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Volume 17, Issue 95
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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
We
will revisit the Ignatian Jubilee Year in the Fall.
In the meantime, don't let your students get
ahead of you. Incoming freshmen will be
reading Heroic Leadership: Best Practices
From A 450-Year-Old Company That
Changed The World by Chris Lowney.
Pick up a copy at the bookstore,order on-line
OR
better yet, request a complimentary
copy - see article below.
Freshman Summer Reading Book Available for Faculty
Complimentary copies of this year's chosen freshman summer reading book, Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney, are now available for faculty.
The review copies for faculty are made available to encourage potential facilitation and integration of the freshman summer reading in areas of the freshman academic curriculum. If you are a faculty member interested in obtaining a copy while supplies last, bring your faculty ID and visit the Student Involvement Center in Busch Student Center, Room 335.
A call for faculty/staff discussion leaders will be announced during the summer. For more information, contact Leanna Fenneberg at 977-2805 or fennebel@slu.edu.
SURVEY
ON UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING
The
Sophomore-Junior Experience Committee is conducting an
on-line survey on undergraduate academic advising
and is
hoping for a very large response. The survey takes
only 10 minutes to fill out. Faculty who complete the
survey by May 19 will be eligible for one of four
$100
gift certificates from Barnes and Noble.
Why
not click on and fill it out right now.
FOR
ALL FACULTY AND GRADUATE
TEACHING ASSISTANTS:
PREPARE
FOR NEXT YEAR'S GRADING
CHALLENGES: Learn more effective,
TIME-SAVING, fair grading strategies
Tuesday,
May 16: 8:30 - NOON AND/OR 1 - 4
Busch
Student Center, Saint Louis Room
Presenter:
Dr.
Barbara Walvoord, University
of Notre Dame, Author of Effective Grading
and Assessment Clear and Simple
REGISTER NOW:http://fyp.slu.edu/
For
information contact Julie Weissman at
977-2193, weissman@slu.edu
FROM THE COLLEGE
Graduate
School's Annual
Pre-Commencement
The Graduate School cordially invites the entire faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences to the ceremony and reception.
The
ceremony will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday,
May 18, 2006, in the Scottish Rite Auditorium. The faculty will
need to assemble in the West Gallery by 8:30 a.m. in order to begin
the processional at 8:50 a.m. The ceremony will last no more than one
hour and 15 minutes and will be followed by a reception at the John
Connelly Mall. In case of rain, the reception will be held in the atrium
of Cook Hall.
Drewe's
Summer Sales
to benefit
Helping Our Own
Helping
Our Own will
offer employees a "sweet and salty" taste of summer this year
when its annual University-wide Ted Drewe's frozen custard sale also
features Gus' pretzels on the first day of summer, June 21.
Cups of Drewe's frozen custard and Gus' pretzels will be sold at sites
on the Frost and HSC campuses and at the Salus Center, 11 a.m. -
1 p.m.
On the Medical Center Campus, sales will be held on Caroline Mall, at the front desk of the School of Nursing, and in front of the Doctors' Office Building. At Salus Center, Drewe's can be purchased in the lobby.
On the Frost campus, Drewe's sales will be in the quad between Pius XII Memorial Library and the Simon Recreation Center, near Busch Student Center, and by mobile, roving salespersons. In case of rain, the sales will be moved to nearby overhangs.
Frozen custard cups will come in chocolate, strawberry and vanilla and sell for $3 each. Pretzels will be sold two for $1. Departmental orders with advance payment will be taken up to 48 hours in advance of the sales. To place an order, call 977-2428 or email Mary Flick.
The Helping Our Own program provides a one-time monetary grant to any full-time or part-time employee experiencing an unexpected financial crisis. It is funded by University employee payroll pledges, gifts and fundraisers.
Tuesday,
May 16
Faculty Seminars:
Dr. Barbara Walvoord, University of Notre Dame, will present:
8:30 - noon - "Making the Grading Process
Fair, Time-Efficient and Useful"
1:00 - 4:00 p.m. - "Assessing and Improving
Student Learning"
in the Busch Student Center, Saint Louis Room. For registration, see
the information above.
Friday,
May 19
A&S Pre-Commencement:
11:00 a.m., Scottish Rite Cathedral; faculty assemble at 10:30 a.m.
in the lower level Faculty Assembly Room of Scottish Rite for procession.
Saturday,
May 20
Commencement:
10:00 a.m., Savvis Center (1401 Clark Avenue).
Buses will be available at the Laclede parking garage; boarding buses
from 8:00 a.m. - 8:20 a.m.
Faculty
are to arrive at Savvis at 8:45--use the 15th Street entrance.
THIS IS THE LAST NEWSLETTER UNTIL
FALL 2006.
Have a good and relaxing
summer break!
Please
continue to send me news
of your accomplishments and
upcoming events for the
first Fall issue on Monday,
August 28, 2006 at
thienlr@slu.edu
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
American
Studies
Dr. Shawn Michelle Smith co-led a seminar discussion for the
Photography and Memory Workshop and delivered a lecture titled "The
Evidence of Lynching Photographs" at the Beinecke Library at Yale
University on April 25, 2006.
Chemistry
Anna Kinsella, a Saint Louis university senior and chemistry
major doing undergraduate research, has been named the winner of the
36th Annual Leopold Marcus Award competition for her presentation, "Development
and Optimization of a Microchip-based Bio-fuel Cell."
Ms. Kinsella's work was carried out under the direction of Drs. Shelley
Minteer and R. Scott Martin.
Finalists Cassondra Caldwell, Jennifer Fraser, Mark Mans and Dianne Tran will also receive award citations.
The Leopold Marcus Award was established by Jack and Gertrude Marcus in memory of his late father and is awarded annually to a senior chemistry major doing undergraduate research at Saint Louis University. For more information, contact Bruce Kowert at 314-9077-2837 or at kowertba@slu.edu.
History
Dr. Philip Gavitt, Associate Professor of History, published
an article, "Corporate Beneficence and Historical Narratives of
Communal Well-being" in Roger Crum and John Paoletti, eds., Renaissance
Florence: A Social History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006) pp. 138-160.
Philosophy
Bill Rehg, S.J. recently published the epilogue essay, "Do
Jesuit Scholarly Endeavors Cohere? Self-Reckoning and the Postmodern
Challenge," in the anthology Jesuit Postmodern: Scholarship,
Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century, edited by Francis Clooney,
S.J. (Lexington Books, 2006). For the fall semester of 2006, Br. Rehg
will be Visiting Professor at Loyola University-Chicago.
Dr. John P. Doyle authored "Mastri and Some Jesuits on Possible and Impossible Objects of God's Knowledge and Power," in 'Rem in seipsa cernere' Saggi sul pensiero filosofico di Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673), ed. by Marco Forlivesi (Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2006), pp. 439-68.
Sociology/Criminal
Justice
Dr. Katherine C. MacKinnon was invited to give a presentation
to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
on her current research project in Suriname. The talk was titled, "Community
Ecology of Sympatric Primate Species at Brownburg Nature Park, Suriname,"
and focused on behavioral ecology and conservation issues at this South
American fieldsite.
Theological
Studies
Dr. Ronald Modras has published an article in the latest (April
21) issue of Commonweal magazine, titled "In His Own Footsteps:
Benedict XVI, From Professor to Pontiff."
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