Sarah
Ayers ( ICP ’06) was
sworn in as a foreign affairs officer
(civil service) for the U.S. Department
of State in September. She works
in the Office of Missile Threat
Reduction.
Adjunct
Professor Brent Eastwood was
appointed to the Commission
on Employment for the City of Alexandria,
Virginia. This 13-member
board of representatives from business,
educational agencies, organized labor,
and economic development agencies
is appointed by the mayor and the
city council.
Matthew
Hardy (TPOL ’02
and current PhD student) had
his paper "A Case Study in Addressing
the 2005 BRAC Recommendations: Implementing
Bus Rapid Transit in the Route 1 Corridor" selected
as the transportation policy student
paper winner by the Virginia Department
of Transportation. As the winner, Hardy
received a plaque and a monetary award,
and presented the paper on November
8 at the 56th Virginia Transportation
Conference in Roanoke.
Professor
Andrew Hughes Hallett was
recognized as a pioneer and major scientist
in quantitative economic policy analysis
with the book, Quantitative Economic
Policy, published by Springer,
November 2007. The volume, edited by
Reinhard Neck, Christian Richter, and
Peter Mooslechner is part of the series: Advances
in Computational Econmics.
Jody Keenan (State Director
of the Virginia Small Development
Center) was elected the
next Chair for the Association
of Small Business Development Centers.
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Adriana
Kocornik-Mina (PhD ’07) won
the 2007 Regional Science Association
International Dissertation Award. The
judges, highly respected scholars in
the field of Regional Science, commented
on the clarity of writing, the thoroughness
of the literature review, and the quality
of research. According to the judges, “the
dissertation is an important contribution
to the field of Regional Science, as
it correctly applies the principles
of a field of Regional Science that
undergoes a buoyant expansion, spatial
econometrics.” The award was
presented at the RSAI conference in
Savannah, Georgia, in November.
Professor
Martin Sherwin was inducted
into the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences at a ceremony in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in October 2007. Sherwin
is a member of the academy’s
227th class of fellows. Other inductees
in the group of 202 new fellows and
23 new foreign honorary members are
former vice president Al Gore, former
Supreme Court associate justice Sandra
Day O'Connor, New York City mayor Michael
Bloomberg, Google chair and CEO Eric
Schmidt; New York Times investigative
correspondent James Risen; filmmaker
Spike Lee; acclaimed chef, activist,
and cookbook author Alice Waters; and
Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter.
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