From the department of modern and classical languages: Dr. Reinhard Andress published a work in the Internet journal glossen and organized a session on "The Exile Experience: Mallorca, Brecht's Collaborators and Stefan Zweig" at the German Studies Association meeting in Atlanta. At the same meeting he presented a paper and was a commentator for another session. Dr. Mauricio Souza published an essay in the Spring issue of Contextos Revista de Semi—tica Literaria. Souza also published an article in Cultura, the weekly magazine of the Bolivian newspaper La Raz—n. Souza presented "La Žtica del dandismo en Jaimes Freyre" at the "Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana" held in Cuzco, Peru. He also presented a paper and chaired a table on Argentinean literature at the 19th annual Conference of Romance Languages and Literaturas, held in Cincinnati. Dr. Jean-Louis Pautrot is co-chairing the Greater St. Louis Articulation Task Force. Comprised of four college-level instructors and four high school teachers, the force will examine the articulation between high school and college courses in French.

From the department of leadership and higher education: Dr. Claire C. McCown presented a case study to the National American Case Research Association in Santa Rosa, Calif., in October. She also has published two articles in Show Me Missouri magazine for Missouri school board members. McCown's articles covered investigation of accreditation processes in 42 states and questioned Missouri's system.Dr. Ronald W. Rebore co-wrote the fourth edition of Foundations of Education: Becoming a Teacher, published by Allyn and Bacon. Rebore also presented "How Can Justice be Integrated Into An Educational System That Has As its Objective the Pursuit of Truth?" at the Promotion of Justice Conference, held at the University of Detroit Mercy.

Dr. Rob Anderson (communication) presented "Revisiting Carl Rogers" at St. Louis Community College at Meramec. Anderson presented a co-written paper, "Hearing Multiple Voices in Dialogue Research," at the Central States Communication Association convention in St. Louis. Anderson's transcript of the Martin Buber-Carl Rogers dialogue recently was published in a book, Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy: Essays, Letters and Dialogue, published by Syracuse University Press.

Dr. James Hitchcock (history) addressed La SocietŽ Francaise of St. Louis on "The Fronde 300 Years Later."

Dr. John Cantwell (mathematics and mathematical computer science) published "Isotopies of Foliated 3-Manifolds Without Holonomy," which appeared in Advances in Mathematics.

From the department of English: Dr. Vincent Casaregola served on the executive committee of the Research Network Forum of the 1999 Conference on College Composition and Communication and presented a paper, "Making the Individual Visible Again: Moral Agency and the Call to Social Action." Dr. Thomas Shippey's book on J.R.R. Tolkien, The Road to Middle-earth (published in Spanish translation as El Camino a la Tierra Media), was published by Ediciones Minotauro in Barcelona. Shippey also presented two William Matthews lectures for 1999 at the University of London on the topic of "Bibliophobia: Hatred of the Book in the Middle Ages." One lecture focused on "Chaucer's Friar's and Summoner's Tales" and the second on Harley Manuscript 2253." Shippey gave an invited lecture at Syddansk Universitet in Denmark. He also gave the keynote speech, "Thomas Bartholinus and the Creation of the Viking Image," at the Studies in Medievalism Conference at the University of Montana. Dr. Georgia Johnston presented "Historical Intertexts: Cunningham's The Hours and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway" at the Virginia Woolf Conference at the University of Delaware. Johnston's introduction to the eighth annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, held at SLU, was titled "Raising Community" and was published in the conference proceedings. Dr. Donald Stump presented "Marlowe's Satire of Elizabeth: Dido and the French Marriage Negotiations" at a concurrent meeting of the Southeastern and South Central Renaissance Conferences, held in Savannah, Ga. Stump collected materials and established editorial policies for a volume titled Eliza and Her Poets: An Anthology of Works by and about Queen Elizabeth I, with support from a Mellon Faculty Development grant. Dr. Thomas Walshpresented "Orality, Epideixis and the 'Sins of the Tongue' in Sidney's Defence of the Earl of Leicester" at the 24th International Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, held at Villanova University.

Dr. Cristina Markham (fine and performing arts) presented "That Swing Thing," a participatory workshop on swing dancing/Lindy Hop as an American vernacular dance form, at the international conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, held in Toronto. She has been appointed to the Association for Theatre Movement Educators Standards Committee.

Lawrence Biondi, SJ, is a new member of the Academy of Missouri Squires. He was recognized by Gov. Mel Carnahan for his work as president of Saint Louis University.

Dr. Sumit Kundu (international business) will publish "Country Location Choices of Service Multinationals: An Empirical Study of the International Hotel Sector" in The Journal of International Management and "Globalization of Hotel Services: An Examination of Ownership, Location and Alliance Patterns in a Maturing Service Sector" in the book Globalization of Services: Some Implications for Theory and Practice. He will present "Strategic Alliances in the Business Information Industry: An Empirical Examination of Financial Based Performances" to the Annual Academy of International Business Conference, held in Charleston, S.C.

Dr. Matthew Kreuter(public health), Dr. Eddie Clark (psychology) and graduate student Debra Oswald (psychology) co-authored "Understanding How People Process Health Information: A Comparison of Tailored and Nontailored Weight-Loss Materials" for a recent issue of Health Psychology.

From the department of aerospace engineering: Dr. Marty Ferman wrote a three-volume technical report for Wright Patterson Air Force Base under a consulting contract that ran from 1996 to 1998. The title of all three volumes is "An Experimental Investigation to Reduce Buffet Response of the Vertical Tails of An F-15 Wind Tunnel Model." Volume I is subtitled "Test Results, Discussion and Correlation." Volume II is subtitled "Detailed Test Data Ð Flexible Model Response." Volume III is subtitled "Oscillatory Pressure Data." Paul Czysz was a mentor to Joseph Fitzler of Pattonville High School for the National Science Foundation Students and Teachers as Research Scientists (STARS) program this summer. Fitzler's research won an Award for Excellence in Research and a $100 cash award from the E.R. & G.F. Grant Charitable Trust. Czysz presented a paper, "Combined Cycle Propulsion -- Is it the Key to Achieving Low Payload to Orbit Costs?" at the 14th International Symposium for Air Breathing Engine held in Florence, Italy.

From the department of public policy studies: Dr. Gary K. Higgs held a workshop for Bi-State Development. Bi-State is studying the relationship between public transportation and unemployed/underemployed citizens of the St. Louis region. Dr. Joyce Ann Pressley is one of seven citizens appointed by Mayor Clarence Harmon to the newly reactivated Planning Commission for the city of St. Louis. Pressley also was appointed to the St. Louis Preservation Board.

Dr. John Severson (dean, academic services) was invited to be the University-level presenter during the Diploma Programme Plenary Session at the recent meeting of the North American International Baccalaureate Programme.

Dr. Terri Weaver (psychology) was appointed to the editorial board for the Journal of Traumatic Stress for a three-year period. Weaver served on the program committee for the upcoming conference for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, "Bridging Gaps Across Disciplines, Cultures and Theoretical Perspectives," which will be held in Miami in November.

From the department of educational studies: Dr. Linda J. Bufkin presented "Technology and Young Children: Developmentally Appropriate Choices" at the Crucial Early Years Conference, held in St. Louis. She also will present a paper, "A Constructivist Approach to Evaluation in Teacher Education," before the National Association for the Education of Young Children meeting in New Orleans. Dr. Ann M. Rule was a keynote speaker at the Diocesan Annual Conference in Vicksburg, Miss., on Sept. 18, and in Oxford, Miss., on Sept 19. The theme for the conference was "Reconciliation and Valuing Our Differences." Dr. Nikki Murdick co-wrote "Functional Assessment of Behavior: A Method of Complying with IDEA Amendments of 1997" for publication in Beyond Behavior. Murdick also co-wrote "Complying with IDEA: Using Functional Assessment of Behavior to Plan Programs for Students with Mental Retardation" for publication in Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Murdick also had two papers accepted for presentation at The Institute for Inclusive Education, which was held in St. Louis: "Instructional Differentiation: How to Reach All Learners" and "Communication Issues of Parents in Team Decision-making." Murdick also had two papers accepted for presentation at the Region V American Association on Mental Retardation Conference, which was held in St. Louis: "Communication to Enhance Team Collaboration" and "Differentiation of Instruction: A Gateway to Success in the Classroom."

From the department of counseling and family therapy: Dr. John K. DiTiberio wrote a book chapter, "Education, Learning Styles and Cognitive Styles," that appeared in MBTI Applications: A Decade of Research on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, published by Consulting Psychologists Press. DiTiberio also was honored at the international conference of the Association for Psychological Type with the Gordon Lawrence Award for Excellence in the field of education. He also made a presentation at the conference titled "Working with Adolescents and Young Adults Through the Use of Type, Gender and Kegan's Developmental Theory." Dr. Nancy C. Morrison presented a workshop, "Family Practice and Family Therapy: Creating Opportunities for a Family Focus," to the Methodist Hospital Family Practice Residency Program in Indianapolis on April 1. The focus of this presentation was on interdisciplinary collaboration between medical and mental health professionals.

Dr. Richard Seiter (sociology and criminal justice) signed a contract with Prentice Hall to write a book titled Correctional Administration: Managing Complexity, to be available for the 2001-2002 academic year. Dr. Charles Marske wrote an article, "Criminal Law," which appears in Magill's Legal Guide, recently published by Salem Press.

From the department of chemistry: Dr. Olivier Nicaise presented "A Remarkable Case of Enol Stability" at the 36th National Organic Chemistry Symposium at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in June. Dr. Bruce Kowert published a paper, "Translational Diffusion of Transition Metal Complexes," in Chemical Physics. His co-authors are former graduate student Michael B. Martin, current graduate student Nhan C. Dang and former undergraduate research students Angela M. Hughes, Gia H. Cheung, Hung D. Tran and Joshua P. Reed.

From the department of theological studies: Dr. Valerie Karras served as a lecturer and panelist at a one-day conference on the theology of women in the Orthodox Church, held in Tenafly, N.J., sponsored by the Hellenic American Women's Council. She participated in an ecumenical consultation on "The Price of Disunity" at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, held at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn. Karras also presented a paper, "The Theological Anthropology of Gender: Some Parameters for Debate," at the 13th International Conference on Patristic Studies, held in Oxford, England. Dr. William M. Shea edited Trying Times: Essays on Catholic Higher Education in the 20th Century, with doctoral student Daniel Van Slyke. The volume was published by Scholars Press of the American Academy of Religion and includes nine seminar and conference papers written in connection with Alice Gallin's visiting professorship in the department in 1996-97. There are papers by Dr. James F. Hitchcock (history), Dr. Paul J. Shore (education), Michael D. Barber, SJ (philosophy) and William R. Rehg, SJ (philosophy). Shea contributed an essay titled "Jesuits and Scholarship: A Reading of the Macelwane Report." Gallin's history of Catholic higher education since 1960, written in good part while she visited SLU, is now in press with Notre Dame University.

Terry Dempsey, SJ (Museum of Contemporary Religious Art) was one of two featured keynote speakers at an international conference on art and religion at Oxford University. He has been, consequently, invited to speak to the Irish Theological Society in Dublin next May. An exhibition at MOCRA last year, "Bernard Maisner: Entrance to the Scriptorium," which Dempsey curated, opened at Pepperdine University in October. After Pepperdine, the exhibition will travel to the Austin Museum of Art in Texas, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Hope College in Michigan and the Jersey City Museum. This is the first time a MOCRA-generated show has had such an extensive tour.

From Pius XII Memorial Library: Christine Froechtenigt Harper presented a paper, "The Water Wizard: John F. Wixford and the World's Fair," at the 21st Mid-America Conference on History, held in Springfield, Mo. This year's conference was hosted by Southwest Missouri State University. Jeannette Pierce presented "Faculty-Librarian Collaboration in Helping International Students Use Electronic Resources" at a conference on Internationalizing Faculty and Curriculum: 21st Century Issues for Teaching, Technology and Tenure, held at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

From the department of biology: Dr. William S. Stark presented "Retinoids control green fluorescent protein (GFP) in analyses of Drosophila opsin's promoter" at the 1999 national Neurobiology of Drosophila convention, held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. His undergraduate research assistant, Jeremy A. Beatty, presented this same work at the 1999 Midwest Drosophila Conference, held at Allerton Park Conference Center, Ill.

From the department of philosophy: Dr. James Bohman presented "Democratic Governance and International Institutions" at the 24th Interamerican Congress of Philosophy, held in Puebla, Mexico. Bohman was a discussant on a panel on "International Deliberation" at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Atlanta. He also has published two articles: "The Politics of Modern Reason: Two Forms of Continental Political Philosophy" in The Monist and "Practical Reason and Cultural Constraint" in Bourdieu: A Critical Reader, edited by R. Shusterman. Bohman's book, Public Deliberation, received an honorable mention in the 1999 Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Awards; his was the only philosophy book chosen. He also gave the inaugural lecture, "The Rule of Law, Democracy and the International Criminal Court," at Indiana University's Center for Democracy and Public Life. Dr. John Doylepublished "Supertranscendental Being: On the Verge of Modern Philosophy," in In Meeting of the Minds: The Relations Between Medieval and Classical Modern Philosophy, edited by Stephen F. Brown. Dr. Richard H. Dees has published an article, "Establishing Toleration," in Political Theory.

Dr. David Crossley (earth and atmospheric sciences) attended the second Heartland/Delta Workshop on Jesuit identity and the academic process, held in October at Marquette University. The theme was teaching the distinctiveness of the Ignatian pedagogy within undergraduate programs.

Dr. Celerstine Johnson (Student Educational Services Center) recently was honored by the Council on Educational Opportunity at a national conference in San Antonio. She received the Walter O. Mason Award, established to honor educational opportunity professionals, for her work in providing leadership in the development of standards for Trio and other Educational Opportunity Programs; the establishment of the Center for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education; and the National Trio Clearinghouse. Johnson also received the 1999 Award of Perseverance given by the Consortium of Doctors Ltd. This recognized her development of a two-year mentoring project, "Hands Across the Nation," for potentially first-generation college students in Savannah, Ga., and Hampton, Va.

From the department of political science: Dr. Ellen Carnaghan presented a paper, "Individual Freedom or the Social Good," at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting. She also presented a paper, "Thinking about Democracy: Interviews with Russians," at the American Political Science Association Meeting, which has been published as a working paper by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Carnaghan also has been awarded a short-term travel grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board for travel in Russia in February during her sabbatical.Dr. Wynne Moskop had her review of Patricia Misciagno's Rethinking Feminist Identification published in the March 1999 issue of the American Political Science Review. Moskop also presented a paper, "Aristotelian Leadership for Multicultural Society: The Prudence of the Powerless," at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting. Dr. Steve Puro served as a discussant for a panel at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting, held in Chicago in April. Puro, along with colleague Dr. Ken Warren, published a chapter, "Clay Defeats Soulade in Missouri's First District Race," in The Road to Congress, 1998, published by Wadsworth Press in September. Warren has been named to the editorial board of the Public Administration Review. The spring issue of the Oklahoma Law Review published his "Reflections on the Contributions of Professor Bernard Schwartz." At the National Association of Public Administration meeting, Warren presented a paper, "Teaching Public Administration in the 1990s." He is on sabbatical leave and is lecturing on "Administrative Law in the United States" at universities in Holland, Sweden and Oxford, England. Dr. Emmanuel Uwalaka chaired a panel on "Developing Strategies and the Environment" at the Third World Studies Conference, held in Omaha, Neb.

Dr. Ik-Whan G. Kwon (decision sciences and MIS), Dr. Philipp Stoeberl (management) and graduate student Jeri Beggs co-wrote a paper, "Cynicism in the Workplace: A Comparative Study of Life and Work Attitudes between U.S. and Korean MBA Students -- Multivariate Statistical Analysis," for publication in Current State of Business Disciplines. Kwon was interviewed by the editor of the Journal of Health Law on Scientific Sampling in Medicaid Auditing, and an excerpt from the interview was printed in Vol. 32 of the journal. Dr. Reuven Levary wrote a book chapter, "The Role of Information Technology in Supply Chain Management," which will be published in The Current State of Business Disciplines.

From the department of American studies: Dr. Shirley Loui attended the board of directors meetings of the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies in the Netherlands Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, and the Mid-America American Studies Association in Kansas City Oct. 9 to 10. Loui is a founding member of the Maastricht Consortium and a three-year member of the MAASA board. Graduate student Stephen Hardman presented a paper, "The Labor of Reading in Colonial New England," at the Early Modern Culture Studies conference in Miami Oct. 7 to 11.

Barbara Roe Beck (communication disorders) will be president of the Missouri Academy of Audiology beginning Jan. 1. The group is the state affiliate of the American Academy of Audiology.

From the department of ophthalmology: Dr. Steven J. Fliesler, Michael J. Richards and Chi-yen Miller published "Marked Alteration of Sterol Metabolism and Composition Without Compromising Retinal Development or Function" in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. They also published "Cholesterol Synthesis in the Vertebrate Retina: Effects of U18666A on Rat Retinal Structure, Photoreceptor Membrane Assembly and Sterol Metabolism and Composition" in the journal Lipids. Fliesler co-wrote "Richard W. Young: And the Band Marched On" in Trends in Cell Biology. Fliesler was invited to give several presentations this fall: "Isoprenoid Metabolism in the Vertebrate Retina: Experimental Studies and Clinical Relevance," at The Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, Calif. and "Cholesterol Metabolism in Relation to Retinal Histogenesis, Structure and Function," at the the Cole Eye Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis.

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