Shana Leenerts (ICP ’08) was named the Howard Baker Jr. Award winner by the National Security Education Program (NSEP). The NSEP notes in its press release that Leenerts “has shown an outstanding commitment to serving our nation through her work as a Counterterrorism Fellows Program Specialist within the U.S. Department of Defense and as an Academic Exchange Specialist with the U.S. Department of State.” In 2001, Leenerts was awarded a Boren Scholarship to study Mandarin in China. Learn more about NSEP at www.nsep.gov.

The paper, “Forecasting Housing Prices with Google Econometrics” by Research Instructor Rajendra Kulkarni, Dean Kingsley Haynes, Vice President Roger Stough, and Professor Jean Paelinck, was recently listed on Social Science Research Network’s Top Ten download list for Real Estate.

Juan Julio Gutierrez (PhD Student) will spend the Fall semester as a visiting scholar at CESIS-Royal Institute of Technology-Stockholm and Jonkoping University-Jonkoping.  He will work with Professor Martin Andersson researching firm R&D strategies and internationalization of production. The preliminary results of the collaboration will be presented at the NARSC conference in San Francisco in November.

The Social Science Research Network ranks Small Business Economics 39th out of 200 economics journals most cited and 34th out of more than 100 business journals. University Professor and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, Zoltan Acs and David Audretsch are editors-in-chief of the journal.

Professor Stuart Malawer’s paper, “Cyberwarfare: Legal & Policy Proposals for U.S. & Global Governance” was recently listed on Social Science Research Network’s Top Ten download list for National Security & Foreign Relations Law.

Professor Katrin Anacker was selected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to review proposals for its Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program.  She also was chosen by global consulting company ARUP to be one of several consultants to work on the Long Island 2035 Comprehensive Regional Sustainability Plan. Anacker, along with Lawrence Levy, director of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, is responsible for collecting data for this project.

Professor Ramkishen S. Rajan was appointed in August the senior research fellow and joint coordinator of the Economics Program of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies based in Singapore. The appointment is for two years.

Mark Flanigan (Peace Operations ’06) was selected to join the U.S. Delegation to the 39th World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) Plenary Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, from August 9 to 12, 2009. Flanigan is an international response officer with the U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services in Washington, D.C., where he helps develop and implement international response protocols for public health emergency preparedness.

Captain Bruce H. Lindsey (PhD 2005) was selected by the U.S. Navy to take command of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier on July 7, 2009, in Norfolk, Virginia.

Professor James Pfiffner's book Power Play received the silver medal for 2008 Political Science Book of the Year from ForeWord magazine. The award was announced at BookExpo America in New York City on June 1, 2009. According to the magazine's web site, the winners "were selected by dozens of librarians and booksellers who are experts in the subject matter of the books they judged and make purchasing decisions daily for their collections or bookstores." Learn more about ForeWord magazine and the award.