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February 13, 2006
Volume 17, Issue 84
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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
The Ignatian Anniversary Year
____________________________
Chris
Lowney
author
of Heroic Leadership
Coming
March 28 and 29 to discuss concepts from
his book .
"Becoming men and women for others means,
among other things,...
that our students are becoming what American
society and the world so desperately need: leaders
who possess keen discernment, superior
communication skills, and a deep ethical core."
(Provost Weixlmann, University News, 1/19/06)
Lost
Emails or Quarantined Emails
If
you are having these difficulties, IT advises the following:
Call the 4000# with specific*
details
Sign up for the email quarantine list
(also at the 4000#)
*In
order for IT to fix the problem they need concise, exact
instances of when it is happening. Times of day,
email to/from who, etc. will all be useful.
Fulbright
Faculty Workshop
Deadline for registration: Monday, February
13--TODAY
Contact: Lindsey Lester-Brutscher at
(314) 539-5350 or lbrutscher@stlcc.edu
•
Learn about lecturing and research opportunities in 140
countries
•
Get advice on which country to apply to and how to make
contacts abroad
•
Learn how to prepare the Fulbright application
•
Explore how your campus can host visiting foreign Fulbright
scholars
Location:
St. Louis Community College
Cosand Center, 2nd Floor Large Conference Room
300 South Broadway
St. Louis, MO 63102
Date/Time:
Friday, February 17, 2006
9:00 a.m. - Noon
There is no charge for the workshop.
February
13
Biology
Candidate Seminar: Dr. Michael Blum,
Environmental Protection Agency, Molecular Ecology Research Lab, Cincinnati,
Ohio, will present "Landscape Determinants of Genetic Variation
and Hybridization in Stream Minnows" at 1:00 p.m. in LH2 (Baer-Fuller),
3511 Laclede Avenue.
February
14
Department
of Theological Studies, 11th Annual DeLubac Lecture: Óscar
Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga will present "Challenges
of Globalization for the Church in Latin America" at 7:00 p.m.
in Busch Student Center, Room 170. The topic of his lecture is a reflection
of the Cardinal's longstanding interest in issues of poverty and justice.
February
15
Biology
Candidate Seminar: Dr. Laurie Shornick,
Division of Pulonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University
School of Medicine, will present "Immune Defense Against Respiratory
Viruses: The Role of STAT 1 in the Airway Epithelium" at 1:00 p.m.
in Busch Student Center, Room 253B/253C.
February
16
Chairs'
Meeting in Busch Student Center 254, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
February
16
Film
Studies Program - Campus Film Series, Spring 2006: The
Motorcycle Diaries (Salles, Peru and Brazil, 2004), 7:00 p.m.,
Kelley Auditorium. No cover.
The
Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
February
14
WebCT
Training: "Why WebCT?" Co-taught by
the ITS WebCT Team and CTE Staff, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., Verhaegen Hall
212. Call Kim Scharringhausen at 977-3522 to register.
February
14 or February 17
CTE
Effective Teaching Seminar: "How Students
Learn," 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Verhaegen Hall 212. Linda Bufkin, Educational
Studies, will be the presenter.
PLEASE CONSIDER SERVING ON THE FACULTY COUNCIL
February
20
Biology
Candidate Seminar: Dr. Xinguo "Mike"
Wang, Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University
of Wisconsin, Madison, will present "Molecular Mechanisms in
Mosquito Innate Immunity" at 1:00 p.m. in Busch Student Center,
Room 253B/253C.
The
SLU University Theatre:
February 24, 25 and March 3, 4:
8 :00 p.m.
Sunday, February 26: 2:00 p.m.
Lucky
Stiff-Music by Stephen Flaherty;
Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Roll the dice with this zany, offbeat and very funny musical - murder
- mystery farce! Unassuming shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon will inherit
$6 million if he takes his gambler uncle's corpse for a fun-filled
vacation in Monte Carlo. The gamble pays off with an evening of inspired
musical theatre lunacy.
March
7
Department
of English: Scott Blackwood will
present a fiction reading at 4:30 p.m. in Humanities 142. His collection
of inter-related short stories, In the Shadow of Our House
(SMU Press, 2001), was praised in the New York Times as
an "acute and nimble" collection. His forthcoming novel,
See How Small, is set in Austin where he resides. A lunch
is being planned that day from 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. in Bannister House.
Students with a strong interest in creative writing are invited
to have lunch with Scott and talk about the craft of fiction. For
the discussion, we will be distributing copies of the opening chapter
of Scott's new novel. As spaces for the lunch are limited, faculty
are asked to encourage their students to email Devin Johnston at
johnstdd@slu.edu for reservations.
MARK
YOUR CALENDARS!!!
Friday, MARCH 24, 2006
1-4 p.m.
College Church-Lower Level
The Undergraduate Summit Series VI: A Capstone Event on the SLU Undergraduate Experience
More information on the agenda later......
FROM THE COLLEGE
The Faculty Council will be sending out a request for nominations for next year's council. Please consider serving on this body particularly if you have never done so or encourage a colleague to run.
MOCRA EXHIBIT
Untitled, Arshile Gorky
1934
"Arshile Gorky: The Early Years - Drawings and Paintings, 1927
- 1937" will be on exhibit until March
12, 2006 in MOCRA.
Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was one of the most influential artists in the development of Abstract Expressionism. This exhibition will feature over 40 rare drawings and paintings that reveal Gorky's early experiments and hint at his own distinct style that was to reach its maturity in the 1940s. This exhibition is part of "MOCRA: Sources," an occasional series of exhibitions presenting those seminal artists who have influenced the development of modern and contemporary art, and whose impact is seen in the artists of our time who engage the religious and spiritual dimensions in their work.
For more information, please call 977-7170 or mocra@slu.edu; or visit the website.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
American
Studies
Dr.
Shawn Michelle Smith has been elected to the editorial board of American
Literature, the official journal of the American Literature Section
of the Modern Language Association.
Psychology
Dr.
Judith Gibbons was interviewed for BBC Radio 4 for a program called
You and Yours about her book titled The Thoughts of Youth:
An International Perspective on Adolescents' Ideal Persons. It
is a national daily talk consumer program with around three million
listeners.
Community Outreach, Partnerships, Media Events
External Funding, Research Productivity
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