in her as a coach has changed my life, without them I could never and for that I will be forever even dream of such an honor. grateful.” I am completely humbled and Fans of GW gymnastics—and thankful.” of Margie Foster-Cunningham, A two-time Honorable of course—can catch the Mention All-American and Colonials in action on five three-time Atlantic 10 All- occasions this season at the Conference First Team selection, Charles E. Smith Center, Ms. Beck is one of the most including as host to the East decorated women’s basketball Atlantic Gymnastics League players in GW history. She was Championship on March 21. named the 2005 A-10 Rookie Margie Foster- of the Year, the 2007 A-10 Cunningham is Defensive Player of the Year opening her third For ticket information and and the 2008 A-10 Player of the decade as gymnastics more on the GW Year. Also a three-time A-10 head coach at GW. gymnastics team, visit All-Defensive Team honoree,

GWsports.com. Ms. Beck is GW’s all-time ATHLETICSGW COMMUNICATIONS

26 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 assists leader (717) and ranks honors all four seasons, as second in steals (295), third in well as being named the 1982 three-pointers (229) and 14th in A-10 Rookie of the Year and an scoring (1,395 points). Associated Press Honorable “In the moment, it’s hard to Mention All-American in 1984. step back and appreciate the Mr. Brown was drafted in things we accomplished in those the third round of the 1985 NBA four years, but as I think back, I Draft by the Chicago Bulls and Alumnus Bill Shipp’s realize what we did was special,” went on to enjoy a successful cap and goggles, Ms. Beck says. I will always 11-year, five-team career in the which made the walk into the Smith Center and league as well as stints as a 20.6-mile trek with look up at those banners and pro abroad. He says his time at him across the reminisce on the great things we GW helped prepare him for his English Channel. achieved.” career as a professional athlete And she does walk into the and, now, as co-founder and vice [swimming] Swim on Vermont’s Lake Smith Center often. After playing president of The Embracing Memphremagog, which he one season with the WNBA’s Project, from his adopted swam shortly after undergoing Seattle Storm and one season in hometown of Las Vegas. Alumnus surgery for prostate cancer in the Turkey, she moved back to D.C. “GW is a very diverse summer of 2011. and can frequently be spotted in university, and the exposure Completes “Being able to set my sights the stands during games. to different languages, people on the races was an important “Buff and Blue runs through and cultures as an 18-year-old English part of my recovery,” says Mr. my veins,” she says. from Newark changed my life. It Shipp, who lives in Mitchellville, Ms. Beck currently teaches gave me a strong platform that Channel Md., with his wife, Ellen Nedde, at a charter school in Southeast continues to help me build my BA ’83, and their two daughters. D.C., where the teachers name global business relationships to Swim “Thankfully I was able to get their homerooms after their this day.” back on track and never look alma maters. Despite being 30 years There are easier ways to cross back. The English Channel is the “I am teaching 26 little removed from his playing days the English Channel, but none premier open-water swim and is Colonials,” she says. “They know and 2,000 miles from Foggy of them quite make waves like recognized around the world as the fight song and everything!” Bottom, Mr. Brown continues swimming it. the gold standard.” Meanwhile, the 6-foot-10 Mike to follow the Colonials and even Former GW swimmer Bill The water temperatures for Brown, BA ’85, will join the late had the opportunity to meet Shipp, BA ’82, JD ’85, took on Mr. Shipp’s swim ranged from Red Auerbach, BS ’40, MA ’41, coach Mike Lonergan at an AAU that challenge and completed the 62 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit, and and Sonni Holland, BA ’93, as tournament in Las Vegas this swim in September, making the while he faced a relatively calm former Colonials to be honored past summer. 20.6-mile trek across the Strait sea, he had to deal with thick fog as A-10 Legends. “I went over, introduced of Dover—which separates that reduced visibility to about “It’s special,” says Mr. Brown, myself and congratulated him on southern England from northern 50 feet. He credits much of his a 1994 inductee to GW’s Athletic a great season,” Mr. Brown says. France—in 12 hours, 22 minutes success to his pilot and support Hall of Fame. “I didn't think “We talked and laughed as if and 33 seconds, according to an crew, who directed his guide boat about my accomplishments we were friends for years. The unofficial accounting. and coordinated eating. By the as a player, but to have them future of GW basketball is in The journey was one rules of the contest, swimmers recognized 30 years later is a good hands.” that he embarked on with are not allowed to touch or hang blessing.” the anticipation of raising on to the boats at any time, and The East Orange, N.J., donations for his charity, are only allowed to wear one native, who arrived on campus At many GW men’s Waves of Hope. The nonprofit swim cap, a pair of goggles and a in 1981, led the team in both basketball games, the is dedicated to providing brief-style bathing suit. scoring and rebounding in action begins even before support for organizations that Mr. Shipp, who is the each of the next four seasons, the team takes the court. offer programs and assistance managing director of the law becoming one of just three GW Join fellow Colonials for toward people’s wellness and firm O’Malley, Miles, Nylen and players with 1,000-plus points food, drinks and recovery, children in need, the Gilmore, previously completed, and rebounds in his career camaraderie at pre-game arts, economic development and among other swims, a double (along with Joe Holup, AA ’55, receptions both at home sustainability. Mr. Shipp has crossing of the Chesapeake BBA ’56, and Gene Guarilia, and on the road, hosted by raised more than $6,000 to date. Bay and the 25-mile In Search BS ’59). Over the course of 111 the Office of Alumni A five-year open- of Memphre swim between Relations. For more info games, Mr. Brown averaged 17.3 water swimming veteran, Newport, Vt., and Magog, and to register for events, points and 10.5 rebounds while Mr. Shipp completed several Quebec. In July Mr. Shipp took visit gwsports.com/school- amassing 64 double-doubles, bio/athleticalumni.html races to prepare for the English home first place in the eight- earning either first team or Channel swim, perhaps most mile Boston Light Swim in

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to examine if and how their Research news behavior changes in different circumstances, so we could compare how the same mother behaved with her sons versus with her daughters.” They found that mothers with within their larger communities sons spent an average of two [anthropology] 37Years’ worth of data on throughout the day. Since infant hours more per day with chimps chimps are dependent on their chimpanzees in Tanzania beyond immediate family Socializing mothers for at least five years, members—25 percent more social interactions are restricted social time than mothers with May Be Key to those individuals with whom daughters. the mother spends time. So Additionally, mothers with for Male the researchers investigated sons spent more time around Chimp differences in mothers’ adult males during the infant’s subgrouping patterns based on first six months than those Development the sex of infants. with daughters, which suggests They hypothesized that that having the opportunity 5Minimum number of years that Baby male chimps have more mothers with sons would to observe adult models may mingling opportunities than socialize more, since male infant chimps are dependent facilitate development of social on their mothers, so social their female peers, and these offspring would need to rely skills important for success as an interactions during that time are early social interactions may more on social skills and bonds adult male. restricted to those with whom influence their temperaments to integrate into the adult male In future studies, the mother spends time later in life, according to new hierarchy. Forming strong social Dr. Stanton and the research research. bonds is less important for adult team hope to investigate that Analyzing 37 years of data females, which spend most of outcome—whether males that on chimpanzees in Tanzania’s their time caring for dependent have more social exposure as Gombe National Park, a GW- children. infants are more successful as led research team found that The data from Gombe adults. — Lauren Ingeno mothers with sons were more National Park used in the study social than those with daughters, dates to celebrated primatologist particularly during early infancy. Jane Goodall’s research from the Scientists say this enables the 1970s. 2The additional hours per day, sons to observe and absorb social “There have been other on average, that chimpanzee “[T]he depth behaviors such as grooming, studies on infant chimpanzees, mothers with sons spent with of the aggression and mating. but the depth of information that chimps beyond immediate The results were published in the Gombe data set provides family members—25 percent information November in the Proceedings of allows us to ask more detailed more social time than mothers ... allows us the National Academy of Sciences. questions than ever before,” says with daughters. to ask more “It’s been known for a Maggie Stanton, a postdoctoral long time that there are sex scientist at CASHP. “We could detailed differences in adult chimpanzee look within individual questions than behaviors. Males are more mothers ever before.” gregarious, they form stronger social bonds with each other Postdoctoral scientist and they are more physically Maggie Stanton aggressive,” says GW anthropology professor and lead author of the study Carson Murray, who is affiliated with GW’s Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology. “We wanted to understand when and how these sex differences develop and to what extent mothers influence those differences.” Chimpanzees, like humans, ISTOCK.COM/MARKRHIGGINS form temporary social subgroups ©

28 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 [entrepreneurship] Baichen Li, a researcher in GW’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Marketing The discovery came from Mr. Li’s participation in the “As engineers, we’re taught to solve Genius D.C. I-Corps Boot Camp, a six- every possible problem instead of week course to help academics looking at what people actually During six-week “boot think like businesspeople. His team, which included professor want. In this program we learn ... camp,” researchers Zhenyu Li of GW’s Department how to ask the proper questions.” learn to think like of Biomedical Engineering in entrepreneurs. the School of Engineering and Doctoral candidate Ivan Suarez Castellanos, BS ’10, MS ’12 Applied Science, was one of As new medical technology, the several dozen in the cohort. iDx might seem like a slam-dunk. I-Corps teams are either A handheld in vitro diagnostic academics paired with system, it can quickly provide seasoned entrepreneurs or session in November, at of pharmacology and physiology emergency room doctors with business students paired with Johns Hopkins University’s in GW’s School of Medicine and lab-quality medical test results of federal research labs. The Montgomery County campus, Health Sciences, and her team unprecedented accuracy. course emphasizes flexibility teams from GW, Johns Hopkins, have been working on their blood But as it turns out, the and interviewing as many the University of Maryland circulation aid, the MiniHeart, product market isn’t quite prospective customers as and Virginia Tech laid out their for months. But the I-Corps there yet—because urgent possible, with the goal of processes, their pitfalls and experience, she said, taught her care providers have different ensuring that the problem a the evolution of their products, some surprising things about her priorities than scientists. given product purports to solve ultimately coming to “go” or “no own technology. Doctors, under pressure to is something potential buyers are go” decisions on continuing to For example, the market make quick decisions, “don’t care even looking to address. try to market their technology. segment she had assumed the that much about accuracy,” said At the boot camp’s closing Narine Sarvazyan, a professor MiniHeart would target—

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gwmagazine.com / 29 GW NEWS RESEARCH elderly patients with deep-vein can extend an animal’s life span generate parasympathetic problems—was actually not a by 50 percent of accepted norms. activity in the heart, in the good fit, since those patients Teams may compete for one or hopes of understanding how often are battling additional both prizes. it degrades and approaches to complications and may be Dr. Mendelowitz’s team, reverse the process. hesitant to try new solutions. one of 11 that have signed up to Federal research funding The team found a much more date, is competing for the prize “is extremely competitive now, promising market in younger in homeostasis, which will be so people feel like they need to patients whose sedentary awarded in June 2016. produce results immediately. lifestyles have led to circulation He studies the autonomic This prize has allowed some David Mendelowitz problems, and in patients with nervous system, a primitive people, myself included, to take lymph-circulation disorders part of the brain that regulates a look at the bigger picture like lymphedema, for which [physiology] functions of internal organs, and to ask what could be there currently is no effective such as the heart, stomach important six years down the treatment. and intestines. The system is line rather than six months,” “As engineers, we’re taught Pitting divided into two components: Dr. Mendelowitz says. “And to solve every possible problem parasympathetic and every scientist loves a challenge.” instead of looking at what Science sympathetic activity. —Lauren Ingeno people actually want,” says Against “The sympathetic system is Ivan Suarez Castellanos, BS ’10, activated when you’re in ‘fight [space] MS ’12, a doctoral candidate or flight’ mode—when you think in the engineering school. His Aging you ran over your neighbor’s cat team, Sonoinsulin, worked David Mendelowitz is competing or you realize you have an exam Students with ultrasound stimulation against scientists from around in two hours, and you haven’t of pancreatic beta cells as a the world in a race against studied. It increases your heart Keep Sights potential new treatment for time—or rather, the effect of rate,” Dr. Mendelowitz says. diabetes. “In this program time: aging. “The parasympathetic system on Space we learn how to really create The professor of is activated when you’re reading a specific ecosystem of our pharmacology and physiology a book in the library, and you’re Experiment destroyed customers and how to ask the in the School of Medicine and relaxed.” proper questions.” Health Sciences has tossed Humans likely are born with a in October rocket After completing the boot his hat in the ring for the Palo good balance of activity between explosion may soon get camp, teams that decide to Alto Longevity Prize, which the two, Dr. Mendelowitz says. a second chance. move forward on their products was launched in September. But as people age, sympathetic can apply for D.C. I-Corps’ It was created by former activity increases, putting them When an unmanned NASA Accelerator program for ongoing Washingtonian Joon Yun, a at high risk for cardiovascular rocket exploded seconds support. radiologist and president of Palo diseases. The team is studying after launch this fall, Shayda “What we’re fundamentally Alto Investors, who is hoping the neurons in the brain that Shahbazi’s science experiment trying to do here is change the the contest will lead to scientific way people do research,” says innovations that reduce diseases The Antares rocket Edmund Pendleton, director of associated with aging and sits on the launch pad the D.C. I-Corps node. increase human life expectancy. at sunrise on Oct. 26 at “We’re not trying to pick “I feel like it is inevitable NASA’s Wallops Flight individual winners or to say, that we’re going to solve aging,” Facility in Virginia. ‘This technology is better than Dr. Yun says in a video on the this technology.’ We’re trying contest website. “All we’re really to create a cohort of winners,” doing is pulling up the timeline.” says Jim Chung, GW’s founding The $1 million prize total executive director for innovation is sponsored by the Palo and entrepreneurship and a Alto Institute and split into co-principal investigator for two $500,000 awards. The the D.C. I-Corps regional node. first will go to the team that “So if they find that the product can successfully “restore they’re working on right now homeostatic capacity”—or isn’t a solution to an existing improve the ability to maintain problem, we teach them to find the stability of the body’s inner the problems they can solve, workings—in an animal, as so they can have a real-world judged by measuring changes impact.” in heart rate. The second will be

—Ruth Steinhardt awarded to the scientists who MENDELOWITZ: WILLIAM ATKINS / ROCKET: NASA/JOEL KOWSKY

30 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 also went up in flames. But the [law] The study, she says, comes Rather, she says, theories like GW senior is confident that her amid growing concern from parental alienation—in which a team’s project will eventually domestic violence scholars and mother is making a safety claim make its way to space. Study to advocates that family courts are merely to alienate children from “Of course it was upsetting, awarding unsupervised access or their father—have had a large but things don’t always go the Test Court custody to abusive fathers. impact on family courts. way you anticipate. It’s part of The GW Law School professor Results from a pilot study, a researcher’s job description,” Handling is the founder of the Domestic in which Ms. Meier analyzed says Ms. Shahbazi, a student in Violence Legal Empowerment 240 custody opinions involving the School of Engineering and of Abuse and Appeals Project, or DV abuse allegations, indicated that Applied Science. LEAP, a nonprofit that provides mothers who alleged child sexual Ms. Shahbazi and her Allegations free legal representation in abuse lost primary custody collaborators—SEAS student GW Professor of Clinical Law domestic violence appeals. 20 percent more often than Xixi Ni and two Georgetown Joan S. Meier has received She says her organization and mothers who did not allege University students—were a $500,000 grant from the others receive numerous pleas abuse. The findings also hoping to assess the effects of National Institute of Justice to for help from women who say showed that even when courts microgravity, or weightlessness, fund research into how family that judges do not believe their validated adult domestic violence on seed germination. Theirs courts decide custody cases claims of abuse and instead seek allegations against fathers, was among 18 student research involving abuse allegations. to maximize fathers’ access to the fathers received a custody projects on board an Orbital For the three-year study, children. But relatively little outcome in their favor more than Sciences Corp. Antares Ms. Meier and her team will data indicate how prevalent the 40 percent of the time. rocket that was bound for the analyze around 2,000 state court problem is. “I don’t believe that these International Space Station on custody cases from a 15-year “Most people assume ... that mothers are fabricating abuse, Oct. 28. A company spokesman period, looking at a spectrum of courts are sympathetic to the but I think the system thinks said in the days after that an factors including the allegations mothers who complain of abuse. that they are,” she says. “The operator had destroyed the of each party, the court findings But in our experience, they’re numbers may provide powerful rocket after it became apparent and the custody or visitation much more reluctant to believe evidence that the system is too there was a problem. order that was issued. abuse claims,” Ms. Meier says. skeptical.” —Lauren Ingeno The GW/Georgetown team is exploring whether chrysanthemum plants can serve as air purifiers in space. Astronauts who spend extended periods of time enclosed in space vehicles are susceptible to indoor air pollution. Previous research has found that chrysanthemums can act as purifiers, but in order to ensure that the plants can last on long-term space missions, chrysanthemums must be able to reproduce in microgravity conditions. Hope is not lost, though. Students were told that their rebuilt experiments will be loaded on to another spacecraft in the near future, as room allows. [zoology] Ms. Shahbazi, who dreamed For 500 million years, the as a little girl of becoming an nautilus has survived shifts in astronaut, is excited to shoot for its deep-ocean habitat. But as the stars one more time. “If I the mollusk faces man-made can’t go to space, then I definitely extinction, it’s also dying in the would love the opportunity to refuge of zoos and aquariums. send a project there,” she says. Forensics professor Mehdi “And you never know—with Moini is working with a commercial space travel starting Smithsonion-convened team up, I may find my way there too.” to figure out why. For more,

NAUTILUS: MICHAEL BENTLEY, VIA FLICKR VIA BENTLEY, MICHAEL NAUTILUS: —Lauren Ingeno visit go.gwu.edu/nautilus.

gwmagazine.com / 31 The new Science and Engineering Hall opens to a mosaic of researchers— from biologists to aerospace engineers—seeking common ground in the pursuit of uncommon solutions. / BY LAUREN INGENO / RESEARCH WILLIAM ATKINS 32 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 CAPITAL Classification of Institutions of Higher designed the new building. Education. And research expenditures—a Faculty members will share four key measurement of an institution’s research specialized labs: a three-story “high bay” activity—ballooned by 80 percent between for large-scale experiments, an ultraclean 2003 and 2012, to nearly $200 million. nanofabrication lab, a greenhouse and an “The one thing that connects generations imaging suite equipped with microscopes for hen the doors of the Science of GW engineers and scientists is that we viewing objects at resolutions better than one and Engineering Hall open studied in really crummy facilities. And billionth of a meter. in January, it will signal it made us scrappy,” Board of Trustees The building will put the university the culmination of nearly a Chair Nelson Carbonell, BS ’85, said in and the city “at the center of scientific decade of planning and four 2011, then as vice chair, at the building’s innovation,” GW President Steven Knapp years of construction—a demolition, a dig groundbreaking. said after the concrete structure reached its and a steady climb skyward from the bottom “GW scientists and engineers can do a lot full height, in late 2013. of a 75-foot hole. But the new year brings the with a little,” he said. “But just imagine what “Washington, D.C., is often thought of a start of something even bigger. we can do with a lot.” city of power and policy,” he said. “But for For some academic departments, us to have credibility in the future in the the building’s opening marks a reunion, THE NEW BUILDING—eight stories above policy realm, we need to also have authority reconnecting colleagues and experiments ground and six below, including four levels in the realm of technology, science and scattered among the nooks of a space- of parking—is located on the former site of engineering.” squeezed city campus. It also will be a place the University Parking Garage at 22nd and The city is very much what distinguishes to build new connections and cover new H streets. It brings together research and this facility from research buildings at other ground. And for many faculty and student teaching spaces previously spread across a college campuses throughout the country, researchers, the building’s long-awaited dozen buildings. And it nearly doubles the officials say. Dr. Knapp has mused that it’s opening, ahead of an official ribbon-cutting space on campus available to a variety of the largest science and engineering research in March, starts a new era of inquiry and science and engineering programs. building within blocks of the White House. opportunity at GW that, until now, they The Science and Engineering Hall will And that proximity to corridors of power— could only daydream about. initially house around 140 faculty members including Capitol Hill, the National Institutes For years, the growth of the university’s from 10 departments, including all six from of Health, the National Science Foundation research profile outpaced its infrastructure. the School of Engineering and Applied and other federal agencies that are a subway Engineers converted dusty storage rooms Science and four disciplines from the ride away—is already a tangible advantage. into makeshift laboratories. Scientists Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. The building has not only attracted conducted experiments in crowded The mix will range from computer scientists researchers to GW, officials say, but it’s also basements and carpeted labs. Graduate and aerospace engineers to physicists and a magnet for equipment manufacturers and students traveled four times per week to biologists. They’ll be joined, likely in 2016, other potential industry partners looking build nanodevices at the National Institute by some of the researchers from the Milken to have a presence in a brand-new, high- of Standards and Technology, 25 miles from Institute School of Public Health and the visibility space. It has already resulted in campus. GW’s only transmission electron School of Medicine and Health Sciences deals involving showcase-level microscopes. microscope—for viewing fine details in when the top two floors are completed. “It’s an impressive building in an minuscule specimens—lived underneath the “This building likely will hold the most impressive location,” says Can Korman, Lisner Auditorium stage. diverse amount of combined science and associate dean for research and graduate And yet, they made it work. The university engineering of any building that you could studies at SEAS, and the lead academic has climbed into the top tier of research find in the United States,” says Rob Voss, a representative from SEAS in the planning schools, as counted by the influential Carnegie project architect at Ballinger, the firm that of the building. “There are a lot of great

Think Tank From biomedical engineers and chemists to anthropologists and computer scientists, the Science and Engineering Hall is a melting pot of expertise, ideas and high tech. These faculty researchers are among the initial 140 or so who will be bringing the corridors to life.

‹ Amy Zanne ‹ Volker Sorger [BIOLOGY] [ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING] PLANT PHYSIOLOGY & EVOLUTION NANOPHOTONICS Explores plant traits in order to Squeezes light into spaces just understand the links between a few nanometers wide to more a plant’s structure and its efficiently power smartphones and function. Recently led a team computers. With a new NSF grant, that assembled the largest he’s launching a program based in time-pegged evolutionary tree the new building that will give of flowering plants, showing students experience with how they evolved to tolerate nanotechnology earlier cold winters. in their academic

WILLIAM ATKINS careers.

gwmagazine.com / 33 CORE LAB FACILITIES TEACHING & COLLABORATIVE SPACES SUSTAINABLE BY DESIGN BY THE Beefsteak The ground floor will house NANOFABRICATION LAB LEHMAN AUDITORIUM A ROOF THAT KEEPS COOL the first casual dine-in and An intensely clean environment where researchers The room, to be named in honor of Donald R. Vegetation covers more than 10,000 square feet NUMBERS takeout restaurant from (in head-to-toe “bunny suits”) build and work with Lehman, PhD ’70, professor emeritus and former of the roof, keeping the building cool by absorbing 500,000 renowned chef José Andrés, Approximate gross square footage in the devices that measure mere billionths of a meter. executive vice president for academic affairs, will heat from the sun while also reducing rainwater a fixture of the food scene in building. To do that, the air is scrubbed of contaminants like offer space for teaching and major lectures and runoff. The rest of the roof was made light in color D.C. and, more recently, at dust, dead skin and hair, which are relative giants—a symposia, with retractable stadium-style seating so those areas would reflect heat, too. strand of hair is around 100,000 nanometers for around 200 people. GW. In addition to teaching a across—that can destroy experiments. In the CO-GENERATION SYSTEM The time since GW officials, popular course, he delivered cleanest parts of the lab, each cubic foot of air will the 2014 Commencement Under The building will get 80 to 85 percent of its power trustees and students took the have no more than 100 particles larger than 0.5 from a green co-generation system in the utility address and serves on GW’s microns, roughly half the width of a red blood cell. plant at Ross Hall, across the street, which captures first sledgehammer whacks at Urban Food Task Force. The and recycles steam to generate electricity and heat 43 the University Parking Garage, eatery takes its name from for both buildings. MONTHS which used to occupy the site. the beefsteak tomato, and OTHER FEATURES the menu will revolve around › Graywater Use vegetables. Rain from the roof drains into a 42,000-gallon Faculty members, cistern to be filtered and used to flush toilets, 140 saving roughly 850,000 gallons of water per year. approximately, stemming from 10 departments One STUDIO LAB › Chilled beams This integrated lecture/lab space is geared toward Horizontal beams suspended from the ceiling across CCAS and SEAS, 12 a more hands-on classroom experience. It can fit Buildings on use water to cool the air more efficiently than a who will be moved into 72 students as one room or be converted into three conventional air-conditioning system. campus from separate rooms. the building when it 100 which CCAS and › Electric Car Charging opens. Researchers from IMAGING SUITE The underground, 386-space parking garage YEARS SEAS faculty Five rooms—specially built to dampen vibrations COMMON AREAS includes the second electric car-charging two more schools will The expected lifespan members are from the nearby Metro—housing high-resolution The building was designed with collaboration location on the Foggy Bottom Campus (the other follow later. of the building. coming from. microscopy equipment, such as a new transmission in mind, and it offers plenty of space for that to is nearby, in the Academic Center). electron microscope that can magnify samples happen. Tables and chairs dot broad common areas by 1 million times, allowing researchers to study › Energy Recovery Wheels where students can do homework and researchers This technology recycles conditioned air from Roof a nanometer-sized sample in ultra-fine detail. Metric tons of carbon dioxide saved each year— can meet; there are banks of open workstations, the building in order to heat or cool incoming air, At any moment in the new Science The tool can also create 3-D reconstructions of glass-walled labs and classrooms, and nooks for reducing energy needs. The savings are expected more than half of the building’s would-be carbon and Engineering Hall, researchers specimens. student clubs to meet. From the third floor on up, to pay for the system in less than three years. footprint—as a result of sharing Ross Hall’s co- could be testing the strength a spiral staircase links each pair of floors within generation power system; that’s the equivalent of of bridge beams and peering at a two-story atrium that fills with light from a wall › Refill Stations, Lockers & Showers GREENHOUSE of full-length windows. These and other common To encourage the use of reusable water bottles, taking nearly 1,500 vehicles off the road. samples magnified a million times, Anticipated to open in 2016, the rooftop greenhouse areas are brightened by plant-covered “green walls” refill stations are located outside every restroom. 8,100 while students learn, electric cars will be climate-controled to keep the space and trees, including a nearly 25-foot ficus. Lockers and showers encourage exercise. charge and diners experience the hospitable for plants during the high summer heat. craft of chef José Andrés. And that’s not the half of it. Fields that are CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE HIGH BAY represented in the ENGINEERING ENGINEERING This expansive, three-story lab—with a glass wall facing 23rd Street to invite onlookers—features a building: Explore Science and Engineering Hall reinforced, 28-foot-high “strong wall” and a “strong further at magazine.gwu.edu. floor” to test the strength of enormous objects, like COMPUTER SCIENCE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING bridge beams. The lab includes a 20-ton crane, a dedicated loading bay and a student machine shop. BIOLOGY

ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER RESEARCHERS FROM THE CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING MILKEN INSTITUTE SCHOOL

“TEACHING TOWER” OF PUBLIC HEALTH These 1,000-square-foot teaching labs are stacked at the PHYSICS center building, from the third floor to the eighth floor. ENGINEERING Enclosed by glass on three sides, they include labs for RESEARCHERS FROM THE software engineering, circuitry and robotics. Specialty MANAGEMENT & teaching spaces elsewhere in the building include labs SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND for molecular genetics, biomedical engineering and ANTHROPOLOGY environmental engineering. HEALTH SCIENCES WILLIAM ATKINS NANOFABRICATION LAB PHOTO: WILLIAM ATKINS / RENDERINGS: COURTESY BALLINGER

34 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 gwmagazine.com / 36 gwmagazine.com / 37 “You can’t 500,000-square-foot facility without innovative ideas that could result from those underestimate multiplying GW’s carbon footprint. The collaborations. end result is an academic building that is In the past, GW researchers often were the importance of unparalleled at GW in scope and function, “supporting actors” on larger institutions’ as well as eco-friendly. Among the building’s multimillion-dollar grants—not because of geography ... And sustainable features, the roof protects the “lack of brainpower,” says Dr. Korman, but that’s the point building from the heat of the sun, heat from rather, lack of proper facilities. the building’s exhaust air is captured and “Now we’re in a position to be a major of the building— transferred to incoming air, and rainwater is player for these larger grants,” he says. collected and reused to flush toilets. The nanofabrication lab, for instance, it might actually will allow engineers like Volker Sorger induce biological AS MUCH AS the Science and Engineering to conduct his research in Foggy Bottom, Hall is about new facilities and bringing instead of traveling to federal labs or anthropologists together departments, it’s also about looking outsourcing to other universities. After beyond the bounds of traditional silos. In completing a PhD at UC-Berkeley in 2011, to have lunch with an effort to encourage that, many of the Dr. Sorger says the promise of the Science electrical engineers. building’s work spaces are surrounded and Engineering Hall is part of what by glass, putting research and classroom attracted him to the electrical and computer And then who activities on display. engineering faculty. “We want people to be curious, to look in Dr. Sorger works in nanophotonics, or knows what might and say, ‘Hey, what are you doing in there? light at the nanometer level, a space about happen?” Maybe I can help you,’” says Jason Zara, a 100,000 times smaller than the width of professor in the Department of Biomedical a human hair. He is seeking to develop ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR CHET Engineering. “With funding getting tighter technology that could harvest its energy to SHERWOOD every year, research is really moving in a power laptops or smartphones. Other GW much more interdisciplinary direction.” researchers are building nano-scale sensors buildings in the middle of cornfields.” Faculty members will be grouped to detect small volumes of toxins or to enable But GW’s largest capital construction into “research neighborhoods,” which devices to diagnose medical conditions using project didn’t come without challenges. concentrate researchers with overlapping a single drop of blood or urine. The construction site shared a city block interests, like researchers from the At the opposite end of the spectrum, with three residence halls, a D.C. traffic Center for the Advanced Study of Human the Science and Engineering Hall’s three- artery and, below ground, a Metro tunnel. Paleobiology. After outgrowing their story high bay will allow engineers like The building required elaborate planning townhouse office and being scattered around Sameh Badie, in the Department of Civil and delicate maneuvering by engineers, campus, they’ll be together and surrounded and Environmental Engineering, to work on architects and construction crews. by chemists, biologists and engineers. outsized projects that will help build safer, The imaging suite and nanofabrication One of the center’s researchers, more earthquake-resistant bridges and lab, for instance, are engineered to dampen anthropology professor Chet Sherwood, is buildings. Dr. Badie conducts experiments vibrations from the Metro. Instruments on a floor that shares a kitchen and common on reinforced and prestressed concrete that use electrons for imaging and etching space with the Electrical and Computer structures that are sometimes in the nanoscale devices are specially shielded from Engineering Department on the floor below. range of 45 feet long and 8 feet tall. Since the magnetic fields produced by the subway’s “You can’t underestimate the importance the facilities at the engineering school’s high-voltage rails. of geography,” he says. “And that’s the point Tompkins Hall could not accommodate “Whether you’re trying to see things or of the building—it might actually induce those large structures, Dr. Badie often build things at the nanometer scale, you biological anthropologists to have lunch with needed to hand off his projects to other want to make sure those little electrons are electrical engineers. And then who knows institutions with larger facilities. going right where you want them to go,” what might happen?” The enormous room also could benefit Dr. Korman says. Officials say that combined with the researchers like Philippe Bardet, in the On top of that, the university building’s shared specialty labs, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace challenged designers to build the nearly university is now positioned to propel the Engineering, who needs a high ceiling for

‹ Akos Vertes ‹ Grace Zhang [CHEMISTRY] [MECH. & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING] CHEMICAL ANALYSIS TISSUE REGENERATION Developing tools to rapidly With a $2 million New Innovator identify the root cause of Award from the NIH, creating biological and chemical threats. a 3-D bioprinting technique Under a $14.6 million award to enable the regeneratation from the U.S. Defense Advanced of complex tissues, such as Research Projects Agency, vascularized bone, cartilage or DARPA, Dr. Vertes and his and muscle, that has been collaborators are tasked with damaged by injury or disease. reducing to 30 days a process

that can take years. VERTES: JESSICA MCCONNELL BURT / ZHANG: WILLIAM ATKINS his studies on the fluid dynamics inside nuclear reactors. TOMPKINS HALL

FOR STUDENTS, TOO, the building will offer exposure to new research opportunities and modern learning spaces. ROSS HALL & HIMMELFARB “Instead of this being a drag that you LIBRARY have to go to lab for four hours, you are going

into a lab that inspires you, a lab where you DUQUÈS HALL want to learn,” says chemistry professor Susan Gillmor. All chemistry classes will be taught in the building starting in 2015. With larger labs the Chemistry Department will offer more spots in introductory classes. And the new THE AVENUE teaching spaces create “few barriers among ACADEMIC CENTER students, and also between the students and the instructor,” professor Cynthia Dowd says. The Science and Engineering Hall, located at 22nd and H streets NW, sits at the site of the former University Parking Garage. In a departure from the traditional lab layout—rows of workstations arranged behind one another—the new chemistry rooms have lab benches that line the lot more chances for undergrads to get early on,” Dr. Sorger says. “And once we perimeter. Tables for discussion and involved in research, just because there will hook them into nano, they don’t leave.” collaboration sit in the center, intended to be so much more visibility. Our lab now is That potential surrounding the Science encourage more face-to-face interaction. in Staughton Hall—most people don’t even and Engineering Hall is part of the energy The building also features a know where that is,” Ms. Hubler says. “Since that drew him to GW in the first place. reconfigurable engineering “studio lab” on the labs are so fragmented, it’s hard for Dr. Sorger sees the building as a launchpad, the ground floor, a lab/lecture hybrid space undergrads to really see the types of projects and he’s in good company around campus: designed to encourage hands-on activities. faculty are working on.” Among administrators and the researchers The studio lab has room for 72 students and The building will also have a scaled- who will be in the building, the word can be switched from, say, a mechanical down teaching version of the superclean “transformational” tends to follow “Science engineering lab to one for electrical nanotechnology lab—a rarity on college and Engineering Hall” like a last name. That engineering, by pushing carts of equipment campuses, officials say—that will be used excitement has seen the building through into storage space in the walls. It also can be to train researchers and expose students to from lines on paper to concrete pillars and, divided into three separate rooms. the art of nanofabrication early on in their finally, to bright new labs and classrooms The glass-walled, collaborative academic careers. awaiting occupants. The outcomes that will atmosphere of the building will also make A grant from the National Science be forged there are unknown but, for many, it easier for students to find research Foundation will fund a new nanofabrication the possibilities seem endless. opportunities, says student Elizabeth Hubler, course co-taught by three SEAS faculty “The size, the investment and the BS ’14, who is staying at GW to pursue a members, as well as a nanotechnology momentum behind the building … it’s very master’s degree. After a freshman year fellowship program led by Dr. Sorger, the exciting,” Dr. Sorger says. “We can really class with Michael Plesniak, chair of the nanophotonics researcher. The grant will build something here.” Department of Mechanical and Aerospace allow 10 freshmen and sophomores to work Engineering, she became involved in in the teaching clean room this summer and Dr. Plesniak’s fluid dynamics lab, and has learn the techniques of nanotechnology. The The expansion of research facilities stayed ever since. There, she is working year after that, those students will lead the and opportunities for students and to improve a simulated human vocal tract, next cohort of undergraduates. faculty members is a pillar of GW’s which could be used to treat voice disorders. “We really want to create nanotechnology $1 billion philanthropic campaign. For “I think the new building will bring a ambassadors. We want to win them very more details, visit campaign.gwu.edu.

‹ Bernard Wood ‹ Rumana Riffat [ANTHROPOLOGY] [CIVIL & ENVIRO. ENGINEERING] HUMAN ORIGINS WASTEWATER TREATMENT Studying how to better classify Finding solutions for water and reconstruct evolutionary pollution and shortages in relationships among hominini, communities around the world, the lineage that led to from developing a small-scale our own species, water treatment and reuse Homo sapiens, with system in Pakistan to current a particular focus research evaluating a high- on skull and tooth rate process for removing fossils. carbon and nitrogen from

WOOD, RIFFAT: WILLIAM ATKINS / ILLUSRTRATION: VIRTUALTOUR.GWU.EDU wastewater in D.C.

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40 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 Bradley Stevens paints at his home studio in Gainesville, Va., about an hour outside Washington. His wife, artist Patricia Skinner, sits in the background.

The PORTRAIT Behind the brushes MAKER of “incurable people-watcher” Bradley Stevens, BA ’76, MFA ’79

By Bill Glovin, BA ’77

gwmagazine.com / 41 hen Bradley Stevens was introduced to Hillary Clinton in 2007, he offered to paint her presidential portrait someday. He watched as she howled with laughter. “She reacted like it was the funniest thing she ever heard,” says Mr. Stevens. “Trouble is, I was serious.” And it wouldn’t be a stretch. After all, the encounter with Ms. Clinton occurred at the unveiling of one of Mr. Stevens’ paintings—a portrait of political power broker Vernon left The portrait of Vernon Jordan that Jordan—at the Smithsonian’s National hangs in the National Portrait Gallery Portrait Gallery. His work hangs in the middle Seeking Sargent, from the series Capitol (the House and Senate) and the State Museum Studies, is part homage, part self Department. It’s in George Washington’s portrait and includes Mr. Stevens’ wife, Mount Vernon estate and Thomas Jefferson’s Patricia, on the left bottom The Paris- Monticello. inspired Morning Along the Quai, from his Mr. Stevens, BA ’76, MFA ’79, has painted latest exhibit politicians and banking tycoons, educators and judges, among them a former U.S. Supreme Court justice. He gave Georgetown hoops phenomenon Allen Iverson the shape-up-or-ship-out warning during a drawing class he taught in the 1990s; he hand-delivered Felix Rohatyn’s portrait to the legendary financier at the Lazard Frères headquarters on the top floor of 30 Rock in Manhattan; and he’s had to ask Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, BA ’77, an old GW buddy, to sit still while painting his official gubernatorial portrait, which will hang in perpetuity in the Virginia State Capitol building in Richmond. His portrait of Albert H. Small, whose Washingtoniana Collection will serve as an anchor of a new GW museum complex, will hang in the new building. “Painting a U.S. president would be the pinnacle of my career,” he says. The clout of the person sitting for a portrait, naturally, has a tendency to rub off on the painting. “How much higher can you get than painting the leader of the free world?” It’s a pinnacle, though, that would be one more peak in a career crowded with high points: Mr. Stevens, considered among the nation’s leading realist painters, has won praise not just for his original portraiture and sanctioned copies of great works, but also for his landscapes and cityscapes. From the warmth of the sun to a face in the crowd and the visage of a president, he seems to find inspiration equally. “I’m an incurable people-watcher. I find people endlessly fascinating,” Mr. Stevens says. “Everybody is so unique.

It’s the job of the portrait painter to seize ALL: COURTESY BRADLEY STEVENS

42 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 upon what makes someone special and different.”

RAISED IN WESTPORT, CONN., an affluent suburb that is about an hour by train to midtown Manhattan, Mr. Stevens’ father was a Madison Avenue adman and his mother an elementary school teacher. At Staples High School, he played guitar in rock bands and was a starter on the basketball team. “I'm sure my hometown had an influence on my path towards the arts,” he says. “It’s a culturally progressive place with many New York-based artists, illustrators, writers, actors, musicians and the like.” Drawn to GW by the world-class art museums and cultural opportunities surrounding Foggy Bottom, Mr. Stevens thought as a freshman that he him an easel in the museum on which he Mr. Stevens’ mural in the U.S. Capitol might major in economics. But he found the copied hundreds of paintings by Old Masters. commemorating the Connecticut abstract theories of macroeconomics far less “This was something that artists had Compromise of 1787, which ironed out the inspiring than his studio art classes. done for centuries as part of their education issue of how states would be represented “My professors—William Woodward, but that had fallen out of favor in the in Congress. The painter’s dentist and art Frank Wright and Arthur Hall Smith—were contemporary art world,” he says. “I loved agent modeled in constume for the piece. superb and generous about sharing their it, and it’s where I learned so much about lives as artists,” he recalls. painting.” Mr. Woodward, now a professor emeritus He became so good at re-creating the of fine art, remembers Mr. Stevens as techniques of Degas, Monet, Manet, Gilbert “patient, methodical and modest … a very Stuart and others that, in the decades bright guy.” And Mr. Stevens’ time at GW since, the National Gallery and other would be foundational to the painter he institutions, enterprises and individuals would become. have commissioned him to replicate At Mr. Woodward’s encouragement, he works. Among them: His reproduction COMMISSIONS HAVE A WAY of enrolled in a summer painting program of Gilbert Stuart’s famous, full-length leading the Gainesville, Va.-based artist in Brittany, France. There, “a whole other Landsdowne portrait of George Washington, through doors without knowing what to world opened up to me and gave me my commissioned by the Smithsonian expect on the other side. One reproduction love of France that continues to this day,” Institution, now hangs at Mount Vernon. project required that he spend several Mr. Stevens says. He’s also re-created paintings of Thomas days working as the sole occupant in the His most recent exhibit—in October and Jefferson for Monticello, James Monroe for White House’s Map Room, complete with November at the Warm Springs Gallery in the State Department, James Madison for the a U.S. Marine guarding the door; another Charlottesville, Va.—consisted of paintings U.S. House of Representatives and Benjamin took him to headquarters of real estate and of Paris and Provence created with a mind Franklin for the U.S. Embassy in Paris. banking magnate B.F. Saul, during which toward avoiding “postcard images” of After graduate school, Mr. Stevens also Mr. Stevens mentioned that 35 years earlier, France in favor of scenes from everyday went on to teach evening art and anatomy as a GW student, he had lived in one of Mr. life. “As travelers, we often see places classes at GW and Georgetown for nearly Saul’s apartment buildings and wrote rent through the eyes of a tourist without actually two decades, before deciding to devote all his checks to him; yet another commission took experiencing the place,” he says. time to painting in 2000. him to the Fifth Avenue duplex of Helene and At GW, where the lanky, 6-foot-5 But in 1980, the year after he finished at Michel David-Weill, where more than a dozen Mr. Stevens played lead guitar in the comedy GW, there was one more seminal moment original paintings of French masters peered band, the Dogmatics, he also got his first for the young painter. The National Gallery down while Mr. David-Weill posed in an professional art commission: The athletics of Art mounted a major exhibition of 19th- antique French brocaded chair given to his department hired him to paint a caricature of century landscapes, called American Light. father by Coco Chanel. George Washington running and dribbling Mr. Stevens, who had a studio within walking The opportunity to interact with and a basketball on the court of the newly built distance, visited practically every day. learn from “luminaries … people that you Smith Center. “I had to paint with the same “It changed my life; for the first time I might not normally have the opportunity to liquid rubber that the court was made out of felt where I really fit in as an artist because associate with,” he regards as an enormous at the time, before they switched to wood,” he these artists were motivated by the same benefit of the job. From one day to the next, recalls. things I was seeing in the landscape,” he he may be talking about news in the Middle And, while completing an MFA at the says. “Invariably, what inspires me the most East with U.S. Rep. Howard P. “Buck” Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, in my landscape painting is a certain quality McKeon, chair of the House Armed Services Mr. Stevens was accepted into the National of light that imparts a mood to the subject. Committee; California versus French

COURTESY BRADLEY STEVENS Gallery of Art’s copyist program, affording Everything else develops from there.” cabernets with David Trone, founder of

gwmagazine.com / 43 “You go to any museum, and a good percentage of the works are portraits of one kind or another. I revere those examples passed down to us. They are my teachers.”

right Potomac Morning Fog, a 2-foot-wide, 4-foot-long oil painting below Mr. Stevens paints a copy of a James Madison portrait by Gilbert Stuart at the National Gallery of Art. It was commissioned by the family that donated the original to the museum.

Total Wine; or heart stents with biomedical a certain lack of ego, which may sound odd engineer Robert Fischell. because we think of artists as being all about For each client, Mr. Stevens provides a ego. But the painting should be about your seven-step document that outlines “working subject and not about you. Sure, all artists procedures” such as a photo/sketching have their own vision and style, but those session, the client’s approval of the final qualities need to be subservient to capturing compositional and scheduling several “life the person being painted.” sessions,” or actual sittings. Portraiture links the present to the future, “It’s important for me to get my subjects Mr. Stevens says, and so he feels responsible to relax and feel comfortable,” he says. “The for creating a work of art that will be an best portraits don’t look posed. I spend time heirloom over many generations. with the person, getting a sense of their A portrait he painted of his wife’s mother, personality and spirit, which I try to capture who died in 2007, “proudly hangs in the in the portrait. family home,” he says. “In a strange way it's “I once had a commission to paint a doctor like her presence is still there, which speaks in Richmond,” he recalls. “Before the doctor to the power of portraiture. started posing, we sat around his office and “A testament to portraiture’s grand casually talked—all the while, I was secretly tradition,” he says, “is how humans have studying his mannerisms and gestures. been compelled to capture their own image Suddenly I said, ‘Freeze!’ I instinctively knew since the beginning of civilization. Go to any the pose he was in would be perfect for the museum, and a good percentage of the works portrait because it was utterly natural and are portraits of one kind or another. I revere reflected who he was.” those examples passed down to us. They are

Portrait painters, he says, “should have my teachers. I like to think that we are all ALL: COURTESY BRADLEY STEVENS

44 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 part of one long continuum. Too many artists born out of personal experience, things I've “Each genre or subject matter in which I ignore art history, I believe.” seen or felt,” he says. work serves to assist the others,” says This appreciation for the great masters Portraits may mostly drive his Mr. Stevens. “The portrait work helps when I was a subject Mr. Stevens explored in his commissions, but Mr. Stevens’ love for put figures in my landscapes or cityscapes. My 2013 exhibition Museum Studies, a series painting landscapes has never waned. An portraits will occasionally have a landscape of 13 paintings portraying people admiring avid hiker and camper since boyhood, he says in the background and so forth. The natural famous works inside renowned museums that he feels most spiritual in the presence of overlap between areas of concentration around the country. It was, he says, a natural an awe-inspiring landscape. hopefully makes me a better artist.” evolution of his time spent in museums He has painted scenes from his rafting The overlap has trained an eye for copying paintings and one of his most and hiking trips through the Grand Canyon, subjects that is as enamored of “endless ambitious projects to date, taking him a year as well as trips through almost every national fascinating characters” as it is a snowy, sun- to complete. park west of the Rockies and parts of Hawaii, dappled field or the wake of a kayaker plying The series, which was exhibited at the British Columbia and much of California. He the Potomac. Warms Springs Gallery and given front-page and his wife, artist Patricia Skinner, spend “I used to have students come up to me treatment in The Washington Post’s Style part of every year in Seattle, where she grew and say they don't know what to paint. I could section, was Mr. Stevens’ way of paying up, and for 20 years they have annually never understand that,” Mr. Stevens says. tribute to John Singer Sargent, Gilbert returned to their honeymoon spot, Orcas “You paint your life. If you are a living, Stuart and other inspiring artists and works. Island, Wash. Mr. Stevens calls the island, in breathing, thinking, feeling person, subjects While the paintings also very much focus Puget Sound bordering Canada, “incredibly are everywhere.” on architecture and geometry of the museum beautiful, wild and unspoiled, a place we go spaces, he calls the series his “most intimate to unwind and recharge.” and psychological work to date,” reinforcing Since the epiphany at the American Light Where’s the best place to hang a his belief that “all art is autobiographical in exhibition in 1980, he has mixed genres and painting at home? A professor offers some way or another. These paintings are has sometimes found confluence. tips in Institutional Knowledge, Pg. 76.

gwmagazine.com / 45 ON THE SIDELINES OF THE CIVIL STRIFE THAT HAS LONG EMBROILED THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE IN THE CROSSHAIRS.

The world’s newest nation is also one of its most volatile. South Sudan emerged in 2011, rising from nearly a half century of civil wars. But by the end of 2013, ethnic conflicts had erupted again in warring that has been marked by gender-based violence. “The bodies of women and children are the battleground of this conflict,” the United Nations’ special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura, said this fall after visiting one of the war’s hot spots. GW Global Women’s Institute Director MARY ELLSBERG and research director Manuel Contreras traveled to the fledgling country in August. They were preparing for potentially groundbreaking research that aims to estimate the scope of gender-based violence in South Sudan, and to better understand its causes and consequences, while also attempting to create a standard for measuring this kind of violence in conflict zones the world over. The study, proposed during South Sudan’s window of peace, is now taking on new dimensions of urgency, danger and complexity, as the researchers try to measure the violence of war in real time. Shortly after the trip, Dr. Ellsberg spoke with GW Magazine about the project and its relevance. —DANNY FREEDMAN

What do we know already about to apply those methods to an area that’s in violence against women and girls in complete upheaval—I think there’s been conflict zones? some skepticism about whether it can be We’ve known for a long time that rape exists done. in war. Now there’s a recognition that, in But the fact is: If you don’t have good data, some cases, it’s on a massive scale and used it’s much harder to convince people to invest as a tactic of war. We saw it in Bosnia and in solutions. So what we’re doing is figuring Herzegovina, we saw it in Rwanda, we’re out how to adapt and apply some of these seeing it in Democratic Republic of Congo tools, this rigorous scientific method, to an and in South Sudan. area that’s so fluid. In many places, rape is not just an opportunistic crime, it’s actually part of What’s the goal of the study? fighters’ tactics to demoralize villagers and We’re trying to understand the prevalence, to terrify them. And it’s done in horrendous the triggers and the characteristics of ways that are meant to completely devastate gender-based violence in both the most families and whole communities. recent conflict and earlier conflicts in South Domestic violence also increases in times Sudan. That’s going to be going on for a of conflict, and when women are getting couple years. Then we’re going to help design displaced, for example, this gets piled on and evaluate an intervention for violence to their already extreme vulnerabilities to prevention. child sexual abuse and to sexual assault in The research is part of a broader five-year communities. program led by the International Rescue So that’s what we do know; there’s a lot Committee, along with us at GWI and that we don’t know. CARE International, called “What Works to We have pretty good methods now for Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls doing this kind of research in non-conflict in Conflict and Humanitarian Emergencies,” circumstances. We’ve also done some which is funded by the United Kingdom’s

FLAG: ©ISTOCK.COM/SITOX research in postconflict settings. But how Department for International Development.

gwmagazine.com / 47 on the prevalence and drivers of violence. We A dramatic sky looms thought of South Sudan because it was newly over the greenery in area independent, and we were hearing really on the outskirts Juba, the positive stories. There was a feeling that the capital city, near a United people there had been through so much, and Nations’ Protection of here they are finally getting a chance to move Civilians camp. forward as an independent country and live in peace. It was a real time of optimism. There also were no data on gender-based violence, the government was interested in learning more, and it’s a place where they could actually use the data for programs. That’s how we proposed it. In November we got word that we received the contract, and in December everything blew up and civil war was back on. In some ways the research is just as important, or even more important, but it’s definitely more challenging to do the research than we initially expected. When we were there, the hardest thing was to choose where we would be able to do an ethnically diverse, representative study in six to eight months, because nobody knows where anybody’s going to be then, or what places it will be possible to enter. It’s just so fluid.

There are no measures for this kind of Hence calling this a feasibility visit. violence in war zones? What did you find when you got there? PEOPLE ARE JUST HUGELY Only a few studies have been done. And We were going to find out whether and where here’s another problem: Everybody’s using there were conditions on the ground to be FRUSTRATED OVER THE different questionnaires, their methods are able to do this research. With the conflict different, so the results aren’t comparable. ongoing we had real doubts, we thought that SITUATION. IT’S A TINDERBOX, That’s the problem we had with studying it would be impossible to do. But talking to domestic violence years ago. As a result, people on the ground, they wanted us to do AND THAT BREEDS MORE there was the World Health Organization’s the study. People felt it was important to Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and document what was happening and to do it in DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Domestic Violence against Women in 2005, real time, not wait till years later. which I was a part of, that was really the The first week we were in Juba, the first effort to have a standard methodology capital, meeting with the rest of the local and that would allow us to compare the levels of international research team, government violence across different settings. officials—we’re working closely with the For the South Sudan study, to ensure Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare that we’re building on best practices for and the National Bureau of Statistics— this kind of research, we are convening a United Nations agencies, health care workers meeting in February with researchers and and women’s groups. We also went to other stakeholders from all over the world. possible study sites, including a Protection of They’re going to share their experiences with Civilians camp in the surrounding county. interviewing methods, like face-to-face with Mary iPads or on paper; ways to make it safe and What was that like? Ellsberg comfortable for people to disclose violence; Everything is tense. People are living in very safety issues; how we measure and how small tents, basically, each made out of one we define violence, those kinds of big sheet of canvas. It’s hot, dusty; there’s not things—so we can try to develop the a lot of food. Women have to leave the camps gold-standard instrument. That’s to look for food and firewood, and that’s a big our goal here. risk for getting raped. People are just hugely frustrated over the situation. It’s a tinderbox, Why South Sudan? and that breeds more domestic violence. In July 2013, we proposed a set of In the second week, Manuel Contreras, different studies that we thought our institute’s director of research, traveled would contribute to the gaps in on to Rumbek in the central state of Lakes, the evidence, and we wanted a to continue the assessment. Things are very place where we could conduct both tense there, too.

qualitative and quantitative research It was a packed trip. While we were there, LANDSCAPE: MARY ELLSBERG / PORTRAIT: WILLIAM ATKINS

48 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 and in our ongoing efforts with the technical before the current war. that these programs actually prevent future advisory team I mentioned earlier, we’re violence. They may have other benefits trying to get everybody’s buy-in that what The survey is door-to-door? but, for the most part, relying on screening we’re doing is useful and appropriate, both You get maps of each village and programs and batterers’ treatment does not scientifically and culturally. At every step neighborhood—and the last census was work to reduce violence overall. we’re trying to do a lot of consultation to in 2008, before South Sudan was even a We also now know a lot more about the make sure that we’re getting it right. country, so we’ll be updating the maps as drivers of violence. A big reason why there’s One of the lines we have to walk carefully we go—and you randomly select, say, every more violence in one country than another, on is: We’re not doing this as human rights sixth house systematically through the or even one community to another, has to do activists. The IRC is a humanitarian actor, neighborhood. You find out who lives there. with social norms. When you’re in a setting and they have to be very careful to not appear We’re looking for women and men age 15 or where 50 percent of the men are beating to be taking sides. And we are public health older. If they have more than one, then we their wives, it’s not because 50 percent of the researchers; we’re trying to document the randomly select one and interview him or her. male population are monsters. It’s because problem and, based on that, to raise the flag The trick, then, is getting them alone. it’s socially acceptable, and if you don’t beat of awareness. Sometimes you take them outside, you go your wife you’re not considered to be a man. We also have to collect the data in a way sit under a tree, you go to the river where So deterrents through stronger laws—“you’ll that is completely impeccable, in terms of its they’re washing. That’s a key piece of this, go to jail if you do this”—or better services transparency, its rigor, its objectivity, or it so they can feel comfortable talking about are not going to change that. You have to won’t have credibility. violence. It’s such a stigmatized, sensitive work on making it not OK to beat your wife issue that people often won’t talk about it. But and talking about gender equality. In the end, how are you going to be that secrecy is also important so the person That sounds kind of touchy-feely. But now conducting the research? doesn’t face reprisals afterward. there have been a few rigorous, randomized, Choosing the sites was important, because We have a whole set of safety controlled trials that have shown that it is we had already decided that it would measures, developed by the World Health possible to prevent violence against women not be possible to carry out a nationally Organization, and that involves having by changing social norms. One community representative survey. We needed to find dummy questionnaires, or if somebody mobilization program carried out in Uganda, places that represent at least the three main walks into the room you change the subject called SASA!, reduced domestic violence by ethnic groups: the Dinka, Nuer and Murle. and start talking about breast-feeding or 50 percent in the study communities in two We ultimately settled on doing a door- immunizations, and these are all things that years. They just saturated the communities to-door field survey in Juba County and the you discuss with the woman beforehand. with messages about how harmful domestic state of Lakes. Juba County is ethnically We don’t tell the family that we’re talking violence was, not only to women but to diverse and includes urban and rural areas, about violence. We tell them it’s something families and communities. While many including two Protection of Civilians camps, about women’s health and then when we programs have focused on women, this while Lakes is largely rural and most of the get her alone we tell her what we’re going one also included everyone from men and people are Dinka. Lakes hasn’t seen the kind to be talking about. We’ll also have basic children to religious leaders, police, teachers of fighting that’s going on in other areas, but psychological and social services available, and health workers. It has been hugely there are conflicts between communities directly or by referral, both for the women in successful and is being adapted and scaled related to cattle rustling and bride prices that the study and for the interviewers. It’s hugely up in many countries. These are the types of also increase women’s risk of violence. stressful for interviewers to be listening interventions we think have the potential to Those two sites will have both the to these stories, and a lot of times they’ve make a lasting impact on violence worldwide. quantitative study and qualitative work— suffered abuse, too, so they need counseling The evidence showing that violence can interviews with survivors, humanitarian as well during the process. be prevented sends a very powerful message. and health care workers, and others, maybe For everyone’s safety and for the comfort We’re hoping to show that programs like this even perpetrators of violence. We’d planned of the people in the study, this piece will be can be successful in postconflict settings, too. on a third site, Unity state in the north, done by trained local interviewers, matched In conflict settings, like South Sudan, our but that’s one of the areas most affected with respondents by gender and ethnicity. emphasis is on documenting the magnitude by the war now. Going door-to-door would and types of violence women and girls are be too dangerous. So in order to try to still Is there anything that works to prevent facing, and the kinds of basic measures that represent that state, which is mostly Nuer, this kind of violence? can make a difference in the acute phase, we’ll conduct only the qualitative piece there. We just published a review paper in a special such as ensuring safe access to firewood and For the population survey, which issue of [British medical journal] The Lancet water. Often, women in refugee camps are will likely begin next summer, we’ll be that looks at the effectiveness of different raped when they have to leave the camps to interviewing 2,000 women and 1,000 men. programs to prevent all forms of violence, look for firewood or food or to carry water. A few studies have reported sexual violence including female genital mutilation, child Humanitarian groups are also paying a against men during conflicts, and though marriage, domestic violence and sexual lot more attention to issues like sanitation. If most of the people we talked with in South assault. And what we found was pretty the toilets are too far away, or if the women’s Sudan hadn’t heard of incidents like that, it interesting. toilets are too close to the men’s toilets, or may be that it goes unreported because of We did a review of all the rigorous studies if people have to go at night and there’s no stigma. We’d like to gather data and see, one we could find that aimed to reduce violence lighting, that’s when women get raped. way or another. against women and girls. Most of the studies So even pretty simple measures around So we’ll be asking women and men about in the U.S. and Canada involved screening infrastructure and lighting—like access their experiences with domestic violence, women for domestic violence or treatment to charcoal, so women don’t have to get sexual abuse in childhood and other violence for batterers through the justice system. firewood—can actually make a big difference they’ve witnessed or experienced during and We found that there is almost no evidence in terms of women’s safety in the camps.

gwmagazine.com / 49 In the remains of a 3,800-year-old palace, archaeologists seek clues about social, political and economic life in ancient Canaan.

BY LAUREN INGENO

50 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 n bare feet and socks they baffled Dr. Cline for the past decade. Though other great destruction. They just stopped dug, from before dawn until relatively unimpressive on the surface, Tel living there. It’s very strange.” dusk. Kabri is best known as one of only four sites Because of that, Tel Kabri is the only Inside the ruins of in the eastern Mediterranean that seem to Canaanite city from the Middle Bronze Age a Canaanite palace, an bear the influence of Western art, stemming that can be excavated in its entirety. And international team had from modern-day mainland Greece and the since so little is known about Canaanite unexpectedly uncovered Aegean Islands. society—including its status groups, political a three-foot-long ceramic Tel Kabri also offers insight into the little- structure and economy—excavating one of jar on day two of a six-week understood life of the Canaanites, and just the world’s best-preserved Canaanite palaces expedition in northern the right amount of mystery: Despite no clear is critical to understanding the ancient Israel. A few more days signs of destruction, the site was abandoned civilization, says Assaf Yasur-Landau of the of digging revealed that the room held 39 after just 300 years of Canaanite occupation, University of Haifa, who co-directs the dig at others, delicate and cracked but mostly never again to be populated. Tel Kabri with Dr. Cline. intact. Then the summer 2013 excavation “Who were the people who lived there? “Kabri is also a fantastic case study to turned into a frenzied race against time. And why did they leave?” Dr. Cline muses. learn about the development of Canaanite “It was both a curse and a blessing,” says “Who ruled the palace? And why were they urbanization and rise of political power,” GW professor of classics, anthropology and so preoccupied with Aegean art?” Dr. Yasur-Landau says, “as we can follow history Eric Cline. He is co-director of the Dr. Cline and a new group of volunteers the rise of [the] Canaanite palatial elite from dig at Tel Kabri, the onetime capital of a will seek answers when they return to the its humble beginning at private houses to Canaanite territory and now one of Israel’s site this summer. the rise of the palace, all during the Middle most elusive archaeological sites. “This is Bronze Age.” the type of thing you want to find, and yet, by the time we realized how many jars were in MISSING PIECES there, we were halfway through the season. To find Tel Kabri, travel north. LOST AND FOUND Once they were exposed, we had to get all 40 The 75-acre site, surrounded by lush Tel Kabri was first discovered in the 1950s, of them up, since they wouldn’t have survived plantations of bananas and avocados, is when members of Kibbutz Kabri found the winter.” located in the western Galilee region of 3,000-year-old stone artifacts near a local To complicate matters, the 375-square- Israel, less than three miles inland from the spring. In 1961, the Middle Bronze Age palace foot storage room could accommodate Mediterranean Sea and a 10-minute drive gained attention again, when the national only around 15 people. So the group did from the modern resort town of Nahariya. public water company stumbled upon it while something unorthodox: Half of the more than Tel Kabri is Israel’s third largest site from installing a pipeline. 60 volunteers dug during typical hours— the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1500 B.C.), Aharon Kempinski of Tel Aviv University from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m.—while the others following Hazor and Ashkelon. Much is still and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier of Heidelberg worked during the afternoon, enduring the unknown about its history, including the University led the first comprehensive dig at grueling July sun. Shoes and sandals were city’s ancient name. Its main structure, which Tel Kabri in the mid-1980s. left behind to prevent damage to the fragile dates around 1800 B.C., is presumed to be a In 1989, the archaeologists uncovered artifacts. palace based on its enormity—roughly the an elaborate, painted floor in the palace’s With two days to spare, the group size of two football fields—though evidence ceremonial hall. It depicted a red successfully excavated and preserved each of a king or queen has yet to be found. checkerboard motif, with pictures of irises of the 40 jars. An initial analysis of organic “Somebody had to have the manpower and crocuses painted into the squares in a residues confirmed what the archaeologists and the money to build it. And usually, distinctive Aegean style. suspected: They had struck wine. only a ruler could do that,” Dr. Cline says. Before the discovery, Aegean-style Results published this past summer, in the “Personally, I think it’s royal. But there’s no artwork—characterized by breezy journal PLOS One, indicated that the ancient proof for it—yet.” depictions of nature, fluid figures, and wine contained additives such as honey, Archaeologists are certain that a bright colors—had never been found cedar oil, juniper and perhaps even mint or Canaanite civilization built and inhabited the beyond the Aegean Islands, cinnamon. palace for about 300 years during the Middle which includes Crete and The 40 jars have a combined capacity Bronze Age, or in biblical terms, the time the Cyclades, and the of around 2,000 liters, or the equivalent of between Abraham and Moses. Canaan was a Greek mainland. 3,000 wine bottles, meaning the team dug up large and prosperous country that included Regional artistic what could be the oldest and largest palatial present-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and influence wine cellar in the Near East. Israel, until the territory was conquered by in Canaan “It is a wine cellar that, to our knowledge, Israelites during the second millennium B.C. typically is largely unmatched in its age and size,” says But Tel Kabri is highly unusual in that came from Dr. Cline. after it was abandoned no other settlements Mesopotamia Scholars have long recognized the were built on top of it. Other archaeological to the north, importance of wine production, distribution sites might have a dozen or more layers of where and consumption in relation to ancient ruins left by many generations rebuilding on present- civilizations, the researchers write in the same spot. day Iraq their paper. However, until now, direct “I don’t know why no one ever reoccupied is located, archaeological evidence has rarely been able it, especially since there is plenty of water not from the to support this. there,” says Dr. Cline. “We also don’t know Aegean Sea to the The discovery deepens the intrigue of a how or why it was destroyed. There is no 3,800-year-old archaeological site that has evidence of an earthquake, a fire or any

gwmagazine.com / 51 TURKEY Zach Dunseth, BA ’09, removes dirt from Alalakh wine jars found at Tel Kabri. More than 100 GW students have Qatna learned to dig at Tel MEDITERRANEAN SEA Kabri and Megiddo.

Kabri Jerusalem

Tell el-Dab‘a EGYPT

Tel Kabri, in Israel, is one of four sites in the eastern Mediterranean­—along with sites in Egypt, Syria and Turkey—that seem to bear the influence of Western art.

west. When he approached Dr. Cline about the The archaeologists also uncovered around possibility of reopening the site, the offer was 2,000 colorful fragments. The fragments too good to pass up: Dr. Cline had never led have string impressions, which artists once his own dig. And the excavation would give used in fresco painting as guiding lines—a him the rare opportunity to open a window technique not commonly found in eastern into the Canaanites and their interaction Mediterranean art. The archaeologists with the Aegean world. compared the fragments found at Tel Kabri “Assaf came to me in 2004 and said, ‘You with other Aegean wall paintings that want to reopen Kabri?’ And I said, ‘Sure, I’ll depicted similar motifs, colorings and line be in touch,’” says Dr. Cline. “That was that.” shapes. They were then able to reconstruct Since excavations restarted, taking hypothetical miniature frescoes, which place every two years since 2005, each showed hill and sea landscapes. digging season at Tel Kabri has proved more To date there are only three other sites successful than the last. On the summers where Aegean-style artistry has been that Dr. Cline is not excavating at Tel found—Tell el-Dab‘a in Egypt, Qatna in Syria Kabri, he co-directs another dig in Israel, and Alalakh in Turkey. at Megiddo—the site commonly known as “In archaeology we refer frequently to Armageddon, considered to be the crown Eric Cline, co- what’s called a koiné, a Greek word meaning jewel of biblical archaeology. For more than director of the ‘commonality.’ We’re wondering if there was 6,000 years, the city dominated international dig at Tel Kabri some kind of artistic koiné, where people traffic, as it was located above the most and a professor in the eastern Mediterranean were looking important land route in the ancient Near of classics, to the Aegean for influence, for whatever East. Within its 25 layers of settlements, anthropology reason,” Dr. Cline says. archaeologists have uncovered chariot and history. The Tel Kabri excavation project came stables, gold jewelry, monumental temples to a sudden halt when Dr. Kempinski died and remarkably engineered water systems. in 1994. Though he never saw his final With Kabri, though, it’s precisely the published findings, the archaeologist lack of layers and context that makes it considered the Tel Kabri site to be significant. “one of the most important in Israel,” “At Megiddo we’re more filling in the Dr. Niemeier writes in the introduction of Tel gaps,” Dr. Cline says. “At Tel Kabri, it’s really Kabri: The 1986-93 Excavation Seasons. a blank canvas.” The site remained untouched until 2003, when Dr. Yasur-Landau of the University of Haifa returned to the western Galilee to A LINK TO GREECE conduct remote sensing at Tel Kabri. He During the 2009 and 2011 excavations, discovered that the palace was twice as large Dr. Cline and his team uncovered more

as Dr. Kempinski had originally thought. fragments of Aegean-style painted wall ALL: ERIC CLINE

52 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 An aerial view of Tel Kabri, a 75- acre site in northern Israel that houses the ruins of a Canaanite city dating to around 1800 B.C., during the Middle Bronze Age inset Team members remove debris from one of the wine jars. DIG SITE: SKYVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY / INSET: ERIC CLINE

gwmagazine.com / 53 ALL: ERIC CLINE

Residue analysis of the jars found a hallmark of wine, as well as additives like honey. Just before the dig season ended, other chambers were discovered with more jars that now await the team’s return.

54 / gw magazine / Winter 2015 plaster and another painted floor. found facedown in the palace, which suggests acid—a “surefire” marker of red wine, he The fragments vary in quality and size but that the Aegean-style art was torn down and says. add valuable information about the artistic discarded after the remodeling. Some of “This wasn’t moonshine that someone plan of the palace and its sources of artistic the art was even reused, seemingly without was brewing in their basement, eyeballing influence. Of these, the most intriguing sentiment, as patching on the plaster floor. the measurements,” Dr. Koh said when the collection is five bright blue fragments, “It’s as if they thought, ‘Well, this is team announced their initial findings in which, when pieced together, depict part garbage, and we have a hole that needs fall 2013. “This wine’s recipe was strictly of what is likely an animal painted in black to be filled here, so let’s just use it here,’” followed in each and every jar.” ink. Dr. Cline says the blue paint is the first Dr. Cline says. Many of these ingredients, like honey, of its kind found in Israel from the Middle Aegean art may have simply gone out mirror the additives that are detailed in Bronze Age. Without all of the pieces, he is of style, or perhaps a new ruler moved in. ancient 1700 B.C. texts from Mesopotamia. not certain what the image once depicted. Politics could also have been at play, but “We have a physical manifestation of Judging by the thinness of the lines and the Dr. Cline says the paintings just as likely what you can read about,” says Dr. Cline. He precision of the brushstrokes, it’s clear to the could have been removed for functional admits that it is not necessarily an indication researchers that this is the work of a skilled reasons. In Greece, he says, frescoes stuck that the wine found at Tel Kabri was artist. easily to the stone walls used there. By imported from the Euphrates. “But it is still Who traveled all the way from the Aegean contrast, the Tel Kabri palace walls are made cool that something we’ve known about only Islands or Greek mainland to paint the walls of mud brick, which does not hold plaster as from texts for decades, we now have scientific and floors at an eastern Mediterranean well. Once the frescoes began to peel, the proof of its existence.” palace? And more important, why? Canaanites may have decided to rip them off The additives of the Kabri wine suggest Dr. Cline admits that he may never be able the walls. the Canaanites had a sophisticated to definitively answer those questions, but he understanding of the botanical landscape can make some educated guesses. and skills necessary to produce such a In the Middle and Late Bronze Age, rulers TO BE CONTINUED complex beverage, the researchers wrote in in Egypt and the ancient Near East often sent In summer 2013, with grants from National their new study. And while 3,000 modern artisans on short-term loan to each other, so Geographic, the Israel Science Foundation, bottles of wine seems like a large collection, it’s possible that Aegean rulers were part of a Bronfman Philanthropies and the Institute it is not enough for widespread distribution, similar exchange network in the east. for Aegean Prehistory, Dr. Cline and they note. The number of jars as well as their Despite its prominent position as a his excavation team were tasked with location next to the palace’s ceremonial room gateway community, Kabri was only investigating the palatial economy of Kabri— indicates that the archaeologists found the a “secondary player” compared with to look at the haves versus the have-nots—by private reserve of a ruler. other commercial cities, such as Hazor, comparing findings from inside and outside What other relics are hidden in the palace Dr. Cline and Dr. Yasur-Landau write in of the palace. ruins? And how will the new discoveries help a 2011 paper published in the American The archaeologists aimed to locate to tell the history of Tel Kabri? When the Journal of Archaeology. The archaeologists the western edge of the palace, but were excavation team returns in June, there will suspect that the Kabri rulers wanted to surprised to instead hit the remains of a be plenty to look forward to. show that they belonged to a “cosmopolitan” storage room, where they found the 40 wine Just days before the archaeologists Mediterranean club and had connections to jars. To date, it is the largest concentration wrapped up their last season, in the summer places outside of the Near East. of restorable pottery found in the palace and of 2013, they discovered two doors in the Recent excavations at Tel Kabri also the only place on site where an entire room storage room leading to other chambers, revealed that the palace underwent full of artifacts has been discovered. The one to the west and one to the south. In those significant architectural renovations, which early testing of organic residue in the jars, by rooms they spotted even more ceramic jars. resulted in the creation of a much larger Kabri dig colleague Andrew Koh of Brandeis “Those are the first things we’ll go after,” building. The palace’s fresco fragments were University, found the presence of tartaric Dr. Cline says. If the jars contain something other than wine, perhaps olive oil or wheat for instance, that could for the first time shed significant Two of the 40 three-foot-long light on the Canaanite economy, he says. He’s ceramic jars discovered during hopeful, and the excitement is palpable in fieldwork in the summer of 2013. his voice—in spite of the knowledge that the rubble may keep as many Canaanite secrets as it gives up. “What it boils down to is that we need a time machine,” says Dr. Cline. “They can’t come back to tell you if you’re right or wrong.”

For more on Tel Kabri, ways to support the dig and details on participating in fieldwork this summer, visit go.gwu.edu/digkabri. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until March 1.

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Associates, E-Systems and Terry and Raytheon. In 1997, he and Alisann Collins colleagues Vic Sellier and Tom Murdock formed Argon “It’s a great Engineering Associates (later Argon ST), which was purchased institution, by Boeing in 2010. A member and I want to of the SEAS National Advisory help GW make Council, Mr. Collins was elected to the SEAS Hall of Fame in history in my 2010. own little way.” “Terry and Alisann have made Avram S. “Ave” Tucker the sort of gift to SEAS that truly accelerates the school’s ongoing transformation,” SEAS Dean David Dolling says. “Drawing top years later, GW baseball’s star faculty and students to the school center fielder has done it again, is an essential part of that, and this time driving home a Terry and Alisann’s generous gift $2 million gift to the university. helps us to do both.” Avram S. “Ave” Tucker, Mr. Collins says GW’s recent BBA ’77, now a GW trustee, Collins Endowed Scholarship. investments in SEAS, including has committed $1 million to the TRUSTEE The scholarship will support construction of the Science Department of Athletics and DONATES eight SEAS undergraduates, and Engineering Hall and Recreation, with half going $2.5M TO with preference to first- an emphasis on research and to the Buff & Blue Fund for generation college students. development, played a role in the unrestricted support of student- ENGINEERING Mr. Collins was the first in his decision to make the gift. “We see athletes and half for construction SCHOOL family to attend college. this as a start to greatness if our of a baseball clubhouse. An “Alisann and I were motivated many alumni recognize the need additional $1 million will support by the current momentum in and continue to support SEAS as summer research by School Gift will support SEAS and the need for science we are doing,” he says. of Business faculty members undergraduates, create and engineering leadership and the Government Contracts endowed professorship. in the nation’s capital,” DECADES Associate Dean endowed fund at Mr. Collins says. “We all know GW Law School. that science and engineering are LATER, TUCKER In recognition of Mr. Tucker’s A $2.5 million donation from critical to solving many current DELIVERS generosity, the GW Board of GW Trustee Terry Collins, and future problems, and we Trustees voted to rename the DsC ’76, and his wife, Alisann, want our students to be able to AGAIN FOR GW home of GW baseball Tucker will create scholarships for lead in solving these problems.” BASEBALL Field at Barcroft Park—an honor students and endow a faculty A graduate of the Mr. Tucker said he is sharing with position in the School of Massachusetts Institute Trustee’s $2 million gift his first batting coach: his father. Engineering and Applied of Technology and the to support athletes, law At the dedication in October, Science. University of Wisconsin, and business schools. GW President Steven Knapp The couple is donating Mr. Collins completed a called Mr. Tucker a “valuable and $1 million to create an endowed doctorate at GW and taught trusted adviser to me and a great professorship in biomedical parttime in SEAS from 1976 “Clutch Double by Tucker supporter philanthropically engineering or a related to 1979 before beginning a Buffaloes Bison, 6-5” read a to the university.” He noted discipline, and $1.5 million to career that included time game recap in The GW Hatchet Mr. Tucker’s “unwavering establish the Alisann and Terry with Engineering Research on April 8, 1976. Thirty-eight commitment and the inspiring HAMID ZAID

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Ave Tucker, BBA ’77, celebrates the renaming of GW’s baseball field in honor of himself and his father with members of the team.

example he’s set for all to give back to his alma mater. documents and other exceptional thanked Mr. Small for “a whole Colonials.” “It’s a great institution, and artifacts—and already, students spirit of excitement descending Mr. Tucker attended GW for I want to help GW make history and faculty are discovering just on the campus right now.” his junior and senior years on in my own little way,” he said. how much this historic collection Students in his course a baseball scholarship. At the “I vowed when I was here in will enrich research at GW. Washington, D.C.: History, dedication ceremony, he recalled the ’70s to pay them back for At the annual Albert H. Culture, Politics created and the days of racing across the taking a chance on a short center Small Symposium in October, contribute to DigitalDC, an Ellipse—located between the fielder.” members of the GW community online exhibition about specific Washington Monument and the celebrated the role of the areas of Foggy Bottom, rather White House—which served as Washingtoniana Collection— than writing papers that would GW’s baseball field at the time. Read the full story at which Mr. Small donated to the languish in his file cabinet. “It wasn’t much of a stadium, go.gwu.edu/tuckerimpact. university in 2011—in expanding Two of Dr. Klemek’s but it had some very unique scholarship and inspiring cross- students—junior Nicholas aspects,” he said. “Games would disciplinary collaborations. DiNella and Ryan Jones, a be stopped for the president’s HANDS-ON “Albert’s quest when high school student attending helicopter to land. The national HISTORY collecting these items of historic GW through the Early College Christmas tree was there. And significance wasn’t just to put Program—talked about using I’d say you’d get unusual bounces At Albert H. Small them on the wall. But a priority the collection to find that the that sometimes were helpful and Symposium, celebrating he had was to share it with Watergate Complex site was would sometimes decide games.” a deep, one-of-a-kind current generations and future once an industrial hub, and that Barcroft Park, in Arlington, generations,” said former GW the site of the Foggy Bottom Va., has been GW’s baseball field historical archive Trustee Robert G. Perry, BS ’70. Whole Foods once housed Camp since the team left the Ellipse in Mr. Small said he hopes the Fry, a temporary military base 1993. When the new George collection will “enable students, established during the Civil War. Mr. Tucker, now a renowned Washington University Museum teachers, visitors of the museum —Julyssa Lopez forensic accountant at the top and The Textile Museum to learn about the capital of our of the business and litigation opens in March, its renovated country and the development of consulting company TM Woodhull House will be home to the city of Washington.” To read more about the Financial Forensics, LLC, said Albert H. Small’s unparalleled Among the speakers, history symposium, visit go.gwu.

JULIE ANN WOODFORD he knew long ago that he wanted trove of rare Washington maps, professor Christopher Klemek edu/handsonhistory.

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Alumni answered the call nation’s top teams. Incoming freshmen and made 1,662 donations, In less than a year, thanks marked their first night at totaling $2,172,477, as part of the to generous contributions from GW with a trip to George challenge. The winner, the Class a variety of supporters, the Washington’s historic of 2009, topped its participation team has reached its target of Mount Vernon estate. goal by 28 percent. $180,000 and will “raise high” “Young alumni can absolutely new sails during the 2014-15 make an impact, and we came season. out in full force to demonstrate The new boats arrived in that we are invested in the October and will allow GW future of this university,” says sailing to host its first regatta as Julie Silverbrook, BA ’09, chair a varsity program on of the Class of 2009 reunion March 7-8. The sailing team committee. “It is clear to me calls the Potomac River home— that alumni are committed to specifically, the Washington ensuring that GW continues to Sailing Marina on Daingerfield serve as an incubator of great Island in Alexandria, Va. ideas and a hub for educating “Today wasn’t just the future generations of national culmination of a year of and global leaders.” fundraising but of all the work Among the more than 60 done by current student-athletes, Hallmark Programs organized events for GW alumni, family alumni, supporters, donors and FRESHMEN the event with the generous and friends during the weekend the Athletics Department over COMMEMORATE support of D.C. Scottish Rite, was a reception to honor and the course of the past three years ‘FIRST NIGHT’ the Masonic and Eastern Star thank members of the Luther as a varsity program and more Homes and GW parent Mario Rice Society and the new than 60 years as a club team,” AT MOUNT Grauso, as well as in-kind GW Loyal society, which was head coach John Pearce said VERNON ESTATE donors: bocce and bowling attended by dozens of alumni when the boats were delivered. Incoming freshmen this year bistro Pinstripes, the Corner donors and their families. “When the ‘Raise High the Sails’ for the first time kicked off their Bakery, the GW Campus Store, campaign started, I said that college careers with a trip to Coca-Cola and Sodexo. DSA GW SAILING almost everything is in place to George Washington’s historic also worked closely with Jamie make GW a power in collegiate Mount Vernon estate on their Bosket, MA ’08, vice president CROSSES sailing. I’m proud to say that first night at GW. The visit, part of guest experience at the Mount FUNDRAISING everything is now in place, and of First Night at GW, marked Vernon estate. with continued hard work, GW the start of Welcome Week and, FINISH LINE sailing will rapidly become a perhaps, the beginning of a GW In the fall of 2013, the GW program competing amongst the tradition. Hear more about First sailing team launched its “Raise best in the country.” Nearly 2,000 members of the Night at Mount Vernon High the Sails” fundraising The boats will be officially Class of 2018 enjoyed exclusive from members of the campaign with the goal of dedicated at a “Raise High the tours of the estate and grounds Class of 2018 at go.gwu. replacing boats and building an Sails” campaign supporters’ and participated in a George edu/firstnightvid. 18-boat fleet to help the Colonials reception in the spring. Visit Washington-themed “Colonial better compete against the gwsports.com for details. Quest.” Students also interacted with re-enactors posing as ALUMNI The sailing team took to the water in historical characters, including ANSWER new boats this fall after reaching its George and Martha Washington. THE CALL OF fundraising goal in less than a year. “This historic place and GW are linked through George FUNDRAISING Washington,” Provost and CHALLENGE Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Steven As part of the excitement Lerman said. “We hope that surrounding September’s this is the start of a process for Alumni Weekend—which drew students that will last all four some 2,000 GW alumni back to years of inculcating the values campus—an anonymous reunion that Washington exemplified as donor put forth a challenge: a leader.” $25,000 to GW in honor of the The GW Division of Student reunion class that beat its donor

Affairs’ Administration and goal by the highest percentage. FIRST NIGHT: WILLIAM ATKINS / SAILING: GW ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

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Mr. Stathopoulos, a U.S. and Provost Steven Lerman, A MODERN Greek national, international Michael and Lori Milken CLASSIC lawyer, and art collector and Dean of Public Health Lynn curator. “The collaboration Goldman and representatives between GW and the George of the George Zongolopoulos Alumnus brings Greek Zongolopoulos Foundation Foundation gathered on Oct. 1 to sculpture ‘Poseidon’ to is a perfect example of what celebrate the installation. Foggy Bottom Campus. two great organizations can “Zongolopoulos’ Poseidon, Movement frozen in time—like a accomplish together.” after crossing the Mediterranean dancer mid-sissonne—Poseidon An art lover and Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, is stands over 12 feet tall, its passionate alumnus, standing proudly in the heart polished metal arcing toward Mr. Stathopoulos wanted to of the capital of the world,” said the sky in the courtyard of the ensure that his alma mater could Nicos Theodoridis, the president Milken Institute School of Public call itself home to a work by of the George Zongolopoulos Health Building. one of Greece’s finest modern Foundation and nephew of The emblematic stainless sculptors, and he worked Mr. Zongolopoulos. “Today, steel work by Greek sculptor closely with the university and the sculpture is not in Omonia George Zongolopoulos was the George Zongolopoulos Square in Athens, but it has been installed permanently this Foundation to finalize the gift placed in front of a wonderful summer thanks to the generosity and oversee its installation. building, for which they can live of the George Zongolopoulos The sculpture was originally together so well.” Foundation and the efforts included in Mr. Zongolopoulos’ Director of University Art of GW alumnus George award-winning composition Galleries Lenore Miller said Stathopoulos, JD ’60. created in 1960 for Omonia that the sculpture “represents “Placing Poseidon in Square in central Athens, the best aspirations of grace and such a prominent location in although it was never installed. beauty.” Poseidon is the first modern Washington, D.C., is a wonderful Poseidon is the first modern Poseidon is one of 25 outdoor Greek sculpture to be placed way to promote the cultural Greek sculpture to be placed on sculptures on GW’s Foggy on public U.S. grounds in heritage of modern Greece,” said public grounds in Washington. Bottom Campus. Washington, D.C.

You help me Make History Emanuel Johnson, BA ‘15 Chicago Native · Public Servant · Veteran, U.S. Navy “I did not come to GW simply to receive a degree. I embarked on this journey not for myself, but for the individals I will represent in the future, for the people in my neighborhood who have not had the same opportunities I have had. I came to this university to equip myself with the tools to take on any challenge this world has to offer. GW was the perfect fit because GW is a community of individuals who care.” Support students like Emanuel at go.gwu.edu/gwcares DAR2297 WILLIAM ATKINS

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crowd of around 90 people. Mr. Murphy, a student and budding cancer researcher in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, had received a merit scholarship and an alumni grant, but was still short of what he needed to attend college in 2012. He penned a letter to GW’s financial aid department, explaining his situation and informing them he wouldn’t be able to attend the university. “A week later, my mother received an emotional call from the financial aid department, a woman who personally read my letter,” Mr. Murphy said. “During that phone call, my mother was told that I would be receiving the Nelson and Michele Carbonell Endowed Scholarship. I wouldn’t be here today without the extreme generosity showed to me by the Carbonells.” Mr. Carbonell, BS ’85, chair of the GW Members of the GW community gathered Board of Trustees, told how he also attended in New York City in October for the first the university on a scholarship and charged of a series of campaign celebrations. attendees to invest in the future of the university. “Now is the time to get involved or re- [making history] engage with GW,” he said. “Volunteer, attend an event, and really—make a gift. I can’t tell you where or how much to give, that part Taking the Campaign is up to you. Make a gift to support future students like William. Together, we will make history.” on the Road In Miami the following month, inaugural Campaign Chair B.J. Penn, MS ’80, echoed that sentiment before a group of more than Hundreds gather in New York, Philadelphia and Miami to celebrate 80 supporters. the launch of the university’s $1 billion philanthropic campaign. “GW changed my life, and my own history,” he said. “What I learned as a Since a formal launch this summer from raised. student—and as a volunteer and a trustee— George Washington’s grand Mount Vernon The city is home to more than 17,000 enabled me to be a leader, to be successful. estate, university leaders have taken the alumni—the largest concentration outside of I’m enormously grateful for that. I stood on $1 billion philanthropic campaign on the D.C.—and New York state continues to be the the shoulders of many people to get to where road, personally introducing the endeavor in top feeder for undergraduate students. I did. And this campaign is about all of us cities with large alumni populations. “This monumental campaign will help being those shoulders for others.” In New York City in October, nearly us achieve our aspirations to become 500 alumni, trustees, parents and friends the university that George Washington gathered in a spectacularly restored building envisioned,” Dr. Knapp said in thanking the that once housed the Cunard Steamship Line local community for its rousing reception. To view photos and learn more about to celebrate “Making History: The Campaign At a Philadelphia celebration in these events, including the upcoming for GW.” Since the campaign’s official start, November, held at the Franklin Institute, April 30 event in Southern California,

in July 2011, more than $626 million has been junior William Murphy told his story to a visit go.gwu.edu/campaignontheroad. SOLOMON BEN

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[profile] buddies, they usually have little faith that “The brain stores traumatic images in a Ms. Biggs’ canvases and brushes are going to visual context. Through artwork, you can make them whole again. examine and process those disturbing Easing Veterans’ “Most walk in here hesitant and kind of images at a safe distance.” weirded out,” Ms. Biggs says. “They haven’t Ms. Biggs had pursued an art therapy Pain Through created art since they were 5. They’ve just degree in the hope of working professionally returned from combat. When they pick up a with women and children. She had little Art Therapy brush, there’s an awful lot of skepticism.” experience with combat veterans, but relished In many ways, Ms. Biggs has spearheaded the challenge of helping soldiers connect with The soldier fidgeted nervously. This was the hospital’s art-therapy-for-soldiers their feelings through art. She eases client the last place he wanted to be. He could initiative. After graduating from Columbian skepticism by stressing that the focus is not have been back home with his family in College’s art therapy program, she on skilled artistry or a polished product. “I’m Kentucky. Or even back in Afghanistan approached the National Endowment for not here to critique work,” she says. “I help with his infantry unit. Anywhere but here: the Arts with a grant proposal to integrate them make sense of what they’ve created.” a makeshift art room at a hospital in Fort art therapy into treatment for active-duty Sitting across from the reluctant Belvoir, Va., surrounded by jars of paint, military patients at Fort Belvoir. After a Kentucky soldier at her Fort Belvoir art wooden brushes and colored pencils. Jittery three-month pilot project, the treatment has table, Ms. Biggs encouraged him to relax and and uncomfortable, he shook his head and become a standard component of caring for be spontaneous. “Grab a palate knife and a sighed, thinking there was no way this was soldiers at the hospital. color you’re drawn to,” she calmly instructed. going to work. Alongside neurologists, physical “Don’t think, just do what feels right.” Jackie Biggs, MA ’13, has seen this therapists and other health care providers, The soldier used his tools to apply reaction before. As an art therapist at Fort Ms. Biggs uses tools like visual arts and seemingly random splotches of red and Belvoir Community Hospital’s National mask-making to help combat veterans blue paint across a canvas. The end product Intrepid Center of Excellence, she has clients process traumatic events. stunned both of them: The soldier re-created who are combat veterans returning from “This is a group that tends to internalize what he had seen through his sniper rifle’s harrowing tours of duty in Afghanistan and their trauma; they hope it will go away if they scope just before he first killed someone. Iraq. Some suffer from brain injuries and just don’t talk about it,” she says. More often, “It was amazing,” says Ms. Biggs. “He was psychological conditions like post-traumatic she says, the results are tragic: depression, expressing the anger and regrets he’d been stress disorder. They struggle with issues isolation, substance abuse and even suicide. holding inside. That’s the thing about art of loss, grief and transitioning to life back “Art therapy helps you access painful therapy. Your subconscious gets going and home. And after years of risking their lives in memories in a nonthreatening way,” says reveals what’s going on inside your head.” a war zone where they could trust only their Heidi Bardot, director of the GW program. —John DiConsiglio

Jackie Biggs, MA ’13, is an art therapist working with veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. COURTESY NATIONAL INTREPID CENTER OF EXCELLENCE, FORT BELVOIR COMMUNITY HOSPITAL EXCELLENCE, BELVOIR FORT OF CENTER INTREPID COURTESY NATIONAL

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Service is such an [From the alumni association] important part of the GW student experience—why Greetings, fellow Colonials! should that stop after As I partook in a number of events during Alumni Weekend—with more than 40 close friends from my Class of ’79 experience at GW—I was reminded what an graduation? impact my beloved alma mater had on all of us. Not only are we blessed to remain friends after more than 40 years, but we are successful in our lives, personally and professionally, thanks to our shared experiences. I am the envy of many non- GW friends who have lost touch with their college friends. Not me; not us. I have been so proud to introduce those friends to the value of remaining connected to the university through our GW Alumni Association. We connect and reconnect with colleagues, and we also share in the opportunities to volunteer and give back alongside more than 270,000 alumni throughout the world. Service is such an important part of the GW student experience—why should that stop after graduation? My personal connection is enhanced by both my proximity to campus (I live in D.C.’s West End) and my participation in events put on by the Office of Alumni Relations and the GWAA. Whether interacting with current students at Speed Networking Nights or the Dinner with Alumni program, which assists in preparing students for their careers, or socializing with fellow alumni at a Nationals game or a food and wine event, our options to stay engaged abound. And these programs are not limited to the D.C. area. There are networking events and student send-offs around the country. And for those, like me, who feel tethered to their desks at times, there are virtual gatherings through our fantastic GW LinkedIn Virtual Networking Hours held throughout the year. I’ve connected with GW alumni all over the world from my desk! Sometimes “you don’t know what you don’t know,” so visit alumni.gwu.edu for more information on all that is available to us. I’ve taken the next step and now proudly serve on the GWAA Board of Directors. After two years chairing the Career Services Committee, I now serve as chair of the Nominating Committee. I want to invite you to get involved with our board. Our member-at-large nominating process kicks off in January for the term beginning in June. Members-at-large serve as representatives of the alumni community on the Board of Directors and comprise approximately half the board membership. Any alumnus/a of the university is eligible to serve as a member-at-large, though consideration is given to those able to represent a unique constituency of the alumni body, especially geographic region or affinity/interest group. It’s your opportunity to have your voice heard and to make a difference. So I implore you: Get engaged. Get involved. And most important, Raise High!

Keith J. Greene, SPHR, BBA ’79 Vice President, Nominations GW Alumni Association [email protected]

Nominations to the GW Alumni Association Board are open! Submit yours today at go.gwu.edu/gwaanom2015.

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Alumni Weekend 2014 Nearly 2,000 alumni returned to campus in September for GW’s annual Alumni Weekend. More than 60 events were held, ranging from a Smith Center concert by 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Daryl Hall and John Oates to a “Taste of GW” event, featuring alumni- owned restaurants and catering businesses. Other highlights included academic gatherings, BRIEN; SIGMA CHI: @GWPETERK, CHI: TWITTER; SIGMA VIA BRIEN; GREENAWALT ABBY CHILD: ’ networking receptions, O tours of campus and, of course, reunions. Milestone celebrations commemorated the 85th anniversary of WRGW and the 25th anniversaries of the Presidential Honored to help @GWSigmaChi @GWAlumni & Administrative Fellows Students Celebrate 150 Years of #GWGreekLife at #GWU. #GWAW14 @GWIFC program and Colonial GWPeterK @GWPeterK 3 MONTHS AGO Inauguration.

from top Newly-minted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Daryl Hall and John Oates rock the Charles E. Smith Center on Friday night; the Class of 2014 celebrates its 10-year reunion; Sigma Chi’s Epsilon Chapter marks its 150th year; the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s barbecue brought

out Colonials, present and future. HALL AND OATES: DAVE SCAVONE AND CABLE RISDON; 2004 REUNION: ALLISON

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clockwise from top “Taste of GW” included the stylings of a caricature artist; alumni enjoy the event “A Celebration of Diversity,” co-hosted by the Asian, black, Latino, and LGBT alumni associations; a GW backpack “that I literally take everywhere” gets outfitted with a “5-year reunion” pin; alumni celebrate Colonial Inauguration’s 25th year and toast the same milestone for the Presidential Administrative Fellowship program.

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gwmagazine.com / 65 Alumni news GW Honors Six With Alumni Achievement Awards The university and GW Alumni Association honored six graduates in September at the 78th annual Alumni Achievement Awards, including an acclaimed political analyst and the CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Mark Plotkin, BA ’69, former political analyst for WTOP Radio, and Neil Portnow, BA ’71, who oversees operations for the Grammy Awards, were joined by Alan Burgess, MS ’74; Lawrence Deyton, MD ’85; Gerardo Lopez, BBA ’80; and Adam Conner, BA ’06, as 2014 honorees at the reception, which kicked off Alumni Weekend. The first five were given the Distinguished Affairs and the National Institutes of Health. GW President Steven Knapp, center, is Alumni Achievement Award, created in The other three Distinguished Alumni flanked by Alumni Achievement Award 1937, which recognizes graduates who have Achievement Award recipients all have media recipients (from left) Neil Portnow, distinguished themselves through notable ties. Mr. Lopez serves as CEO, president and Lawrence Deyton, Adam Conner, Alan achievements, personally and professionally. director of AMC Entertainment. Mr. Plotkin, Burgess, Gerardo Lopez and Mark Plotkin. Mr. Connor received the Recent Alumni an advocate for D.C. voting rights and Achievement Award, created in 2007. statehood, is a contributor to the BBC and Mr. Burgess and Dr. Deyton both have TheHill.com. Mr. Portnow, in addition to his graduate. Past recipients include 16-time forged careers in public health. A retired Air work on the Grammy Awards, also serves as NBA champion Arnold “Red” Auerbach, Force medical officer, Mr. Burgess was the CEO of the Academy’s charitable affiliates, BS ’40, MA ’41; Nobel Prize winner Julius CEO of Tehachapi Valley Healthcare until MusiCares and the Grammy Foundation. Axelrod, PhD ’55; and former U.S. Secretary his retirement in 2013 and is the former Mr. Conner, who received the Recent of State Colin Powell, MBA ’71. chairman of the American Academy of Alumni Achievement Award, is vice “I’m thrilled, and really in awe by some of Medical Administrators. Dr. Deyton, the president of politics and head of the D.C. the people who have been honored,” said senior associate dean for clinical public office of Brigade, a civic engagement start- Mr. Plotkin, who was joined by a large health at GW’s School of Medicine and up founded by Sean Parker, the founding contingent of friends and family. “I’ve lived Health Sciences, has been a leader of health president of Facebook. [in D.C.] for 50 years, and GW’s been a major policy and research at several public health The awards are the highest form of part of my life. I invited 80 people to this agencies, including the Food and Drug recognition given annually by the university dinner. This is bar mitzvah, wedding and Administration, the Department of Veterans and the alumni association to a GW birthday—a great night.”

[web extra] AT 100, ALUMNUS REFLECTS ON TIME AT GW When Wilbur Garrett, BS ’36, attended GW in the 1930s, the country was in the midst of the Great Depression, FDR had just taken office and Quigley’s was a great place to meet girls. Nearly 80 years after his graduation, a lot has changed at GW, but some things have stayed the same—the sting of economic downturn is fresh again, presidential inaugurations are always a big deal and Quigley’s (now Tonic) is still a great place to meet a date. A proud alumnus who celebrated his 100th birthday in 2014, Mr. Garrett has a lot of life experience to share with GW students and alumni alike.

For more on Wilbur Garrett’s story, including his “only at GW” moment from the 1933 presidential inauguration, visit go.gwu.edu/wilburgarrett. AWARDS: DAVE SCAVONE / GARRETT: UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

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[profile] While Foggy Bottom may be a change [honors] for some museumgoers, who visited The Textile Museum at its former S Street NW Curating a New location, Mr. Goehner is well acquainted with SEAS Inducts Six Arts Partnership the neighborhood. He completed a master’s Into Hall of Fame in museum education at GW and went on to work at the Woodrow Wilson House, the Six alumni, including an aeronautics vice Alumnus will lead programs for Smithsonian American Art Museum and president at Lockheed Martin, the head of the university’s new museum the American Red Cross before joining The a leading Internet company in China and complex. Textile Museum. a dean at the Massachusetts Institute of He notes that while most people Technology, were inducted into the GW As a museum education curator, Tom understand how a painting is created, few Engineering Hall of Fame in October. Goehner has a philosophy about how to tell can recite the manufacturing techniques Jennifer Byrne, PhD ’12, vice president of stories centered on the arts: Start with an behind textiles. He found it important, then, engineering and technology for aeronautics object, and work your way back. to include programs focusing on the art of at Lockheed Martin, Ya-Qin Zhang, DSc ’90, Within The Textile Museum’s collection construction—a feltmaker, for example, president of Baidu Corp. in Beijing, and of treasures, two 16th-century panels stick taught museum guests how to make iPhone Ian Waitz, MS ’88, dean of the School of out vividly in Mr. Goehner’s mind. Intricately cases out of matted wool fibers; a Japanese Engineering at MIT, were joined by Pradman woven from silk and metallic yarns, the textile expert demonstrated traditional Kaul, BS ’67, Laird Moffett, DSc ’76, and panels once adorned the tent of Ottoman shibori dyeing techniques. Nayereh Rassoulpour, MS ’90, as 2014 Empire sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, “You might know that an object is a honorees at the ceremony, held at the experts believe. A Turkish grand vizier photograph, but until you press the lever National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. maintained the fabrics until 1683. The pieces on a camera, you won’t know what it’s like Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. later made a transcontinental trek into to be a photographer,” he says. “Until you “The doctoral program taught me to the hands of Polish Prince Sanguskzi, who experience using a shed and pulling all the make sure that if I did something, I did it repurposed them as a blanket for his family’s threads, you don’t know the weaving process right the first time,” said Dr. Moffett, now sleigh. at a richer level.” chief scientist at Envisioneering, a company For Mr. Goehner, MA ’93, the process The new museum will retain that same that provides support and technology shows the allure of textiles: In addition to energy and effective mix of informative and development for U.S. national security. their tremendous versatility, functionality hands-on styles, offering daily programming Ms. Rassoulpour, the president and chief and aesthetic beauty, they boast individual inspired by its unique diversity of art and executive officer of NSR Solutions, called histories and numerous stories. history-focused objects. her SEAS degree “essential” in launching “They have more than one life—in fact, He already has scheduled several events, and building her information technology they have several, and what often saves them including weeklong programs in March company from one employee in 1990 to more is their sheer beauty,” he says. that will coincide with the museum opening than 300 today. Now, as the George Washington and the launch of its first three exhibitions: Mr. Kaul, the president and chief University Museum and The Textile “Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, executive officer of Hughes Communications Museum prepares to open on March 21, Our Stories,” “The Civil War and a 2004 inductee of the National Mr. Goehner is charged with bringing and the Making of Modern Academy of Engineering, said he felt the museum’s myriad stories to the Washington” and “Seat of humbled by receiving the honor. “When you GW community. He’ll lead educational Empire: Planning Washington, get recognized, it makes the [hard work] programs centered on the museum’s 1790–1801.” Two of those were worth it, and I think this is one of those collection, which includes The Textile designed by GW students and recognitions I truly treasure.” Museum’s trove of more than curated by faculty members. The school also recognized Clark 19,000 objects dating It helps that the university Construction with a Distinguished Industry from 3000 B.C. to the abounds with art and Partner Award. Clark has built or renovated present, and Albert H. Tom culture experts and several buildings on campus, including Small’s Washingtoniana Goehner history scholars; there construction of the Science and Engineering Collection, which are opportunities for Hall, scheduled to open this winter. The comprises nearly 1,000 collaboration at every turn. company established the first endowed historic D.C. maps, Mr. Goehner recently bonded professorship at SEAS, the A. James Clark documents and other with a chemistry professor who Professor of Civil and Environmental ephemera and was analyzes how color is perceived Engineering, as well as the Clark donated to the university through light—perfectly Engineering Scholars program and Clark in 2011. (To develop applicable to the discourse many Construction Engineering Scholarship. programming around textile makers have about the —James Irwin the Washingtoniana radiance of dyes. Collection, Mr. Goehner will “There are plenty more be working with another partners and friends to make. I’m For more on this story visit gwtoday. alumnus, curator Jane just starting,” he says. gwu.edu/seas-inducts-six-hall-fame.

JESSICA BURT MCCONNELL Freundel Levey, MA ’91.) —Julyssa Lopez

gwmagazine.com / 67 Alumni news [baseball] [honors] A House Divided President’s Medal Awarded Five Colonials had ties to the Royals and Giants as the teams to Simon Lee vied in the World Series. Simon Lee, founder and chief executive Former GW baseball coach John Castleberry officer of STG Inc., was awarded the George won his third World Series ring in October as Washington University President’s Medal at the northeast region scouting supervisor for a ceremony in November, becoming the first from left SEAS Dean David Dolling, Simon Lee, MS ’05, and President Steven Knapp. the San Francisco Giants. To earn it, his team Korean-American to receive the honor. had to survive a seven-game thrill ride of a Mr. Lee, MS ’05, has been a university Fall Classic against the Kansas City Royals— volunteer and an influential advocate for GW and his leadership in fostering educational and three George Washington University for more than a decade, playing a critical role exchanges between his two alma maters and alumni. in the growth of the School of Engineering the great capital cities in which they reside.” Former GW baseball player and coach and Applied Science and serving as a The President’s Medal is the highest Mike Toomey, BS ’74, former assistant coach resource for student, parent and alumni honor the university president can award. J.J. Picollo, MS ’98, and former player Scott relations in the Republic of Korea. Mr. Lee said he launched the exchange Sharp, BA ’95, work in the Kansas City front A $1 million gift from Mr. Lee and his program to “build a bridge between … two office, where they helped construct one of wife, Anna, in 2010 endowed the Korea universities that have had a major influence the most unlikely American League pennant University Undergraduate Exchange on my life. I know, someday, the students that winners in recent memory, piloting the Program, which provides financial assistance enter this program will turn into successful Royals to their first World Series since 1985. for GW engineering students to study abroad world leaders and entrepreneurs themselves The series, which ended with Giants star at Korea University. Another gift of and will also give back, creating more pitcher Madison Bumgarner stranding the $1 million in 2014 to Korea University funds opportunities for students and a stronger tying run on third base to preserve a 3-2 an exchange program for graduate students bond between the two universities and the Game 7 win, had the feel of a GW reunion. In and professors between the two universities. two countries I love so dearly.” addition to the four men with ties to GW President Steven Knapp called After emigrating to the United States in the baseball program, Giants team Mr. Lee “a faithful friend and alumnus,” and 1979, Mr. Lee launched STG Inc. in 1986. orthopedic surgeon Ken Akizuki, said he was “proud to bestow this special Since then STG has grown into a company of MD ’93, is a graduate of GW’s honor on him for his unwavering dedication more than 1,300 employees that works with School of Medicine and Health to the George Washington University, his more than 50 federal agencies. Sciences. —James Irwin achievements as a visionary entrepreneur —James Irwin

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Class notes a partner at Brooks Pierce, was Venice scenes, with a whisper of recognized in the 2015 edition of another image … musical scores, The Best Lawyers in America as handwriting, brocade patterns, an industry leader in the field of flora and fauna, and more.” Ms. litigation and tax law. Harmon-Luber’s online gallery is Daniel H. Black, JD ’76, was KathyHarmonLuber.com. named to the 2015 Best Lawyers in Peter A. Rome, JD ’84, was America list. Mr. Black serves as recognized in the 2015 edition of The Myles Garrigan, recently published Law and chair of Greenberg Traurig’s West Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Rome 60s AA ’47, BA ’48, was Disorder: Absurdly Funny Moments Coast entertainment and media serves as chair of Ulmer & Berne’s &earlier featured in The from the Courts (W.W. Norton, 2014). practice. business department. He was also Republican in A compilation of comic gems from , a recognized by Chambers USA as September, recounting the time he real courtroom transcripts, the book Steven Goldman, JD ’76 partner in the New York office of one of Ohio’s leading corporate and spent as a U.S. House of is his third collection of courtroom Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, mergers and acquisitions lawyers. Representatives page in the 1940s. humor. Mr. Sevilla is a defense was appointed by President Barack , was The article is available at attorney in San Diego. Matt Allen, BBA ’85 Obama to the John F. Kennedy promoted to vice president of U.S. masslive.com. Glenn Whitaker, JD ’72, was Center for the Performing Arts’ sales for Timberland. In this role Howard Fischer, LLB ’63, included on the 2015 Best Lawyers Advisory Committee on the Arts. Mr. Allen will oversee Timberland’s wrote, produced and directed They in America list. Mr. Whitaker is a was wholesale business in the United Died Before 40, a documentary on partner in the Cincinnati office of Marvin Dang, JD ’78, appointed to a three-year term on States for both footwear and apparel. eight golden-age jazz musicians— Vorys. the 12-member Council of the Fund Mr. Allen has held several leadership including Fats Waller, Chick Webb Robert J. Frishman, BA ’73, for Justice and Education. He is roles during his 14-year tenure and Bunny Berigan—who died was honored for his contributions the managing member of the Law with Timberland and brings 30 before reaching the age of 40. The to the field of horology with a Fellow Offices of Marvin S. C. Dang in years of sales and sale management film, Mr. Fischer writes, will feature Award from the National Association Honolulu. The fund supports more experience to his new position. a version of the song “Stardust” of Watch and Clock Collectors. Mr. than 200 ABA public service and , edited together from individual Frishman, the founder of Bell-Time Jane A. Lewis, MS ’85 educational programs. published Forensic Document performances. Clocks (bell-time.com), in Andover, Examination Fundamentals and Randy Swart, BA ’64, Mass., has restored more than 7,000 Pitman Potter, , published Assessing Treaty Current Trends (Elsevier, 2014). received the Award of Merit and antique timepieces and sold more BA ’78 Performance in China: Trade and The book, a reference for forensic the title of Fellow from ASTM than 1,700. He regularly writes and Human Rights (UBC Press, 2014), document examiners, forensic International’s Committee F08 on lectures about the history, science which outlines an approach for investigators, attorneys and others, Sports Equipment, Playing Surfaces and culture of mechanical time understanding China’s treaty reviews the scientific methods by and Facilities. Mr. Swart was keeping. performance around international which questioned documents are specifically recognized for his work Marc A. Feller, partner and standards on trade and human examined. in the development of standards and chair of the public finance group rights. Dr. Potter also published , testing for headgear and helmets. of Dilworth Paxson LLP, was Donna Malvey, MS ’85 The Gospel and the Grateful Dead published mHealth: Transforming Mr. Swart is founder and director of elected a fellow of the American (Xlibris, 2014), available on Amazon. Healthcare (Springer, 2014). The the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute, a College of Bond Counsel. Mr. Feller book examines trends in mobile nonprofit organization that serves as focuses on all aspects of public , health and discusses how those a consumer advocacy program and finance transactions and municipal Todd Nichols, JD ’81 was elected president of technologies offer opportunities for as a technical resource for bicycle representation. s 80 the Washington State innovation and entrepreneurship. helmet information. Larry D. Harris, JD ’75, was Association for Justice, Robert Barbuto, BA ’67, and named to the board of trustees Dong-Keun Shin, MS ’85, formerly the Washington State Trial , recorded an album of his daughter Gabriella Barbuto, of the University of Dayton. Mr. ScD ’91 Lawyers’ Association. Christian music entitled Dr. Dong- currently a freshman at GW, took a Harris is a construction law attorney , Keun Shin’s Songs for the New GW banner with them on a summer and partner at Fox Rothschild in John O. Aje, MS ’83, ScD ’88 was a guest editor of a special issue Millennium: Praise the Lord, O My cruise through the Mediterranean, Washington, D.C. of Technovation on security in the Soul. His website is dkshin.com. posing for a picture in front of the Paul Leiman, JD ’75, is a cyber supply chain. Dr. Aje is dean , was named Hagia Sofia. Ms. Barbuto joins the lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Ian Ballon, JD ’86 of the School of Applied Science and on the 2015 Best Lawyers in America GW community as part of a family Carey Business School, where he Technology at Thomas Edison State list. Mr. Ballon is an intellectual tradition: her father, grandfather teaches business and leadership College in Lawrence Township, N.J. property and Internet litigator with and two uncles are alumni. ethics, legal issues in biotechnology, Greenberg Traurig, dividing his and business law. He has been Gregg Berman, BA ’84, , was recognized by The Legal time between the Silicon Valley and Scott L. Baena, recognized for his work in creating JD ’87 500 2014 U.S. directory, published Los Angeles offices. s BBA ’70, JD ’74, senior the Federal Financial Institutions 70 by Legalease, for his expertise in partner at Bilzin Examination Council’s Testifying Mary Wakefield Buxton, mergers, acquisitions and buyouts. , released The Private War Sumberg Baena Price & School for federal bank examiners MA ’86 He also was listed in The Best of William Styron (Brandylane, Axelrod, was appointed to the and regulators. Lawyers in America for 2015. 2014). Ms. Buxton, who married Florida Board of Bar Examiners for Franklin Ubell, JD ’75, was into Mr. Styron’s family at an early a five-year term by the Florida named to the 2015 Best Lawyers Kathy Harmon-Luber, , this fall mounted an age, describes the Sophie’s Choice Supreme Court. Mr. Baena is the in America list. Mr. Ubell heads CERT ’84 exhibition of her photography, author as a “lifelong writing mentor chair of the business finance and Greenberg Traurig’s intellectual entitled Venice: Whispers, at and friend.” Through Ms. Buxton’s restructuring practice group at property practice in Orange County, Artspresso Art Gallery in intimate viewpoint, the reader is Bilzin Sumberg. Calif. Idyllwild, Calif. She describes afforded “an insider’s perspective Charles Sevilla, LLM ’71, Howard L. Williams, LLM ’75, her work as “double exposures of into the painful power struggles that

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plagued the life of the Pulitzer Prize- Russin & Budwick. Foreign Wars Commander Award annual banquet in June. winning author.” The book also John C. Stringham, JD ’89, during Fourth of July festivities at Susan Branco Alvarado, includes a never-before-published was recognized by Best Lawyers in Bisset Park in Radford, Va. Over the BA ’95, MA ’97, a licensed letter written by Mr. Styron himself. America in litigation, intellectual course of his 30-year military career, professional counselor in Virginia, Heide (Koenitzer) Clark, property, patent and trademark law. Col. Grayson was awarded the has been selected by the National BA ’86, MA ’89, published Ingrid Wicker-McCree, Combat Infantry Badge, the Legion Board for the Certified Counselors Monsignor (CreateSpace, 2014). The BA ’89, in October received of Merit (twice), three Distinguished Minority Fellowship Program. novel explores the life of a young the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS Flying Crosses, two Bronze Stars, As a fellow, Ms. Branco Alvarado priest as he endeavors to change his Administrator of the Year Award the Air Medal for heroism with will receive $20,000 to support poor parish for the better. from the National Association of 18 oak leaf clusters and the Army her education and to facilitate her Kyle Zimmer, JD ’86, was Collegiate Women Athletics. Now Commendation Medal for heroism service to underserved minority awarded the 2014 Literarian Award in her 20th year at North Carolina with four oak leaf clusters. populations. She currently is for Outstanding Service to the Central University, Dr. Wicker- Douglas J. Zeltt, JD ’91, is a pursuing a doctoral degree in American Literary Community. McCree was named NCCU’s first managing partner of the Princeton, counselor education and supervision Ms. Zimmer is co-founder, CEO permanent female director of N.J., office of Fox Rothschild, and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and and president of First Book, a athletics in 2008. was elected to the board of trustees State University. nonprofit that distributes quality of Greenwood House, a skilled David Clark, JD ’95, was new books at little or no cost to Herbert Hedden, nursing, rehabilitation, and assisted promoted to partner in global millions of underserved children s JD ’90, was included on living center in Ewing, N.J. law firm DLA Piper’s San Diego in communities throughout the 90 the 2015 Best Lawyers in Jeffrey Goldfarb, BBA ’92, office. Mr. Clark represents public United States and Canada. Previous America list. Mr. Hedden is now U.S. editor of Breakingviews, and private emerging growth winners of the Literarian Award is a partner in the Columbus, Ohio, the financial commentary arm of companies in mergers, acquisitions, include Maya Angelou. office of Vorys. Reuters, where he writes about dispositions, financings and general Sandra Sheets, JD ’87, was John Lewis Jr., JD ’90, subjects including mergers and corporate matters. recognized in Florida Trend’s serves as head of global diversity acquisitions and investment banks, Jamillia Padua Ferris, Florida Legal Elite special report. for Coca-Cola Legal. He previously and coordinates coverage across the BA ’96, a partner at Hunton & She is an attorney in the Lakeland, was the company’s senior managing region. Mr. Goldfarb is on Twitter at Williams, accepted an appointment Fla., office of GrayRobinson. She was compliance and global anti-bribery twitter.com/jgfarb. with the Federal Communications also named a Florida Super Lawyer counsel, leading compliance Lori Johnson, JD ’92, Commission, where she will lead the in estate and probate and was programming for Coca-Cola’s North recently joined national law firm competition law aspects of the FCC’s included on the 2015 Best Lawyers in America business operations. Mr. Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, review of AT&T’s proposed America list. Lewis, who joined the company in Williams & Aughtry as an equity $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV. Stephen Welch, JD ’87, 2002 as litigation counsel, created shareholder in the Atlanta office. Luis Suárez, MBA ’96, was was named chief prosecutor of Coca-Cola’s Legal Division Diversity She was previously a partner in appointed by Florida Governor Kent County, Del., by Delaware Council in 2005, which he led until the Atlanta office of Finnegan, Rick Scott to the state’s Eleventh Attorney General Beau Biden. He June 2013. Under the LDDC’s Henderson, Farabow, Garett & Judicial Circuit Judicial Nominating is responsible for directing the leadership, Coca-Cola Legal has Dunner. Commission. Mr. Suárez is a partner 40 prosecutors, legal support and built an award-winning supplier Asim Kamdar, BBA ’93, with Boies, Schiller & Flexner. victim services personnel who diversity program, increasing MBA ’95, was promoted to senior Kelly Jennings Yeoman, prosecute criminal cases throughout fivefold the company’s spending vice president of strategy and JD ’96, was named to the 2015 the county. with Minority and Women Business innovation for Summitry Worldwide, Best Lawyers in America list. Jeff Oppenheimer, BA ’88, Enterprise law firms since 2005. a consumer research and marketing Ms. Yeoman is a partner in the published That Nation Might Robert M. Bauer, JD ’91, analytic consulting company to Columbus, Ohio office of Vorys. Live: A Story of Motherhood, was listed in the 2015 Best Lawyers Fortune 100 companies. Carey S. Roberts, JD ’97, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil in America in the information Gwendolyn Roberts Majette, has joined Marsh & McLennan War (CreateSpace, 2014), an technology law category. Mr. Bauer JD ’93, published a chapter in Companies as deputy general account of President Lincoln’s life is a registered patent attorney with Law and Global Health (Oxford counsel and corporate secretary. through the eyes of his stepmother, the U.S. Patent and Trademark University Press, 2014) in June. Ms. Roberts will be responsible for Sarah Bush Lincoln. The book Office. His practice focuses on The chapter, “Global Health Law overseeing a team of lawyers and is available on Amazon and at patent litigation, licensing disputes, Norms: A Coherent Framework paralegals. ThatNationMightLive.com. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to Understand PPACA’s Approach Margaret Rosenfeld, JD ’97, David Richards, BA ’88, procedures, the use of patents to Eliminate Health Disparities a partner with Smith Anderson in is the author of Swords in Their to secure financing, and other and Address Implementation Raleigh, N.C., was included on the Hands: George Washington and the information technology matters. Challenges,” examines how domestic 2015 Best Lawyers in America list for Newburgh Conspiracy (Pigsah Press, Jody Boudreault, BA ’91, has and international legal mechanisms banking and finance law, corporate 2014), a historical account of “a plot joined the antitrust and competition can be integrated to use as tools to law, and securities and capital that can be described as the closest practice group at Squire Patton reduce health care disparities that markets law. thing to a coup that the United Boggs. Her practice focuses on disproportionately affect people of David E. Grogan, LLM ’98, States has ever experienced.” The antitrust counseling, mergers and color. In March, Ms. Majette was retired as a captain in the Navy book is available on Amazon and at acquisitions practice before the promoted to associate professor Judge Advocate General’s Corps swordsintheirhands.com. Department of Justice and Federal of law with tenure at Cleveland- on July 1, 2014, after nearly 27 Peter D. Russin, JD ’88, Trade Commission, and antitrust Marshall College of Law. years of active duty. His first book, was recognized as a 2014 Florida litigation. Andre M. Forte, JD ’94, a legal thriller entitled The Siegel Super Lawyer in the category of Eugene H. Grayson Jr., was named 2014 Lawyer of the Dispositions (Camel Press, 2014), bankruptcy/business litigation. He MA ’91, a retired colonel, was Year by the D.C. Defense Lawyers’ was released in November. The book, is currently a shareholder at Meland presented with the Veterans of Association at the organization’s he says, was inspired by GW Law

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professor Thomas Buergenthal’s provides support to New York Jose Lizasoain, MS ’00, has Amy Sullivan Cahill, LLM ’01, human rights class. tristate families caring for children joined the Orlando office of GRAEF, was named to the second edition Matthew J. Kreutzer, JD ’98, battling cancer and other life- an engineering and consulting firm, of Managing Intellectual Property’s was appointed a commissioner of threatening illnesses. Mr. Barger is as a senior mechanical engineer and “Top 250 Women in IP” list. Ms. the California State Board of Legal an attorney whose practice focuses mechanical department manager. Cahill is a partner with Stites & Specialization. Mr. Kreutzer, an on children with special needs. Over the course of his 18-year Harbison. attorney in the Las Vegas office of career, Mr. Lizasoain has worked Jason Day, JD ’01, was named Howard & Howard Attorneys, also Kathleen Hayes, on facilities projects ranging from a 2013 Colorado Lawyer of the Year was recently named to the 2014 00s MFA ’00, interned with equipment replacement design to by Law Week Colorado. He is a Mountain States Super Lawyers list. Floura Teeter Landscape new facility system design, including partner with Perkins Coie in Denver. Dinesh C. Verma, JD ’98, an Architects this summer. more than 80 school projects. David Holt, BA ’01, was named attorney with Nankin & Verma, was Also a LEED Green Associate, she Nefertiri R. Sickout, MA ’00, a “Republican Rising Star” by Chuck elected treasurer of the Washington, primarily assisted FTLA with the has been chosen as a member of the Todd of NBC News. Mr. Holt also D.C., chapter of the American Baltimore Red Line Art in Transit 2014-2015 class of the Pennsylvania was re-elected to a second four-year Immigration Lawyers Association. program. Ms. Hayes is working Bar Association’s Bar Leadership term in the Oklahoma Senate. The chapter has over 1,000 toward a master’s degree in Institute. An associate in Pepper’s Oscar Ramirez, JD ’01, member attorneys in the District of landscape architecture from the commercial litigation practice MA ’01, was appointed to the Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. University of Maryland. group and resident in the firm’s Chesapeake Bay Trust board of Paul Barger, JD ’99, was Jens C. Jenkins, JD ’00, Philadelphia office, Ms. Sickout trustees. He is a principal at the elected to the Friends of Karen was recognized by Best Lawyers in concentrates her practice on Podesta Group. Mr. Ramirez board of directors. Friends of Karen America in copyright and patent law. commercial litigation matters. previously served as special assistant

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and chief of staff to Rep. Hilda Solis D.C., where Ms. Steven is project Wes Johnson, BS ’06, and Yin in January 2012 as associate (D-Calif.), deputy chief of staff manager for Ready To Learn at the Hou, BS ’08, MS ’10, are happy general counsel. Prior to joining to Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. to announce their engagement as of C.R. England, he was an attorney legislative director to Rep. Joe Baca David Lee Brown, BS ’04, July 2014. Their wedding is planned with the Salt Lake City law firm (D-Calif.). He served two terms recently published Transfigured for the summer of 2015. of Ray Quinney & Nebeker and as president of the Congressional to Serve: A Glimpse of Eternity David Kim, JD ’07, an attorney worked in the American Trucking Hispanic Staff Association and was (WestBowPress, July 2014). The with Armstrong Teasdale in Associations Litigation Center in named by Washington Life magazine book “explores the fictional life of St. Louis, was selected for inclusion Arlington, Va. His specialties include as one of Washington, D.C.’s most a Christian man … and provides a in the Regional Business Council’s transportation compliance and influential movers and shakers under glimpse of his life before, during and Young Professionals Network commercial and tort litigation. 40. after the rapture.” Leadership 100 for 2014. A member Julie B. Gould, BA ’09, has Michael Bennett, BA ’02, Cassandra Good, BA ’04, of Armstrong Teasdale’s intellectual joined Looney & Grossman as an was recently granted tenure and MA ’05, published Founding property practice group, Mr. Kim associate. Ms. Gould is a member promoted to associate professor Friendships: Friendships between counsels clients through various of the business practice group and of English at the University of Men and Women in the Early phases of product design and concentrates her practice on real Wisconsin-Whitewater. His fourth American Republic (Oxford development. estate and corporate matters. book, The Cambridge Introduction to University Press, January 2015). The Jason Louis, MS ’07, recently David Kieran, PhD ’09, is the Absurd (Cambridge University book “offers a fresh and expansive published a children’s book titled the author of Forever Vietnam: How Press) is scheduled for publication look at how America’s founding Marco’s Travels: Hello, Brazil! a Divisive War Changed American in 2015. generation of men and women (Lincoln J. Louis, 2014). Marco’s Public Memory (University of Eric Berman, JD ’02, joined defined and experienced friendship, Travels is a children’s picture book Massachusetts Press, 2014). Venable as counsel in Washington, love, gender, and power in the new series “chronicling the journeys of Dr. Kieran analyzes how the D.C. Previously, Mr. Berman worked nation.” a young boy as he travels the world contested memory of the for Williams Mullen, where he Joseph Saka, BA ’04, to reunite with friends in their home Vietnam War has affected the served as a partner and chair of the joined Lowenstein Sandler as country. On these visits, his friends commemoration of other events and firm’s antitrust and trade regulation counsel in the firm’s newly-opened expose him to the rich culture of how those acts of remembrance have practice. Washington office. Mr. Saka will the country including food, music, influenced postwar debates over Jeffery Cassin, BA ’02, Keith continue representing corporate festivals, history, landmarks and the conduct and consequences of Bishop, BA ’03, and Greg May, policyholders in complex disputes language.” American foreign policy. BA ’03, founded Manhattan’s only with their insurance companies. Kate Roche, BA ’07, was Robert Platt, BA ’09, board game cafe, The Uncommons. He was previously with Dickstein appointed president and CEO of the MPH ’13, JD ’13, is an associate at Colin D. Cook, JD ’02, joined Shapiro, where he helped clients Arlington Chamber of Commerce. Bass, Berry & Sims in Washington, INPEX Corp. as senior legal counsel. obtain significant recoveries from Ms. Roche is the youngest person to D.C., where he is a member of the INPEX is a Tokyo-based oil and gas their insurers. serve in this position and the first firm’s compliance and government company. Michelle Stevens, MPA ’04, woman. investigations practice group. Nicholas E. Johansson, is releasing her first children’s Bryan King, JD ’08, is an JD ’02, was appointed to the book, Bentley’s Preemie Blessing associate at Bass, Berry & Sims in Amanda Hogue, Washington, D.C. He joins the firm’s Maryland Economic Development (Michelle Marie Stevens, 2014). s LLM ’10, is a family law Commission. Prior to joining The book, drawn from Ms. Stevens’ government contracts practice 10 attorney at Conroy Law Whiteford, Taylor & Preston as own experience with her daughter group, which launched in early 2014. Firm. She is also an an attorney in 2004, he served as Emily, is intended to generate a Katherine MacCue, BA ’08, expert in commercial and business an attorney for the Baltimore City discussion with a child who was is publishing a book of poetry litigation. Solicitor’s Office. He is the author of born prematurely about his or her titled I Am No Timid Electra (ELJ Lindsey Martinez, JD ’10, is several articles on elder law issues. personal neonatal intensive care unit Publications, 2014). The book was one of nine recipients of the 2014 Andrew Hartman, MA ’03, journey. released in October. President’s Pro Bono Service Awards PhD ’06, is the author of A War for Geoffrey R. Cleveland, Vikrant Vasudeva, LLM ’08, for her commitment to pro bono the Soul of America: A History of the BBA ’05, and his wife, Joy, published Open Source Software and legal services for the Public Law Culture Wars (University of Chicago welcomed their first child, Geoffrey Intellectual Property Rights (Wolters Center in Orange County, Calif. Press, upcoming in spring 2015). Ross Cleveland Jr., on Dec. 1, 2013. Kluwer, 2014). Mary Candler, MFA ’11, As the publisher describes the book: Thomas A. Janczewski, Katie-Beth Baker, BA ’09, in Adam Donshik, MFA ’11, and “As an ever more partisan but also JD ’05, has been named partner at May received her juris doctor from Gwendolyn Kelso, MFA ’11, have an ever more diverse and accepting the Milwaukee office of Michael Best New England Law | Boston. While started a theater company in New America continues to find its way in a & Friedrich. He practices general in law school, she was a Dean’s List York and were selected to perform at changing world, [the book] reminds commercial litigation in both state student and completed internships at NYCFringe. The troupe’s website is us of how we got here, and what all and federal courts. Lubin and Meyer P.C., Rosie’s Place, hedgepigensembletheatre.org. the shouting has really been about.” Michael B. Greenwald, Wilmer Hale Legal Services Center Ian Steff, MA ’11, will serve as Chad Nydegger, JD ’03, BA ’06, works for the U.S. of Harvard Law School, and the senior adviser of nanotechnology was recognized by Best Lawyers in Treasury Department in its consumer protection division of the and advanced manufacturing at the America in litigation, intellectual Office of Terrorism and Financial Massachusetts Attorney General. Indiana Economic Development property and patent law. Intelligence. In August, he was She was also a summer fellow of Corp. He moves to the IEDC Devon Tutak Steven, BA ’03, part of a U.S. delegation visit to the Center for Law and Social from the Semiconductor Industry and her husband John welcomed Kiev, Ukraine, where he met with Responsibility in 2013. Association in Washington, D.C. their first child, John Tutak Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy TJ England, JD ’09, was Emma Clark, BA ’12, is one Steven, at the George Washington Yatseniuk and other Ukrainian appointed vice president and general of 31 residents selected for the University Hospital on May 19, cabinet members to discuss issues of counsel of C.R. England’s legal Richmond Teacher Residency 2014. They reside in Washington, coordinating sanctions application. department. He joined the company program at Virginia Commonwealth COURTESY SHANAHAN FAMILY SHANAHAN COURTESY

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University. This is a four-year Stewart F. Moore, JD ’53 Leonard C. Eppard, RESD ’67 Chung-wen Shih service commitment to Richmond June 22, 2014 March 26, 2014 Professor Emeritus of Chinese Public Schools, where the first- Queensbury, N.Y. Middleburg, Va. Language and Literature year residents co-teach alongside July 6, 2014 a master teacher for an entire Stanley I. Bregman, school year while taking graduate BA ’56, LLB ’58 Faculty, Staff and Trustees coursework with VCU’S School of May 8, 2014 Education. Albuquerque, N.M. Judy Arkes Emily Morgan Clark- Academic editor Youngblood, BS ’13, MPH ’13, Richard Cahill, LLB ’64 Nov. 13, 2014 became a fellow with Princeton in Nov. 25, 2013 Latin America. PiLA placements Colleyville, Texas Morton Hyman offer field experience in Latin Former trustee America to recent college graduates William D. Duffy, MS ’73 Nov. 17, 2014 who are eager to pursue careers May 16, 2014 in international work. Ms. Clark- Spokane, Wa. Youngblood will work with the World Food Programme in Ecuador. Christopher Jordan, MS ’13, has been appointed director of quality resources for St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. Prior to joining St. Joseph’s, Mr. Jordan worked at George Washington University Hospital, where he started as a critical care registered nurse, becoming a quality improvement specialist and ultimately the director of quality improvement and infection control. Angela M. Kilbert, ’13, joined Babst Calland as an associate in the firm’s environmental services group. Ms. Kilbert assists clients on a wide variety of environmental matters. Previously, she worked as a law clerk for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

AND WHAT ABOUT YOU? Submit your own class note, book, or Artists’ Quarter update: Email [email protected] mail Alumni News Section GW Magazine [remembering] 2121 Eye Street, NW Suite 501 Michael Shanahan, SMPA Professor Washington, DC 20052 Seasoned political journalist and decorated Vietnam veteran Michael Shanahan, an assistant professor IN MEMORIAM of media and public affairs, died Nov. 22, following an ischemic stroke earlier in the week. Mr. Shanahan, who brought to the classroom experiences from his 40-year reporting career, started teaching at GW in 1999 as an adjunct professor. He became an assistant professor in 2005 and also served as the school’s Barbara Mills Timberlake- assistant director for student affairs, taking on admissions and advising responsibilities. “In his classes and Haller, AA ’51, BS ’52 June 3, 2014 through the internships he managed, Professor Shanahan pushed students to be better journalists, writers, Naperville, Ill. reporters and citizens,” says SMPA Director Frank Sesno. “He was an unshakeable friend and will be missed tremendously.” James Ralph Beaird, LLM ’53 Aug. 14, 2014 Athens, Ga. For more on Michael Shanahan, visit gwtoday.gwu.edu/memoriam-michael-shanahan.

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Photographs by Corcoran alumnae Kaitlin ephemera, artifacts, the land—connections In the category of single photojournalism Jencso, BFA ’12, and Lauren Schneiderman, between sisters.” images, Ms. Schneiderman won for a MA ’13, were selected as “curators’ picks” at Separately, she also won an honorable photo that was part of her Corcoran thesis the main competition of the annual FotoWeek mention for a single fine art image. project, called Living Coal. It depicts several DC festival in November. generations of the Jarrell family, who live Ms. Jencso and Corcoran professor The series is “an in southern West Virginia. Once home to a Benjamin Tankersley also received honorable exploration of the booming coal industry, the region now faces mentions for their work. rampant unemployment. The project, she Curators George Hemphill, Jeanne emotional territory of says, sheds light on families living in the Modderman and Lucian Perkins pored [the] ever expanding shadow of coal companies. through submissions for the main Mr. Tankersley received a fine art series competition, choosing curators’ picks in the and evolving course honorable mention for pieces from his categories of fine art, photojournalism and of a relationship. collection, Breezewood, which explores small- photographer’s choice. A set of images from Loss, movement, town life “where seemingly no one lives,” and Ms. Jencso’s collection Gossamer Thread people are just passing through. received the top honor among fine art series. memory, nostalgia, —Julyssa Lopez On her website she describes Gossamer sweat, humidity, Thread as “an exploration of the emotional ephemera, artifacts, territory of [the] ever expanding and evolving To see all the honored photos from course of a relationship. Loss, movement, the land—connections FotoWeek DC, visit fotodc.org/foto-

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TAKING CARE OF Consider where you hang a painting. › While the layers of a painting can YOUR ART adjust to slow seasonal changes in So you’ve read all about Bradley temperature and humidity, rapid Stevens, BA ’76, MFA ’79 (“The fluctuations—from, say, a heating vent, Portrait Maker,” Pg. 40), and are an air conditioner, an active fireplace, ready to buy a painting. But how or a shower or bath—can cause cracks, to ensure your investment lasts? distortion and other damage. Museum studies professor Mary Coughlin, a former objects conservator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (where she worked on objects ranging from Franklin Roosevelt’s leg braces Aim for natural, indirect light. › to Star Wars robot C-3PO), offers The sun’s ultraviolet rays can cause tips for keeping your heirloom fading, as can ultraviolet from painting as vivid as if it just left fluorescent lights. Picture lamps, like the artist’s brush. those mounted to the tops of paintings, often have incandescent bulbs that burn hot, which can cause paint to crack and flake.

You see a doctor for injuries, so should your art. › If there’s a tear in a painting, don’t try to glue or tape it. Commercial adhesives will become discolored and increasingly difficult to remove. Call a conservator.

If you must clean, do it gently. › Cleaning solvents and even water can dissolve paints or affect surface coatings. The most a non-conservator should attempt—if there’s no flaking— is cleaning with a soft brush, like a sable brush used for watercolors. Wrap masking tape around the metal edge at the foot of the bristles to avoid scratching the painting. Use the brush to dislodge surface dust, ideally right into a vacuum so it is not redistributed. ILLUSTRATION: JAMES SURDAM

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