Monday,
October 13, 2008
Volume 19, Issue 169

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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

or by google newsletter
submission form


Don't forget to submit important departmental news to
Grand Connections

College of Arts and Sciences

Google Newsletter Submission Form

There is now another way that you can submit your accomplishments for the weekly A&S Newsletter; by using the Google Newsletter Submission form listed in the left column of this Newsletter. This form lists all the pertinent areas that need to be covered in a submission.

Help us get the news out about all the accomplishments you, your students, and your department have done; or to publicize an upcoming event.
Fill out the form and remember to hit "submit".
Thanks for your contribution!

 

Arts & Sciences Excellence in
Teaching Awards
and
Excellence in Mentoring Award

Faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences as well as students with declared majors in the College are encouraged to submit nominations for the College’s Annual Excellence Awards. One full-time professor in each of the College divisions (humanities, sciences, social sciences) will be chosen for an Excellence in Teaching Award. An Excellence in Mentoring Award will be given to one full-time faculty member from the College. Submit your nominations along with a one to two page narrative by interoffice mail to: College of Arts and Sciences, Verhaegen Hall, Room 321, ATTN: Linda Thien or by email to thienlr@slu.edu. The deadline for submissions is December 12, 2008.

NOMINATION FORM FOR THE EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD

NOMINATION FORM FOR THE EXCELLENCE IN MENTORING AWARD

The nomination forms can be accessed on the web at http://www.slu.edu/x17655.xml

Join a Faculty Learning Community

  • Experience a sense of collegiality as you transition into your position at SLU
  • Increase your awareness of the values of Jesuit education
  • Engage in an exchange of ideas on issues related to our University's mission

WHO: Faculty members in their first three years at the University
WHEN: Will meet five times during the academic year
WHAT: For large-group presentation and small-group discussion on our Jesuit mission as impacts the work you do here.

Fall 2008
Large-group presentations and roundtable discussion will be held 3:30-4:45 p.m. in Boileau Hall.

Monday, November 3: Ignatian Pedagogy
Mark Pousson (Center for Teaching Excellence) will explore the Ignatian pedagogy that developed in light of our Ignatian values and history, its characteristics and practice.

Spring 2009
Senior faculty members will facilitate small groups, which will meet at times convenient to their members. Groups will discuss:

  • Our Jesuit Mission and Teaching
  • Our Jesuit Mission and Service
  • Our Jesuit Mission and Research

For more information or to register, contact Mary Flick at flickmj@slu.edu or at 977-2428.

Living the Ignatian Spirit

A seminar exploring Ignatian spirituality and the spiritual life for faculty and staff.

October 16: What is Ignatian Prayer?
October 23: What is Discernment?
October 30: What is Spiritual Direction?

Explore some commonly asked questions of those who desire to live a more spiritual life in the Ignatian tradition.

Thursdays, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

Presented by Paul Coutinho, S.J.
assistant for mission formation
and assistant professor of theological studies. Coutinho is an internationally recognized Ignatian scholar, author and speaker who brings an Eastern flavor to Western spirituality. He is author of the award-winning book,
How Big is Your God?

This brown-bag series is sponsored by
the Division of Mission and Ministry.
All employees who participate in the four sessions will receive a certificate of completion.

Bring a friend!

For more information, contact Mary Flick at flickmj@slu.edu or 977-2428.

Women's Commission


"Topical Table Event"
Presented by the WC Issues Committee
This event will be a way to gather information from university faculty, staff and students about issues that are important to the women of SLU, and deserve further investigation. The event will be moderated by Mary Ann Bindbeutel, who will create an open environment friendly to dialoging with others. Each of four or five round table discussions will focus on an issue or topic that is relevant for exploration in future Women's Commission programs or events. Free exchange of ideas will be encouraged and information gathered from this event will be used in a report for future action.
Date: October 28, 2008
Time: 11:45 a.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Location: BSC 352/353

 If you're enticed by the event above, let us know you're coming! Register by emailing wc@slu.edu for the following 2008-2009 events and we'll be sure to save you a seat. All programs are scheduled as brown bag events, 11:45 a.m.– 1:00 p.m. Drinks and dessert will be provided by the SLU Women's Commission.

Visit our website for a complete list of our 2008-2009 events: http://www.slu.edu/organizations/wc/.








EVENTS OF THE WEEK
FALL SEMESTER CALENDAR

FROM THE COLLEGE

Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence
Call for Submissions


Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence White Paper Series:
Saint Louis University faculty and graduate students are invited to submit manuscripts to the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence’s White Paper Series on Teaching and Learning. Submissions should address a topic related to teaching and learning at the University level. Papers may include but are not limited to:

Original research reports (qualitative or quantitative research) on a teaching or learning issue

Theoretical papers

Book reviews

Reviews of previous research

Opinion papers about needed future research or limitations of current research in some area of teaching and learning

Strategies that you use in your own classrooms to address particular teaching or learning problems.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, October 31, 2008.

Submissions should be between 5 and 30 pages in length (double spaced) and written using acceptable style guidelines (e.g. MLA, APA) for the submitting individual’s discipline.

Papers should be submitted as an electronic attachment to an email sent to Sandra Gambill (gambill@slu.edu.)

Please include your name, department and contact information, including an email address.
A subcommittee of the Center for Teaching Excellence’s Advisory Board will review all submissions and select papers to be included in the White Paper Series. Authors of papers selected for inclusion in the White Papers will be notified no later than November 30, 2008.

Authors retain the copyright to their intellectual content, with Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence owning the copyright to the collected publication.

Acclaimed Novelist
E.L. Doctorow Comes to
Saint Louis University
on
Thursday, Oct. 23
The author will receive the 41st Annual Saint Louis Literary Award.


The Saint Louis University Library Associates will honor noted author E. L. Doctorow with the 41st Annual Saint Louis Literary Award at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, in the Anhueser-Busch Auditorium of John and Lucy Cook Hall, 3674 Lindell Boulevard. The program will include comments from Doctorow followed by a Q&A session. A book signing will precede the program beginning at 4:40 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

A special post-awards ceremony dinner with Doctorow will be held at the Coronado Hotel, located directly across the street from the John Cook School of Business, beginning with cocktails at 7 p.m. and dinner at 8 p.m. Tickets are $100. The reservation deadline is Friday, Oct. 17. Checks should be made payable to the Saint Louis University Library Associates, c/o Joan Hecker, Administrative Offices, 330 Wenneker Drive, St. Louis, Mo. 63124. Valet Parking will be available in the Coronado Circle beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Each year, as part of the Saint Louis Literary Award presentation, the Library Associates also recognize the accomplishments of one English graduate program student with the Walter J. Ong, S.J., Award for Outstanding Achievement. This year's honoree is Obi Nwakanma, who received his Ph.D. from Saint Louis University in 2008. A prize-winning journalist in his native Nigeria, he has published two books of poetry and is currently completing a biography about the distinguished Nigerian author Christopher Okigbo. Nwakanma is currently an assistant professor of English at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo.

About E. L. Doctorow: A highly-acclaimed novelist, playwright, lecturer and essayist, Doctorow's bestselling novel Ragtime became an award-winning movie in 1981. Other Doctorow works include: Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Loon Lake, City of God, World's Fair and Billy Bathgate. A prolific writer, he also has published two volumes of essays and a story collection, Sweet Land Stories. Doctorow's Drinks Before Dinner was produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival. In a career that spans nearly four decades, Doctorow's honors include a National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, two Pen/Faulkner Awards, the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially-conferred National Humanities Medal.

About the Saint Louis Literary Award: Now celebrating its 41st year, the prestigious award was first presented as the Wilma and Roswell Messing, Jr., Award in 1967. In the decades since, literary giants from around the world have traveled to St. Louis to receive this award. Past honorees include Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Joan Didion, and John Updike. The honor, known simply as the Saint Louis Literary Award today, is presented annually by the Saint Louis University Library Associates and a group of patrons. For more information on the award, visit the website.

 

ITS has added Emergency Classroom Technology Support:
977-4099


ITS has added emergency technology support to all general classrooms (registrar scheduled). If you are having technical problems with the technology in one of these rooms, you can call 977-4099 to get immediate help, from either a campus or cell phone. This special number will be prioritized to be answered before all other technical help calls. The number is in operation from 7:30 am to 10:00 pm and will be staffed by the members of the ITS Service Desk and an on-campus analyst during evening hours. Help will be available over the phone and an analyst will be dispatched if on site service is necessary.

This support is only for emergency situations in classrooms. If you are reporting a problem that is not affecting a classroom you are presently teaching in, please do not use this number, instead please call the ITS Service Desk at 977-4000, or send an email to helpdesk@slu.edu.





























Running through October 25
 Department of Fine and Performing Arts - SLU Faculty Exhibition will be held at Boileau Hall, which is on the westernmost end of the campus at 38 N. Vandeventer. There will be a wide range of recent artwork from the full-time and adjunct faculty: Erin Vigneau Dimick, Nila Petty, Terri Shay, Amy Bautz, Jill Downen, Martin Brief, Brian Purlee, Antje Umslatter, Theodore Wood, Sharron Pollack, and Deborah Douglas. The show will be open every weekend, Friday and Saturday 12-4 pm,. through Oct. 25. There is parking in front of the building.

Running through December 14
 Museum of Contemprary Religious Art (MOCRA) 15th anniversary exhibitions: Pursuit of the Spirit
MOCRA presents the first of two exhibitions celebrating the museum's first fifteen years. Drawing primarily on the MOCRA collection, Pursuit of the Spirit places works in dialogue in order to examine major themes that have emerged in MOCRA's first 35 exhibitions. For more information, call 977-7170 or visit mocra.slu.edu

Thursday, October 16
Chairs and Program Directors Meeting, 3-5 p.m., Verhaegen 219 conference room.

Friday, October 17
Faculty Council Academic Honesty Committee Meeting, 11 - 12 p.m.,
Verhaegen 301.

Wednesday, October 22
Faculty Council Technology Committee Meeting, 11 - 12 p.m.,
Verhaegen 301.

Wednesday, October 22
Women's Studies Program The Women's Studies Program Brown-Bag Lunch Series:
Dr. Joya Uraizee will present her paper titled "Dogs and Amnesia: How Girls & Boys Represent Murder & Enslavement in ’Tsotsi’ and ’Slave’", 12-1 p.m., in Bauman-Eberhardt 123.
When Sudanese writer Mende Nazer (with the help of British journalist Damien Lewis) and South African filmmaker Gavan Hood re-create their own or fictionalized childhood trauma, what kinds of metaphors and images do they use? For her presentation, Dr. Joya Uraizee will analyze the Nazer’s use of metaphors and Gavan Hood’s use of looks.
Anyone is welcome to attend, bring your lunch, beverages will be provided.

Friday, October 24
Department of History -Study Group on Cross-Cultural History presents a lecture by Dr. Cindy Ott (American Studies) titled, "Crossing Cultural Fences: The Intersecting Material Worlds of American Indians and Euro-Americans", at 3:00 p.m. in the Teasdale Conference Room at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art. The History Department wishes to thank Fr. David Suwalsky, S.J. and Saint Louis University Museum of Art staff for making available the conference room for this session.

October 24 - December 21
Department of Fine and Performing Arts: Regional Art Commission Gallery -
Refraction: Three Contemporary Photographers
Mark Douglas
Bob Reuter
Antje Umstaetter
Curator: Amy Bautz
Opening Reception: Friday, October 24, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 29
Ignatian Lunch for faculty and staff, sponsored by University Mission and Ministry:The 'Greening' of the Jesuit University
Reflections by Doug Marcoullier, SJ, (Economics) on the Jesuits' GC35 call for a connection between care for creation and solidarity with the poor will open into colleagues sharing how ecological solidarity is finding a home in the classroom and in student life.

11:30 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.
Grand Hall, DuBourg Hall, 4th Floor

Seating is limited. Please respond by Wednesday, Oct. 22.
R.S.V.P. by e-mail at mission@slu.edu or call 977-2428.
Include your name, department, and event date.

Thursday, October 30
Faculty Council Executive Committee Meeting, 4 - 5 p.m.,
Verhaegen 301.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 











ACADEMIC NEWS

Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards

Psychology
Christine Rufener (PhD graduate), Meghan von Linden (masters student), and Dr. Jillon Vander Wal presented at the 2008 annual scientific meeting of the Obesity Society. Citations are attached.

Presentations:

Rufener, C., & Vander Wal, J.S. (October, 2008). Emotional eating: The regulative effects of eating across mood states. Poster presented at the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Obesity Society, Phoenix, AZ.

Stein, R., Vander Wal, J.S., & Klein, S. (October, 2008). Efficacy of an open clinical pilot of a YMCA-delivered family weight loss program. Poster presented at the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Obesity Society, Phoenix, AZ.

von Linden, M., & Vander Wal, J.S. (October, 2008). Parent knowledge and perception of child overweight. Poster presented at the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Obesity Society, Phoenix, AZ.

Published Abstracts:

Rufener, C., & Vander Wal, J.S. (2008). Emotional eating: The regulative effects of eating across mood states. Obesity, 16(Suppl. 1), S113-114.

Stein, R., Vander Wal, J.S., & Klein, S. (2008). Efficacy of an open clinical pilot of a YMCA-delivered family weight loss program. Obesity, 16(Suppl. 1), S299.

von Linden, M., & Vander Wal, J.S. (2008). Parent knowledge and perception of child overweight. Obesity, 16(Suppl. 1), S208-209.

Theological Studies
Prof. Jack Renard (Theological Studies) spoke at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis on September 30 and October 1, at the invitation of the Academy's recently instituted Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, with a lecture to students on "Speaking of Islam: Identifying Bigotry and and Double Standards in Public Discourse," and a Humanities faculty seminar on "Current Research in Islamic Humanities and Religious Studies."

 

Community Outreach, Partnerships, Media Events

External Funding, Research Productivity










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