From the department of philosophy: Peter Graham published "Transferring Knowledge" in Nous. Dr. James Bohman presented "Agents, Principals and Citizens: Democratizing Global Political Authority" at a conference at Yale University on ethics and globalization. He also gave the keynote address, "Democracy and the Globalization of Political Authority," at a conference on "Problems of Democracy" held at Boston College on April 30. Dr. William Charron presented "The Philosophical Foundations of Modern Game Theory" at the Midwestern Economics Association meeting in Chicago.

Drs. Gerald E. Parker and Philipp A. Stoeberl (management) co-wrote an article, "Another Side to Downsizing: Survivors' Behavior and Self-Affirmation," for the Journal of Business and Psychology.

Garth Hallett, SJ (dean, philosophy and letters) had a book published by Oxford University Press. The book is titled A Middle Way to God.

From the department of chemistry: Dr. Harold Dieck, Dr. Olivier Nicaise and a group of undergraduate and graduate students attended the 23rd annual Area Collegiate Chemistry Meeting in Martin, Tenn. Four students presented the results of their research in oral presentations, and four students gave poster presentations. Nicaise attended the 13th annual Organic Chemistry Day at the University of Missouri-Columbia and presented "Studies on the Remarkable Stability of Enols Derived from 2-Ketoesters." His co-authors were four undergraduate students. Nicaise co-wrote a chapter, "Alkylation of Imino Groups," in the three-volume Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis I-III, published by Springer-Verlag. Drs. Alexa Serfis and Dana Spence attended the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco and the Pittsburgh Conference in New Orleans. A number of undergraduate and graduate students attended the meetings and presented the results of their research in poster and oral presentations.

From the department of communication: Dr. Peggy Bowers conducted a two-day roundtable, "Public Leadership: Connecting with Citizens of the Information Age," at the 51st Annual Public Affairs Conference at Principia College. Dr. Paaige Turner received the Outstanding New Teacher Award 2000 from the Central States Communication Association.

From the department of English: Dr. Kimberly Latta received a three-month fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., to further her work on gender and economics in Restoration and early 18th century England. Latta's essay, "The Mistress of the Marriage Market: Gender and Economic Ideology in Defoe's Review," has been accepted for publication in English Literary History. Latta presented "Wit, Commerce and Gender in 18th Century English Literature" and chaired a panel titled "Production, Reproduction and Property, or Mothers and Fathers of Economy, 1680-1800" at the 31st annual meeting of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies in Philadelphia. Dr. Harold Bush wrote "Our Mark Twain? Or Some Thoughts on the 'Autobiographical Critic'" published in The New England Quarterly.

Christina Markham (fine and performing arts) performed the role of Sally in Sam Shepard's play, A Lie of the Mind, with the Hothouse Theatre Co. in St. Louis.

From the department of modern and classical languages: Dr. Reinhard Andress received a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service to continue archival research in Germany on his project dealing with German exile writers on Majorca during the '30s. Andress' book was published as Vol. 14 in the Peter Lang series DDR-Studien/East German Studies, edited by Karl-Heinz Schoeps and Richard Zipser. Andress presented "Das Dritte Reich auf Mallorca: Albert Vigoleis Thelens Roman Die Insel des zweiten Gesichts" at the University of Illinois. The paper was in honor of Schoeps on the occasion of his retirement. Dr. Oscar Lopez wrote "El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma: o del Travestismo Posmoderno" for Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contempor‡nea. Lopez had a review about his book La Critica Literaria Latinoamericana o del Di‡logo Cultural con Los Otros published in Inti (Revista de Literatura Hispanica). Dr. Jean-Louis Pautrot presented "Cˇlˇbration et Cˇlˇbritˇ du Jazz Dans Le Roman Francais des Anneess 80-90" at the 20th Century French Studies Conference at the University of Pennsylvania. Pautrot wrote a review essay of Beverly Matherne's collection of bilingual poetry, Le Blues Braillant/The Blues Crying (book and CD), which was published in Etudes Francophones. Drs. Gregory Wolf and Teresa Johnson participated in the "Colloquium on Language Learning Centers" hosted by Yale University. Johnson conducted a workshop titled "Classroom Without Walls: The World Wide Web" at the Foreign Language Teachers Association spring meeting at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Dr. L. Cassandra Hamrick's article, "Gautier, Seer of Symbolism, or Gautier as Seen by Mallarmˇ," has appeared in a volume of essays titled Hˇritiers et Hˇritage de Thˇophile Gautier. Dr. Mauricio Souza's article, "La Figura del Archivo en la Narrativa de Ricardo Piglia," was published in Cincinnati Romance Review. Souza was invited to write a bi-weekly column on current cultural issues for the magazine Domingo.

From the department of sociology and criminal justice: Dr. Donald Matthews has received the 2000 Missouri Supreme Court Historical Society Fellowship for the summer to conduct research and write an article on how the Missouri Supreme Court's decisions have affected the education of blacks and the construction of race from post Reconstruction to the Civil Rights period. Dr. Charles Marske presented "Toward a Theory of Boundary Maintenance" at the Academy of Criminal Justice annual convention in New Orleans. Marske also attended the Jesuit Colleges and Universities Criminal Justice Educators meeting.

From the department of history: Dr. Daniel Schlafly Jr. presented "Religious Minorities in Russia: Help or Hindrance to Development of Civil Society?" at the joint meeting of The American Society of Church History and The American Catholic Historical Association in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Elisabeth Perry presented a talk on historiographical issues in Progressive-Era history to historians from the National Park Service. She presented her presidential address, "Men are from the Gilded Age, Women from the Progressive Era," to members of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Dr. George Ndege presented an invited lecture as part of the Spring African Studies Lecture Series at Washington University titled "Past, Present and Future: The Romance of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Democracy in Kenya." Dr. Philip Gavitt presented "Gender, Pedagogy and Ritual in 16th and 17th century Tuscan Charity" at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Florence, Italy. Gavitt received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend to produce "Memories of Florence: The Memorie Fiorentine of Francesco Settimanni (1681-1763) and the Twilight of the Medici." Sarah Curtis has written Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in 19th Century France, published by Northern Illinois University Press. Dr. Thomas Madden delivered a plenary lecture titled "The Blind Lion of San Marco: Enrico Dandolo and the Fourth Crusade" at the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Donna J. Werner (Ethics Across the Curriculum Program) presented "Ethics Across the Curriculum at Saint Louis University" as part of Southern Illnois University-Edwardsville's Ethics 2000 Conference on April 28. The Ethics 2000 Conference was a series of events hosted throughout April to increase awareness of ethical issues relevant to business, engineering, nursing, the media and the environment. The Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture has announced the release of its latest book, Value and Communication: Critical Humanistics Perspectives. The latest book in the Hampton Press Communication Series was edited by Kevin Kersten, SJ, now with Boston College, and William Biernatzki, SJ, research director of CSCC.

From the department of earth and atmospheric sciences: Drs. Charles Graves, James Moore and Ganditkota Rao and six meteorology students presented talks or participated in the discussions at the Missouri Academy of Science Section on Atmospheric Science. Dr. John Encarnacion attended the Penrose Conference on Rifted Margins at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Encarnacion presented his work in the Antarctic and southern Africa, which aims to understand the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Dr. David Crossley visited France and Belgium for 10 days, where he worked at the Institute de Physique du Globe in Strasbourg on the organization of the Global Geodynamics project. During the visit a one-day meeting was held on scientific matters at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, where Crossley is on the board of directors of the International Center of Earth Tides. This visit was sponsored by an NSF International Cooperation Grant.

Dr. Rosemary Jermann (co-editor, Theology Digest) is editor of an Episcopalian-Roman Catholic ecumenical document that reports on cooperation between Episcopalian and Roman Catholic dioceses in three areas in the United States. Serving Unity: Exercising the Gift of Authority is being distributed this spring to U.S. Episcopalian and Roman Catholic bishops and ecumenical officers.

Miriam E. Joseph (Pius Library) has been appointed to a two-year term on the Internet advisory board of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP), Division 2 of the American Psychological Association. She also is an STP representative to the American Library Association and STP Joint Task Force on Information Literacy Standards.

From the department of aerospace and mechanical engineering:Drs. Patricia Benoy and Mir A. Atiqullah attended a working symposium, "Best Assessment Processes III," in April at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Ind. Three senior mechanical engineering students, accompanied by Dr. S. Condoor, attended the ASME Region Ń VII Student Conference in Kansas City this spring. They participated in the student design competition and Old Guard technical paper presentation competition. Dr. K. Ravindra attended the Flight Operations and Quality Assurance Symposium at the Arnold Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif. Dr. S. Karunamoorthy attended the Mechanical Engineering Department Heads Committee Conference on Mechanical Engineering Education, organized by ASME, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

From the School of Law: John Ammann received the Open Doors Award from the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council for his work in the legal clinic on behalf of victims of housing discrimination. He also presented a paper on legal issues related to homelessness at the symposium of the American Bar Association's Commission on Homelessness and Poverty. Melissa Cole's article, "The Color-Blind Constitution, Civil Rights-Talk and a Multicultural Discourse for a Post-Reparations World," appeared in the NYU Review of Law and Social Change. Cole presented a paper, "The Right to Love: Legal Consciousness and Anti-Miscegenation Laws in Colonial Through Civil Rights-Era Virginia," at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association this May. An excerpt from an article by Tim Greaney was reprinted in a recent anthology of health law articles. "Regulating for Efficiencies Under the Antitrust Laws" appeared in A Health Law Reader: An Interdisiciplinary Approach, published by Carolina Academic Press. Anne Hensley presented a stress-reduction program to the National Association of Law Placement at its annual conference in Boston during April. She is scheduled to give and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator portion of the program at a Missouri Bar continuing legal education course on July 21. Alan Howard presented "The Supreme Court and the New Federalism," a continuing education program, to the Illinois Law Committee of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis on April 19. Vince Immelreceived the Award of Honor for 2000 from the St. Louis Lawyers Association. The St. Louis Daily Record recognized Immel's achievements and service to the legal profession in its March 11 issue. Michael Korybut's article, "Online Auctions of Repossessed Collateral Under Article 9," was published in the Rutgers Law Journal. Carol Needham delivered a paper, "Permitting Lawyers to Participate in Multidisciplinary Practices: Business as Usual or the End of the Profession as We Know It?" at a symposium on Multidisciplinary Practice held at the University of Minnesota Law School. Needham's paper, "The Application of Unauthorized Practice of Law Regulations to Attorneys Working in Corporate Law Departments," launched discussions of in-house admission at the Symposium on the Multi-jurisdictional Practice of Law held at Fordham University School of Law in March. Five Star Books published Mike Nevins' sixth novel, Beneficiaries Requiem, in March. Nevins' article, "Samurai at Law: The World of Erle Stanley Gardner," was published this year by Legal Studies Forum. John O'Brien participated in a seminar, "The Impact of Daubert on Expert Testimony in Civil Rights Litigation," sponsored by the Missouri Bar. O'Brien was a panelist and presented a paper, "Expert Testimony: From Frye to Daubert to Kumko Tire." He also participated in the seminar "Objections at Trial 2000 and How to Deal with the Difficult Lawyer." O'Brien also submitted his paper, "Objections at Trial: Missouri Practice," at the seminar. David Sloss' article in the Yale Journal of International Law was cited in Ralk v. Lincoln County and praised for exploring "in excellent detail the meaning of 'not self-executing' limitations in several major international human rights treaties." Sloss attended the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington, D.C. His article, "Ex Parte Young and Federal Remedies for Human Rights Treaty Violations," recently was accepted for publication in the University of Washington Law Review. The American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics invited Nicolas Terryto speak on cybermedicine at the "21st Annual Health Law Teachers Conference" in June at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Terry recently published several new articles: "Dangerous or Harmful Web Content" in Japanese in Cyberspace Law; "Cybermedicine: U.S. Health Law Confronts the Information Age " in Health Care Risk Report; "Legal Pitfalls of Cybermedicine" in Medical Ethics; and "Has Health Care Marketing Defeated Risk Management?" in Health Law News. Terry presented "Healthcare in the Information Society" at Group of Eight, Global Healthcare Applications Project conference in Berlin. He presented "Distance Education and Click-and-Brick" at Villanova University School of Law in March. Steve Thaman lectured on "The Protection of Human Rights in Criminal Procedure in the United States" at the annual course in Human Rights at the University of the Basque Country in San Sebasti‡n, Spain. His lecture topic, "Jury Systems in Comparative Law," at the University of Burgos in Burgos, Spain, was the focus of an interview piece in the Diario de Burgos newspaper. The Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce published Thaman's article, "Panel on Plea Bargaining and Witness Immunity." Connie Wagner published an article dealing with deregulation of activities restrictions for national banks under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in the Annual Review of Banking Law at Boston University. Leland Ware was a panelist at the "Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship" conference in Sedona, Ariz. Ware's recent article, "People of Color in the Academy: Discriminatory Patterns in Faculty Hiring and Retention," was published in the Boston College Third World Law Review. On April 23 he was the keynote speaker at a Fair Housing conference sponsored by the State of Delaware and the Delaware Human Relations commission. Sidney Watson presented "Delivering Services: Tensions in Transitions" and served on a panel titled "The Future of Medicaid" at the School of Law's 12th Annual health law symposium. Doug Williams will present a paper on state rules and practices for the Third National Wetlands Mitigation Banking Conference, sponsored by the Terrene Institute. Williams also will participate in a discussion of professional ethics for environmental lawyers at the annual Environmental Law Conference sponsored by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce. Williams has a contractual agreement with the American Bar Association to produce a manuscript for a book titled Federal Wetlands Regulation. He will edit the book and will write several chapters.

From the department of psychology: Dr. Eddie Clark, graduate student Debra Oswald and undergraduate Johanna Dunn co-wrote "Friendship Maintenance Behaviors: Do They Depend on Social and Problem-Solving Skills?" presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference in Chicago in May.

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