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Volume 19, Issue 154
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Please submit material
for the College of Arts
and Sciences Newsletter to
Linda Thien by Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. via e-mail:
thienlr@slu.edu; fax: 977-3649; interoffice
mail: Verhaegen 321
Don't forget to submit important
departmental news to
Grand Connections
Chairs
Lunch Series:
"Developing
New Academic Programs":
Dr. Marla Berg-Weger, Mr. Paul Jackson, Dr. Ronald Rebore
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
12-1:30 p.m.
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Contact
Mary Ann Fox for more information/reservations
at foxma@slu.edu
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Deepen
your understanding of our Ignatian vision
and your commitment to our Jesuit mission.
Please join us for the spring
Ignatian
Lunch
For faculty
and staff,
sponsored by University Mission and Ministry
People
of Faith, People of Mission
Colleagues will share how their spirituality
relates to the Jesuit mission of the University.
Wednesday,
March 26, 2008
11:30 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.
St. Louis Room, Busch Student Center
Seating
is limited. Please respond by Wednesday, March 19.
R.S.V.P. by email at terneusl@slu.edu
or call 977-7065.
Please include your name, department,
interoffice address and phone number.
FROM THE COLLEGE
2008
Pre-Commencement Schedule
for the
College of Arts & Sciences
Friday,
May 16, 2008
All School Baccalaureate Mass
8:00 a.m.
College Church
Friday,
May 16, 2008
College of Arts & Sciences
Pre-Commencement
10:30 a.m.
Chaifetz Arena
One South Compton Avenue
Reception
following Ceremony in Laclede Park (directly across from the Arena)
Rain location: Busch Student
Center
For
more information, check out our graduation links on the A&S
website!
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SEEKING FACULTY INPUT
The University Libraries are in a period of renewal. We are looking at Pius Library and the Medical Center Library in new and different ways. Our goal is to provide faculty, and students, with the facilities, resources, and services that you need in order for you to excel in your teaching, research, and scholarship. To achieve this goal, we need your help!!
This SURVEY takes less than 5 minutes to complete. Your input is invaluable as we re-design the libraries to effectively serve the 21st century professor and student.
Apply for VOICES Project Grant
The VOICES Project announces the 2008 Sustainability Grants Program for Faculty. This is a merit-based program with awards from $1,000 to $4,000. These awards will be given this spring for innovative faculty-initiated activities that sustain the themes of the VOICES Project and meet certain criteria. For details, download the application packet from http://voices.slu.edu or contact Mary Beth Gallagher, Ph.D. at 977-2363 or gallagme@slu.edu for more information.
Applicants interested in Ignatian pedagogy or community-based service learning might be interested in the Faculty Scholars Program, a new effort co-sponsored by the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence and the VOICES Project. For more information contact Mark Pousson at 977-4214 or poussonj@slu.edu, or visit the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence website at http://cte.slu.edu.
Showing through May 11
Museum
of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA)
presents Miao
Xiaochun
The Last Judgment in Cyberspace
Hours
are Tuesday - Sunday,
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
For more information, visit the website
or call 977-7170.
Opening Reception on Sunday, February 3, 3-5 p.m.
Using computer modeling technology, Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun recreated
Michelangelo’s famous Sistine Chapel painting of the Last Judgment
as a virtual environment. From this virtual environment the artist
has made five large digital prints and a video animation. Through
these works the viewer becomes a participant in the scene, able to
consider the more than 400 characters in the original painting from
a variety of new perspectives. The result is fresh insight into a
masterpiece of art history and into the questions about ultimate meaning
it confronts.
March
26
Lenten Twilight Retreat:
Paul Coutinho, S.J. presents Easter: Celebrating
the Divine Feminine Energy, 5 - 8:30 p.m,
Manresa Center. Cost is $5 per retreatant (includes dinner). To
register complete the form and
return with a check, payable to SLU. For more information call
Mission and Ministry at 977-2428.
March
27
Chairs/Directors Meeting,
3-5 p.m., Verhaegen 219.
March
27
Careers
Services: Education/Nonprofit
Fair
Current students and alumni are welcome to talk to employers from
educational institutions as well as employers from nonprofit organizations
about full- and part-time jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities.
For more information on dress code, participating employers, and more,
call Career Services at 977-2828 or visit
http://careers.slu.edu.
Event Time: 4-7 p.m.
Location: Busch Student Center
April
1
French
Cabaret Evening:
Chanson!
Théâtre! Poésie!
en Français! All performances by students in French,
7-9 p.m., Busch Student Center 170.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
Fine
and Performing Arts
SLU seniors and art majors, Kathleen Harkins and Erin
Maille were chosen to represent St. Louis University in the
regional student art exhibition, Varsity Art XII.
This is
an annual group exhibition curated by art faculties from 14
regional colleges and universities. Each institution selects one or
two outstanding art students to exhibit up to two artworks in this
annual multi-media show. Presented as a collaborative project,
students work together on all aspects of the exhibition.
The Opening
Reception was on March 15 at the
Art St. Louis building --- 917 Locust Street, # 300, St. Louis MO,
63101
Telephone number --- 314-241-4810
but the exhibit can be viewed weekdays from March
17 – April 24, 2008. Please visit and see
what the most capable art students are making all around the St. Louis
region.
Erin Maille is exhibiting an amazing triptych painting with three portraits of expressive faces and lively hats and also a subtle aquatint. Kathleen Harkins, a stunning large drypoint/collograph that is a serene portrait within a rich floral background.
History
Dr. Philip Gavitt presented "Sex, Marriage, and Reform
in the Diocese of Chioggia, 1544-1569" at the 16th biennial New
College Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Sarasota, Florida, on March
6, 2008.
Psychology
An article authored by Michael Sharland, Ph.D. and Jeffrey
Gfeller, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology) regarding a survey
of neuropsychologists' beliefs and practices was cited in a March 5,
2008 article of the Wall Street Journal-Online.
Community Outreach, Partnerships, Media Events
External Funding, Research Productivity
Philosophy
Kent Staley Ph.D from Philosophy Department, has been granted
a National Science Foundation Scholar's Award for 2008-2009. The award
will support research for his project, "The Reach of Experiment:
Reasoning Securely About Fundamental Physics."
This project aims to advance toward an epistemology of science that covers the span from piecemeal experimental data-gathering to high-level abstract theorizing. It seeks to integrate perspectives from philosophical approaches to epistemology, methodological studies of theory confirmation, theories of statistical inference, and the study of science as an inherently social enterprise. The project attempts particularly to place an account of statistical evidence within a richer epistemological framework, and to use that framework to show how the accumulation of the results of tests of very specific experimental hypotheses can yield conclusions regarding the status of such highly general theories as the General Theory of Relativity.
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