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Please submit material
for the College of Arts
and Sciences Newsletter to
Linda Thien by Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. via e-mail:
thienlr@slu.edu; fax: 977-3649; interoffice
mail: Verhaegen 321
Don't forget to submit important
departmental news to
Grand Connections
2008
Pre-Commencement Schedule
for the
College of Arts & Sciences
Friday,
May 16, 2008
All School Baccalaureate Mass
8:00 a.m.
College Church
Friday,
May 16, 2008
College of Arts & Sciences
Pre-Commencement
10:30 a.m.
Chaifetz Arena
One South Compton Avenue
Reception
following Ceremony in Laclede Park (directly across from the Arena)
Rain location: Busch Student
Center
For
more information, check out our graduation links on the A&S
website!
College of Arts and Sciences
Newsletter
This is the last Newsletter until Fall 2008.
Have a good and relaxing summer break!
Over the summer break, please continue to send me news of your accomplishments and upcoming events for the first Fall issue on Monday, August 25, 2008 at thienlr@slu.edu.
FROM THE COLLEGE
Benedict XVI in America: Focus on Catholic
Higher Education
What
did he say?
What does it mean?
Monday,
May 5
Noon-2pm
Knights Room,
Pius Library
On April 17, 2008 at Catholic University of America, Pope Benedict XVI addressed educators from more than 200 U.S. Catholic colleges and universities regarding the state of Catholic Higher Education in America. A SLU Interdisciplinary Faculty Panel will share their thoughts and reflections on Pope Benedict’s address.
SLU Interdisciplinary
Faculty Panel share their thoughts and reflections on Pope Benedict's
address.
Panelists include:
Dr.
Ellen Burkemper, Moderator (Social Work)
Fr. Wayne Hellmann (Theological Studies)
Fr. John Kavanaugh (Philosophy)
Fr. Richard Quirk (Political Science)
Dr. Brian Robinette (Theological Studies)
Dr. Sara van den Berg (English)
Fr. Ted Vitali (Philosophy)
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Theological Studies, the Department of Political Science, Ethics Across the Curriculum, the School of Social Work, and the VOICES Project.
REINERT
CENTER FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE ANNOUNCES
MIGRATION FROM WebCT 4.1 TO BLACKBOARD CE
Saint Louis University is in the process of migrating from WebCT 4.1 to Blackboard CE. This decision was made by a committee which included faculty representives and staff from ITS and The Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence. For more information, access http://www.slu.edu/x22354.xml.
If you have not attended the two-hour "Fast Track to Using Blackboard CE in the SLU Environment," please register for a training session.
Showing through May 11
Museum
of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA)
presents Miao
Xiaochun
The Last Judgment in Cyberspace
Hours
are Tuesday - Sunday,
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
For more information, visit the website
or call 977-7170.
Using computer modeling technology, Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun recreated
Michelangelo’s famous Sistine Chapel painting of the Last Judgment
as a virtual environment. From this virtual environment the artist
has made five large digital prints and a video animation. Through
these works the viewer becomes a participant in the scene, able to
consider the more than 400 characters in the original painting from
a variety of new perspectives. The result is fresh insight into a
masterpiece of art history and into the questions about ultimate meaning
it confronts.
May
15
Chairs/Directors Meeting:
CANCELLED -
NO MEETING IN MAY
June
10
Career
Services: Job Search Boot
Camp -Recent graduates who have yet to start the job search
will benefit from this
day-long event aimed at
jump-starting one's career. The event will be from 8:30 a.m. -
4:00 p.m. in Busch Student Center, 2nd floor.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
Earth
and Atmospheric Sciences
Dr. Tim Kusky and the Center for Environmental Sciences, have
been asked by Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz to be on his committee for
the International Prize for Water. Dr. Kusky will also travel to Egypt,
to give an invited talk on Using Supercomputers to aid studies of paleoclimate,
drought, and groundwater exploration in arid regions, at the NSF/USDA
conference on Supercomuting and Paleoclimate.
Modern
and Classical Languages
Dr. Kara McBride (Assistant Professor of Spanish) has published
an article on “Adaptive and maladaptive strategy use in computer-assisted
language learning activities for listening comprehension” in the
Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 34, 1-2 (2008).
Dr. Elsy Cardona (Associate Professor of Spanish) recently presented a paper on "Haikus de Narila, acuarela de estilos" during a session in honor of the Spanish poet, Aurora Luque Ortiz, at the 39th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association in Buffalo.
Dr. Kathleen Llewellyn (Assistant Professor of French) presented a paper titled "Judith, Savior and Sister: Heroine and Community in Gabrielle de Coignard's 'Imitation de la victoire de Judich'" at a meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago.
At the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Dr. Ana Montero (Assistant Professor of Spanish) gave a paper on “La interacción con la literatura francesa en la época de Sancho IV: los Ludidarios.
At the same conference, Dr. Reinhard Andress (Professor of German) presented a paper on “Benno Weiser Varon und sein Roman Yo era europeo: ein ‘Luftmensch’ auf vier Kontinenten.”
Dr. Jean-Louis Pautrot (Professor of French) has reviewed Pascal Quignard's 2006 novel, Villa Amalia, for The French Review, 81.5 (April 2008).
Sociology
and Criminal Justice
Dr. Katherine C. MacKinnon was awarded a 2008 Pierre DeSmet
Faculty Development Grant in recognition of international
research and curricular advancement.
Theological
Studies
Dr. Tobias Winright had a coauthored (with Mark J. Allman,
Merrimack College) peer-reviewed article published: “Just
Post Bellum: Extending the Just War Theory,” in Faith
in Public Life, College Theology Society Annual Vol. 53, ed. William
J. Collinge (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008), 241-64.
Community Outreach, Partnerships, Media Events
External Funding, Research Productivity
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