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FROM THE COLLEGE

Patrick O'Banion Receives
United States
Student Fulbright Award

The United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that Patrick O'Banion of Saint Louis University has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship to Spain in Western European History.

Mr. O'Banion was one of over 1,200 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2006-2007 academic year through the Fulbright Student Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world. The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its inception, the Fulbright Program has exchanged approximately 273,500 people -- 102,900 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 170,600 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States. The Program operates in over 150 countries worldwide.

Fulbright recipients are among over 30,000 individuals participating in U.S. Department of State exchange programs each year. For more than forty years, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has supported programs that seek to promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The U.S. Student Fulbright Program is administered by the Institute of International Education.

For further information, visit their website at http://exchanges.state.gov or contact Heidi Manley, Office of Academic Exchange Programs at 202-453-8534 or academic@state.gov.

ACADEMIC NEWS

Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards

Medieval and Renaissance Studies
28 Saint Louis University participants, consisting of 16 faculty and 12 graduate students, were at the 41st International Congress of Slavists in Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 15 of the 28 presented; others organized or presided. Paul Szarmach, Director of the Medieval Institute, announced a record-breaking final registration figure of 3200, with representatives from all over the world, including a contingent from South Korea. The 7th Saturday night SLU Reception was once again a great success, providing a more relaxed atmosphere for faculty and students to mingle and network.
Faculty Participants: Drs. Acker, Hasler, Shippey (English); Quigley, Stollhans (Fine and Performing Arts); Madden, Paul, Smith (History); Bregni, Murphy (Modern & Classical Languages); Anderson, Evans, Ginther, Hammond, Makuja, Mousseau (Theological Studies)

Graduate Students: Ames, Human, Mayus, Perruggia, Reinert (English); O'Banion, Ryan (History); Benson, Dorsett, Duffield, Makuja, McFarland, O'Sullivan (Theological Studies)

Modern and Classical Languages
Dr. Oscar Lopez authored "Fernando Vallejo: o falacias de un narciso que dice regresar a morir para no morir" which was published in Estudios de Literatura Colombiana 18 (Jan-Jun/2006): 131-148. E. de Lit C is a referee Journal of Universidad de Antioquia. Colombia.

Dr. Annie Smart (Associate Professor of French) gave a presentation in July on Victor Hugo and Les Misérables to the SLU Alumni Association in advance of a performance of the musical version of the novel in the Fox Theater.

Dr. Reinhard Andress (Professor of German) gave a paper in June at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach, Germany on "Karl Lieblich (1895-1984) und seine Novelle Rausch und Finsternis: eine Erstveröffentlichung aus dem Marbacher Nachlass." The paper was given on the occasion of the publication of Karl Liebllich's novella of 1928 which Dr. Andress found in the author's papers, prepared for publication in the Gardez! Verlag and for which he wrote an essayistic afterword with the title, "Karl Lieblich (1895-1984): Jude, Jurist, Journalist, Dichter, Denker, Geschäftsmann und Exilant."

Political Science
Dr. Tim Lomperis authored "Dispelling the Ghost: Iraq as the Vietnam War We Cannot Afford to Lose," published in The Journal of Conflict Studies, Winter 2006 issue. This is the second article published from his Provost's Leave Project of the Spring 2006 semester. Dr. Lomperis' article titled "To a Baghdad Victory Via Saigon" was published in the Spring 2006 issue of World Affairs. Dr. Lomperis authored a book review of Thomas M. Hawley's The Remains of War: Bodies, Politics, and Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, published in the June 2006 issue of Perspectives on Politics.

Psychology
Dr. Ronald Kellogg was quoted in an article titled "Writing Exercises All Aspects of Working Memory" in the APA Monitor. Portions from Dr. Kellogg's book, The Psychology of Writing (Oxford University Press, 1999) were quoted in the article.

Dr. Eddie Clark co-authored an article titled "How Do Friendship Maintenance Behaviors and Problem-Solving Styles Function at the Individual and Dyadic Level?" in the journal Personal Relationships. Dr. Clark authored "Glasses to Correct a Myopic View of Psychology's Past", a book review of the late Robert Guthrie's Even the Rat Was White, that appeared in PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology- APA Review of Books.

Sociology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Scott Harris edited a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography on "Social Constructionism and Social Inequality."

Theological Studies
Dr. Tobias Winright authored a review of The Wake of Encounters with the People of Iraq and Afghanistan, by Anne Nivat, published in The Christian Century 123/10 (May 16, 2006): 38-39. Dr. Winright authored "Death Penalty Walking," published in The Cresset 69/4 (Easter 2006): 56-58. He wrote a review of Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War, by Carl Boggs, published in Political Studies Review 4/2 (May 2006): 198-199. Dr. Winright also authored a review of The Catholic Worker Movement: Intellectual and Spiritual Origins, by Mark and Louise Zwick, in Sojourners Magazine 35/9 (September/October 2006): 43-44.

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