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January 30, 2006
Volume 17, Issue 82

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February 2
Faculty Council Meeting:
Busch Student Center 352/353, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

February 2
SLU Film Studies Program- Campus Film Series Spring 2006: The Triplets of Belleville (Chomet, France/Canada, 2003 Animation), 7:00 p.m., Kelley Auditorium, No cover. Films are introduced by Film Studies and invited faculty.

February 3
American Studies' Colloquium Series: Dr. Candy Gunther Brown, Assistant Professor of American Studies, will deliver a lecture titled, "Miracle Cures? Spiritual Healing Practices in the United States, the Americas, and the World, 1906-2006,"
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in Xavier Hall 332.

The Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)

January 31 or February 3
CTE Effective Teaching Seminar:"Teaching Large Classes"; Presenter: Dr. Shawn Nordell, Biology, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Verhaegen 212.

February 1
60 Minutes Technology in an Hour: "Classroom Response Pads (aka Clickers)," 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Verhaegen 212, Dr. Shawn Nordell, Biology.

February 7
The Ninth Annual Faculty Winter Institute:
The Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence, Information Technology Services, and the Office of the Provost will be offering the Ninth Annual Faculty Winter Institute. The Institute, which will be held on February 7, 2006 (8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) will focus on a model of online course design developed through a partnership of Jesuit institutions. Dr. Richard Vigilante, Executive Director of the Jesuit Distance Education Network, will present an overview of the Competency Assessment in Distributed Education (CADE) model. JNet describes the model as "using evidence-centered design to identify and assess student competencies, and cognitive apprenticeship to promote student mastery of higher-level thinking skills. CADE-designed courses focus not only on what students know, but also on what they can do with what they know. Intellectual rigor and critical thinking have long been the hallmarks of a Jesuit education, and CADE is intended to support these values." For more information, click on the Faculty link. Register by calling CTE at 977-3944 or on the web.

• Classroom computers require the use of a mouse pad. The optical mouse that is supplied does not recognize the black work surface of the desktops.
• Classroom computers are currently taking over 12 minutes to boot up. To shorten this time, ITS is working on a new imaging process that should be ready in a couple weeks.
• Classroom computers no longer have zip discs.

ACADEMIC NEWS

Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards

Chemistry
Two sophomores, Jaya Badhwar and Sarada Karri, and a first-year Master's student, Martha Sedabres, have been awarded the Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research. All three students work under the direction of Dr. Brent M. Znosko in the Department of Chemistry and investigate the thermodynamics and structural features of RNA secondary structure motifs. The GIAR is an international competition that funds undergraduate and graduate student research projects in all disciplines of science and engineering, including the social sciences. This is only the second time in the last 10 award periods that three students from the same lab were awarded the grant. The GIAR award will help fund the purchase of commercially synthesized RNA oligos as the students continue their specific research projects.

Fine and Performing Arts
Jaime Bast, sophomore theatre major, was awarded a 2nd place prize at The American College Theatre Region III Festival Theatre Critics Competition. This competition accepted only 9 students from the 5-state region. This year's competition was led and judged by Chris Jones, the principal national touring Broadway critic for Variety/Daily Variety, and theatre critic and weekly columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

Gary W. Barker, Associate Professor of Theatre, has been nominated for a Kevin Kline Award (sponsored by the Professional Theatre Awards Council of Greater Saint Louis) as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play for his performance as "Boolie" in Driving Miss Daisy at The New Jewish Theatre, in May 2005.

Tom Martin, Assistant Professor of Theatre, has been nominated for a Kevin Kline Award (sponsored by the Professional Theatre Awards Council of Greater Saint Louis) for Outstanding Director of a Play for his production of Lobby Hero at The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, in April 2005.

Dr. Michael Yonan gave two public lectures at the Saint Louis Art Museum (January 24 and 27). The subject of his talks was "Porcelain and Female Beauty in Eighteenth-Century France."

History
Dr. Elisabeth Israels Perry, John Francis Bannon Professor of History, and Jennifer Ann Price, a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, have co-edited a new edition of An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College. Originally published in 1878 by Olive San Louie Anderson, this is a historical novel about the challenges a young woman faced as a member of the first coeducational class at the University of Michigan. Olive San Louie Anderson (ca. 1852-86) graduated from the University of Michigan in 1875, and published An American Girl under the name SOLA.

Modern and Classical Languages
Dr. Kathleen Llewellyn, Assistant Professor of French, has published "Love, Death and the Question of Suicide in the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre" in Amour, passion, volupté, tragédie: Le sentiment amoreux dans la littérature française de Moyen Age au XXlème siècle (Biarritz: Editions Atlantica, 2005).

Dr. Elsy Cardona has published an article on "Escritura, locura y muerte en La dama escritora de Ana Maria Navales" in Con-textos: Revista de Semiótica Literaria (Facultad de Comunicación, Universidad de Medellín, N. 35, Fall 2005).

Philosophy
Mark Piper, graduate student, published "Doing Justice to Thrasymachus" in Polis 22 (1), Summer 2005.

Dr. Bill Rehg published "Autonomy, Dependency, and Dignity: Reflections on Pedro Arrupe's Prayer" in Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Jesuit Philosophical Association (2005): 5-16; "Ideals of Argumentative Process and the Ethnomethodology of Scientific Work: Implications for Critical Social Theory" in Symposium 9 (2005): 313-337; "Computer Decision-Support Systems for Public Argumentation: Assessing Deliberative Legitimacy" in AI & Society 19 (2005): 203-228. Co-authors: Peter McBurney and Simon Parsons.

Sociology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Katherine C. MacKinnon chaired an Executive Program Committee Invited Session at the 104th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association on December 3 in Washington D.C. The symposium was titled: "Updating Human Evolution: Bringing Anthropological and Public Conceptions Into Contemporary Perspective." The participants included anthropology and biology faculty from Washington University-St. Louis, George Washington University, University of Missouri-St. Louis, University of California-Santa Cruz, James Madison University, and University of Notre Dame, as well as Carl Zimmer and Ann Gibbons, notable science writers for the New York Times, Discover, and the journal Science.

Dr. Scott Harris authored the book The Meanings of Marital Equality (SUNY Press).

Women's Studies
Dr. Eloise Buker authored "Care and Order: State Reformation and the Feminization of Liberalism," in Socializing Care edited by Maurice Hamington and Dorothy Miller, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 49-68, 2006.

Community Outreach, Partnerships, Media Events

External Funding, Research Productivity