IN THIS ISSUE:
REGULAR FEATURES:
A Message From the President
Billiken Briefs
Human Resources FYI
Media Matters
Medical News
News Briefs
Professional Notes
SLU Stars
Top Ten
Trivia Corner
University Grants
Dr. Paul Shore (educational studies and American studies) presented a paper, "The Enlightenment Response to Peasant Rebellions: Theory and Practice in Bohemia," at the East-West Seminar in Berlin in July.
Dr. Reuven R. Levary (decision sciences and management information systems) co-edited an issue of the International Transaction in Operational Research. This was the second issue that Levary recently has co-edited.
The Journal of Policy History, in conjunction with the Division of United States Study at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, sponsored a conference, "Loss of Confidence: Politics and Policy in the 1970s." The conference was held on June 12 at the Smithsonian Institution. Papers presented at the conference will appear in a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Policy History. Dr. Thomas F. Curran (history) is the managing editor of this journal.
Dr. Philip Gavitt (Medieval and Renaissance studies, history) recently was appointed to the advisory board of the Assessorate of Community, Social and Health Services for the city of Florence, Italy. He also published an article, "Charity and State-building in Cinquecen-to Florence: Vincenzio Borghini as Superintendent of the Ospedale degli Innocenti," in the summer issue of The Journal of Modern History. During a sabbatical year in Italy, Gavitt delivered several papers, including "Policy Wet Nurses: Infant Mortality, Social Control and Public Policy in Early Modern Florence" at the third annual UNICEF Conference on the Decline of Infant Mortality; "Family Dynamics, Charitable Institutions and Youth: A Sixteenth-century Florentine Case Study" at the European University Institute, Florence; and he co-chaired a discussion group for the International Psychoanalytic Association Interdisci-plinary Symposium on "Psychoanal-ysis and Art: The Artistic Representation of the Parent/Child Relationship."
Soraya Nouri, M.D. (pediatric cardiology) was named the 1997 Strauss Award winner by the American Heart Association. It is the highest honor that is bestowed by the association's St. Louis chapter. Nouri was cited as a dedicated teacher, researcher, physician and volunteer for the American Heart Association and for working toward the mission of the AHA - reducing disability and death due to cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Dr. Lyn S. Amine (marketing) was an invited panelist at the joint international conference in Manchester, United Kingdom, of the American Marketing Association and the (British) Academy of Marketing. Her topic was "Discounting the Welfare of Overseas Consumers: A Study of Ethical Pitfalls in Global Marketing." Amine also presented her annual report as a governor of the Academy of Marketing Science at a conference in Coral Gables, Fla., where she also attended a faculty consortium on "Creating and Using Web Pages." Most recently, Amine was a guest at a three-day seminar, "Oil and Gas Industry Education Initiative," sponsored by the Maguire Oil and Gas Institute in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Industry leaders and company CEOs informed educators about innovations in environmental protection and drilling technologies and addressed concerns about industry image.
Jamie Ostdiek (cardiology) received the American Academy of Physician Assistant's publishing award for 1996 for her article, "Counseling Coronary Artery Disease Patients on Cholesterol Reduction," which ap-peared in the June 1996 is-sue of the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Ostdiek received the award at the academy's annual meeting in Minneapolis.
Byron G. Peters (pharmacy services) has written a book, The Pocket Guide to Injectable Chemotherapeutic Agents: Drug Information and Dosages.
From the department of physical therapy: Irma Ruebling, Ethel Frese and Dr. Margaret M. Herning made presentations at the 1997 Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association. Ruebling, Frese and Herning, along with Ginge Kittenbach, Linda Guth Stangl and Denise McGrath, made presentations at the 1997 Annual Conference of The American Physical Therapy Association. William L. Siler and Rosemary Archambault Norris published "Grasping the Handrails During Treadmill Walking Does Not Altar Sagittal Plane Kinematics" in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Elaine Wilder edited a section on women's health for the Gynecological Manual.
From the School of Law: Joel Goldstein has published an article, "The Life and Times of Wilburn Boat: A Critical Guide (Part 1)" in the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce. Dr. Richard C. Amelung has been chosen at the 1997 recipient of the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship. This national award is presented annually in recognition of extended and sustained distinguished services to law library technical services. The award was presented at the Technical Services SIS business meeting at the American Association of Law Libraries' annual meeting in July in Baltimore. Sandra Johnson was interviewed on the topic of pain-assisted suicide by the ABA Journal and by the Harvard Risk Management Program for an audiotape continuing education program produced for Harvard's physician subscribers. Barry Cushman published an essay, "The Secret Lives of the Four Horsemen," in the Virginia Law Review. Nancy Kaufman spent a week in August lecturing on "Tax Treaties for the Ministry of Finance in Taipei, Taiwan." Dean John Attanasio participated in the Zavikon Island Conference on "Constitutional Jurisdiction and Federalism" held at Rockport, Ontario, in July. The conference was the seventh in a series of conferences on federalism problems focusing on Germany, Canada and the United States. Attanasio attended the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference in Minneapolis in July and the ABA annual meeting in San Francisco July 31-Aug. 6. Dr. Matthew Miro published an article, "Monks and Married Women: The Use of the Yearbooks in Defining Testamentary Capacity in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Readings on Wills," in The Legal History Review.
From the division of geriatric psychiatry: Drs. Donald P. Hay, M.D., Linda K. Hay, Julie Renner, M.D., Kari Franson, Rakhshanda Hassan and Peggy Szwabo published "Compliance and the Treatment Alliance in the Elderly Patient with Severe Mental Illness," in the book Treatment Compliance and the Therapeutic Alliance, published by Harwood Academic Publishers. Robin Eastwood, M.D. published "Prevalence and Severity of Cognitive Impairment with and without Dementia in an Elderly Population" in The Lancet and "A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Lino-pirdine in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease" in The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.
Student Nha Le, Joe Crifasi (forensic toxicology technologist at the St. Louis County Medical Examiners office) and Dr. Christopher Long (pathology) presented a poster, "Simultaneous Identification and Quantitation of Fluoxetine and the Matabolite, Norfluoxetine, in Biological Samples by Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy at the 1997 Missouri Society for Clinical Laboratory Science/Clinical Laboratory Managers Association spring meeting in Columbia, Mo.
Linda Wardhammar and Mark Koepsell (student life) served as facilitators at different sessions of the 1997 Undergraduate Interfraternity Institute, a student leadership institute sponsored by the National Interfraternity Conference. As facilitators, the two led a small group through an in-depth curriculum focusing on value-centered leadership and empowering students to become change agents on their campuses. They were chosen for this position from among hundreds of fraternity and sorority advising professionals across the country.
Wendi Neckameyer (pharmacological and physiological science) has de-livered numerous seminars about her re-search on do-pamine as a signal transduction molecule, including presentations in April at the Uni-versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Kentucky at Lexington; in July at the Universite de Paris XIIÐCreteil; and in August at the University of Manchester, England.
Miriam E. Joseph (Pius Library) and Janet Kuebli (psychology) presented a poster, "Strategies for Dynamic Faculty-Librarian Partnerships," at the 1997 annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Chicago.
Dr. John K. DiTiberio (counseling and family therapy) gave a presentation at the International Conference of the Association for Psychological Type in Boston titled "Type in Educational Contexts: Findings from Research over the Past Decade."