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Frawley Named Columbian College Dean | Washington Welcomes A Herd of Its Own | Building a New Business School | Home, Sweet Home | GW and Ellipse Host Simmons at 2002 Commencement | 75 Years of CBS | Faculty Focus: A Street Smart City Slicker | GW Baseball: A Big Hit |
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William Frawley, formerly faculty director for academic programs and planning at the University of Delaware, joined GW July 1, 2002, as dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.
I would like Columbian College of Arts and Sciences to be a driving force in promoting an education that has rigor and consequence, making the GW experience visible because of its substance, depth, and effectuality, Frawley said.
Frawley plans to establish more opportunities for undergraduates to become assimilated into the academic and professional world by integrating the promotion of core competencies such as writing, problem solving, and decision making into the curriculum. He also plans to bolster the undergraduate experience with learning communities and freshman seminars. In short, he anticipates a positive change in the undergraduate and graduate academic experience.
President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg noted Frawleys strong and diverse academic background with enthusiasm: His keen interest in the position, linked with his well- balanced experience as a faculty member and academic administrator, bring to us the spectrum of experience that I seek in a new dean, Trachtenberg said. I expect that Dr. Frawley will be a strong leader, as well as a solid manager, for the academic well being of the Columbian College.
As faculty director for academic programs and planning at the University of Delaware, Frawleya linguistics professoramended the core requirements of its College of Arts and Sciences. He also established 36 living-learning communities for students who demonstrate academic success and involvement in the university.
He has previously served as chair of the Delaware linguistics department and director of the Delaware cognitive science program. He expressed his enthusiasm for his new position, saying, I am very excited and honored to work at one of the premier institutions in the world. GW has top faculty and students, and very smart and progressive leadership.
Jean Folkerts, who served during the search period for a year as interim dean of Columbian College, this summer resumed her role as director of the School of Media and Public Affairs.
Frawleys current research projects include service as editor-in-chief of the second edition of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Frawley also has co-edited a book on dictionaries of the American Indian languages.
Frawley earned a BA in English from Rowan University, formerly Glassboro State College. He holds an MA in linguistics from Louisiana State University and a PhD in linguistics from Northwestern University. He has been nominated three times for the Excellence in Teaching Awards and once for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
Lindsay Crawford
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Just down the street from the GW Hippo, who to date has offered no comment about the interlopers.
Thanks to the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the phrase party animals has taken on a totally new meaning in Washington and, specifically, on the GW campus. Neither GWs elephant, Capital Parade, nor its donkey, Donkey of a Different Color, litters, carouses, or indulges in strong drink. Our 4-by-5-foot sculptures just hang out, so to speak, in front of the GW Professors Gate on 21st Street. And they are rarely alone. Children of all ages stop to tweak their ears and pat their heads.
Besides GWs party animals, some 198 other symbols of Washingtons main industry dot the city landscape. Artists participating in the projectabout half of whom hail from the D.C. areareceived the bare, fiberglass sculptures, and many of the artists painted together in a mass studio in Washington. The phenomenon follows the lead of other cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore that in recent years have had sculptured animals (cows, pigs, fish, you-name-it) stampeding in their streets.
This fall the party animals will be auctioned off to benefit the Arts Commissions grants and education programs. GW continues to be a supporter of the arts and is thrilled to be a Party Animals sponsor, President Trachtenberg says. Our hippo may have to share the spotlight, but we dont think hell mind! Sandy Holland
This computerized rendering shows how the new business school building, Duques Hall, will look upon completed construction in late 2004 or early 2005.
Henry Ric Duques and his wife, Dawn, have pledged a gift of $5 million toward the establishment of Ric and Dawn Duques Hall, a new, 167,000-square-foot building to house GWs School of Business and Public Management. Both are GW alumni.
GW will break ground on the new business school complex this fall, with an expected occupancy date set for late 2004 or early 2005. The building will join Funger Hall on the 700 block of 22nd Street.
In addition to high-tech classrooms, team rooms, a career center, and computer labs, Duques Hall will feature a Capital Markets Room, where students can utilize financial information systems, access real-time quotes, and learn skills for financial modeling, trading, and portfolio management. The building also will house an executive conference center.
Henry Ric Duques, BBA 65, MBA 69
Ric Duques, who is chairman of First Data Corp., earned two GW degreesa BBA in accountancy in 1965 and an MBA in accountancy and finance in 1969. He noted his warm appreciation for the University that provided him with an education on a basketball scholarship, thus enabling him to become the first in his family to graduate from a four-year university. It seems very appropriate to Dawn and me that we share some of our success with GW, Duques said. Many of us who have achieved a measure of financial success tend to forget the people or institutions that gave us the skills and support along the way.
Margaret Shepard, director of development at the School of Business and Public Management, characterized the donation as a catalytic gift, she said. There has never been a more pleasurable moment than to be able to accept a gift that means so much to the alumnus and alumna in giving.
Dawn Duques earned her BA at GWs School of Education and Human Development in 1968. The couple has sent their two children through GW. Their son, David, earned a BBA in 1997, and their daughter, Tiffany, earned a BBA in 2002.
Duques is a member of GWs Board of Trustees and received the GW Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award in 1993.
In recognition of the Duques academic legacy at GW, President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg noted, The Duques family is a big fan of the University. And we are big fans of all of them. Trachtenberg also praised the familys generous gift in taking the School of Business and Public Management to the next level.
The School of Business and Public Managements primary building is the Hall of Government, into which it moved in 1938. The school now also occupies Monroe Hall, as well as four other buildings on campus. The new complex will house the entire school in one location.
First Data Corp. has previously been recognized for its generous gifts to GW. The firm named a tiered lecture room in memory of the late Benjamin Burdetsky, a professor and dean of the school who served on First Datas Board of Directors from 1992 to 2000.
Donkeys and elephants may roam the streets of the District of Columbia, but a home here is nonetheless a treasure to be prized. Soon, thanks to a historic new four-way partnership among Riggs Bank, Fannie Mae, the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency, and GW, home ownership in D.C. could become a reality for many GW employees.
This summer, the University launched the GW Home Program, a collaborative effort to encourage eligible GW faculty and staff to apply for down payment and closing cost assistance toward the purchase of a primary residence in D.C.
We established the GW Home Program to help faculty and staff looking to buy their first home in the District of Columbia make their dream a reality, says President Trachtenberg.
The program, administered through GWs Department of Human Resources Services, also assists prospective D.C. residents through its Education Resource Center, which provides home-buying seminars, workshops and housing resource materials.
Full-time faculty or staff members who have been working at GW for at least two years may apply for the benefits of the new program. The employee must be interested in having a primary residence in the city and must be a first-time home purchaser in D.C.
The Education Resource Center also helps employees look for homes in the District. The office will be staffed by a representative of Riggs Bank, who will meet with prospective homebuyers to provide mortgage counseling and information about different home financing options.
For more information, visit the GW Home Programs Web site at www.gwu.edu/~gwhome or call (202) 994-5369.
President Trachtenberg presents Brown University President Ruth Simmons with the honorary Doctor of Humanities degree.
May 19 GW graduates celebrate the end of their school years and the beginning of their futures.
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons, a prominent scholar who is the great-great granddaughter of slaves and the first African American to become president of an Ivy League institution, delivered the keynote address at GWs 2002 Commencement. She also received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. More than 20,000 people gathered at the May 19 ceremony on Washingtons Ellipse to recognize some 4,200 graduates of the Class of 2002.
Along with Simmons, recipients of honorary degrees included Darrell Green, the Washington Redskins All-Pro defensive back and two-time Super Bowl champion, who received the doctor of public service degree, as did Jim Hall, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board; Lois Green Schwoerer, author, scholar, and Elmer Louis Kayser Professor Emeritus of History at GW, received the doctor of letters degree; and John Zeglis, the chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Wireless Services and former chair of the GW Board of Trustees, was presented with the doctor of laws degree.
Simmons has been recognized as a leader in improving campus race relations and opening higher education opportunities for minorities and disadvantaged groups. In 1995 she became the first African American to head a top-ranked American college or university when she was named president of Smith College, and she was unanimously elected Brown Universitys 18th president in 2001. No stranger to GW, she taught French at the University during the 1968-69 academic year while she was enrolled here for graduate work.
In recognition of influential GW professors and her time spent in Washington, Simmons commencement address took note of her special debt to GW for launching me onto a path that led me to the role I now play.
I had a novel experience here that shaped my thinking about how to contribute to society, Simmons said in her address. Of course, many of you, whether sitting in the audience while Crossfire was broadcast live from the campus, or seeing your teachers quoted in public policy debates about trade reforms or tax cuts, or whether combining your classes with internships at the White House, the World Bank, or on the Hill, youve gotten the kind of education available to few in the world.
Finally, Simmons exhorted the graduates to understand and assert with exuberance the joy and purpose of living and the possibilities of using this excellent education to the best advantage. Go into your communities and fight for the things we will need to secure our humanity
Simmons urged.
Also during Commencement, GW honored six members of the community with the GW Award. Those receiving awards included Edward A. Caress, executive associate dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and professor of chemistry; Jason Cohen, graduate student and general manager, WRGW; Joel W. Cook, associate dean of the undergraduate program at the School of Business and Public Management and associate professor of strategic management and public policy; Diane DePalma, director of the University Counseling Center; Truyen Pham, senior informations system engineer of the Information Systems and Services Division; and Roger Kapoor, graduating senior and president of the Student Association.
The GW Award recognizes individuals at the University who have made outstanding contributions to and whose achievements have resounded throughout the community.
In recognition of superior contributions, three faculty members were awarded the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prizes. Recipients included Arun Malik, associate professor of economics, who received the prize in teaching; Cornelius Bennhold, associate professor of physics, who received the prize in research scholarship; and William Parke, professor of physics, who received the prize in university service.
Six members of GWs alumni family were awarded the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. Recipients included Ruth Cooper Burg, BS 45, JD 50; Kenneth P. Moritsugu, SMHS 71; William A. Owens, MBA 76; Elliott C. Roberts Sr., MBA 64; Ya-Qin Zhang, DSc 89; and James W. Ziglar, BA 68, JD 72.
The May 19 Commencement included all GW schools and colleges except the Law School, which held its ceremonies May 26 in the Charles E. Smith Center. There, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell delivered the keynote address.
From Sept. 3 through Oct. 18 GWs Luther W. Brady Art Gallery will be presenting an exhibit commemorating the 75th anniversary of broadcasting giant CBS.
America Through the CBS Eye, An Exhibition Organized by the CBS Photo Archive, located within the gallery as well in exhibit cases on the first and second levels of the Media and Public Affairs Building, in which the gallery is housed, features more than 100 photographs. Many of them, like this Albert Einstein photo, depict famous entertainers and newmakers and date back to 1927 when CBS began broadcasting. The gallery also will host a reception on Sept. 18, the actual CBS anniversary date.
In addition to the exhibit, GW Vice President for Communications Michael Freedman, former general manager of CBS Radio Network News, is conducting two special interviews with CBS luminaries. Freedman will host, A Conversation With Walter Cronkite: The Most Trusted Man in America Sept. 22 at 2 p.m. in Lisner Auditorium, in which Cornkite will reflect on his distinguished broadcast career. On Oct. 10, Freedman will interview Richard C. Hottelet in, The Murrow Boys and Journalist Richard C. Hottelet, The Golden Age of CBS Radio News, at GWs Media and Public Affairs Building at 6 p.m. Both interviews are being conducted as part of the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program.
This is a happy convergence for GW, CBS and The Smithsonian Associates, said Freedman. Through this unique partnership we will provide GW students and the greater Washington, D.C., community with a dramatic view of broadcast history and a rare opportunity to hear from two legends of the profession, Walter Cronkite and Richard C. Hottelet. As with CNN Crossfire, this exhibit will also cast a global spotlight on GWs new Media and Public Affairs offerings.
For more information about the exhibit, contact the gallery at (202) 994-1525. Gallery regular hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A limited number of free tickets are available to the GW community for the Smithsonian events. For more information, contact GWs Office of University Events, (202) 994-7129, e-mail email@example.com.
A Series of Personal Glimpses of GW Faculty Members
Six years ago, Ricia Chansky arrived in the nations capital with her husband and belongings. The fast-paced hubbub of Washington was daunting to a couple that had just come from a small town in Massachusetts. It was a tough city to break into, Chansky remembers. When we arrived, it was really just my husband and me. It took time before we felt like Washingtonians.
These days, Chansky, a GW lecturer in English and a freshman adviser, doles out advice and inside tips to wide-eyed newcomers to a city that once seemed so foreign to her. Chansky, who serves as a writing consultant for D.C.s renowned art venues like the Smithsonian Institution and the Kennedy Center, was recently featured as the cultural life and arts expert for the Newcomers Handbook for Moving to Washington, D.C., Third Edition (First Books, 2002). She has also served as a contributing writer for DC Pages, a popular online resource for information about Washington.
As a contributing writer to the D.C. edition of the Newcomers Handbook, Chansky toured the city to give readers suggestions for weekend excursions and information about community-based art and literary nooks. Chansky provides visitor information and short descriptions of theaters, museums, historic sites, and nightclubs. There are wonderful cultural organizations, and, for the most part, theyre free. Things like that are really special.
The Newcomers Handbook is a series of guides designed to help individuals acclimate to the metropolitan, fast-paced tempo of many of the United States largest cities. Each edition features contact information for many entertainment and educational opportunities in the cities and surrounding suburbs.
Chanksy believes that the Newcomers Handbook is an important account of city life and proves useful in helping potential residents decide if the city life is right for them. The handbook reminded Chansky of her own transition to the District and how long it took until she was fully confident in her Washingtonian status. I began to think, I really could have used this myself!
An important part of being a resident in the District is being aware of all of resources, events, and opportunities the city offers. However, making the nations capital feel like home can be difficult. There is so much in D.C.! exclaims Chansky. It really brings in people from all around the country for jobs, but considering it your home is a hard transition.
Referring to GW students fondly as my kids, Chansky says that her freshman counseling helps give her a sense of what its like to be new to the city all over again. Ive been a part of Colonial Inauguration [orientation] and it feels so good to see this group of very young, very concerned people coming to me. Im honestly one of the first people they meet when they come to GW. It feels great to offer reassurance and advice.
Washington is a bustling city with an international population and a seemingly endless list of resources for Washington residents of all ages. Getting newcomers familiar with all that the city has to offer and making people feel at home is always a thrill to Chanksy. There are things on absolutely any topic you are interested in, she says.
Part of the fun of researching D.C. is learning the inside stories behind different places that you wouldnt find in a brief guide to the city. The story of a ghost that haunts the seats at the National Theatre and of a cat that lives at the Kennedy Center are among Chanskys favorite tales.
Chansky confesses that the best part of her job is getting assignments for things that she would normally pursue outside of her career. Visiting different institutions, landmarks, and sharing fascinating facts about Americas Hometown with the rest of the community are part of her daily life. Its a lot of fun to have a job that sends you out to do things you enjoy.
"If youre not going to be here, you better win.
The Colonials celebrate their A-10 win over Richmond.
photos by Scott K. Brown
Those were Kirsten Walters words from her hospital bed shortly after giving birth while her husband, Tom, was with his GW baseball team at the Atlantic 10 Conference regular season awards banquet. Walter tried to get back to Washington that day in May but was turned away at the Hartford airport because the doors to the last flight were shut.
So he took his wifes declaration to heart, and he and his Colonials went out and won. They beat Dayton and St. Bonaventure to qualify for the championship round of the A-10 Tournament against national powerhouse Richmond. With a surprise visit from Kirsten, their son, Chase, and newborn daughter, Casey, they watched Walter and the Colonials win two out of three games over the Spiders. Those victories propelled GW to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 10 years and for only the seventh time in school history.
The 2002 baseball team reflects the hard work of the last six seasons of coaching by Walter and his staff. I am excited and proud of our players, Walter says. When we recruited the seniors, GW hadnt won very much up until then. Its easy for players to go to the top 10 schools that have always won, but to go somewhere and turn that program into a winning one is something special.
This years squad set the school record for most wins for the fourth time in five years. The team also set new single season records for runs, hits, doubles, home runs, runs batted in, and total bases. Walter, who broke the 36-year-old record of 193 career wins by a GW coach, chalks up this success to more than just his baseball acumen.
You dont set the school record for wins four out of five years and win a conference championship without having talented personnel, Walter says. Im no great coach. I just play the hand Ive been dealt, and its a pretty good hand.
Coach Tom Walter with son Chase.
His right hands this year include three assistant coachesDennis Healy, Jeff Waggoner, and Mark Colemanwho Walter calls the backbone of the program. Hes also been dealt great players like third baseman Matt Krimmel, outfielder Tony Brown, and pitchers Jason Baker and Mike OConnor.
And then theres Mike Bassett, the most prolific power hitter in GW history. Bassett put the team on his back against Richmond and helped carry it to the conference championship by hitting three home runs in as many games. He finished the season batting .382, with 19 home runs and 77 RBIs. He holds seven GW records.
GWs baseball tradition reaches back for decades. Many of these former coaches and players have called Walter to offer their congratulations, and the coach appreciates the alumni support. He also knows how this years success can help in the future.
Winning the conference championship and winning 42 baseball games gives us another sell to recruits, Walter says. Come here and youre going to experience some of these same things.
Greg Licamele
Few of us ever achieve it, but Shakespearean scholar Gail Kern Paster has been living what must seem to be a dream come true since July 1, when she took office as director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Folger, home to the worlds largest Shakespeare collection, also hosts a theater, poetry readings, and a period musical group.
Much of Pasters work outside of GW has been focused at the Folger for three decades. A longtime GW professor of English, Paster also is editor of the scholarly journal Shakespeare Quarterly. A trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America, she recently was elected vice president and will become president in 2003. She has won many national fellowships and awards, including fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Paster succeeded Werner Gundersheimer, who spent 18 years at the Folgers helm. Of his successor, he says, I cant imagine anyone better qualified to take the Folger to the next level. Gail has the energy, intellect, vision, and style to make a great institution even stronger.
Paster, who holds a BA from Smith College and earned her PhD from Yale University, commented on the Folger: Scholars from all over the world and from many different academic disciplines come to the Folger to do research impossible in any other single institution.
No other institution that I know of does a better job of conserving the objects in its keeping or communicating the relation of past and present in an exciting, varied, and accessible way. It is an honor to be asked to lead the Folger and continue the work of its crucial educational mission.
The author of numerous scholarly articles and two books, Paster is currently working on a new book under the auspices of a Mellon Foundation/Folger Fellowship. This book, like much of her work of the past 30 years, is being written in the Folgers Reading Room.
GW Magazine featured Paster in its fall 1996 issue.
Professor East hosts George H.W. Bush as part of the tele-course.
Paul Caffrey
Former President George Bush and prominent members of his foreign policy-making team interacted live with students from GW and Texas A&M universities as part of a joint long distance learning course taught by Maurice A. East, GW professor of international affairs and political science, and Texas A&M professor Charles F. Hermann.
The tele-course, entitled Problems in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy: Insights from the First Bush Administration, brought key political figures of the post Cold War era onto both campuses simultaneously through live videoconference via closed circuit TV. GW participants in the weekly class, held in spring 2001 and 2002, consisted of both undergraduate and graduate students from the Elliott School of International Affairs, the University Honors Program, and the Department of Political Science.
The brainchild of East, former dean of the Elliott School, and longtime friend Hermann, the first director of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, the innovative course fully utilized the strategic locations of both participating universities.
Foreign policy expert Hermann, whose Bush School is located next door to the Bush Library and Museum, has direct access to the former president, as well as to the librarys impressive collection of archival material about the Bush years. GWs location in the heart of Washingtonwhere many of the presidents former foreign policy leaders livewas perfect for attracting an impressive slate of guests.
We were intrigued by the possibility of using technology to capitalize on both President Bushs access and appeal and GWs location, says East. The president had appeared twice before student groups at the newly created Bush School and was a tremendous hit, says East. When approached about the course, President Bush was very supportive of the idea and agreed to participate and to allow us to contact others in his administration on his behalf.
The foreign policy makers were extremely cooperative and generous with their time, says East. In addition to Bush, 11 guests appeared as featured presenters this past spring, including former head of the CIA Robert Gates, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Robert Strauss, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft.
Students at both sites had ample opportunities to interact with the guests during a 30- to 45-minute question and answer period at the end of each two-and-a-half hour session. President Bush, who spoke to the class twice, was incredibly personal and warm with the students, says East. He had enough of an interest that he called students by name in class and responded to things that theyd said earlier. He was really open, and made an extra special effort to answer the questions, not to dodge them.
In addition to the prominent speakers, the course was enhanced by weekly audio-visual presentations that set the context for the various cases discussed in class, such as the Malta Summit and China-U.S. relations after Tiananmen Square. We were able to utilize specialized resources from the Bush Library, such as video clips from key meetings and events involving the president, original documents and drafts, maps, and mementos, says East.
The undertaking was exhilarating and rewarding. It was the hardest, most labor-intensive course of my 40-year teaching career, he says, but it was also the most exciting educating experience Ive ever had, without a doubt.
Jamie L. Freedman
On May 17 the GW Board of Trustees added two new members: Nelson Carbonell Jr. BS 85, co-founder of Cysive, an e-commerce company; and Scott Mory, BA 96, JD 99, an associate with Cahill, Gordon, and Reindel. Both were elected to three-year terms.
This fall GW welcomed four-time Emmy award winning news correspondent John Dancy as the School of Media and Public Affairs J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellow. He will offer a semester-long seminar entitled Foreign Correspondents and Foreign Policy. Dancys honored 30-year career includes both foreign and domestic stints for NBC News.
The esteemed PEN/Faulkner Writing Program has a new home, beginning this fall, at GWs Mount Vernon Campus. Among past winners of PEN/Faulkner Awards are such luminaries as E. L. Doctorow, Don Delillo, E. Annie Proulx, and Philip Roth.
Jimmy DAndrea, a D.C. teaching fellow in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, received the D.C. First Class Teacher Award, naming him the best first-year high school teacher in Washington. DAndrea commented, I strive to create a wide range of daily activities in my classroom in order to generate a natural spark of engagement when students come to my class and then try to capitalize on that spark each day to help students focus on learning. The D.C. Office of Teacher Affairs sponsors the award.
GWs new, 371-bed, $100 million-dollar-plus hospital celebrated its grand opening in August. The magazine will bring you more news of this innovative structurelocated just across 23rd Street from the old hospitalin a future issue.
GW and the Federal Aviation Administration have launched a partnership under the FAAs Collegiate Training Initiative, whereby the FAA will recruit GW undergraduate and graduate students for internship opportunities. These internships enable students to pursue careers in engineering, computer science, and geography/ cartology. GW will, in turn, provide cohort courses for FAA employees and open enrollment courses for individual FAA employees.
Roger Kapoor, BA 02, last years GW student government president, was named to USA Todays All Academic Third Team. Kapoor was recognized for his excellence in academics and his leadership on campus.
U.S. News & World Report listed GWs Law School, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, and graduate programs in health and public affairs in its latest Americas Best Graduate Schools issue. The Law School tied for 25th; and the international law program ranked sixth in the country, while environmental law is ranked ninth. The Graduate School of Education and Human Development was ranked 35th in the country and 11th among private institutions. Among GWs health programs, its physician assistant program is ranked second in the nation, rehabilitation counseling is ranked seventh, and speech-language pathology is ranked 30th.
Highly regarded Washington dancer/choreographer/artistic director Dana Tai Soon Burgess, MFA 94, returns to his alma mater this fall as assistant professor of dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance. He has previously served as an adjunct professor at GW.
David C. Ribar, GW associate professor of economics, won the Kuznets Prize for his article, The Socioeconomic Consequences of Young Womans Childbearing: Reconciling Disparate Evidence, in the Journal of Population Economics. The journal awards the Kuznets Prize for the best paper published during a three-year period.
GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, received two outstanding honors this spring. He was elected as a fellow in the nations preeminent learned society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also was the keynote speaker for the University of New Havens spring commencement, at which he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from that university. Trachtenberg joins an impressive AAAS Class of 2002 that includes Sen. Edward Kennedy, Violinist Itzhak Perlman, three Nobel Prize winners, three MacArthur fellows, six Guggenheim fellows, and four college presidents. He was elected to the Academy by its current members because of the unique part he has played in developing GW into a major national research University as well as his role in integrating the urban campus into the fabric of the community and the local government.
We highlight GWs academic rankings in various disciplines above. Not mentioned is its ranking in the following area, which apparently got the attention of Hatchet editors, who published this on Feb. 17, 1977: The February Genesis magazine, a monthly publication roughly on a par with Penthouse and Hustler, ranks GW 20th on its annual list of Americas Twenty Sexiest Colleges.
By 1952, GW already was building its international student base. In March of that year, the Hatchet reported, Out of 9,200 aspiring scholars cramming for exams on this campus, 280 of them are students representing 65 countries. The largest international student populations hailed from China (22 students), followed by Germany (17), England (13), Canada (13), Greece (12), and the Philippines (12).
There is this letter, from the June 18, 1902, minutes of the Board of Trustees: The Library is in great need of attention. University work cannot be done properly without a good library for the use of students and officers. To put the library in proper shape, we should have ten thousand dollars to be spent at once, and this should be followed by not less than five hundred dollars a year.
The magazine gratefully acknowledges the assistance of University Archives in the identification of interesting historical information. Readers wanting to learn more about GWs history can find the University Archives Web site by accessing www.gwu.edu/~archives. The sites Historical Almanac is especially informative.


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Chris Calloway. Anyone remember that clutch catch he made to win in over time (I believe against the Lions) ? Victor Cruz has that spark. Him and Manningham make the acrobatic catches, but a lot of times Manningham makes a routine catch, look like he's juggling a grenade he accidentally pulled the pin on.
Even if this season turns sour, at least we know we may have a future Top Five elite WR duo.

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Updates 10/15/08:
The beta of Firefox 3.1 is available with the geolocation API "baked in." Details of the implementation and how to test it are in this intro to the beta blog post. Location determination options in the 3.1 beta include manual and via serially connected GPS device.
The W3C geolocation spec that's implemented in FireFox Geode and this beta has been updated, or at least the date has been changed from Sept 15 draft. It now has an Oct 15 date.
Aza Raskin penned a follow up to the original Mozilla Labs post on Geode that addresses some confusion. It really helps.
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Update 10/8/08: Geode (blog post from Mozilla labs, download) built on Skyhook's Wi-Fi-based solution. I guess the real question is where should such a tool sit? In the operating system? As an app running on the operating system? As an add-on to the browser (as this is)? It feels like we are still determining where in the "stack" the LPS (location positioning system) should fit. I do like that it follows the W3C spec; specs are good. Still, there are those like Brian Kraemer at ChannelWeb that feel location is still a hard sell, no matter where in the stack it lives: "Mozilla Labs' initiative with Geode is admirable, but getting users to embrace location mapping or location awareness still seems a few years out at the earliest, because, right now, there's no compelling reason to share location information."
In an e-mail Tuesday (after the launch) from a PR person on the campaign I learned how Mozilla is positioning the offering: "Geode presents developers with an open mobile platform alternative to Google Chrome and Gears."
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Reader Kevin pointed me to this Webware article that teases about a new add-on for Firefox called Geode expected today. ReadWriteWeb describes it as " "a Firefox add-on that understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content" and VentureBeat explains it's a location determination tool, built on the W3C spec, upon which developers can build. Exactly how it determines location is not clear, though its likely IP location, wi-fi, cell tower - the same thing other platforms offer. Such tools are becoming common so such announcements seem less and less important. My sense is that if you want your device to be location aware, you can probably find software, often free, to determine it. Whether that location will be available to your other apps seems to be the sticking point. That in turn points to Yahoo's Fire Eagle, which VentureBeat suggests is a great manager for Geode's location information.


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Am I the only one who's remembering "Night of the Comet" over this? 😛
From NASA:
NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14. NASA places a high priority on tracking asteroids and protecting our home planet from them. This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close.
The half-hour broadcast from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will incorporate real-time animation to show the location of the asteroid in relation to Earth, along with live or near real-time views of the asteroid from observatories in Australia, weather permitting.
At the time of its closest approach to Earth at approximately 11:25 a.m. PST (2:25 p.m. EST / 19:25 UTC), the asteroid will be about 17,150 miles (27,600 kilometers) above Earth's surface. The commentary will be available via NASA TV and streamed live online at: * http://www.nasa.gov/ntv * and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2.
This past November, Two NASA astronomers suggested that the size and location of an asteroid belt, shaped by the evolution of the sun's planet-forming disk and by the gravitational influence of a nearby giant Jupiter-like planet, may determine whether complex life will evolve on an Earth-like planet.
You can read more about tomorrow's near miss at NASA's website here: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/02/ecoalert-nasa-will-livestream-asteroid-flyby-this-friday.html
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For women who are curious to explore what the outdoors has to offer, but uncertain of how or where to begin, the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshop series provides a practical introduction to a wide variety of outdoor recreational skills and activities. One of these workshops, hosted by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, is scheduled to take place Nov. 7-9 at the Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center.
Becoming an Outdoors-Woman, or BOW, is an educational program offering hands-on workshops to women of all ages and physical ability levels and aims to break down barriers to female participation in outdoor activities by providing a safe and supportive learning environment.
Workshops are led by outdoor professionals and introduce women to a variety of activities equally balanced between hunting and shooting, fishing and boating, and non-harvest sports like canoeing, camping and tree-climbing. Sessions range in intensity from leisurely to rugged (strenuous).
Although classes are designed with beginners and those with little to no experience in mind, more seasoned participants will benefit from the opportunity to hone their existing skills and try out new activities. All participants will receive enough instruction to pursue their outdoor interests further when the workshop is complete.
Weekend workshops begin on Friday morning and end on Sunday afternoon. Between meals and special presentations and events, participants can choose from more than 25 classes to take part in, including hunter education and firearms safety.
Jody Rice, BOW coordinator, said the program is intended to encourage women to embrace nature and the outdoors through enjoyable activities and experiences.
"BOW classes give women from all backgrounds the chance to learn outdoor skills in a positive, non-competitive atmosphere where they can feel confident and have fun," said Rice.
A Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshop is scheduled for Nov. 7-9 at Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center. The center is near Mansfield, less than an hour southeast of Atlanta off interstate 20. Participants can choose to bring their own tents and gear or lodge at Charlie Elliott's beautiful conference center, part of a popular complex including a wildlife management and public fishing area.
For more information, including registration details and a complete listing of classes offered, visit www.georgiawildlife.com/BOW or call (770) 784-3059.


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I flew up to Auckland from Wellington to meet Mike. No dramas that I can remember, and walked around to the international terminal to wait. Mike arrvied well in time and checked in. We cruised up to the departure lounge and took off at 9pm. Qantas service was great - excellent food and plenty of it. The only hassle was the lack of space. Luckily the guy at the end of our road moved somewhere else so we cold put all our junk on the seat in the middle. It was weird waking up at 3am (NZ time) and opening the blnid, and seeing blazing sun outside.
We got to LA - could literally see the smog as we flew through it - and got a bus from where the bus landed to the main terminal. The customs was really fast (contrary to what I had heard) but the biggest wait was our bags on the carousel!
We went outside and walked down to the South Western terminal to catch our flight to Las Vegas. Having trouble making people understand us, even ordering coffee at Star Bucks had to repeat what I wanted - he didn't even understand me saying tall as in cup (the smallest size - even bigger than McDs largest cup!). Having to take our shoes off to go through the x-ray machine felt weird.
We bought some pretzels at Las Vegas airport - massive and soft and delicious. Best I have ever had. Flight to Vegas extremely bumpy, everyone clapped when we landed. Very brown outside, brown everywhere. From the air Vegas looks bigger than Auckland.
The flight on to Dallas was no problems and we landed about 6pm I think. We managed to get the hotel shuttle to the hotel and checked in. No coffee in the rooms! First time I have seen that one. It was to be repeated in other hotels too - you have to go to reception to get coffee.


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Do Ford and GM really get innovation?by
Bill Ford and Bob Lutz are two of my favorite car guys. Ford gets the environment and Lutz gets design. But I'm wondering if either one really gets innovation. Ford just reported a huge $284 million loss for the third quarter and will now embark on yet another round of plant closings and firings. Ditto for GM. At the same time Toyota is building capacity in the US like crazy. It's a tragedy of immense proportions.
It's all about SUVs and hybrids of course (yes, it is also about legacy health care costs to pensioners as well). Both Ford and GM made so much money on gas-guzzling SUVs--because consumers loved them when gas was cheap--that it lulled them into falling behind in innovating new gas-saving engines. Toyota took some old battery and engine technology, souped it up and started producing real cars with hybrids. Ford and GM didn't because, as Bob Lutz put it, he didn't see a "business model" in the hybrids.
Sure, but business models for innovative products and technologies don't always present themselves at first. Selling books on the internet was the breakthrough application for Amazon. Who knew? Selling ads on search engines? Google just announced that its third quarter profits zoomed sevenfold. Old fashioned mainstream media on Yahoo and other portals? That's what's happening.
The Detroit car companies are failing at product innovation in a big way. Yes, there are some great cars coming out of Detroit (the Pontiac Solstice is terrific). And there is innovation in services--GM's OnStar makes millions for the car company. But the mindset is clearly not one of taking chances on new technology or radically new products. Business models are never clear at the start of something new. They evolve in the process of innovating. But you first must take reasoned and resonable chances--and have some forward-looking ideas. Oil prices have bounced up and down over the past four decades. It was reasonable to assume, as Toyota and Honda did, that gas prices would one day bounce up sharply. And they prepared. Toyota is on its third generation hybrid. Ford is on its first. The Prius is the hottest car off the lot these days, according to J.D. Power.
One tip for Detroit. If you want to try innovating hybrids now, trying plugging in the engines. You might be able to extend the range and increase the mileage by plugging in the electric motor. There's a whole little industry sprouting up in California trying to reconfigure the Prius. I hear there's even a built-in plug somewhere on the dash that Toyota doesn't mention. Is that true?


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Needed to purchase a GPS product for work and yesterday decided to try ordering from a FINGERHUT catalog I received in the mail. My mom has ordered from them for years so figured I would give it a try this one time. After being approved on their website, with their bank, for credit to purchase the item I filled out the order form and realized the ship to order still showing my old address even though I changed it on the application for credit.
The ONLY option showing I had was to contact customer service.
Once connected to a call center in the Philippines (asked where they were) and explaining my issue he said I would need to give him my full SS# on the account in order for him to change my billing address.
I was very polite and even chuckled saying, "Seriously? I was just approved for online credit by filling out a complete credit application with all my complete up to date personal information including full SS#, three security questions to protect my info...and there is no way I can get my billing address changed unless I give you over the phone my full SS#?" I chuckled again.....
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" After asking to speak to his supervisor he promptly said his super would just tell me the same thing and then said he would have to cancel the order if I did not provide him with it. He said he had no other way to verify the account! Ofcourse!
And YES! I canceled the order AND the account and followed up with a note to the company via their website sharing this lovely situation.
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Protecting the security of our new customers accounts is very important to us. The reason the full social security number is required is because an address verification must be done, and approved, to change the address on a new customers account. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you.
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SERIOUSLY??? Again I am baffled...The customer service representative has no other way to verify my account???
I am concerned with why did I even have to spend 20 minutes setting up my online account with their bank with all my personal info for security if it wasn't important for verification??
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Sergio Santos still feels the triceps soreness that landed him on the disabled list last month "a little bit," but the Toronto Blue Jays set-up man is ready to start game action Thursday with an eye toward throwing on consecutive days next week for single-A Dunedin.
While a timeline for his return remains fluid, two weeks give or take sounds like a fair estimate barring setbacks. The pain, above the back of his elbow, has ebbed significantly from where it was during spring training and again April 14 when he went on the DL, and he thinks the time has come to test himself.
"It's gotten to a point where it's very manageable and to where I can go out and pitch," Santos explained Tuesday afternoon. "I think that's why we really want to push it this week, or this next coming week, to kind of push it to see where I'm at, to see how I'm bouncing back from the innings, whether it be one day's rest or back-to-back.
"To me, back-to-back is big because I know I'm going to be doing it quite a bit. Hopefully we're winning and that will happen, but just looking forward to that, getting back out and hopefully joining this team soon."
Santos -- along with fellow recovering pitchers Dustin McGowan, Kyle Drabek and Drew Hutchison -- reconnected with the Blue Jays at Tropicana Field, each pausing to offer updates on their recoveries and/or rehabilitations.
McGowan, the latest convert to the weighted ball training program introduced to the club by Steve Delabar, is feeling strong improvements in his shoulder's recovery the day after pitching and he expects to begin a rehab assignment as a reliever next week.
Drabek and Hutchison, meanwhile, are making steady gains in their rehabilitation programs after elbow ligament replacement surgery, working out on a daily basis with Luis Perez, a third Tommy John victim from last season.
Of the group, only Santos's return to the majors appears imminent, although progress by the other four would go a long way in replenishing the lost depth in the upper levels of the Blue Jays system (although McGowan and Perez are out of options and can't be assigned to the minors without clearing waivers).
Expected to help set up for Casey Janssen and sub in for the closer when workload dictates a day of rest, Santos appeared in two games before deciding the pain was too much for him to play through.
He went seven days without throwing before starting to build up again, tossing bullpens of 20, 30 and 35 pitches to set him up for planned stints in extended spring contests Thursday and Sunday.
The remaining soreness he attributes to the usual aches and pains pitchers go through -- the Blue Jays wouldn't let him pitch if they were concerned about it -- and he's eager to see how his arm responds once things are turned up.
"That's what I'm looking forward to this week; I feel like I'm at a point where we're going to find out one way or the other, you know good or bad, like I don't want to waste any more time," he said. "I want to get healthy. We're going to push it and hopefully it gets there.
"It's pretty close to being symptom free. If you ask any pitcher, they're going to have some general soreness everywhere in their arm. I don't think anybody throws 100 per cent every time out so it's just getting to a point where I can get out there and be effective."
McGowan is striving for the same thing, although there's always a need for caution to accompany any optimism regarding his status.
Back at the end of spring training, when McGowan saw some Grapefruit League action, there was talk that he might not be that far from a return. But he soon shut things down for a week after struggling with his recovery, started the year on the 15-day DL, and was transferred to the 60-day DL on April 7.
It was then he started a new throwing program and became the latest weighted ball convert, joining Delabar, Brett Cecil and Casey Janssen, and the results have him thinking his shoulder will be able to handle life as a reliever.
"Recovery has been the worst part, so they set up a program that would help recovery and so far it's been awesome," he said. "I pitched yesterday, and today, no soreness whatsoever. Been doing it for three weeks now, and it's working pretty well.
"It's everything. I have a little more zip on my ball. But for me, it's not about the zip. It's recovery. That's what I wanted. I wanted to be strong and feel good."
That's how Drabek, Hutchison and Perez feel, although all three are continuing on a similarly steady pace.
Drabek expects to throw some live batting practice in the next week or two, with Perez (who visited the Blue Jays on Monday) likely to do the same right around then, and Hutchison on track to see some hitters in about three weeks.
"Right now me and Hutch are pretty much on the same schedule," said Drabek. "Luis is on a little different one because he's ahead. So we all stretch together, PFP together, all that stuff. As far it goes, I throw with Hutch every day. Same day, same bullpen, so it works out nice."
Drabek is on his second Tommy John surgery so the Blue Jays are bringing him along at a slower pace, although his work started earlier the first time.
"With the Phillies the first time I had it, I was actually home for a while just relaxing and letting it somewhat heal," he said. "Here, we were ready to go, cast off, stretching and I think it's helped out a bunch. I haven't had a setback yet with my arm, so I'm excited about that."
Hutchison is itching to push things along himself, but isn't likely to see any game action until at least a year from his surgery date. Though some pitchers come back faster than that, the Blue Jays prefer to have their players wait a year before returning to competitive play.
"You always want to do more but you know you have to follow the process and do what they tell you to do because that's what's in your best interest," said Hutchison. "I feel good, which is good, but you also realize that it's the process and you need to follow the process."
That process includes plenty of tedious exercises, and lots of free time, something that prompted Drabek to pick up a new friend to help pass the time.
"Just got a dog this off-season," he explained, "so trying to teach him how to be a good boy."


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Rep. Ruiz not happy with Obama's proposed budget
WASHINGTON, D.C. - By proposing smaller increases in Social Security and other government benefit programs, President Barack Obama says he's "met Republicans more than halfway."
Obama today sent a budget proposal to Congress -- one that seeks to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes on the wealthy and trimming the popular benefit programs.
But House Speaker John Boehner says Republicans aren't willing to go beyond the $660 billion in higher taxes that were approved in January.
Rep. Raul Ruiz had this to say about Obama's proposed budget:
"I was disappointed that the President's budget released today included cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Putting the burden of the national deficit on the backs of our seniors is wrong, and I will stand with our seniors to oppose any effort from either political party that would cut their hard-earned benefits and force them to pay even more out-of-pocket for health care. At a time when many seniors are barely making ends meet, we should be working in a bipartisan way to responsibly reduce the deficit and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, and I am committed to working with both political parties toward that end."
The budget plan would increase taxes by one trillion dollars over the next decade, but it relies on many proposals that have been repeatedly rejected by Congress.
One new proposal is a 94 cents-a-pack increase in the cigarette tax. The tax would raise an estimated $78 billion over the next decade to pay for early childhood education.


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This credit is geared toward projects that may have further development planned on the same site. It is meant to ensure that future development on your project site maintains the environmental considerations of the initial design.
First, you must develop a master plan for known or hypothetical future development. Then, you must choose at least four of the seven available credits that the current project is pursuing (see details below), and recalculate these for the future development outlined in the master plan. You need to show that the master-planned development would earn those credits.
The master planning credit isn't applicable to all projects—if your site is completely built out, there's no reason to develop a site master plan, and you're not eligible for the credit. But master planning can be especially helpful for schools that plan on pursuing LEED certification for the future site development.
If the school board in your district typically develops a master plan for individual sites, this credit can be a good one to pursue. But in districts where master planning isn't standard practice, this credit can get very documentation-intensive, and you may decide that it isn't worth your time.
The documentation for this credit requires that you demonstrate collaboration between the school board (or the appropriate decision-making body) and the design team. Coordination between so many parties and interests can be challenging—anticipate some roadblocks in establishing a master plan for development that may take place years into the future.
Completing a site master plan can help plan for maximizing open space alongside future construction.Assuming that you know in the early planning stages that your project will attempt this credit, the four easiest credits to document are:
On the other hand, recalculating these credits can be much more labor-intensive:
There is value to documenting any of these credits, though, and it makes sense to choose ones that are most in line with the project's priorities.
This credit requires projects to first develop a theoretical site master plan for future development (either known or hypothetical), then pick four credits of an applicable seven (see below) and proceed with proving compliance with those four credits for the site master plan. Achievement of these four credits must be recalculated for the site master plan to prove that your site master plan is still in compliance with each of the credit requirements.
Be sure to fully understand the requirements of each of the four credits you will be working with in your site master plan. The Documentation Toolkit provides a sample site master plan that both gives a sense of what is required to document the credit, and lays out the credit requirements in a site-oriented way.
Talk with the school board to determine if this credit is in line with its sustainability goals and plans for future buildings. The conversation should include estimates for population growth or decline, the possibility of funding for green building, responsible parties for implementation, and parent and community input. Also consider the impact of these sustainable design requirements on future programming and use of space.
Record minutes at all meetings with the school board and community about this issue. For LEED documentation you will need to write a narrative on these collaboration efforts, and the meeting minutes will help write the narrative.
LEED project boundary considerations: The master plan can encompass future development which is outside the current LEED boundary, but isn't required to—the decision is up to the project team. If the project team chooses to use their LEED boundary the site must have future development plans. If the boundary is made larger it must be clearly defined and the project must be able to achieve credits within the larger zone that it is already meeting for the smaller LEED project boundary.
Determine which four of the seven applicable credits are best suited for your project. Your choices might change as credits are defined and the project progresses, but it is helpful to keep a certain set of credits in mind as you run calculations and develop the existing site plan and future master plan. You must earn these four credits in your current design and the future master plan. See each of these credit pages on LEEDuser for more details on the requirements and calculations.
The four easiest credits to document—assuming you know in the early planning stages that your project will attempt this credit—are:
On the other hand, documenting recalculations for the following credits can be much more difficult:
If possible, develop the site master plan in conjunction with the current project design. This allows the design team to verify that both are being addressed and the proper credits are being incorporated.
The site master plan should include new buildings on the existing site, additions to the current design, addition of parking lots or hardscapes, sports fields or swimming pools, and any other construction projects that may affect the site.
This credit is documentation-intensive — the design team and the owner need to be prepared to incorporate the four credit requirements into the site master plan while the project is still in the early planning stage.
Develop a flexible site master plan that accommodates a number of scenarios, unanticipated changes, and recalculations down the line.
Generally, you don't need to anticipate additional hard costs with this credit; however, the time required to develop the site master plan and recalculate the credits, including the paid time of engineers and consultants, can really add up.
The need to accommodate future stormwater management needs may increase costs, especially if the project is pursuing one or both of the stormwater credits. Either you will need to include extra stormwater infrastructure in the current design to accommodate future development, or plan on adding infrastructure later, which could be less cost-effective in the long run than over-sizing it now.
As soon as the calculations for the current design are solidified, recalculate the four credits you decide upon within the master site plan (in addition to the calculations for the design you are currently submitting). Doing so while the calculation methods and site master plan design are fresh in your mind will help minimize time spent on documentation.
For example, if you are attempting the stormwater credits SSc6.1 or SSc6.2 in the current project and have chosen to recalculate them for compliance with SSc9, you will need to calculate the stormwater rate and quantity for pre-development conditions (same existing conditions as for credits SSc6.1 and SSc6.2), as well as the stormwater rate and quantity for post-development of the site master plan. Essentially, these calculations must be run twice, once for the current design, to earn SSc6.1 or SSc6.2 and again for the site master plan, to earn SSc9. When calculating for the site master plan, the pre-development peak discharge rate and quantity are calculated as they would be prior to any development.
The site master plan must include all previously existing infrastructure (unless it will be demolished during the current plan)—parking lots, walkways, utilities, and plans for future infrastructure.
If your recalculations for the stormwater credits indicate that the project needs to build additional stormwater treatment facilities to continue meeting the credit requirements, consider doing so for the current design rather than redesigning an additional system for future buildings. Also, include future capacity requirements for infrastructure and site improvements in your current design.
Upload credit documentation to LEED Online. You must write a narrative describing the collaborative efforts that took place to develop the site master plan, upload the site master plan, and provide the appropriate documentation for each of the four credits that will be maintained in the site master plan. Below is a summary of the LEED Online requirements for all seven credits. Click through to the full LEEDuser credit guidance for more detail and sample documentation.
Ensure that the site master plan and details associated with the relevant LEED credits are followed.
When planning construction activities, refer to the site master plan to verify that the LEED site credits are still being achieved. If construction activities deviate from the proposed site master plan, alterations may be required to the site master plan to maintain compliance with the sustainability measures.
Once the current project is complete and LEED-certified, there is no "LEED police" checking that you followed the master plan. However, after investing the time and energy in the master plan and the credit calculations, it only makes sense to follow through with the intent of the site master plan.
Excerpted from LEED 2009 for Schools New Construction and Major Renovations
To ensure that the environmental site issues included in the initial development of the site and project are continued throughout future development caused by changes in programs or demography.
The project must achieve at least 4 out of the following 7 credits using the associated calculation methods. This credit then requires that the achieved credits be recalculated using the data from the master plan. The 7 credits include:
A site master plan for the school must be developed in collaboration with the school board or other decision-making body. Previous sustainable site design measures should be considered in all master-planning efforts, with intent to retain existing infrastructure whenever possible. The master plan, therefore, must include current construction activity plus future construction (within the building's lifespan) that affects the site. The master plan development footprintThe total land area of a project site covered by buildings, streets, parking areas, and other typically impermeable surfaces constructed as part of the project. must also include parking, paving, and utilities.
Projects where no future development is planned are not eligible for this credit.
Site development should include all potential expansion of the school to accommodate future needs while adhering to and maintaining the environmental site conditions referenced above and explicitly noted on the site plan as future expansion. Include in this master plan locations of temporary classroom facilities that will not impact the selected environmental conditions. Use geographic information systems (GIS) data and other similar technologies to establish the site capacity and characteristics. Design considerations should include future vertical or horizontal heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), electrical, and structural loads based on the master plan.
This site includes examples of actual school master plans.
All projects attempting this credit will need to develop a site master plan. The sample shown here is a basic schematic that is not from an actual project, but will give teams a sense of what the credit requires.
Sample LEED Online forms for all rating systems and versions are available on the USGBC website.
Documentation for this credit can be part of a Design Phase submittal.
I understand that we have to meet the credits in the current submission and also show that we comply as a master site. However, I am confused about what goes into the actual Template. I checked the boxes for the credits we are pursuing and then the Template auto opens up several areas to populate for the credits we are pursuing.
My guess is that these calculations need to be for the whole site calculation?
I clicked on Maximize Open Space and then Case 3. For "Total Site Area within the LEED project boundary" it pulled up the value that was linked to my current submission and not the value for the whole site. My project's LEED Site Boundary is much smaller than the total area of the master site.
Can someone help to clarify for me which case is to be used?
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Hi Lauren
The way I've always thought of this credit is that the site master plan refers to the site within the LEED boundary, not a larger 'master' site, and the revised credit calculations for future additions or separate buildings on the site prove that the credit thresholds are still met within the same site area, despite the addition of more roof areaRoof area is the area of the uppermost surface of the building which covers enclosed Gross Floor Area, as measured when projected onto a flat, horizontal surface (i.e. as seen in Roof Plan view). 'Roofs', or portions of roofs, covering unenclosed areas (e.g. roofs over porches and open covered parking structures) are not included in the areas used to evaluate compliance with SSc7.2, though they may be applicable to SSc7.1., hardscapeThe inanimate elements of the building landscaping. It includes pavement, roadways, stonewalls, wood and synthetic decking, concrete paths and sidewalks, and concrete, brick, and tile patios., building footprintBuilding footprint is the area on a project site used by the building structure, defined by the perimeter of the building plan. Parking lots, parking garages, landscapes, and other nonbuilding facilities are not included in the building footprint., exterior lighting, etc...This would mean that appropriate planning to achieve the credit thresholds had occurred when the master plan was created.
I'm not aware of an approach to the credit where the credit calculations are expanded to encompass a larger site than the LEED boundary (see previous posts), but would be happy to find out if this is a possibility.
Hmm, yeah...this is a school project with a couple LEED certified schools that are separately certified on the site. They are each distinctive buildings and so would need to be certified on their own. Basically there are 5 phases of this master plan, with phase 5 still remaining. If you had a second, perhaps I could email you what I have? It seems like we are meeting the intent...my email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thanks for your help. I think I understand now. :)
So - just to clarify, the calculations within the Letter Template should be for within your project's LEED Site Boundary with the planned development included? This is what I think but I just wanted to confirm.
To be clear...In regards to the LEED site boundary for the master plan, we need to extend the boundary to include current and future development? Then recalculate the credits based on the entire master site, correct?
Scott, that's correct.
Has anyone completed the light pollution portion reductin of this credit?
Our project is an elementary school on a remote site that may accommodate future structures (classroom addition, staff housing, and a fire station). However, those structures are not within our scope.
Per signed resolution, the owner has agreed to uphold the requirements of SSc8 for all future development. The resolution included the SSc8 LEED requirements for reference, so future project teams could abide by the same rules as our LEED school. However, the LEED online form appears to assume we have already designed the future facilities, as it requests photometric plans/calcs for this hypothetical development...
Do you think our approach of getting the owner's commitment to uphold SSc8 requirements might work in lieu of submitting speculative plans/calcs?
Although the future building is yet to be designed, I think the reviewers may want to see the calculations. This could be as little as a rectangle on a site plan/photometric showing the likely building location and how it will meet the requirements. It couldn't hurt to try the approach you've indicated, but I would plan on being asked to provide speculative calculations after the review.
Does the master plan need to be the same as the LEED Project Boundary? We have a project where the public school district is adding a building to their existing 'junior high campus'. However, we are partitioning off just the area affected for our LEED Project Boundary becasue it is a completely separate use from the junior high. We're wondering if we are suposed to just use our LEED project boundary for the site master plan, OR the entire junior high site, OR all the school district's property for the master plan. Then, if we can just use our LEED Project Boundary, is it still considered a site master plan if the owner expects no changes to the site (they have planned into the proposed building future grouwth)?
My reading of this credit is that it is applicable only to projects where future expansion is likely within the LEED boundary. So then yes, the master plan should reference future development (and re-calcution of site credits) only within the LEED boundary. It sounds like this credit may not be applicable to your project, unless you can extend your LEED boundary to include areas where future development has been planned for, which may complicate your approach to other credits.
Is it possible to retract design submission credits if needed at the end of construction?
On a large school project, the owner has recently brought up the possibility of changes to the master plan that would effect our ability to achieve this and other credits (Stormwater and Max. Open Space). We would like to submit our design credits soon, but the owner may not decide on the master plan issues until the end of construction, which is three years out. Can we submit our design phase credits assuming that the project will stick with the original plan and meet the requirements of the credits, and then retract them if the owner changes the master plan?
Hi Elizabeth,
Yes, not only can you do this, but the rules specifically support that approach. When you do your final (construction) submittal, you also reconfirm your Design submittal items, or modify anything in the Design submittal that might have changed since you submitted it.
Do you need to defer this credit until the construction submittal if SSc7.1 is one of your 4 master plan credits? Thanks.
Greg, I would say so, yes. Seems logical.
Our project is essentially a build out of a school site. There is no capacity for new buildings however, we are showing the potential for small future classroom additions (4 classrooms). Will these small additions allow us to claim that we have a "master plan"?
The rating system does not set a limit as to how much "change" is necessary for a site to have a master plan. It seems as if the addition of four classrooms would be adequate to claim a master plan, as long as all of the other requirements of the credit are met. We are planning on pursuing this credit for a school in a similar situation where there will be a small addition and changes to the site hardscapeThe inanimate elements of the building landscaping. It includes pavement, roadways, stonewalls, wood and synthetic decking, concrete paths and sidewalks, and concrete, brick, and tile patios..
What if the school district was planning on adding a baseball field for future expansion? Would that count, since it's not a building?
GIven that the requirement for Open Space is that it is to be "dedicated" over the life of the building, I'm having trouble deciding which plan (current, or master) to use for the SSc5.2 section. Under SSc9 we are required to show open space on a master plan basis, which includes additional building etc. on areas we would have originally counted as open space without master planning. Now that we have done master planning, those spaced are no longer "dedicated" open space. Shouldn't we use the master plan building footprintBuilding footprint is the area on a project site used by the building structure, defined by the perimeter of the building plan. Parking lots, parking garages, landscapes, and other nonbuilding facilities are not included in the building footprint. for the calculation of SSc5,2 now that we know of this potential future development? This would result in open space quantites for SSc5.2 and SSc9 to be the same.
What you are saying is indeed in line with the comments we received. However, what is the value in completing two calculations when, for stormwater, the Master Plan is a worst case scenario, and that is basis you're using to size the system as you're building it now. For example, if your retention ponds are sized for the full development, what is the value of completely re-doing the calcs for the current phase when the runoff quantity and rate are necessarily going to be lower?
I don't see much value in run the calcs either but unfortunately, those are the requirements and there is not much you can do to get around them. You could consider writing a CIRCredit Interpretation Ruling. Used by design team members experiencing difficulties in the application of a LEED prerequisite or credit to a project. Typically, difficulties arise when specific issues are not directly addressed by LEED information/guide but it would probably be a month before you receive a response.
According to our review team for a Schools project, we are required to provide documentation for each selected Master Plan credit. For example, for stormwater, they are asking us complete two separate calculations and upload a copy of the revised templates and plans under SSc9. This seems rediculous since we completed the stormwater plan based on the Master Plan design which is a "worst-case scenario". Given the added development footprintThe total land area of a project site covered by buildings, streets, parking areas, and other typically impermeable surfaces constructed as part of the project., this clearly meets the requirements for the current phase of development as well as future development. The Reviewer is asking that we create an additional plan representing stormwater management for current plan only, which is essentially only extra work for the civil engineer. Has anyone else had this issue? We were under the impression that "recalculated" meant "revised" or "redone" for the Master Plan, not as in completing two separate submittals - esentially just a waste of everyone's time.
I may need a little bit more clarification on your question, however I will try to answer it. In our experience you will need to provide two calculations; one for SSc6.1 (or 6.2) and one again for SSc9. The calculations for SSc6.1 will include pre-development and post-development (what is actually being designed for - not the master plan) rate and quantity calcs. Then for SSc9, you will use the same pre-development calculations but different post-development calcs that deal with the site master plan. A few questions for you: What did you submit for the stormwater credit? This generally includes stormwater calcs for the current plan. Also, if you meet any of the other seven potential credits, you may want to consider providing that information too...we generally recommend that project try to avoid recalcs for the stormwater credits as they are the most complicated.
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