Dr. Steven Vago (sociology) has completed his 10th book, the sixth edition of Law and Society, which will be published by Prentice Hall in July.

Dr. Raul de la Fuente Marcos (science and mathematics, Madrid) co-wrote a paper, "Runaway Planets," which has been accepted for publication in New Astronomy. He also published an article, "Dynamical Evolution of Open Star Clusters," for the September issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. His doctoral thesis has received the Spanish award Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado.

From the department of philosophy: Dr. William C. Charron presented the annual memorial lecture, "T.S. Eliot: the Aristotelian Mind in ÔTradition and Individual Talent,'" to the T.S. Eliot Society of Japan in November. Graduate student Robert Arp published an article, "Hegel's Prospect of Perpetual Peace," in Dialogos. Dr. Eleonore Stump presented the Stob Lectures, "Second-Person Account and the Problem of Evil" and "Faith and the Problem of Evil," at Calvin College in November. Michael Barber, SJ, published an article, "Emmanuel Levinas and the Philosophy of Liberation," in Laval Tehologique et Philosophique.

William Hubble (nuclear medicine technology) was voted president-elect of the Missouri Valley Chapter (technologists section) of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. This chapter includes the states of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Dr. David C. Munz (psychology) co-wrote a paper, "Scales to Measure Four Dimensions of Dispositional Mood: Positive Energy, Tiredness, Negative Activation, and Relaxation," that appeared in Educational and Psychological Measurement. The co-authors were Dr. Timothy J. Huelsman and graduate student Richard Nemanick Jr.

Dr. Frederic Wolinsky (School of Public Health) chaired a session on transitions in the health status for older adults at an invitational workshop sponsored by the Italian National Research Council and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The October workshop drew a select group of scholars from around the world to Italy. Wolinsky led the discussion on analyzing health transitional data.

Dr. Donald Linhorst (social service) presented a paper, "The Release of Mentally Ill Offenders from Indefinite Commitment: A Study of Missouri Insanity Acquittees," at the annual conference of the American Society of Criminology, held in Washington, D.C., in November.

From the department of aerospace technology: Hameed Hindi and Terrence Kelly attended the Results '98 Technology Conference in Tampa, Fla., which focused on computerized testing, assessments and multimedia presentations. William Hopper took several students from the Parks College Chapter of the American Helicopter Society to the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Stephen G. Magoc participated in the aviation maintenance industry's critical issues forum, "Bridging the Technician Gap: Confronting Aviation's Labor Crisis," held at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Drs. Philipp A. Stoeberl and Gerald E. Parker (management) co-wrote an article, "Relationship between Organizational Change and Failure in the Wine Industry: An Event History Analysis," published in the Journal of Management Studies.

From the department of political science: Dr. Kenneth Warren served as associate editor and contributor of nine articles to the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, which was chosen by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1998. Other contributors were Drs. Wynne Moskop, Steve Puro and Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux.

Dr. Amy Eyler (Prevention Research Center) has received the annual Health Education and Behavior Best Paper Award from the Journal of Health Education and Behavior. Her article was titled, "Physical Activity and Minority Women: A Qualitative Study." Eyler also received a $1,000 award from the journal's publisher, Sage Publications.

Neal Penneys, M.D. (dermatology) has been named president-elect of the Ame-rican Society of Dermato-pathologists. Honors student John Broker (fine and performing arts) wrote an original one-act play titled "The Artist" that has been chosen as one of the outstanding plays in a competition sponsored by Writer's Market. "The Artist" premiered in New York City in December.

Dr. Dorothy Feir (biology) presented poster papers with graduate students, Sarah Vordtriede and D. Malewski at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, held in Las Vegas in November.

Dr. Gail Johnston (biology), Dr. Robert Wood (biology) and Dr. Joachim Dorsch (earth and atmospheric sciences) attended the initial session of a two-year NSF-sponsored program called FIRST (Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching), held at Hancock Biological Station in Kentucky in November. The Saint Louis University team was one of 25 from throughout the United States selected to participate in the program. Dorsch also co-wrote and presented a paper, "Petrophysical Characteristics of Saprolite from the Maryville Limestone at SWASA 7 on the Oak Ridge Reservation, Tennessee," at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, held in Toronto in October.

From the department of mathematics and computer science: Dr. Anneke Bart presented "Surface Groups in Some Surgered Manifolds" at a Washington University Seminar in November. Dr. Raymond Freese presented "Science Fair Projects in Mathematics and Computer Science" at the Greater St. Louis Science Fair and a "how-to-workshop" at Mullanphy School in November.

Dr. Robert Krizek (communication) is a contributing author on two scholarly articles appearing in a new book, Whiteness: The Communication of Social Identity, published by Sage and edited by Judith Martin and Thomas Nakayama. He co-wrote two chapters: "Whiteness as a Strategic Rhetoric" and "What do White People Want to be Called? A Study of Self-Labels for White Americans." In a second book newly published by Sage, Fiction and Social Research: By Fire or Ice, Krizek also wrote a chapter, "Lessons: What the Hell Are We Teaching the Next Generation Anyway?"

From the department of modern and classical languages: Dr. Reinhard Andress co-organized the Cupples House exhibition on "Surviving Memories." He presented "Oral History and the ÔMosquito Bites' of Tyranny" at the opening of the exhibition. Drs. Annie Smart and L. Cassandra Hamrick participated in the annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium at Penn State University in October. Smart presented "Femininity on Trial: The Ecole Saint-Simonienne's Outrage to Public Morals." Hamrick was chair and commentator in the session "Writing and the Arts" and participated in the session "Hidden Histories and the Formation of Modernism."

From the department of English: Dr. Harold K. Bush has written American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History, published by the University of Illinois Press. An article by Dr. Jeffory Clymer, "Jack London and the Business of Terrorism," has been accepted for publication in Modern Fiction Studies. Graduate student Craig Branham has produced a major World Wide Web publication: The Scott, Foresman Research Web, located at http://longman.awl.com/sfh. This site is a companion to the new edition of the Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers.

From the office of scholarship/financial aid: Sandy Pritt and Janice Barnes presented a session on "How to Develop and Maintain a Scholarship/Financial Aid Office Policy and Procedure Manual" at the fall conference of the Missouri Association of Student Financial Aid Personnel. Hal Deuser participated in the CASE/USA Today College Admissions and Financial Aid Hotline held at USA Today's Headquarters in Arlington, Va. During the three-day hotline, participants answered 5,961 phone calls from throughout the country. Saint Louis University and Deuser were extensively mentioned and quoted in the paper's related articles.

Rosemary Norris (physical therapy), Dr. Shirley Anderson (clinical laboratory science), Tim Randolph (clinical laboratory science), Charlotte Ridley (nutrition and dietetics) and Diane Barnes (occupational therapy) made a presentation, "Saint Louis University School of Allied Health Professions Model Plan for Faculty Development, 1995-1998," before a meeting of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, held in San Diego. At the same meeting, Irma Ruebling (physical therapy), Dr. Maria Bartlett (social service), Cordie Reese (nursing), Dr. Gail Furman (curricular affairs), Dr. Shirley Behr (occupational therapy) and Patricia Miller (communication disorders) presented "Development of an Interdisciplinary Team Seminar."

The following four presentations were given at the Neurotrauma Society Meeting, held in Los Angeles in November. Dr. William Siler (physical therapy), student Karey Law (physical therapy), graduate student Norman Bamber (anatomy and neurobiology), Hauying Li (anatomy and neurobiology) and Xaio Ming Xu (anatomy and neurobiology) presented, "Effects of Smoothing and Trial Averaging on Resulting Joint Kinematics of Rats During Runway." Former students Susana Watts (physical therapy) and Nicole Curran (physical therapy), Bamber, Li, Xu and Siler presented "Performance on the Grid Walking Test by Rats Following a Spinal Cord Hemisection." Bamber, former student Nicole Curran (physical therapy), Watts, Li, Xu and Siler presented "The Basso, Beattie, Bresnahan Open Field Locomotor Rating Scale May Not be Appropriate for Rats with a Midthoracic Hemisection Injury." Randy Richter (physical therapy), Siler, Dr. Michael Anch (psychology), Dr. Gene Davenport (psychology) and Dr. Daniel Tolbert (anatomy and neurobiology) presented "Locomotor Kinematics of the Shaker Mutant Rat."

Al Agresti, SJ (associate dean, Arts and Sciences) had a manuscript "A National Survey of the Availability of Gerontolo-gical Training Among Mental Health Professions" accepted for publication in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling, the official publication of the American Mental Health Counselors Association. He also has been invited to chair a paper session titled "Religion and Clinical Practice" at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association this August in Boston. He will present a paper titled "Availability of Religious Diversity Training Among APPIC Member Internship Sites" as part of the session.

J.J. Mueller, SJ (theological studies) presented a lecture, "Theology and the Third Millennium," as part of the Killeen Chair Series, which celebrates the Centennial Year of St. Norbert College (Green Bay, Wis.) with the theme of "Time and Transition."

From the School of Law: Richard Amelung was confirmed as committee chair at the MERLIN Quality Control Committee's meeting in Columbia, Mo. This is his second year as committee chair. Barbara Gilchrist co-wrote an article, "Guardianship and Conservatorship," with Sheila M. Hayes for the winter issue of The St. Louis Bar Journal. A commentary by Joel Goldstein, "The House Rushes to Judgment," was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Dec. 16. Tim Greaney delivered a paper to the Antitrust Section at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans in January. Wendy Werner was quoted in Legal Technology Strategies Newsletter on the Web, concerning the use of the Internet by law students looking for jobs and the need for law firms to have Web pages with recruiting information. Eric San Juan served as panel chair of "Citizen Immigrants: Race, Gender and the Shaping of Citizenship in the United States" at the annual Conference of Fellows of the Ford Foundation, in Irvine, Calif. He was a discussant of an address delivered by Justice Feliciano of the Philippine Supreme Court to the East Asian Legal Studies workshop at Harvard on Jan. 11. Nancy Kaufman lectured on "Transfer Pricing, the Foreign Tax Credit, and the Distribution of International Tax Revenue" to graduate students studying international economic law at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai in November. She also conducted a seminar on the relationship between fairness and "tax sparing" in international taxation at Beijing University's Institute for Taxation and discussed legal education in the United States with graduate law students at Tsinghua University in Beijing. A book by Mike Nevins, The Films of the Cisco Kid, has been published by World of Yesterday Publications. He also published chapters on Ellery Queen and Cornell Woolrich in Mystery & Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detect and Espionage (ed. Robin W. Winds, Scribners). In November, he lectured in Germany on "The Path of the Law in American Fiction" at the Universities of Bochum and Muenster, and he also conducted a session of the "Recht in Film" seminar at the University of Bochum. An article by Josef Rohlik, "Go-It-Alone U.S. Policy Won't Work," was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Dec. 30. An article by Nic Terry, titled "Health Law in Cyberspace," was published in the November issue of Health Care Risk Report. He was recognized by the board of directors of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction for "his outstanding contribution during the past year as a member of the CALI editorial board." Terry's article, "Researching Health Law on the Web," the first of a regular series of articles about the World Wide Web, appeared in Legal Technology Strategies Newsletter. In Spring 1999, he will serve as a visiting professor of law at Washington University School of Law, teaching Cyberspace and the Law, for which he has created an "online textbook."

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