Dr. Bruce Kowert (chemistry) published an article, "The Diffusion of Dioxygen in n-Alkanes," in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Graduate student Nhan C. Dang is a co-author of the paper.

Dr. Ralph Olliges (information technology services) has been invited to serve on the the WebCT advisory board in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Dr. Dorothy Feir (biology) has been asked to become a member of the advisory board of the new Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House Education Center in Chesterfield, Mo.

Dr. Reuvan R. Levary (decision sciences and management information systems) presented an invited seminar on the subject of "An LP Based Price Negotiation Procedure for Contracting Shipping Companies: An Aspect of Supply Chain Management for Retail Chain Stores" at the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University.

From the department of psychology: Two students, Amy Rosell and Brook Tippin, working under the direction of Dr. Donna LaVoie, presented a paper, "Perceptions of Assertiveness in Males and Females," at a conference at Truman State University.

Maureen Valente (communication sciences and disorders) presented a workshop in October to the Francis Howell School District titled "Current Trends in Working with Hearing Impaired Children." She also presented a miniseminar at the recent American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in San Antonio titled, "Interpretation of New ASHA Hearing Screening Guidelines for the Speech Language Pathologist."

From the department of earth and atmospheric sciences: The department hosted the Mid-America Seismic Hazard Meeting in January. More than 90 researchers and users from government, academia and industry met in Busch Memorial Center to discuss new developments and priorities for future research regarding the earthquake problem in the central United States. Posters were prepared by Drs. Brian Mitchell, Robert Herrmann and Abige Akinci and a graduate student, Roberto Ortega. Herrmann and Mitchell participated in panels that addressed issues on the earthquake threat. Dr. Charles Graves was a speaker at the ninth annual Science Educators Conference Feb. 5 in Carlinville, Ill. He spoke about finding World Wide Web sites on meteorology that are suitable for middle and high school education. Dr. James Moore and a doctoral candidate working with him, Patrick Market, were invited to give a presentation at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Tulsa, Okla. Moore and Market discussed ways in which "isentropic analysis" tools could be used on the new Advance Weather Information Processing System to forecast winter weather. They also presented a talk to the local chapter of the American Meteorological Society on an "unexpected" snowfall that took place on April 10, 1996. Dr. John Encarnacion, along with two other geologists from Ohio State University and South Africa, visited Antarctica to study the geology of the central Transantarctic Mountains to establish the paleogeographic position of Antarctica 700 million years ago.

Dr. Jack Renard (theological studies) has written Responses to 101 Questions on Hinduism, the second of a matched set of three short introductions to major religious traditions in Paulist Press's "101 Questions" series. His book, Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims, has been published in an Indian edition by Munshiram Manoharlal, an academic press in New Delhi.

Dr. John Pauly (communication) has been named to the editorial board of Journalism Theory, Practice, and Criticism, a new international journal published by Sage. In December, he served on a review panel for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Pauly published his analysis of the cultural significance of literary journalist Tom Wolfe in the perspective section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in November.

From the department of philosophy: Dr. William Charron presented a paper, "Libertarianism, Political Failure, and Globalization," at the conference on economic globalization at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Dr. James Bohman presented a paper, "International Regimes and Democratic Governance," at a conference on "Economic Globalization" at the University of Frankfurt in Germany in December. He was co-organizer of the conference. He spoke on "Equality and Global Justice" at the University of Warwick on Feb. 11. Dr. Vincent Punzo presented a paper, "Ellul and Marcel: Contra Idolatry of Technique," at the December meeting of the Gabriel Marcel Society held in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association's eastern division convention.

From the School of Allied Health Professions: Jody Smith was elected chairman-elect of the Assembly on Education of the American Health Information Management Association. Julie Wolter was elected to the board of directors of the Eastern Missouri Health Information Management Association.

From the department of English: Dr. Kimberly Latta published an article, "Such is My Bond: Maternal and Paternal Debt in Anne Bradstreet," in Maternity: Politics, Science and Literature, 1650-1865. She presented "The Intersection of Spiritual, Economic, and Gendered Languages in some of John Milton's Writings" at the Sixteenth Barnard College Medieval and Renaissance Conference at Barnard College in New York in December. Dr. Ellen Jones returned to teaching after a research semester during which she completed, as editor, "Joyce: Feminism/Post/Colonialism" in European Joyce Studies. She also published "Borderlines" in the same volume. Jones also participated in the Sixteenth International James Joyce Symposium in Rome in June. There she organized and co-chaired a panel discussion of "'The Immarginable': Feminism and Post-Colonialism in Joyce." She also delivered the papers "Global Responsibility" and "Revenant." Dr. Harold K. Bush presented a lecture, "Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History," at Borders bookstore in January. Dr. Georgia Johnston published "Evelyn Waugh's Narrative on History: Reading a Handful of Dust" in the Lamar Journal of the Humanities.

From the department of modern and classical languages Dr. Julia Lieberman published an article, "Jonen Dalim, auto alegorico de Miguel (Daniel Levi) de Barrios," in From Iberia to Diaspora: Studies in Sephardic History and Culture, edited by Yedida K. Stillman and Norman A Stillman as part of the Brill's series in Jewish studies. Dr. Jean-Louis Pautrot served as chair and respondant to a session titled "Modalities of Musical Presence in 20th Century French Literature" at the Modern Language Association Convention in San Francisco in December. Dr. Olga Arbelaez published an article, "Multiples Voices, Multiples Perspectivas: relectura de Hector Rojas Herazo" in Hojas Universitarias. Dr. Yelena Belyaeva-Standen presented a paper, "Pragmatics of Russian Directives: A Cross-Cultural Analysis," and also chaired a panel on linguistics and pedagogy at the annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, held in San Francisco in December. Dr. Paul Garcia was invited to give two workshops on "Issues in International Education" and "The Implications of the Erasmus Program in the European Union" to the faculty and administration from the Universidad Iberamericana and Loyola University del Pacifico in Puebla, Mexico, in January. Claude Pavur, SJ, wrote an invited article on the Ratio Studiorum of 1599, "The Real Ratio: Does this 400-Year-Old Plan for Jesuit Education Have Lessons for Us Today?" for the Jesuit Bulletin. Pavur's tachistoscopic aid for language-learning, RAM 2.0 (Reading Acceleration Machine), received AbleMedia's Bronze Chalice award and it has been given a showcase entry at the Classics Technology Center Web site: http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/index.html.

From the department of history: Dr. Charles H. Parker has written a book, The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620, published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Jose Sanchez presented a paper, "The Alleged Silence of Pope Pius XII," on a panel on "The Papacy Confronts Anti-Semitism During the Fascist Era" at the American Historical Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in January.

From the department of theological studies: Dr. Valerie Karras was the featured speaker for the Orange County ecumenical service held as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Irvine, Calif., in January. She also presented a paper, "Lay and Clerical Disobedience: Issues of Church Authority in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America," as a panel participant in a session of the Eastern Orthodox Studies Group at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, held in Orlando, Fla., in November.

Wayne Hellmann, OFM and Dolores Greeley, RSM (theological studies) were among more than 5,000 participants attending the World Council of Churches Eighth Assembly, held in Harare, Zimbabwe Nov. 29 to Dec. 14. They participated in sessions offered on the campus of the University of Zimbabwe.

Dr. John Severson (dean, academic services), a member of the state's Steering Committee on General Education, Transfer and Articulation, recently attended the 1999 Statewide Transfer and Articulation Conference in Columbia. During the second plenary session, Severson was one of five respondents to the session's keynote address on promoting a model of general education for transfer students.

The judges of the AOA Medical Student Research Forum (David Lagunoff, Gregg Smith, Robert Webster and Tom Westfall) awarded first prize ($250) to John Collins, second prize ($200) to Jeremy Grojean, third prize ($125 each) to Richard Kube and Christopher Lee. Honorable mentions were given to Josephine Quan Concepion and Daniel Emmert, who will each receive $50. Collins conducted his winning research in the laboratory of Dr. Paul MacDonald. He will present his paper at the National Student Research Forum in Galveston, Texas.

Dr. Paul Shore (educational studies and American studies) has been elected to a visiting research fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His poems, "October children" and "The stones' song," were published in Midwest Poetry Review.

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