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Peter Ambrose (Samuel Cupples House) exhibited his sculpture in a one-person exhibit at SOMA Gallery in LaJolla, Calif., in January. He received a commission from the International University Scripps Ranch to create a sculpture for the new Gani Art Sculpture Garden.
Terry Dempsey, SJ (Museum of Contemporary Religious Art) was named the outstanding alumnus of the year by the Graduate Theological Union of Berkeley, Calif., for his nationally and internationally recognized achievements at MOCRA. The Alumni Council of the Graduate Theological Union stated that "by creating the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, [Dempsey has] elevated [his] field and opened interfaith dialogue previously not available and in a way that only the arts can do." The award was presented Nov. 23.
From the department of mathematics and computer science: Drs. Hongming Ding, Charles Ford, Darrin Speegle and T. Christine Stevens attended the joint annual mathematics meetings in Baltimore in January. Ding presented a paper titled "Heat Kernels of Lorentz Cones." His joint paper, "Bessel Functions on Boundary Orbits and Analytic Continuation of Holomorphic Discrete Series," was presented by his research collaborator. Ford presented a paper titled "Mathematics and Dialectical Materialism." Stevens participated in a panel on professional development issues. Mike May, SJ, presented a mini-course, "Occasional Maple: Using Computer Algebra with a Computer Phobic Class," at the 10th International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics in Chicago in November.
From the department of earth and atmospheric sciences: Dr. Brian Mitchell visited scientific facilities of the Bureau of Meteorology and Geophysics in Indonesia in late November. During that time he gave a tutorial talk on using seismic waves to study Earth structure at the bureau's headquarters in Jakarta, discussed a possible cooperative project, and visited observatories on the islands of Timor and Flores. He then traveled to Taiwan, where he gave the opening scientific talk at the International Conference and Sino-American Symposium on the Tectonics of Eastern Asia. The talk was titled, "Seismic Q Variation and its Relation to the Crustal Evolution of Eurasia." Dr. John Encarnacion gave a talk, "Multiple Ophiloite Generation Preserved in the Northern Philippines and the Growth of Island Arcs," at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco in December. Drs. David Crossley and Su Xu attended the same meeting. The papers presented were: "Analysis of Superconducting Gravimeter Data from Table Mountain, Colorado" by Crossley, Xu and T. Van Dam; "Variations of the Length of Day Induced by Inner-Core Gravitational Coupling" by Xu and Crossley; and "The Seismic Noise Magnitude and Its Application to Superconducting Gravimeters" by D. Banka and Crossley. Dr. James Moore recently was elected president-elect of the National Weather Association. He will serve in that capacity during 1998 and become president in 1999. Moore presented a paper, "A Comparison of Cool Season and Warm Season Heavy Rain Events in the Mid-Mississippi River Valley," at the American Meteorological Society's "Weather Analysis and Forecasting Conference" in Phoenix. Graduate students Patrick Market and Stephen Considine also attended and presented a paper during a poster session titled, "A Synoptic Comparison of Two Heavy Precipitation Events in the Ohio River Valley." Dr. Joachim Dorsch published "Pore Surface Area Characteristics of the Nolichucky Shale within the Oak Ridge Reservation: Implication for Fluid-Expulsion Efficiency," in Current Research, Geological Survey of Canada, and "Effective Porosity and Density of Carbonate Rocks within Bear Creek Valley on the Oak Ridge Reservation Based on Modern Petrophysical Techniques" as Technical Report 026 of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Groundwater Program Office. Dorsch also gave a co-authored paper, "Porosity Characteristics of a Fractured Aquitard: Implications for Contaminant Transport" at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City.
From the department of biology: Dr. Dorothy Feir, graduate students Sarah Vordtriede and David Malewski, and undergraduate student Jim Peters attended the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Nashville, Tenn., in December. Feir moderated an informal conference on recent advances in Lyme disease research. As a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Entomology and a Councellor of the Entomological Society of America Foundation, she also attended those annual meetings in Nashville. Dr. Peter Bernhardt recently returned from Israel, where he completed field work on the pollination of mandrake (Mandragora officinarum) with Dr. Amots Dafni of the University of Haifa. His field studies also took him to a kibbutz outside of Haifa and an allied, agricultural station that specializes in research on spices and essential oils. Bernhardt's work was funded by the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust. Dr. William S. Stark published "Control of Drosophila retinoid and fatty acid binding glycoprotein expression by retinoids and retinoic acid: Northern, western and immunocytochemical analyses" in Experimental Eye Research and "Visual sensitivity and interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein in the mouse: Regulation by vitamin A" in The FASEB Journal.
Linda Wardhammar and Mark Koepsell (student life) co-presented a session, "The Next Thing I Knew ... I Was Advising Greeks" at the National Association of Fraternity Advisors conference in San Francisco in December. In addition, Wardhammar presented an educational session, "In Pursuit of Excellence: The First Professional Year of Experience," that offered advice to graduate students preparing for the transition to the professional world.
From the department of English: Dr. Raymond Benoit's archival work at the University of Washington has resulted in a study published in the winter issue of ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. The article, "'My Estrangement from Nature': An Undergraduate Theme of Theodore Roethke," juxtaposes and analyzes the interrelationship between Roethke's college composition and his later poetry in The Lost Son and Other Poems. Dr. Georgia Johnson has edited Essays on Transgressive Readings: Reading Over the Lines, published by Edwin Mellen Press. She introduces the book with her essay, "The Productions of Audience and Transgression." Dr. Thomas Moisan has an essay included in the collection Framing with Kindness: The Transgressive Theatre of A Woman Killed with Kindness.
Dr. Paul Shore (educational studies and American studies) published an essay, "The Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony and its Influence on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola," in Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits. His poem, "An exhibition of late Gothic sculpture," was published in the Higginsville Reader.
Chester S. Bunnell (Pius Library) was co-chair of the annual Christmas dinner for the homeless, needy and lonely at Messiah Lutheran Church for the third year in a row. This year's dinner served more than 200 people on Christmas day.
Dr. Reuven Levary (decision sciences and management information systems) co-wrote the chapter titled "Expert System Design to Prioritize and Control the Information Provided to Pilots," accepted for publication in the research book Computational Intelligence in Software Engineering, to be published by World Scientific Publisher.
From the department of communication: The second edition of Dr. Rob Anderson's textbook, Questions of Communication: A Practical Introduction to Theory, was published this fall by St. Martin's Press. His co-author is Veronica Ross, a professor at the department of communication at Greenville College. Graduate student Julie Hart presented a paper, "Open Doors Can Sometimes Mean Open Minds: Examining the Role of Interpersonal Communication in Local Political Campaigns," at the National Communication Association convention in Chicago in November. Her essay was selected as one of the top three student papers submitted to the political communication division of this national organization. Dr. John Pauly's articles on Jane Kramer and Adam Smith were published in the Dictionary of Literary Biography volume on American Literary Journalists, 1945-1995. Pauly also delivered a paper on "Re-Discovering the American Public Forum: Lessons from the Public Journalism Experiment" at the National Communication Association annual convention in Chicago in November.
Miriam E. Joseph (Pius Library) was appointed to the Taskforce on Website Certification of the American Psychological Association's Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2).
Dr. Seung H. Kim (Institute of International Business) received a contract to revise his book, Global Corporate Finance, from Blackwell Publishers. He also gave a speech on the Asian financial crisis to the National Association of Credit Management in St. Louis.
From the department of philosophy: Dr. James Bohman's article, "Die Globalisierung der Offentlicket," was published in Die deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie. Dr. Eleonore Stump presented a paper on "Orthodoxy and Heresy" at the eastern division meetings of the American Philosophical Association in Philadelphia in December. She also was an invited commentator on a panel on career futures. In addition, she gave her paper, "Word and Incarnation," at the Castelli Conference in Rome in January. Michael Barber, SJ's article, "Autobiography: Precarious Totality" was published in Alfred Schutz's "Sociological Aspect of Literature": Construction and Complementary Essays, published by Kluwer Academic Publishing.
Dr. Donald Linhorst (social service) recently published an article, "The Impact of System Design on the Characteristics of Missouri's Insanity Acquittees," in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
Dr. Jean-Louis Pautrot (modern and classical languages) has been chosen by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States to be part of the Consultative Selection Committee on Cha-teaubriand Fellowships. These competitive fellowships are awarded to young Americans who specialize in literature, humanities or social sciences and who wish to conduct research in France.
Maurice C. Lunik (pharmacy services) published "What's in There for Me? The Internet for Pharmacists" in the January issue of Pharmacy Practice Management Quarterly.
Drs. Bob Cropf and George Wendel (public policy studies) co-authored an article, "Determinants of Municipal Debt Policy: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis," that will appear in forthcoming issue of the journal Government and Policy.
Several research initiatives supported by the Emerson Electric Center for Business Ethics and developed by University scholars have resulted in publications. Drs. Jim Fischer (marketing), Jim Gilsinan (public policy), Ellen Harshman (business and administration), Bill Gillespie (finance) and Fred Yeager (finance) published "From Regulation to Deregulation to Re-Regulation: Rhetorical Quicksand and the Construction of Blame in the U.S. Savings and Loan Crisis" in Corruption: The Enemy Within. Dr. Jim Fischer and former graduate student Dr. Mark Arnold co-wrote "Uncertainty in the Gaming Industry: Lessons from Missouri" for the St. John's University Review of Business and "Consumers' Perceptions of the Usefulness of Better Business Bureau Information" for the Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior. Fischer, Arnold and former M.B.A. student John T. Rueve co-wrote "The Decision to Close the Famous-Barr Northland Store" for the International Journal of Case Studies and Research.
Dr. Stephen Casmier (English) and Dr. Donald Matthews (African-American Studies and sociology) presented a paper, "A Non-Mimetic Paradigm for Black Theological Reflection," at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Francisco. This was a follow-up to a paper they presented at last year's meeting, "Why Scatting and Speaking in Tongues are Alike: Jazz, Postmodernism and Africosmysticism," which has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Literature and Theology. Matthews also presented a paper with his son, Jonathon D. Matthews of Stanford Law School, titled "Affirmative Action and Beyond," at the same meeting. Matthews spoke on the "Giving Spirit of Harriet Tubman" at the "Christmas at SLU" program of the Community Outreach Center. Matthews was appointed a visiting professor of African and African-American studies for the spring semester at Washington University, where he is teaching a course in African and African-American religions.
From the department of science and mathematics: Dr. Larry Viehland refereed a manuscript submitted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Dr. Jean Potvin gave a talk, "A Simple Description of Airflow Characteristics Inside an Unfolding Parachute," at the U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center as part of the center's Mathematical Modeling Seminar Series. Potvin has been involved with the development of several Web pages on parachute research carried out at Parks College (www.nothnbut.net/~peek/). Another site has been created to post information on parachute physics in response to many requests from high school students world-wide working on science projects. The site is located at www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/5533/. Dr. Paul Sanchez attended the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference in Atlanta.
Al Agresti, SJ (associate dean, Arts and Sciences) co-wrote an article, "Responding to Therapists' Sexual Abuse of Adult Incest Survivors: Ethical and Legal Considerations," that has been accepted for publication in the journal Psychotherapy. This is the official journal of the division of psychotherapy of the American Psychological Association.
Brendan C. Stack Jr., M.D. (otolaryngology Ð head and neck surgery) presented "Spectral Analysis of Photoplethysmograms (PPGs) from Radial Forearm Free Flaps (RFFF)" at the Middle Section Meeting of the American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. This work also has been submitted to the journal Laryngoscope, the official journal of the society.
Dr. John H. Zhao (international business) co-wrote a paper, "Relationship Between Imported Technology and Indigenous Technological Capability: Evidence from Four Asian Economies," in The Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government.
Maurice B. McNamee, SJ (English, art and art history, emeritus) received the Cornerstone Award for Art and Architecture in December. It is an annual award given by Cupples Hosue that acknowledges excellence in furthering the appreciation of architecture, the fine arts or historic preservation.
Dr. Kalu Ojah (business and economics, Madrid campus) published "A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Effects on Marketing Activity in Developing Countries" in the fall 1997 issue of the journal Multinational Business Review. He also co-authored "Market Opening and Locus of Power in Korea's Channels of Distribution," which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services.
Dr. Justo Manrique (business and economics, Madrid campus) co-authored "Spanish Household Demand for Convenience Meat Products" for Agribusiness: An International Journal.
Dr. Bruce Kowert (chemistry) gave the Physical Chemistry Seminar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Feb. 5. The title of his talk was, "The Physical and Chemical Dynamics of a Planar Nickel Complex."
Correction. Dr. Doris Rubio's name was misspelled in last month's Professional Notes.