Professor Michael Fauntroy was appointed by Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty to serve on the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure.

Professor Zoltan Acs has accepted the invitation to participate in the Science and Engineering Human Resources Expert Panel of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Science Resources Statistics. The panel advises the division on priorities and strategies for improving the relevance of the statistics produced from current and future data collections on human resources. NSF provides information for national science and technology policy formulation as part of its legislative mandate. Each panelist serves a minimum term of one calendar year

LTC (Ret.) Wally Johnson, director of the Mentor-Protégé Program and deputy director of the Procurement Technical Assistance Program with Mason’s Enterprise Center, was inducted into the 2009 Wall of Fame by his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, at the Army ROTC Alumni and Friends Banquet held on October 30 in Norman, Oklahoma.

In the October 24 edition of The Hindu, D. Murali reviews Professor Ramkishen Rajan’s book, Monetary, Investment, and Trade Issues in India. Murali calls the book an “imperative read.”

Wallace Warfield (PhD ’01), associate professor in Mason’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, won the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) http://www.acrnet.org/.The award was presented at the ACR’s annual conference in Atlanta in October. See the presentation of the award.