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Please submit material
for the College of Arts
and Sciences Newsletter to
Linda Thien by Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. via e-mail:
thienlr@slu.edu; fax: 977-3649; interoffice
mail: Fusz Hall, Second Floor
Don't forget to submit important
departmental news to
Grand Connections
Jesuit
Higher Education:
A Woman's Perspective
with
Christine Wiseman, J.D.
V.P. for Academic Affairs at Creighton University
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
11:30
a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Lunch is served.)
St. Louis Room, Busch Student Center
Wiseman
will look at the 450-year intellectual tradition of the Jesuits, what
women bring to Jesuit higher education and how the contribution of
women is nurtured and employed at all levels of a Jesuit institution.
3:30
- 4:30 p.m.(Refreshments are served.)
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library
Speaking from her lifelong experience in Jesuit higher education, Wiseman will consider the four core leadership pillars of the Jesuit's unique formula for molding leaders, as identified by Chris Lowney in his book, Heroic Leadership.
RSVP
at terneusl@slu.edu. Note on
the subject line: Nov. 7.
Include your name, department, and which event you are attending.
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
Employees Earn Awards for Longtime Service to University
The annual Distinguished Service Awards program was held on November
1, 2006 in Busch Student Center. The event honored SLU colleagues who
have reached milestones of five, 10, 15, and 20 years of service during
the last fiscal year. University President Lawrence Biondi, S.J., and
other univeristy officials were on hand to congratulate the honorees.
The awardees from the College of Arts and Sciences are:
Five Years
Simone
Bregni, Ph.D.
Patreece R. Broadus, Ph.D.
John M. Carroll, Ph.D.
Brian F. Clair, Ph.D.
Erin Nicole Couch
Rebecca M. Elliot
Daniel J. Finucane, Ph.D.
Jamie Lynn Hendrix
Anthony D. Houston, Ph.D.
Paul A. Jelliss, Ph.D.
Timothy M. Kusky, Ph.D.
Matthew J. Mancini, Ph.D.
Gregory T. Marks, Ph.D.
Shelley D. Minteer, Ph.D.
Juliet M. Mousseau, Ph.D.
Pascale Perraudin, Ph.D.
Donald M. Reed
E. Gayle Rogan
Vincent T. Ryan
Kathleen A. Schoen
Sara van den Berg, Ph.D.
Shontae S. Williams
Ten
Years
Gerardo R. Camilo, Ph.D.
Teresa Clancy
David J. Crossley, Ph.D.
Richard Harvey, Ph.D.
Antony J. Hasler, Ph.D.
Donna J. LaVoie, Ph.D.
Julia R. Lieberman, Ph.D.
Claude Nicholas Pavur, S.J.
Jacob Sukhodolsky, Ph.D.
Pamela Jean Weber
Fifteen
Years
Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J.
Kimberly Druschel, Ph.D.
Steven G. Harris, Ph.D.
John Hutchison
Kathryn E. Kuhn, Ph.D.
Jack C. Marler, Ph.D.
Jean-Louis J. Pautrot, Ph.D.
Kenneth B. Steinhauser, Ph.D.
Emmanuel N. Uwalaka, Ph.D.
Twenty
Years
Michael D. Barber, S.J.
Peter Bernhardt, Ph.D.
Vijai Vivek Dixit, Ph.D.
Michael J. Ross, Ph.D.
George N. Terzis, Ph.D.
Mid-Year Celebration
Please
make a note............
of the time change for the 2006
Mid-Year Commencement ceremony. The original time was 3:15 p.m. but
the new time is 2:00 p.m.
A notice was sent to the students who RSVP'd. If you have any questions,
please contact Debbie Dill, Event Specialist, at 7-3728 or dilldk@slu.edu.
ANNUAL COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES EXCELLENCE AWARDS CEREMONY
The
annual College of Arts and Sciences Excellence Awards Ceremony will
be held on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 from 3-5 p.m.
in the St. Francis Xavier (College) Church Ballroom. For more
information regarding the nomination forms and deadline, access:
http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/
eventsnews.html
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
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
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.
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
ATTENTION
FACULTY:
The Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence is
conducting a survey to help determine pedagogical needs of faculty around
the area of online teaching. Please help us develop programming to meet
your needs by completing the short
survey at:
https://academic.slu.edu/
servlet/TestPilot3/surveys/
099/onlinesurvey.tp3
For more information, please contact Sandy Gambill at gambill@slu.edu
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.
November
7
Department
of Political Science Colloquium: Dr. Tim Lomperis
will present "The U.S. as an Imperial Power?" at 2:30 p.m.
in Fitzgerald Hall, 1st Floor.
November
7
Department
of English and the African American Review and Women's Studies:
Dr. Yvette Christiansë, associate
professor of English at Fordham University,will read from her new
novel, Unconfessed (Other Press, 2006), which is a neoslave
narrative about an enslaved woman in South Africa during the nineteenth
century, who murders her child. Dr. Christiansë's presentation
will be from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. in Humanities 142.
A reception will follow.
November
9 (Meeting date was changed from November 16)
Chair/Program
Director Meeting: 3:00-5:00 p.m., Verhaegen
219.
Guest speaker will be Frank Reale, S.J., Vice President of Mission
& Ministry
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.
November
10
SLU
Library Associates sponsors the St.
Louis Literary Award
Michael Frayn
5:30 p.m.
A-B Auditorium,
John and Lucy Cook Hall.
For more information, call 977-3100.
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 TheBad Seed."
For more information, call the University Theatre at 977-2998.
November
10
Department
of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Fall 2006 Seminar: Dr.
Michael Bergman, Simon's Rock - College of Bard, will present "Journey
to the Center of the Earth: Inner Core Dynamics at 12:10 p.m. in O'Neil
Hall 206. Cookies and coffee at 12:00 noon.
November
12
Dr.
Jeral Becker, music professor at Saint Louis University, will be the
featured tenor soloist with the American Kantorei in the Garden Live
concert series at the St. Louis Botanical Gardens which will air live
at 12 noon on KFUO, Classic 99.
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
noon.
November
17
Department
of Modern & Classical Languages 17th Colloquium:
Walter Ong: A Roundtable
at
3:30 p.m., BSC 254
with:
Dr. Sara van den Berg (English);
Dr. Paul Acker (English);
Dr. Vincent Casaregola (English);
Dr. Thomas M. Walsh (English).
Walter Ong, S.J. (1912-2003), Professor of English literature, culturall
and religious historian and philosopher, M.A. Saint Louis Uiversity,
Ph.D. Harvard, author of Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing
of the Word, translated into 11 languages.
Please
RSVP by Tuesday, November 14 to Dr. Jean-Louis Pautrot at
977-2456 or pautropj@slu.edu.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
American
Studies
The
following doctoral students worked with renowned Americanist, Dr. Alan
Trachtenberg, Yale University, who chaired the panel titled "More
than the Collective Self: Constructing Identity to Build Group Experience".
M. Clara Núñez-Regueiro presented “Ordinary Exceptionalism:
Constructing National Identities in the United States and Argentina
at the Turn-of-the-Century, a Comparative Look.”
Patty Rooney presented “The Politics of Collective Memory and
Identity Construction in the American World War II Memorial.”
Elizabeth Schroeder presented “Radicals in Exile and Radicals
with Roots: A Transnational and Gendered Articulation of America’s
Race Problem.”
English
Dr.
Harold K. Bush Jr. authored Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis
of his Age which was published by the University of Alabama Press
in its major series, Studies in American Realism and Naturalism.
Fine
and Performing Arts
Dr.
Cynthia Stollhans, Art History, presented "Dressing and Undressing
Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Rome" in an organized
session called "Re-visualizing the Female Virgin Martyr in Renaissance
Italy" at the 2006 annual conference of the Sixteenth Century Studies,
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2006.
History
Dr. Elisabeth Israels Perry, John Francis Bannon Professor
of History, co-authored with Karen Manners Smith, The Gilded Age
and Progressive Era: A Student Companion (Oxford University Press,
2006).
Dr. James Hitchcock spoke on "Religion in America" at the Josephinum Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.
Modern
and Classical Languages
Dr.
Sandy Hamrick (Professor of French) presented "Inventing Les Fleurs
du Mal” at the Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference held
at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.
Dr. Annie Smart (Associate Professor of French) presented at the same conference “Re-inventing Republican Motherhood.” It was in the session she organized and chaired on “Invention of Mothers / Mothers of Invention.”
Dr. Jean-Louis Pautrot (Professor of French) has been invited by the French literary theorist, Prof. Julia Kristeva, to be part of a dissertation defense committee in France. The dissertation, which Prof. Kristeva is directing, is on the French writer, Pascal Quignard.
Dr. Reinhard Andress (Professor of German) has published an article on “Hugo Loetschers Wunderwelt. Eine brasilianische Begegnung: der exemplarische postkoloniale Blick” in Akten des XII. ALEG-Kongresses. Deutsch in Lateinamerika -Ausbildung, Forschung, Berufsbezug (Havanna und Leipzig, 2006).
Russian
and East European Studies
Daniel
L. Schlafly, Jr. gave a lecture "Chernobyl: A Defining Moment,"
at the Missouri History Museum, October 24, 2006.
Theological
Studies
Dr.
Ronald Modras presented a lecture at Loyola University, Chicago, on
October 16, as part of its Ignatian Jubilee. He spoke on “Ignatius
Loyola, Francis Xavier, and Peter Faber: A Vision, a Mission, and a
Prayer." Dr. Modras also presented a lecture at Saint Joseph’s
University, Philadelphia, on October 24, as part of their Catholic Intellectual
Series. He spoke on “Engaging the Public Square: The Work of Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., and Friedrich Spee, S.J.”
Dr. James Kelhoffer authored “Early Christian Ascetic Practices and Biblical Interpretation: The Witnesses of Galen and Tatian,” which was published in: The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context (ed. J. Fotopoulos; Supplements to Novum Testamentum 122; Leiden: Brill, 2006), 439-444.
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