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December 11, 2006
Volume 17, Issue 111
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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
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
Arts and Sciences Technology Survey
The A&S
Faculty Council Technology Committee is conducting a survey on technology
issues within the College. The survey looks at
three basic areas: Technology Needs, Service, and Email.
The survey should take about
5-10 minutes to complete. All Faculty, Staff,
and Teaching
and Researching Graduate Students are asked to
participate in the survey which will be used for future planning within
the College. Please
take a few minutes to complete this survey on something that is continuing
to influence our daily lives more and more.
The survey is at
http://academic.slu.edu/ql?Q
Please take the survey
only once, and pass this link on to other colleagues in the College
of Arts and Sciences. The survey will be up for a limited amount of
time.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Mid-Year Celebration
Please
make a note............
of the time change for the 2006
Mid-Year Commencement ceremony on Friday, December
15, 2006. 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.
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 nomination by dropping it off in Fusz Hall, Second Floor or by
email to thienlr@slu.edu.
Nomination forms can be accessed at:
http://www.slu.edu/colleges/
AS/eventsnews.html
Deadline
to submit nominations:
January 30, 2007.
The
Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence: Learning to Teach On-Line
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
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.
December
21
Chairs
and Program Directors meeting, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. in Verhaegen 219 has
been cancelled by Dean Brennan.
January
11
4th
Annual Faculty Forum on integrating research and teaching:
"Integrating Teaching and Research: Communicating Your Message
to Multiple Audiences," offered by SLU's Office of Research Services
Administration and The Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence. Visit
here for more information and online
registration or call Bridget Turner at 977-2241.
With
the upcoming holidays, this is the last Newsletter until
Monday, January 8, 2007.
Have
a blessed holiday season!
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
American
Studies
Dr.
Joseph Heathcott authored an article titled "The Century Building
Debacle and the Future of Historic Preservation" which was published
in the October issue of The Next American City magazine. Dr.
Heathcott authored "Score One for Modernism: Historic Neighborhood
Gardens in St. Louis," published in the December issue of Planning,
the magazine of the American Planning Association. He authored a review
essay titled "Curating the City: Challenges for Historic Preservation
in the Twenty-First Century" in the Fall issue of the Journal
of Planning History, and a book review in the Fall issue of the
Journal of American History.
Mathematics
and Computer Science
A
Saint Louis University team, consisting of Joe Bauer, Tony Luehrs, Neil
Munjal, Rehan Refai, Kevin Seats, and LaKiesha Tomlin, competed in the
sixty-seventh annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
on December 2, 2006. Dr. Greg Marks is the faculty supervisor of SLU's
Putnam Competition team. The Putnam Competition is the premier mathematical
contest among colleges and universities throughout North America; an
estimated 3,600 undergraduates from 500 institutions throughout will
be designated as Putnam Fellows and awarded cash prizes. In the past,
Putnam Fellows have gone on to win two Nobel Prizes in Physics and three
Fields Medals in Mathematics.
Theological
Studies
Dr.
Tobias Winright authored "Hawks and Doves: Rival Versions of Just
War Theory," published in The Christian Century 123/25
(December 12, 2006): 32-35.
Community Outreach, Partnerships, Media Events
External Funding, Research Productivity
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