From the department of psychology: Dr. James H. Korn was chairperson and discussant at a symposium that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the publication of William James' book Talks to Teachers on Psychology. Dr. Robert Wheeler presented a paper with Matthew Wyrick on "Life Goals, Performance, and Academic Major in University Students" at the American Psychological Association meeting, held in Boston in August. Dr. Honore Hughes presented a poster, "Heterogeneity in Patterns of Adjustment Among Battered Women in Shelters," at the same meeting, along with her co-authors, Elizabeth Hopper and Claudine Cangiano. Dr. Elaine Jones has been appointed to serve a three-year term as a consulting editor for The Journal of Psychology.

Dr. Gerald E. Parker (management) was invited by the U.S. Department of Commerce to review business plans for the Advanced Technology Program during the first week of May. Parker was elected president of the Gateway Chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association.

Dr. Steven Vago (sociology) completed his 10th book, the completely rewritten and enlarged sixth edition of Law and Society, published in hard cover by Prentice Hall. He has finished the research and is negotiating a contract for his eleventh book, Managing Cultural Diversity. During the summer Vago also participated in a series of roundtable discussions on "The Transformation of Legal Systems in Eastern European Countries" at Simon Fraser University and the universities of Washington and British Columbia.

Michael Maher, SJ (history) has been named a corresponding member of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome by the Jesuit Superior General. The Jesuit Historical Institute consists of international Jesuit historians and non-Jesuits who provide historical research for the order. Maher is expected to promote Jesuit history and spirituality, along with serving as a historical resource for the University.

Dr. Nikki Murdick (educational studies) published "Functional Assessment of Behavior per IDEA Amendments of 1997" in The Inclusion Notebook: Problem Solving in the Classroom and Community. Murdick presented "Preparing Teachers for Inclusion: A Fireside Chat" as a panel member at the American Association on Mental Retardation Conference in New Orleans and "The Review's Perspective" as a panel member at the program review writer's workshop of the Council for Exceptional Children Conference, held in Charlotte, N.C. Murdick co-presented "Functional Assessment of Behavior: A Method of Complying with IDEA '97" at the Arkansas state conference of the American Association on Mental Retardation in Springdale, Ark. At the Division for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Conference in Maui, Hawaii, she presented "Functional Assessment of Behavior and the Development of Behavioral Intervention Plans." At the International Pacific-Rim Conference on Disabilities in Honolulu, she presented "Functional Assessments of Behavior: The Development of Behavioral Intervention Plans." Murdick was recognized by the Council for Exceptional Children as having the qualifications for national recognition as a PRSE (professionally recognized special educator). Murdick also was appointed president of the general division of region V of the American Association on Mental Retardation.

From the department of earth and atmospheric sciences: Dr. David Crossley attended the XXII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, held in Birmingham, England, in July. At this assembly he presented "Inferences on Core Structure and Flow from Surface Observations" and "Global Gravity Campaigns, from the Ground (GGP) to the Sky (GRACE)." Crossley also chaired a business meeting for members of the Global Geodynamics Project. Dr. John Encarnacion spent three weeks in southern Africa working in Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where he did sampling and mapping in collaboration with South African and Mozambican colleagues to shed light on the break-up history of Gondwana and the origin of large volumes of magma associated with the event. Dr. David Kirschner was in Sicily, central Italy and Switzerland from June 2 to July 7 to complete two research projects in the Italian Apennines and the Swiss Alps. Two weeks were spent in the field with SLU graduate student Fabrizio Agosta and two geologists from Catania and Torino. Kirschner also spent time in the San Gabriel mountains from Aug. 13 to 20 mapping two faults in the San Andreas fault system. Dr. Robert Pasken has spent nearly three months in some of the remotest corners of the world. As part of the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM), Pasken has been to the rain forests of Brazil and to Woja Island in the Alling-Lap-Lap Atoll of the Marshall Islands to collect dual-Doppler radar data. The dual-Doppler radar data was collected as part of two major NASA field experiments designed to provide verification of the rainfall rate algorithms used in NASA's TRMM satellite. As part of his ongoing research with scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight, Pasken will use the dual-Doppler radar data to compare the structure of thunderstorms observed by the Doppler radars with the same structures observed by the satellite.

Michael Barber, SJ (philosophy) attended a conference celebrating the centennial of Alfred Schutz at the University of Konstanz, Germany, May 26 to 29, where he presented, "If Only to Be Heard: Value-Freedom and Ethics in Alfred Schutz's Economic and Political Writings."

From the department of theological studies: Dr. William Shea spent the spring semester at the Institute for Cultural and Religious Research at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., working on a book about conservative evangelicals and Catholics. While there, Shea lectured on "The Anti-Christ, the Beast and the Whore of Babylon." He presented a paper on anti-Catholicism at a meeting of the fellows of the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Religion. Dr. Ronald Modras presented "Matteo Ricci: Humanism Transcending Culture" at the College Theology Society meeting at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis., in June. He also spoke on "The Development of Doctrine and the Jews" at the Catholic Theological Society of America meeting in Miami. Modras also served as a consultant for the PBS documentary John Paul II: the Millennial Pope, which aired locally Sept. 28. Dr. Jack Renard published Responses to 101 Questions on Buddhism, the third of a matched set of short introductions to major religious traditions, in Paulist Press's "101 Questions" series. Renard also published a review essay, "Holy Writ, Belles Letters and Islamic Literature," in Religion and Literature. Renard's book, In the Footsteps of Muhammad: Understanding the Islamic Experience, has been republished in a Philippines edition in Manila. Dr. Kenneth Steinhauser presented "Julian and Galileans: The Significance of an Epithet" at the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies, held at the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, in June. At Laval University in Quebec, Steinhauser was a visiting scholar. He served on an NEH panel judging religious studies proposals in the University Teachers and College Teachers programs in Washington, D.C., in July. Steinhauser presented "Unigenitus Deus in Western Arian Literature" at the 13th international Conference on Patristic Studies at the University of Oxford in August.

From the department of English: Dr. Harold Bush Jr. published an essay, "'Absorbing' the Character: James Whitcomb Riley and Mark Twain's Theory of Performance," in the spring issue of American Literary Realism: 1870-1910. Dr. Stephen Casmier chaired a panel, "Reading Stackolee: Outlaws and Authenticity in African American Literature and Expressive Culture," at the American Literature Association's 10th annual conference on American Literature, held in Baltimore. He also read a paper, "Albert Wilkes: Invoking Jazz Through the Figure of the Outlaw." Dr. James Scott has been nominated by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for a regional Emmy award as producer/director of the 1998 video documentary, Articulate Space: The Architectural Heritage of St. Louis.

Dr. John Pauly (communication) published "Journalism and the Sociology of Public Life" in The Idea of Public Journalism. He also was an invited respondent to a paper by John McDade, SJ, on "The Jesuit Mission and Dialogue with Culture" at the Jesuit Education 21 Conference, and Pauly's response was published in the conference proceedings. Pauly was the invited respondent for a panel of papers on "Historical Perspectives, Marginalized Voices" at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, held in New Orleans in August. Pauly also attended the annual communication conference of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, held at the University of Santa Clara.

From the department of mathematics and mathematical computer science: Dr. Christine Stevens made several presentations at college campuses in April: "Mathematical Inequalities, Social Inequalities and Science Education" to the KME Chapter at the University of Missouri at Rolla; "Mathematical Ways and Congressional Means" at Culver-Stockton College; and "Mathematics and Science, Gender and Government" at Illinois College. Dr. Brad Currey presented "Non-Commutativity of Certain Subquotients in the Enveloping Algebra of a Nilpotent Lie Algebra" at the regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Las Vegas.

Dr. Alexis Serfis (chemistry) presented "Penetration of Blood Clotting Proteins into Phospholipid Monolayers at the Air-Water Interface" at the 73rd Colloid and Surface Science Symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June. He published "Association of Blood Clotting Factors I and VII with Phospholipid Monolayers at the Air-Water Interface" in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science; former students Rebecca Katzenberger, Kristi Williams and Ngoc Tran are co-authors on this paper. A second paper by Serfis, co-authored with Katzenberger, was accepted by that same journal. Its title is, "Formation and Orientation Studies of a Z-Type Polymeric Langmuir-Blodgett Film."

Dr. Hisako Matsuo (research methodology) received a grant from the Ethics Case Study of the College of Public Service with a summer stipend for the project, "Sexual Harassment Lawsuits against Multinational Corporations in the United States," and presented the results at the eighth annual Conference of the International Coalition against Sexual Harassment. Matsuo published an article, "Liability of Foreignness and the Uses of Expatriates in Multinational Corporations in the U.S.," in Sociological Inquiry. She also has contributed four articles to an encyclopedia, Racial and Ethnic Relations in America.

From the School of Social Service: Dr. Cynthia A. Cook has been selected as a member of the core research faculty of the NIMH Research Infrastructure Support Program for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also co-presented, with Eleanor Kinney, "Quality Improvements in Home-Based, Long-Term Care" at the 20th annual Health Law Teachers Conference, sponsored by the SLU School of Law and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Cook, along with Elizabeth A. Buck, had a paper, "Caring for Yourself During Times of Organizational Change," accepted by Seminars for Nurse Managers. William H. Padberg attended the National Conference on Social Policy and Social Work Practice in Charleston, S.C., sponsored by the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Reuven R. Levary (decision sciences and MIS) wrote a paper, "An Analytic Hierarchy Process-Based Simulation Model for Entry Mode Decision Regarding Foreign Direct Investment," for publication in OMEGA- The International Journal of Management Science.

Drs. Homer H. Schmitz (health administration) and N.K. Kwak (decision sciences) contributed a chapter to Mathematical Models in Social and Management Sciences, published by Addison-Wesley. Their paper was titled, "Roulette Wheels and Hospital Beds Utilization: A Monte Carlo Simulation Application."

From the School of Law: Nicolas Terry spoke in October at the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis' 2010 Conference on "Law and Its Practice in 2010." Terry recently published an article, "Cyber-Malpractice: Legal Exposure for Cybermedicine," in the American Journal of Law and Medicine. He presented "Cybermedicine: Legal Exposure and Risk Management" at the International Association of Science and Technology for Development's Law Tech '99 Conference. Tim Greaney's article, "Regulating for Efficiency Through the Antitrust Laws," was included in a new anthology, A Health Law Reader: An Interdisciplinary Approach. His "Treatise, Health Law" was cited by the Supreme Court in its opinion in FTC vs. California Dental Association. Greaney has had four supplements published to his casebooks by West to include: "Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems," "Bioethics," "The Law of Health Care Organization and Finance" and "Liability and Quality Issues in Health Law." Stephen Thaman's lecture on "La Giuria negli Stati Uniti" (Italian for "The Jury in the United States") was presented at the University of Salerno, Italy, in May. Also while in Italy, he organized a conference, "Lay Participation in the Criminal Trial in the 21st Century," at the International Institute for Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa, Italy; presented an introductory lecture titled "The Idea of the Conference"; and presented a paper, "Questions of Fact and Law in Russian Jury Trials: The Practice of the Cassational Courts Under the Jury Laws of 1864 and 1993." Thaman was one of 55 participants from 25 different countries to present a paper on issues relating to juries and mixed courts. In June he lectured (in German) on "Why Lay Participation in the Criminal Trial: Historical and Comparative Considerations" at University of Augsburg in Germany and on "Protection of Witnesses in the Criminal Trial in the United States" at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. Thaman has completed translating the German Penal Code into English for the German Ministry of Justice. Thaman's article, "Europe's New Jury Systems: The Cases of Spain and Russia," was published in the Law and Contemporary Problems Journal of Duke University School of Law. He co-wrote a book in Spanish, Comentarios a la Ley del Jurado (Commentaries on the Jury Law), published in Spain by Aranzadi Editorial. John Ammann moderated a conference on legal issues involving lead poisoning of children at the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis in July. Ammann also was a trainer for the annual new lawyer training for Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance and Legal Services of Eastern Missouri on Aug. 12 at Washington University School of Law. Donald King's "Open Letter to the American Law Institute Council and Members," advocating major reforms, was given a full page in the summer 1999 issue of ALI Reporter. Joel Goldstein's book, Understanding Constitutional Law, 2nd Edition, co-written with Norman Redlich and former law Dean John B. Attanasio, is now published and in print. Daniel Hulsebosch completed a review essay of recent books by Bruce Ackerman and Akhil Reed Amar that appeared in the Michigan Law Review Annual Survey of Books Related to the Law. Hulsebosch's article, "Civics 2000: Process Constitutionalism at Yale," appeared in the Michigan Law Review. Kathleen Kelley and Michael Murray were featured speakers at the Central Region LRW/Lawyering Skills Conference at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

From the department of pediatrics: Kenneth Haller, M.D., received recognition at the American Medical Association's National Leadership Development Conference in Washington, D.C. This was the first time this recognition was given. Haller was recognized for his work in East St. Louis, Ill. Approximately 400 physicians attended the session and heard 15-minute presentations from each of the three honorees. Haller's presentation was "Pride in the Profession -- Upholding the Oath through Service to the Community and Duty to the Profession." Jay Noffsinger, M.D. , received with the "Golden Apple" award for teaching excellence at School of Medicine.

From the department of modern and classical languages: Dr. L. Cassandra Hamrick presented "Gautier, Seer of Symbolism" at the international ThŽophile Gautier Conference, held in Paris in June. Hamrick, along with French graduate students Julie Gibson and Victoria Derby , organized a session on "The French in North America" at the American Association of Teachers of French Convention held in St. Louis. Students Melanie Fraga and Barbara Sandmel have been invited to present a workshop on the same theme at the upcoming Foreign Language Teachers of Missouri meeting in St. Louis in October. Dr. Oscar R. L—pezpresented "El p‡jaro" divisando los bordes poŽticos de la vanguardia in Octavio Paz Symposium of the 52nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in April. L—pez also presented "Antonio Sk‡rmeta: en la silla del post-Boom o en la de los posmodernos." He chaired a table on Colombian literature at the 19th annual conference on Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Cincinnati in May. Dr. Jean-Louis Pautrot chaired a session at the Second International Conference of the Word and Music Studies, held in Ann Arbor, Mich., in August. He also published a review essay of Jean-Jacques Nattiez's novel OpŽra in the French Review. Dr. Reinhard Andress was invited to attend a two-week seminar in Germany this summer on "European Integration," which was co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute and the American Association of Teachers of German.

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