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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
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Don't forget to submit important
departmental news to
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
2006-07
Office of the Provost Lunch Program Series
for Department Chairs and Program Directors
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 to
Mary Ann Fox, 977-3718, foxma@slu.edu.
Reminders for the lunch programs will be emailed just prior to the
program date for those reserved.
FROM THE COLLEGE
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
15, 1-2:30pm, Verhaegen 324:
“Grant Writing for Graduate Students”
Katy Stigers, ORSA Graduate Assistant
Brownbag Luncheons:
November 15, 1-2:30 p.m., Verhaegen 324:
“Finding Funding for Graduate Students"
Katy Stigers, Graduate Assistant, ORSA
November
29, 12-1:30pm, Verhaegen 212:
“Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Graduate Students"
Heather Rich, IRB Education Specialist
December
4, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Cook School of Business 230:
“Life after Graduate School”
Panel Discussion with Ellen Harshman, Ben Asen, Deb Haire-Joshu,
and Guest Speaker, Jerry Baltz
December
5, 4:30-6:00 pm, Verhaegen 324:
“Dissertation Dialogue”
Shelia Lischwe and Colleen Casey, Ph.D. Candidates
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.
By
Joal Paley
November
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
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
for
all presentations. Cookies and coffee at 12:00 noon.
Friday,
December 1
•Dr.
Mohamed G. Abdelsalam, University of Missouri, "Quantitative
River's Incision Modeling with Remote Sensing and GIS; The Gorge of
the Nile, Ethiopia."
Friday, December 8
•Dr.
Xin-Zhong Liang, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana, "Regional
Climate Modeling Development and Applications in the USA."
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, cultural
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.
November
17
Department
of Biology Seminar: Dr. Nicholas J. Lang, SLU
Biology Department, will present "Systematics of the Subgenus
Oligocephalus (Percidae Etheostoma) with Biogeographic Investigations
of Selected Constituent Species Groups" at 10:00 a.m. in the
Biology Boardroom, Macelwane Hall 142.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
Modern
and Classical Languages
Ms. Jennifer Griffin (Graduate Student in French) presented
“Fantastic Inventions of Voyage: Gautier’s Poetic Interpretations
of Rail and Air Travel” at the Nineteenth French Studies Conference
held at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.
Drs. Evelyn
Meyer, Gregory Divers and Reinhard Andress conducted a German Immersion
Weekend at SLU’s Lay Center for Education and Arts in Louisiana,
MO on Oct. 27-28. It was held with a group of Dr. Paula Hanssen’s
German students from Webster University. Some 25 students of German
enjoyed a host of activities all involving the use of German. For a
slide show of the weekend, click: http://www.slu.edu/~emeyer16/SW/SW.htm.
For a photoalbum, click:
http://www.slu.edu/~emeyer16/SW/index.htm
Dr. Yelena
Belyaeva Standen authored an article "Spasibo i Thank you: komu
i za chto vyrazhaiut blagodarnost' russkie I amerikantsy" (Spasibo
and Thank you: to whom and for what Russians and Americans express gratitude),
that appeared in the scholarly journal Vestnik MGLU V. 525
18-39 published by Moscow Linguistic University Press.
Political
Science
Dr.
Elizabeth Markovits presented "Intergenerational Justice, Democratic
Responsibility, and Aeschylus' Oresteia," at the 4th Meeting of
the Association for Political Theory in Blooming, Indiana. Dr. Markovits
served as Program Co-Chair for the Meeting, organizing the panels and
professional development seminars for the association. She also served
on a roundtable, "The Pedagogy of Political Theory," where
she discussed her experiences implementing Barbara Walvoord's "Effective
Grading" scheme.
Sociology
and Criminal Justice
Dr. Scott
Harris presented "Teaching Research Methods from a Humanist
Perspective" at the annual meetings of the Association for Humanist
Sociology in St. Louis, November 2006.
Theological
Studies
Dr. Kenneth B. Steinhauser presented "Getting from Manuscript
to Book in the 21st Century" at The Augustinian Institute of Villanova
University in Pennsylvania. The lecture was in conjunction with an exhibit
at Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova commemorating the 500th anniversary
of the first printing of the complete works of St. Augustine in 1506
by Johannes Amerbach in Basel, Switzerland.
At the
recent Thirty-Second Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, held at the
University of Missouri-St. Louis (November 10-12, 2006), the Department
of Theological Studies was very well represented with three contributions:
Dr. Robert R. Phenix Jr. presented "A Syriac Verse Homily
on the Translation of the Bones of the Patriarch Joseph to
Constantinople in the Fifth Century" in the session "Holy
People
and Places."
In the
following session on "Rethinking Byzantine Theological Controversy,"
the Rev. D. Oliver Herbel, Ph.D. candidate
and Research Assistant to Dr. Horn, presented "Ratramnus of Corbie
and Photios
of Constantinople as Sources for Bonaventure's Filioque Arguments in
the Sentences."
Dr. Cornelia Horn presented "True Repentance: Hesychius of Jerusalem's Influence on Ascetic Movements in Byzantine Palestine" in a session on "Ascetics and Monastics." Dr. Horn gratefully acknowledged the support of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for this work.
Women's
Studies
Dr.
Eloise Buker presented “Appalachian Women’s Stories: Lesson’s
in Empowerment,” co-authored by Dr. Buker, Kathryn Mathews and
Lisieux Huelman, at the Women of Appalachia Conference at Ohio University--Zanesville
Campus, October 20-21, 2006.
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