IN THIS ISSUE:
REGULAR FEATURES:
A Message From the President
By the Numbers
Human Resources FYI
Medical News
News Briefs
Professional Notes
SLU Stars
Top Ten
Trivia Corner
From the department of philosophy: Eric Reitan, OP, delivered a paper, "The Theory of Impetus and the Law of Inertia," at the XXII International Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University in September. Dr. Eleonore Stump gave a talk on "Aquinas' Account of Freedom" at a conference sponsored by the Societˇ Internationale Pour L'etude de la Philosophie Medievale in Erfurt, Germany. Dr. Richard Dees' article, "The Justification of Toleration," has been reprinted in Philosophy, Religion, and the Question of Intolerance. Dr. John P. Doyle published an article, "Between Transcendental and Transcenden-tal: The Missing Link?" in The Review of Metaphysics.
Dr. Mary Pat Henehan (public health) and Dr. Nancy Morrison (counseling and family therapy) gave a presentation on "Narratives and Spirituality in Aging Families" at the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy meeting in Atlanta.
From the department of biology: Doctoral candidate Bob Harms and his adviser, Dr. Joe Leverich, presented a research poster, "RAPD analysis does not support hypothesized role for hybridization in the origin of Phlox maculata ssp. pyramidalis," at the 1997 joint meeting of the Botanical Society of America and the Canadian Botanical Association in Montreal in August.
Rena Davenport (human resources) and John Goerke (information technology services) recently presented a paper at the 1997 International Human Resource System Conference in Anchorage, Alaska. The topic was Saint Louis University's advances in providing on-line access to departmental users. At the same conference Goerke and Tim Moser (ITS) presented a paper on the University's new on-line budgeting process in the HRS and FRS systems.
From the School of Public Health: Dr. James C. Romeis (health services research) and Dr. Michael A. Counte (health administration) went to Taiwan in September for the University's first MHA-Taiwan program graduation ceremony and to interview new students. Both also visited the National Health Research Institutes for the Republic of China in Taiwan and met with President Cheng-Wen Wu to discuss international research projects in the field of public health and health services research. Wu was invited to visit Saint Louis University on his next visit to the United States. Counte and Romeis, along with doctoral student Chengerh Larry Chang, also presented a paper, "Outcomes Research, Quality Improvement and Cost Control," at the 14th International ISQua Conference on Quality in Health Care in Chicago in November. Doctoral students George J. Wan and Chengerh Larry Chang, along with Counte, presented a paper, "Social and Clinical Correlates of Health Related Quality of Life in Ethnically Diverse Cancer Patients," at the American Public Health Association 125th Conference in Indianapolis in November.
Dr. Reuven R. Levary (decision sciences and management information systems) co-authored a paper, "Legal Aspects Ń Software Reverse Engineering and Copyright: Past, Present and Future," accepted for publication in The John Marshall Law Review. Levary also gave a presentation on artificial intelligence to students who are part of the gifted program at Saeger Accelerated Middle School.
Dr. Mark D. Wittry (nuclear medicine) was awarded an honorable mention for his computer exhibit on "TIFFnet: A Web-Based PACS for Nuclear Medicine" at the 44th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in San Antonio.
Dr. Ananth Seetharaman (accounting) has co-authored a paper, "The Extent of Disclosure in Annual Reports: A Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Study of U.S. Manufacturing Companies," that has been accepted by the Journal of Accounting and Finance Research.
Pam Mueller (1818 Advanced College Credit Program) made a presentation at the Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals meeting in September in Columbia, Mo. The topic was "Dual Enrollment for College Credit."
Dr. James W. Fletcher (internal medicine) has been elected president-elect of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM). He previously served as the vice president-elect in the first year of a three-year term and will become the president of the SNM next July. The SNM, with 14,000 members, is the largest professional society in the world dedicated to nuclear medicine applications in health care, research and education. Fletcher also has been promoted to director of the diagnostics service line at the St. Louis VA Medical Center, which encompasses responsibility for management and operations of clinical services in nuclear medicine, clinical laboratory/pathology and radiology.
From the School of Law: Steve Smith has been elected to the board of directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of St. Louis. Peter W. Salsich Jr. gave a talk, "Toward a Property Ethic of Stewardship: A Religious Perspective," in the Knights' Room of the Pius XII Memorial Library on Oct. 8 as part of the 1997 Arts and Sciences Endowed Chairs Lecture Series. Carol Moody served as coordinator of the American Association on Law Libraries annual meeting in Baltimore in July. Margaret McDermott attended the 25th annual session of the Brussels Seminar of Law and Institutions of the European Union, held at the Institut d'Etudes Euorpˇenes of the Universitˇ Libre de Bruxelles. DDavid A. Lander received a 1997 Missouri Pro Bono Award at the president's recognition dinner during the Missouri Bar Association's annual meeting in St. Louis in September. He was saluted for his pro bono activities, including the development of affordable housing in the community. Sandra H. Johnson was the only invited speaker at the New York City meeting of the New York State Public Health Council. She advised them on legislative initiatives to improve pain management. On Sept. 20 she was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics when attending her last board meeting for ALSME.
From the department of aerospace and mechanical engineering: Dr. Marty Ferman presented two papers in July at the sixth international conference on recent advances in structural dynamics at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. The first paper, "Scaling Concepts in Random Acoustic Fatigue," was co-authored by Dr. Howard Wolfe of USAF Wright Labs in Dayton, Ohio. The second paper was titled "Aeroelastic Tailoring of Aircraft Lifting Surfaces Using a New Smart Structures Concept." Paul Czysz had two papers recommended for a best paper award and as candidates for publication in the Journal of Propulsion and Power. The papers are "Electro-Magnetic Interactions in Hypersonic Propulsion Systems" and "A Concept for an International Project to Develop a Hypersonic Flight Test Vehicle." He also was invited to participate in a Langley Research Center peer review on space transportation system analysis in early October. It will cover a review of the program activities in both traditional and airbreathing launch vehicles, the analysis of tools and capabilities, and recent study and analysis results.
From the department of chemistry: Dr. Ronald F. See gave a talk, "The Application of the Bond Valence Model to Observed M-L Bond Distances in Transition Metal Coordination Compounds," at the American Crystallographic Association Conference in St. Louis in July. See also published a paper, "Bonding Forces in Short Hydrogen Bonds. Crystal Structure of Palladium (II) Diphenylglyoxime," in the journal Inorganic Chemistry, co-authored by undergraduate students Christopher Curtis, Kevin McConnell, Seetharaman Santhanam and William Strub. See also published, along with undergraduate co-author Douglas P. Mersman, a paper, "The Crystal Structure of Fe (II) ( (dpg) 3 (BF)2). 2 (toluene): A Study in the Geometry of Strained Clathro-Chelate Compounds," in the journal Inorganica Chimica Acta. In addition, several of his undergraduate students presented research papers at professional meetings held during the past few months. Seetharaman Santhanam presented "Strong Hydrogen Bonding to Metal (II)-Diglyoxime Compounds" at the SAACS Regional Meeting in Murray, Ky., in April. Rebecca A. Kruse presented "The Application of the Bond Valence Model to Observed M-L Bond Distances in Transition Metal Coordination Compounds" and William M. Strub presented "Strong Hydrogen Bonding in Metal (II)-Diglyoxime Compounds" at the ACS Undergraduate Research Symposium in May. Kevin W. McConnell presented a paper, "A Quantified Definition of Hypervalence and the Octet Rule through a Database Study Main Group Compounds," and Anthony N. Dutoi presented two papers, "Correlation of the Structures of Substituted Triaryl Phosphines with NMR and Molecular Orbital Calculation Data" and "NMR and Molecular Orbital Calculation Data," at the American Crystallographic Association Conference in St. Louis in July.
Dr. Ron Rebore (educational leadership and higher education) has completed the fifth edition of Personnel Administration in Education: A Management Approach, published this year by Prentice-Hall Publishing.
Mark Landis (fine and performing arts) presented a paper as part of a panel on "Theatre As A Pedagogical Tool" at the National Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in Chicago. His paper focused on the integration of plays produced by university theaters with various courses in their curricula.
Dr. Jerry Katz (management) has been chosen as the 1997 recipient of the LeVan Award for Interdisciplinary Achievement. This award is sponsored by the LeVan Co. and recognizes outstanding achievement in the advancement of interdisciplinary services to business families. The award and a check for $2,000 was presented at the Family Firm Institute's conference, "Family Business: Progress and Prophecy," in New Orleans in October.
From the department of theological studies: Dr. Ronald Modras presented a paper at the annual convention of the College Theology Society at the University of San Diego during the summer. The topic of his presentation was Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit advocate for human rights who opposed the 17th century witch trials in Germany. He also published an article in the August issue of New Theology Review, "Christian Anti-Semitism and Auschwitz: Some Reflections on Responsibility." He also delivered the annual Rabbi Morton Goldberg lecture at Temple B'nai Israel in Toledo, Ohio, in September. His topic was "Spiritual Semites and Wandering Jews," which focused on the metaphors by which Christians and Jews have viewed one another historically. Dolores Greeley, RSM, published an article, "Christians and the Global Experience of Prayer," in Proceedings of the Villanova University Theology Institute. She also chaired three sessions of the History of Christianity section at the annual meeting of the College Theology Society in San Diego. Dr. William Shea gave the keynote address at a national meeting of Jesuit doctoral students at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, May 30 to June 2. The address was titled "Where Are You When We Need You, Walter Ong, or, Living Under the Sword of Joseph Fitzmyer: Jesuits and Scholarship." The meeting was intended to inform the Jesuit students of the needs of Jesuit institutions of higher learning. Shea also has been appointed to a national Commission on Catholic Scholarship, a 25-member group directing a two-year feasibility study of a research center for scholars of Catholicism.
From the department of English: Dr. Clarence Miller is co-editor of Thomas More's English Poems, Life of Pico, and The Last Things, volume 1 of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. He also has had accepted for publication in Notes and Queries a paper on "Christ as the Philosopher's Stone in George Herbert's The Elixir." He also presented a lecture, "Seventeenth-Century Latin Translations of Two English Masterpieces: Hooker's Polity and Browne's Religio medici," at a plenary session of the 10th Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies in Avila, Spain, in August. Dr. Thomas Moisan published "What's That to You?' or, Facing Facts: Anti-Paternalist Chords and Social Discords in The Taming of the Shrew" in Renaissance Drama.
Dr. Tracy Thoman (business and economics, Madrid campus) wrote "Survival of Russian Banks: To What Degree are they Market Oriented?" which was included in Economic Transformation in Emerging Countries: The Role of Investment, Trade and Finance, edited by Farok J. Contractor and published by Elsevier. Thoman also co-authored with Dr. Meenakshi Rishi "Capital Flight From Transition Economies: Issues, Estimates, and Concerns" in The Ohio Northern University, College of Business Administration Working Paper Series.
From the department of earth and atmospheric sciences: Dr. David Kirschner conducted field work and research this summer in diverse localities in North America and Europe. He spent two weeks in the Canadian Rockies investigating thrust faults that were responsible for the formation of those mountains. He then spent two weeks investigating an important fault in the San Andreas system just east of Los Angeles. In Europe, he worked at the University of Lausanne laboratory, collected rock samples from the Swiss Alps and did field work in the central Apennies east of Rome. He also received a grant from the Petroleum Research Fund to conduct an empirical study of argon retention and closure temperatures of biotite, phlogopite and muscovite in the Western Swiss Alps. Along with former University faculty member Dr. Fred Chester, now of Texas A&M University, Kirschner received a grant from the U.S. Geological Survey to conduct a geochemical investigation of fluid involvement in exhumed faults of the San Andreas system. Kirschner and Dr. John Encarnacion received a grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate how to incorporate stable isotope geochemistry in undergraduate education and research. Dr. Charles Ammon was invited to present a workshop on "Imaging Seismic Velocity Changes in Earth's Crust Using Receiver Functions" at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. While in New Zealand, he delivered a research presentation on "Seismic Constraints on the Evolution of the Continents" at the Institute for Geological and Nuclear Sciences in Wellington.
Dr. Daniel L. Schlafly Jr. (history) published an article, "Filippo Balatri in Peter the Great's Russia," in the spring issue of the Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas. Four more articles by Schlafly will appear this fall: "Fr. Demetrius Gallitzin: Son of the Russian Enlightenment," in The American Catholic Historica Review; "The First Russian Diplomat in America: Andrei Dashkov on the New Republic," in The Historian; "True to the Ratio Studiorum?' Jesuit Colleges in St. Petersburg," in the History of Education Quarterly; and "Roman Catholicism in Today's Russia: The Troubled Heritage," in the Journal of Church and State. Scheduled for publication in 1998 is "A Muscovite Boiarynia Faces Peter the Great's Reforms: Dar'ia Golitsyna between Two Worlds," in Canadian-American Slavic Studies. Also to be published this fall is his translation from Russian of Sergei M. Soloviev's Catherine the Great in Power: Domestic and Foreign Affairs, 1763-1764, by Academic International Press. He also wrote the introduction and provided notes for the book, which is a volume in the publisher's edition of Soloviev's History of Russia. In April, Schlafly delivered a paper, "Religion in Livonia and Estonia in Johann Christoph Petri's Tableau de la Livonie et de I'Esthonie," at the spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Society in Charlottesville, Va.
Dr. Michael C. Shaner (management) ran a three-day seminar on strategic management at the Universidade De Coruna in La Coruna, Spain, in March. He was the featured speaker at the Precision Machined Products Association National Technical Conference in Pittsburgh in April. He conducted management development seminars for various groups in Adelaide, South Australia, in May. He also taught a seminar on corporate failure at the European Summer School for Advanced Management in Dublin, Ireland. He also was the featured keynote speaker for the Missouri Broadcasters' Association meeting at the Lake of the Ozarks in June. He taught a seminar on corporate failure in the Asian Intensive Summer School in Penang, Malaysia, in July. He taught an MBA course on managing change for the University of Adelaide (Australia) Graduate Management School in August. In addition, Shaner was the first non-Australian to win the Australian National One-Wall Over 50 Handball Singles Championship.
Dr. N.K. Kwak (decision sciences and management information systems) and doctoral candidate Changwon Lee co-wrote two papers: "A Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach to University Resource Allocations and Information Infrastructure Planning" for the European Journal of Operational Research and "Linear Goal Programming Model for Human Resource Allocation in Health-Care Organization" for the Journal of Medical Systems. Kwak and Dr. Gerald E. Parker (management) jointly presented a paper, "An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach to Human Resource Planning for Health-Care Administration" at the Joint International Meeting of the Association of European Operational Research Societies and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences in Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Justo Manrique (business and economics, Madrid campus) presented a paper, "Socio-Economic Factors Affecting the Joint Consumption of Tobacco and Alcoholic Beverages: Spanish Evidence," co-authored by Dr. Helen Jensen (Iowa State University) at the XV Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, which was held in Santiago, Chile, in August. This paper also was presented at the First Peruvian Meeting of the Econometrics and Applied Economics Society in Lima, Peru, in August. Manrique and Jensen also co-authored a paper, "Working Women and Expenditures on Food Away-from-Home and At-Home in Spain," that was presented at the 1997 American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting in Toronto in July. Manrique and Jensen also presented "The Value of Women's Time and Expansion of Household Demands for Food Away-from-Home and Convenience Foods in Spain" at a symposium on trends in food taste preferences during the XXII Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists in Sacramento, Calif.
Scott R. Safranski (management) has been appointed chairperson of the long-range planning task force for the SSM Rehab Foundation Board.
Dr. Donald H. Matthews (sociology and African American studies) wrote "Love and Work among African American Males," a chapter in The Pastoral Care of Men. The book is an attempt to develop a pastoral psychology for males that is non-sexist and racially and gender sensitive. He also delivered a lecture, "On the Mass Psychology of Franz Fanon," to the Introduction to African American Studies class at the department of African and African American studies at Washington University in October.
Dr. Kenneth Kaufman (American studies), a 1996 doctoral graduate, received the 1997 Missouri History Book prize of the State Historical Society for his book Dred Scott's Advocate: A Biography of Roswell M. Field. His book, based on his dissertation, was published by the University of Missouri Press as part of its Missouri biography series.
Dr. Rob Anderson (communication) is co-author of The Martin Buber-Carl Rogers Dialogue: A New Transcript with Commentary, a book just published by the State University of New York Press. He also co-authored a paper, "Structuring Public Dialogue in a Media Age," presented at the spring 1997 convention of the International Communication Association in Montreal. Both projects were collaborations with Dr. Kenneth N. Cissna of the University of South Flordia.
Dr. Ellen Harshman (management) was selected to receive an Excellence in Teaching Award that recognizes outstanding teachers from the St. Louis metropolitan area for their significant contributions to the teaching profession and the students they teach. The award is given by the Emerson Electric Co.