From the department of English: Dr. Harold Bush gave a plenary address, "Postmodernism and the 'Theological Turn' in Recent American Studies," at the Conference on Christian Scholarship at Ohio State University. Dr. Clarence Miller has been presented with a Festschrift titled, "MŽlanges Miller: Studies in Honor of Clarence H. Miller," published in Moreana. Miller also presented "Translations of Utopia: Two Traditions" during a conference at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Drs. Vincent Casaregola and Lucien Fournier attended the inaugural conference of Writing Program Directors of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, held at Marquette University, as discussion leaders.

From the School of Social Service: Cynthia A. Loveland Cook had a co-authored article, "Persistence of Impaired Functioning and Psychological Distress After Medical Hospitalization for Men with Co-occurring Psychiatric Disorders," accepted for publication in The Journal of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Tina M. Timm was invited by Eli Lilly to make a presentation, "Perspectives on Relationships, Sexuality and Pharmaceutical Interventions," in Indianapolis. Rebecca Banks presented a keynote address, "The Changing Role of Social Work in Health Care: Risk and Opportunity," to a workshop sponsored by the Society for Social Work Leaders in Health Care, Greater St. Louis Chapter Inc.

From the department of philosophy: Dr. John Doyle published an encyclopedia article, "Supertranszendent; Supertranszendenz," in Historisches Worterbuch der Philosophie, Band 10. Doyle also wrote a chapter, "Francisco Suarez on the Law of Nations," for inclusion in Religion and International Law. William Rehg, SJ, presented "'Science Does Not Think' -- But Is It Mindful? Heidegger, Science Studies and Mindfulness" at the 1999 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, held in Eugene, Ore. Dr. James Bohman published "International Regimes and Democratic Governance" in International Affairs; "Politics, Anti-Politics and Principles: Two Forms of Continental Political Philosophy" in The Monist; and "What is a Good Cultural History of Science? Beyond Naturalism and Romanticism" in The Modern Schoolman. Bohman also presented "International Criminal Court and the Democratic Rule of Law" at the Interamerican Congress of Philosophy and "Global Justice and the Possibility of Cosmopolitan Ethics" at Yale University. His book, Public Deliberation, received honorable mention in the 1999 Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Awards; his was the only philosophy book chosen. Bohman gave the inaugural lecture at Indiana University's Center for Democracy and Public Life on "The Rule of Law, Democracy and the International Criminal Court."

From the department of modern and classical languages: Dr. L. Cassandra Hamrick presented "Anais Segalas, PoŽtesse de la Condition FŽminine" at the Women Seeking Expression in France, 1800-1914 Conference, held at Indiana University in Bloomington. The German Section within the department conducted a German Immersion Weekend at the Lay Field Station together with Webster University. Twenty-five students participated in a series of activities all related to and conducted in German. Dr. Olga Arbel‡ez published an article, "O’dos del Mundo o’: Representaciones de la Identidad Negra e Indeigena en la Tradici—n Oral del Choc—, Colombia," in the fall issue of Afro-Hispanic Review. Dr. Paul Garcia presented a paper, "The Labyrinth of Time in Borges' Poetry," at the International Conference on Utopia and Dystopia, held in Atlanta. Dr. Oscar L—pez presented "La Mujer en la Narrativa de Alvaro Mutis" at the 15th Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature sponsored by the department of romance languages of the University of Missouri-Columbia. The abstract was published in the conference journal.

Dr. John Pauly (communication) was one of 25 journalism educators invited to participate in the first Whalen Symposium in Media Ethics at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn.

Drs. Barrie Bode and Gail Johnston (biology) and Dr. Larry Stacey (physics) attended a Central States Universities Inc. symposium and workshop, "New Approaches to Teaching and Learning Science: Multimedia, World Wide Web and Cooperative Learning," hosted by the department of physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

From the department of history: Dr. Charlotte Borst will be a co-moderator for the American Historical Association's chair's listserv. Dr. James Hitchcock has been elected president of the Southern Cross Foundation, a charitable trust with headquarters in Milwaukee. Dr. Lewis Perry presented "Changing Interpretations of Black Abolitionism" at a conference on "Fostering Community through Applied History" at Buffalo (N.Y.) State College. Dr. Elizabeth Israels Perry attended a conference at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. She received a grant from the NEH to direct a summer seminar for secondary school teachers titled "Feminist Classics in American Culture," which will be held at Dartmouth College. Dr. Thomas Madden was elected president of the Midwest Medieval History Association.

Dr. Paul Shore (educational studies and American studies) has published a chapter, "The Untold Story of Fr. Claude Heithaus and the Integration of Saint Louis University," in the book Trying Times: Essays on Catholic Higher Education in the 20th Century. His essay, "Loving the Souls, Hating the Bodies: Jesuit-Jewish Relations in Bohemia in the 18th century," was published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference on Christianity and the Holocaust. Shore also presented a paper, "The Jesuit Community in Eighteenth Century Prague," at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

Dr. Eddie Clark (psychology) and graduate student Debra Oswald, co-wrote with Dr. Matt Kreuter (School of Public Health) an article, "Understanding How People Process Health Information: A Comparison of Tailored and Nontailored Weight-Loss Materials," which appeared in Health Psychology.

From the department of decision sciences and management information systems: Dr. N.K. Kwak co-wrote a paper, "Information Resource Planning for a Health-Care System Using an AHP-based Goal Programming Method," for the Journal of Operational Research Society. Dr. Reuven R. Levary presented a tutorial to high school math teachers on simulating a portfolio of assets at the national meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, held in Philadelphia.

From the department of public policy studies: Dr. Gary Higgs presented a paper on spatial information management, data types and local applications at the Mid-America Geographic Information Systems Consortium Conference on Oct. 5 in Sioux Falls, S.D. Higgs also was a presenter at the "Map Days" seminar, held Oct. 15 at the Radisson Hotel in St. Louis, sponsored by Western Air Maps of Overland Park, Kan. Angela L. Spies has been hired as the managing editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs. Spies was the copy editor and managing editor of the publication when it was at the University of Louisville. Dr. George D. Wendel recently had the "George D. Wendel Civic Leadership Award" established in his honor for his lifetime of public service on the local, regional, state and national levels, and for his current standing as a professor at SLU. The award was established by the Associated Students of Saint Louis University and was presented to Wendel on Oct. 27. The award will be given annually to someone in the St. Louis community who displays outstanding civic leadership and public service. Wendel and Robert S. Flack, SJ, attended the monthly meeting of the American Statistical Association on Oct. 21. They are beginning to work on population estimates for the coming year.

From the department of communication sciences and disorders: Dr. Travis T. Threats is the liaison representative for ASHA to the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning and Disability, Beta 2 (ICIDH-2) process. Maureen Valente served as a grant reviewer this summer for St. Louis Community Foundation. This fall she peer-reviewed a bibliography in aural rehabilitation in conjunction with the ASHA working group on aural rehabilitation.

Drs. Ralph Olliges (ITS), Stephen Wernet (social service) and Timothy Delicath (enrollment and academic research) presented a talk, "Using the WebCT to Educate Practice Professionals," at The Dancing Web Conference in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 4 to 6. Their paper also was published in the conference proceedings.

From the department of aerospace and mechanical engineering: Drs. Swami Karunamoorthy and Mir M. Atiqullah attended the 1999 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference held in Las Vegas. Karunamoorthy also attended a workshop on "Structronics, Mechatronics and Precision Systems with Smart Materials." Atiqullah attended the meeting of the Design Automation Committee (DAC). Dr. Sridhar Condoor attended the ABET 2000 workshop in Kansas City. Paul Czysz attended the 50th International Astronautical Congress held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As co-chair of the space propulsion committee, he organized six technical sessions at the conference. Dr. Patricia A. Benoy attended the 1999 STLE/ASME Tribology Conference in Orlando, Fla. Benoy co-chaired a technical session on tribological measurements jointly with Dr. C. Dellacorte of NASA. Dr. K. Ravindra attended a working meeting on Spaceports at the Kennedy Space Center.

William L. Hubble (nuclear medicine technology) recently was appointed to membership on the academic affairs committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine for 1999-2000. The committee establishes academic standards for nuclear medicine technology programs.

From the department of chemistry: Faculty and students gave several posters and talks at the 34th regional meeting of the American Chemical Society in Quincy, Ill. Dr. Alexa Serfis presented a poster, "Association of Shigella Flexneri Invasion Plasmid Antigen C with Phospholipid Monolayers on Water," co-authored with her former graduate student Ngoc Tran, and former biology faculty memberDr. William Picking. Two of Serfis's undergraduate research students also gave posters. Sam Brancato's was "Penetration of Factor VII into Phospholipid Langmuir Monolayers: A Fluorescence Microscopy Study," and Jeffrey Craft'swas "Interaction of Blood Clotting Factor X with Phospholipid Model Membranes." Dr. Bruce Kowert gave a talk, "The Diffusion of Dioxygen in n-Alkanes and Cycloalkanes," co-authored by his current graduate student Nhan Dang and former undergraduate research student Joshua Reed. Dr. Dana Spence gave a talk, "Small-Time Analytical Chemistry at Saint Louis University."

At the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association in Baltimore in August, several presentations were made by SLU representatives: Dr. Doris M. Rubio (research methodology), Lisa Parnell (student), Dr. Susan C. Tebb (social service) and Dr. Marla L. Berg-Weger (social service) presented a paper, "Examining the Performance of Caregiver Well-being Scale Using Multiple Group Analysis in Structural Equation Modeling"; Rubio and psychology students Nicole Thomson and Lisa Willoughby presented "Testing the Effects of Estimation Procedure and Sample Size with Ordinary Data"; Rubio, Dr. Terry J. Tomazic (research methodology) and Dr. Barry M. Katz (research methodology) presented "Using Structural Equation Modeling as a Method to Confirm the Factor Structure of the Statistical Anxiety Inventory." Rubio, Tebb and Berg-Weger published "Accessing the Validity and Reliability of Well-Being and Stress in Family Caregivers" in Social Work Research.

From the department of sociology and criminal justice: A paper, "Comprehensive Meal Service Program as a Strategy to Improve the Health Condition of Seniors Living in an Inner City," has been accepted for presentation at the Gerontological Society of America Convention. The paper was written by Yoko Suda, Dr. Charles Marske Joseph H. Flaherty, M.D.and John E. Morley, M.D. (both from internal medicine/geriatrics) and K. Zdrowski. Marske wrote an article, "Criminal Law," which appears in Magill's Legal Guide, recently published by Salem Press. Dr. Richard Seiter 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. Kevin Christ (economics) presented a paper, "Optimal Incentives and Hierarchies," at the International Atlantic Economic Conference in Montreal in October.

From the School of Law: Dr. Dan Hulsebosch received his Ph.D. in American history from Harvard University. Carol Needham programmed the Central States Law School Association's annual conference. Speakers from the School included Tim Greaney, who presented "Antitrust and Health Care: The View from the Three Branches," and Melissa Cole, who presented "The Mitigation Expectation and the Supreme Court's Closeting of Disability: A Response to the Supreme Court's Recent Decisions Regarding the ADA." Cole also accepted an offer of publication from Howard Law Journal for her piece titled "The Mitigation Expectation and the Supreme Court's Closeting of Disability: A Discursive Reading of the ADA's Definition of Disability." Greaney also spoke at the Antitrust Litigation Seminar of the National Association of Attorneys General in Austin, Texas. His topic was "Future Directions and Strategies for Challenging Hospital Mergers." Richard Amelung was a co-presenter at the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries annual meeting in Kansas City Oct. 14 to 16. He spoke on the impact of union lists on interlibrary loan and other library operations in a talk titled "Retraining for the New Millennium." Nic Terrypublished an article in the October Legal Technology Strategies Newsletter, titled "Still Searching After All These Years," on the topic of Internet World Wide Web search tools. Terry has been asked to serve as the online editor of the torts section of Jurist, from the University of Pittsburgh Law School. Steve Thaman was one of five American delegates at the Congress of Penal Law of the International Association of Penal Law held in Budapest, Hungary. He participated in a workshop titled "Drafting Resolutions on Procedural Law in Relation to the Fight Against Organized Crime." He also gave a lecture at the invitation of the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice at the "International Scientific-Practical Conference: Compromise as an Effective Means to Combat Crime," organized by the Justice Department and the Institute for Raising the Qualification of Leading Cadre of the General Procuracy of the Russian Federation, held in Moscow. His lecture (in Russian) was titled "Pleas of Guilty, Plea-Bargaining and Simplified Criminal Procedure." Mike Nevins' essay, "Samurai at Law: The World of Erle Stanley Gardner" has been accepted for publication by Legal Studies Forum and will appear early next year. Jack Dunsford was a speaker at the orientation of new members of the National Academy of Arbitrators meeting in Montreal. He has been appointed as chair of the tribunal appeals committee of the academy. Pete Salsich co-authored the third edition of Housing and Community Development from Carolina Academic Press. Sidney Watson presented a lecture, "Patient Rights: Who Decides?" for the ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities at the annual meeting in Atlanta in August. Watson also presented a lecture, "Civil Disobedience, Access to Care, and Distributive Justice," at the Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics Annual Health Law Teachers Conference in August. An article by Watson, "Welfare Reform and Medicaid: Expanding Medicaid Coverage for Two-Parent Families" appeared in Health Law News, the newsletter of the University of Houston School of Law's Health Law Center. Watson joined the editorial boards of the American Journal of Law and Medicine and the Journal of Women's Health and Law. Watson also completed the second edition of A Georgia Advocate's Guide to Health Care, funded by the State Bar of Georgia Section on Health Law. Isaak Dore's article, "Constitutionalism in the Post-Colonial State in Africa: A Rawlsian Approach," originally published in the Saint Louis University Law Journal, was cited extensively recently in an article by Ruth Gordon in the 1999 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. John Ammann led more than 12 volunteer law students as they provided free legal assistance to more than 100 homeless veterans at the annual Stand Down for Homeless Veterans Oct. 9 outside the Veteran's Hospital on Grand Avenue. He also led student volunteers in providing free legal assistance to homeless families at the annual Homeward Bound Services Fair held at Forest Park Community College Oct. 30. Ammann organized the school's fifth annual Affordable Housing Conference on Oct. 20. More than 100 representatives from government and nonprofit housing providers attended. He also spoke at the annual Fair Housing Conference sponsored by the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council and the School of Law on Oct. 29.

Hal Deuser (scholarship/financial aid) presented "Are College Costs Making a College Education Unaffordable?" at the 55th National Conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) held in Orlando, Fla. Dr. Edwin (Ned) B. Harris, associate provost for enrollment and academic services, was the session's moderator.

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