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LightWorks
A new retreat experience for faculty and staff, based on the Spiritual Exercises, will debut this academic year. LightWorks, an Ignatian way of praying throughout the year, invites participants to grow in their relationship with God and find greater freedom and clarity in their lives. LightWorks participants get a taste of what the full Ignatian Spiritual Exercises offer.
This retreat will encompass three sessions over 14 weeks during the academic year. The first four-week session began on Oct. 18. A second seven-week block begins Jan. 24. A final three-week block starts April 18. Retreatants are asked to commit to the entire 14-week program, and to a half-hour of daily prayer according to suggestions given.
Weekly
gatherings will include input on spiritual experience and prayer in
the Ignatian tradition, as well as large- and small-group sharing.
These will be held on Wednesdays, 4-5:30 p.m.
in the Knights Room of Pius XII Memorial Library. Retreat cost is
$20.
The program is sponsored by the Division of Mission & Ministry
and the St. Louis Center for Ignatian Spirituality.
To register, email your name, department, building and room number, and work phone to terneusl@slu.edu.
For more information, contact Mary Flick at flickmj@slu.edu.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
2006-07
Office of the Provost Lunch Program Series
for Department Chairs and Program Directors
Wednesday,
November 8, 2006
12-1:30 p.m., BSC 352/353
"Actualizing Mission/Hiring
Jesuits"
presented by:
Frank Reale, S.J., Vice President
Mission & Ministry
Wednesday,
February 7, 2007
12-1:30 p.m., BSC 352/353
"Optimizing Banner Data"
presented by:
Julie Weissman, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Planning and Decision Resources
Laurinda Smith
Data Manager, Office of Planning and Decision Resources
Brett Magill
Data Manager, Office of Planning and Decision Resources
Thursday,
March 22, 2007
12-1:30 p.m., BSC 352/353
"Globalizing:
Getting to the Next Level"
presented by:
Thomas Finan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, History and Interim Director,
International Studies
Seung Kim, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Boeing Institute for International
Business, Cook School of Business
Lunch
will be served at 12:00 noon, followed by the program between 12:30-1:30
p.m.
Please RSVP for the November 8th program to
Mary Ann Fox, 977-3718, foxma@slu.edu
in October 2006.
Reminders for the lunch programs will be emailed just prior to the
program date for those reserved.
FROM THE COLLEGE
The
Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence: Learning to Teach On-Line
A
Conversation About On-Line Pedagogy
December 4, 3:00-4:30 p.m.,
Verhaegen 212
Mary Rose Grant, School of Professional Studies
Faculty of all experience levels are invited to join an informal conversation
around "what works" in the on-line environment.
Service-Learning Workshops
Service-Learning:
Logistics of Learning Through Serving
October 26, 2:15 p.m., Brown Bag in VH 212.
Exploring
Essentials of Service-Learning Curriculum Development
November 15, 12:00 p.m., Brown Bag
in VH 212.
Reflection
in Action: The Learning-Doing Relationship
November 29, 12:00 p.m., Brown Bag in DuBourg
261
TEACHING
& TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
November 2 and 3, 2006
Enhancing Teaching, Engaging Learners, and Expanding Partnerships is the theme of an upcoming regional conference cosponsored by Saint Louis University's Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence and the University of Missouri at Saint Louis. The conference, which will be held in UMSL's J.C. Penny Conference Center, is free for Saint Louis University faculty, staff, and graduate students.
The keynote speaker is Curtis Bonk, Professor of Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University at Bloomington. Dr. Bonk's Thursday plenary, Podcasts and Wikis and Blogs, Oh My!: Online Learning is Not in Kansas Anymore, anchors two days of presentations by faculty from across Missouri. Dr. Bonk will also lead a workshop and give a lunchtime address on Friday.
The program begins on Thursday, November 2 with workshops at 1:00 p.m. and the plenary address at 3:00 p.m. A sponsored reception is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. Concurrent sessions are scheduled 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. on Friday, November 3. The reception, and Friday's breakfast and lunch are provided to those who pre-register.
For more information or to register online visit, http://cte.slu.edu/ftc.html
The
Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence is
pleased to announce two new resources for faculty. The Center is now
publishing a monthly electronic newsletter on Learning Technologies.
The October 2006 issue can be accessed online at:
http://cte.slu.edu/lt/oct06lt.html
Please send an e-mail to Sandy Gambill at gambill@slu.edu if you would like to receive the newsletter via e-mail each month or if you would like to suggest a topic to be covered.
The Center has also debuted a new website resource area called “The Reading Room” at http://cte.slu.edu The Reading Room will offer a small select group of resources on different teaching topics. The current topic is Teaching Millennial Students. Upcoming topics include plagiarism and classroom civility. Again, contact Sandy Gambill at gambill@slu.edu if you would like to suggest a topic for the Reading Room.
The
Office of Research Services Administration with The Reinert Center for
Teaching Excellence:
Graduate
Survival Skills Conference
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; 11am-3pm, in the
Busch Student Center’s Saint Louis Room. A free lunch will be
provided.
Conference
Itinerary:
11:00-11:30 Welcome Address: Carol Knight, ORSA & Mary Stephen,
CTE
11:30-12:30 Lunch
11:45-12:30
Developing a Mentoring Relationship:
Brian Robinette, Theology
11:45-12:45 Break
12:45-1:30
Cross Cultural Issues in Teaching and Research:
Ed Brantmeier, Educational Studies
1:30-2:15
Time Management-Balancing Personal Relationships and Graduate School:
Doug Pettinelli, Counseling Family Therapy
2:15-3:00
Ethics in Teaching and Research:
Cynthia Ricard, Ophthalmology
To register please contact Bridget Turner, Administrative Secretary, ORSA, at turnerbk@slu.edu or 977-2241.
Workshops sponsored by Office of Research
Services Administration and the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence
(ORSA and CTE):
November
9, 12-1:30pm, Verhaegen 324:
“How to Write Your Dissertation in 30 Minutes a Day”
Dr. Shawn Nordell, Biology
November
15, 1-2:30pm, Verhaegen 324:
“Grant Writing for Graduate Students”
Katy Stigers, ORSA Graduate Assistant
Brownbag Luncheons:
November 29, 12-1:30pm, Verhaegen 212:
“IRB”
Heather Rich, IRB Education Specialist
December
5, 4;30-5:30pm, Verhaegen 324:
“Dissertation Dialogue”
Shelia Lischwe, Associate Director of ORSA
Andy Warhol's "Silver Clouds"
has returned to MOCRA this semester. The
exhibition runs now through December. Regular hours
are Tuesday-Sunday,
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
More information is available at http://mocra.slu.edu
or by calling 314-977-7170.
Now
through November 4
Department
of Fine and Performing Arts 2006 Studio Art Faculty Exhibit:
Recent work by the studio art faculty members will be on exhibit in
Boileau Hall, 36 Vandeventer, at the western edge of West Pine Mall.
Artwork includes works in clay, oil on canvas, silver photography,
digital photography and digital printmaking.
Regular exhibit hours are noon-4 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays and by appointment. For more information, contact Sharron Pollack, 314-977-3026 or pollacks@slu.edu.
October
25
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Fall 2006 Seminar:
Dr. Masao Kanamitsu, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, will present
"Reanalysis: Data Assimilation of Diverse Observations for Earth
Science" at 12:10 p.m. in O'Neil Hall, Room 206. Cookies and
coffee at 12:00 p.m.
October
27
Department of Biology: Dr. Elaine Abusharbain,
Department of Biology, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville,
will present "What Smells Good to Granting Agencies: Techniques
in Science Outreach Teaching to Engage and Motivate
K-12 Students" at 1:00 p.m. in Kelley Auditorium LH-1.
October
29
SLU Music Department will present a Faculty
Recital at 2:00 p.m. at St. Francis Xavier (College) church. The concert
will present Dr. Jeral Becker as Tenor, Dr. Pamela Dees, Pianist and
Jeanine York-Garesche, Clarinet. The faculty will perform Art Songs
and Operatic Arias by such romantic composers as Brahms, Tchaikovsky,
Poulenc, Spohr, and Lehar.
November
2
Faculty
Council Meeting from 3-5 p.m. in DB 157.
November
3
Department
of Biology Seminar: Dr. Keith Reuther, SLU Department
of Biology, will present "Conquest Through Cooperation: Unicoloniality
in the Japanese Pavement Ant, Tetramorium Tsushimae";
Dr. Mickey Schutzenhofer, SLU Department of Biology, will present
"The Impact of Invasive Shrubs on Understory Plant Communities"
at 1:00 p.m. in Kelley Auditorium LH-1.
November
10
Department
of Biology Seminar: Dr. Richard Brugam, Department
of Biology, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, will present
"Climate and Environmental Change in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan"
at 1:00 p.m. in Kelley Auditorium LH-1.
By
Joal Paley
November
10, 11,
17, 18: 8:00 p.m. & November 19: 2 p.m.
Eight
year old Tina Denmark will do anything to play Pippi Longstocking
in her school musical. Anything including murdering the leading lady!
This aggressive outrageous musical got rave reviews during its long
Off-Broadway run which opened with Brittany Spears in the lead role.
Critics call it..."A demented pleasure with cheeky burlesque
humor"..."Malicious, delicious and a total joy"..."loaded
with campy wit and charm"..."A send-up of every Broadway
brat from Gypsy to The Bad Seed."
For more information, call the University Theatre at 977-2998.
November
17
Department
of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Fall 2006 Seminar:
Dr. Mahar Lagmay, University of the Philippines, will present "The
17 February 2006 Debris Avalanche in St. Bernard, Leyte, Philippines"
at 12:10 p.m. in O'Neil Hall, Room 206. Cookies and coffee at 12:00
p.m.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
American
Studies
Dr. Joseph Heathcott chaired a roundtable at the American
Studies Association annual meeting in Oakland, California. The roundtable,
titled "Demystifying the Dissertation" was sponsored by the
ASA Graduate Student Organization.
Sr. Elizabeth Kolmer authored an article titled "The Death of Five Adorers of the Blood of Christ and the Changing Meaning of Martyrdom," published in US Catholic Historian, Vol. 24, No. 4. Summer 2006.
Earth
and Atmospheric Sciences
Dr. Tim
Kusky, with Brian Windley from the University of Leicester, has authored
a new book titled Mesozoic Sub-Continental Lithospheric Thinning
Under Eastern Asia, available later this year from the Geological
Society of London.
Dr.
Kusky's research on tectonic subsidence and models of wetland loss and
shoreline retreat along the US Gulf coast has also been highlighted
in the current issue of Civil Engineering, the magazine of
the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Philosophy
Michael
Barber S.J. presented "Is the Life-World Politically Neutral? at
the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences
in Philadelphia, October 14, 2006.
Sociology
and Criminal Justice
Dr.
Katherine C. MacKinnon presented "Of Kites and Capuchins: Interspecific
Associations Between a Small Raptor (Harpagus bidentatus bidentatus)
and brown capuchins (Cebus apella apella) at Brownsberg, Suriname,"
at the 3rd annual meeting of the Midwest Primate Interest Group, at
the University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne, October 13-14, 2006. Dr.
MacKinnon is a co-founder of this organization which provides primatology
students and faculty in over 25 Midwestern universities and colleges
the opportunity to come together as an intellectual community to discuss
theoretical ideas and present recent research.
Theological
Studies
Dr. Tobias Winright authored the ethics column “Compunction over
Cluster Bombs,” which was published in The Cresset: A Review
of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs 70/1 (September/Michaelmas
2006): 45-47.
Women's
Studies
Dr.
Eloise Buker, Director of the Women's Studies Program, authored "Bringing
Women to Full Citizenship," published in the Fall 2006 issue of
Conversations, (pp 30-31).
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