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WEB CV: The IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service) Expertise Service now is available to all Saint Louis University faculty. This service allows faculty members to create detailed electronic CVs ("biosketches") and post them to the World Wide Web for perusal by colleagues at other colleges and universities, program officers at federal and private funding agencies, and technology-transfer departments at private companies. The web address to add a name to the IRIS faculty expertise database is http://carousel.lis.uiuc.edu/~iris/expertise/. For more information about the new service, call Mike Luczak at 577-8108 or Carey Smith at 977-2241.
LEARNED LADIES: The final production of the University Theatre season is the play The Learned Ladies, written by Molière and directed by Mark Landiss. Molière spent his career poking fun at anyone whom he felt had it coming, including doctors, lawyers and the clergy; and the playwright believed that no one should be exempt from satire. In this comedy (Les Femmes Savante) the audience meets some women who are obsessed with pseudo-intellectual pursuits and some purveyors of the most vapid artistic pretensions, who consider traditional interests such as romance and marriage beneath them. The Learned Ladies will be performed at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, April 17 and 18, and 24 and 25; and at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 19. For ticket information, call the University Theatre box office at 977-3327.
TRAINING PROGRAM: The department of training and organization development is offering a series of professional development training programs this spring. Upcoming programs include "Human Resource Information System" from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, April 9, in the Knights Room of Pius XII Memorial Library; and "HRS Hands-On" from 8:30 a.m. to noon Monday, April 13, and Wednesday, April 15, in Des Peres Hall, Room 114. For more information call Renee Fleming at 977-7159.
SPORTS CLUB RAFFLE: The department of campus recreation is sponsoring a raffle to benefit the University's sports clubs.. Tickets are $1 each. The prizes include two TWA round-trip tickets (anywhere in the United States, excluding Hawaii and Las Vegas); an Evander Holyfield autographed item; a Mark McGwire autographed baseball; a Brett Hull autographed Blues jersey; an autographed football from the San Francisco 49ers; a Ray Borque autographed hockey stick from the Boston Bruins; a Grant Fuhr autographed hockey puck; a Geoff Courtnall autographed hockey puck; St. Louis Ambush autographed soccer balls; St. Louis Rams tickets and an autographed photo; St. Louis Blues tickets; and much more. The raffle will benefit the University's sports clubs, which include hockey, cycling, karate, rugby, fencing, lacrosse, rock climbing and men's volleyball. To purchase tickets, call or stop by and see Sam Kelner in the Simon Recreation Center. His phone number is 977-7174. The drawing will be March 31.
ETHICAL CHOICE: "Making the Ethical Choice" will be considered at the Thursday, April 2, Soup with Substance. Kevin O'Rourke, OP, director of the Center for Health Care Ethics, will talk about current issues in medical ethics, including Catholic health care in a time of for-profit providers. Soup is served at noon in Busch Memorial Center, Rooms 307-308. No reservations are required. For more information, call campus ministry at 977-2428.
CYCLING CLUB: Saint Louis University's cycling club will hold a combination road race/criterium on March 28 and 29. The criterium will be Saturday in Tilles Park, and the road race will be in Babler State Park. Collegiate and U.S. Cycling Federation events will occur both days. This is the second year that the University's cycling club will host the event, which is a collegiate road national qualifying race. The cycling club began in 1996. Last year, three riders from the University went to the collegiate national championships. For more information, call Justin Meschler at 652-8369.
WELFARE REFORM: Dr. Josephine Allen, president of the National Association of Social Workers, will present "Welfare Reform: Social Work's Response" at 10 a.m. Friday, March 27, in Busch Memorial Center. Following her presentation, a panel of social workers from across Missouri and the St. Louis area will offer a response. Allen is director of the baccalaureate social work program and associate professor at Cornell University. For more information, call Terri Wagganer at 977-2724.
MOCK TRIALS: For the ninth consecutive year, Saint Louis University's mock trial program has won a place in national intercollegiate mock trial competition. On Feb. 13 and 14 at the St. Louis Regional Mock Trial Tournament, the University was represented by two teams. They competed against seven institutions from four states for four slots to the national competition. The Saint Louis University team captained by John Fischesser was awarded an invitation to the national championship competition in St. Paul, Minn. No other Missouri institution of higher education has appeared so often and continuously at American Mock Trial Association national championships. In addition, two Saint Louis University students won individual best-attorney awards. Fischesser, a junior, and freshman Melissa William were honored. Both are pre-law scholars.
PAINTERS/PAINTING: Saint Louis University's McNamee Gallery at Samuel Cupples House is the site of an exhibition, "Painters/Painting," which runs through March 29. The works on display are by faculty members Ted Wood, associate professor of fine and performing arts, and Marcus Greene, assistant professor of fine and performing arts, and by Jeffrey Vaughn. For more information, call 977-3022.
DWYER LECTURE: Dr. Paul A. Cox will give the 1998 John Dwyer Lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, April 3, in the basement of the multi-purpose room in McDonnell Douglas Hall. Cox, the new director of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii and an authority on the medicinal plants of the Pacific, will speak on "The Unfinished Journey of Carl Linnaeus: Ethnobotany and Drug Discovery." Cox has appeared on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and was featured in Time magazine's 1997 special issue on "Heroes of Medicine." Cox will autograph copies of his three books in the lobby of the multi-purpose room from 3 to 4 p.m.
HENLE CONFERENCE: The department of philosophy's third Robert J. Henle, SJ, Conference in the History of Philosophy will explore "Philosophy and Modern Science: Papers for Richard Blackwell." The conference will honor Dr. Richard Blackwell, the retiring Danforth Professor of Humanities, and the speakers will include his friends and former students. Six sessions are planned, including "Scientific Realism," "Cultural History of Science: Its Realities and Prospects" and "From Augustine to Galileo." The conference begins at 9 a.m. Friday, April 3, and concludes at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 4. It will be held in the Pius XII Memorial Library. For more information, call Dr. Richard Dees at 977-3152.
MOOT COURT: The Saint Louis University School of Law's Jessup International Moot Court team participated in the Midwest regional competition in Oklahoma City in February. The team took three prizes, more than any of the other 11 schools competing. Saint Louis University advanced through four preliminary rounds to the semi-finals and finals, finishing second overall. In addition, Saint Louis University received the best brief award, and Belinda Spaeth was awarded second place in the oralist competition. The brief will be entered in the world competition to be held in Washington, D.C., in April.
TRIO DAY: Saint Louis University celebrated National TRIO Day with a Student Leadership Conference. St. Louis Mayor Clarence Harmon was the luncheon keynote speaker, and Alderman Michael McMillan presented the opening session. The conference, which was held Feb. 28, addressed a variety of educational issues and offered workshops on note taking, test taking, time management, financial aid, student leadership/activism, campus living and relationships. The TRIO programs were established by Congress in 1965 to help students successfully enter college and graduate.
RICHEY LECTURE: Dr. Albert Bandura, the David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Sciences in Psychology at Stanford University, gave the 1998 Marjorie H. Richey Lecture in Social Psychology on Feb. 26. His lecture on "Self-Efficacy: The Foundation of Human Agency" was sponsored by the department of psychology. Bandura's recent book, Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory, provides the conceptual framework and analyzes the large body of knowledge bearing on this theory.
BOOK SALE: Phi Alpha Theta, the history honorary fraternity, will hold its next used book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, April 15 and 16, in front of Busch Memorial Center. Funds generated by this event will be used to support history students as they travel to regional meetings to deliver papers in the discipline. Additionally, Phi Alpha Theta traditionally purchases books for Pius XII Memorial Library collections in the name of each faculty member of the history department.
READINGS BY WRITERS: The English department invites the University community to the last in its series of readings by writers of local, regional, national and international reputation. Richard Burgin, associate professor of communication at Saint Louis University and editor of Boulevard, will present a reading at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 16, in Xavier Hall's Studio Theater. Burgin's works include Private Fame, Man Without Memory, Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer, Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges and Fear of Blue Skies. For more information, call the English department at 977-3010.