Mid-Summer Professional Notes
07/06/2020
A round-up of awards, presentations, papers and the other professional achievements of SLU faculty, staff members and students.
Awards and Fellowships
Amber Johnson, Ph.D., of the Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Sciences, and co-founder of the Institute for the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity (IJHE), received the 2019 Outstanding Revised Textbook - Humanities & Media Arts Award from Routledge for their book African American Communication: Examining the Complexities of Lived Experiences.
The recipients of Chaifetz Entrepreneurship Fellowships (formerly called the Coleman Fellows) for 2020-2021 were announced on June 9.
New fellow Judy Geczi, of the Pius XII Memorial Library, will work to connect the Chaifetz and KEEN Fellows to entrepreneurship resources held by the SLU libraries and work collaboratively with fellows to identify other needed resources.
New fellow Patricia Bagsby, Ph.D., of the management program in the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, will develop the new version of the MGT6202 Family Business course.
Each new fellow $2,500.
Veteran Fellows receiving $1,000 for continuing work on infusing their courses with entrepreneurship are Amrita Chaturvedi, Ph.D., assistant professor of educational studies of the School of Education; Sridhar Condoor, Ph.D., of the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Program in Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology; Danielle Davis, Ph.D., associate professor of higher education administration in the School of Education; Jin Huang, Ph.D., of the School of Social Work in the College for Public Health and Social Justice; Yvette Liebesman, J.D., of the School of Law; Whitney Linsenmeyer, Ph.D., of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics in the Doisy College of Health Sciences; Mike Markee, DPT, of the Physical Therapy Program in Doisy College of Health Sciences; K. Ravindra, Ph.D., of the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Program in Parks College; Scott Sell, Ph.D., of the Biomedical Engineering Program in Parks College.
Chaifetz Entrepreneurship Fellows have created courses, degree programs and co-curricular activities which infuse entrepreneurship into the life of the SLU campus. Today, 95 undergraduate courses and 77 graduate courses have been touched by the Chaifetz and KEEN Fellows programs, making SLU one of the most entrepreneurial campuses in America according to the Princeton Review/Entrepreneur Magazine rankings.
Appointments
Jeff Bishop, Ph.D., M.D., has been elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. Bishop is the Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Care Ethics, a professor of philosophy, a professor of health care ethics and a professor of theology.
Publications
Jason Eberl, Ph.D., professor of health care ethics in the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently published a new book, The Nature of Human Persons.
Kira Hudson Banks, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychology and co-founder of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity (IHJE), and Richard Harvey, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychology, wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review, “Is Your Company Actually Fighting Racism, or Just Talking About It?”
Doctoral student Addison Tenorio, of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, published, “On Performing Reinfibulation in Catholic Hospitals” in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
A research team in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology in the School of Medicine, led by Jinsong Zhang, Ph.D., recently published an article in Journal of Biological Chemistry reporting a new mechanism of therapy resistance to all-trans retinoic acid induced differentiation in acute myeloid leukemia.
The article was selected as one of the "Editors' Picks", ranking it at top 2% of all articles published in Journal of Biological Chemistry each year (50-100 from more than 6600 articles).
Other authors are Nick Steinauer, a student in the M.D./Ph.D. Program, and Chun Guo. The paper is available online.
Anne Sebert Kuhlman, Ph.D., associate professor of behavioral science and health education in the College for Public Health and Social Justice, published “Effects of the Community Score Card approach on reproductive health service-related outcomes in Malawi,” in PLOS One, and "Girls’ attendance at school after a menstrual hygiene intervention in northern Ethiopia" in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Kyle Karches, M.D., a doctoral student in the bioethics program in the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, wrote an article published in Christian Bioethics, about the conception of the goods of medicine, "Medicine and the Common Good in the Aristotelian-Thomistic Tradition."
Community Engagement and Partnerships
SLU's Institute for Healing Justice and Equity (IHJE) has become part of an initial group of funders for the newly developed St. Louis Regional Racial Healing Fund, which will invest in healing community trauma and changing the conditions that reinforce systemic racism. This is collaboration between Deaconess Foundation, Forward through Ferguson, and Missouri Foundation for Health, with a matching grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Grants
Cristina McGroarty, RN, assistant professor in the Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing was awarded a $3,000 small grant through the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts. The grant will support McGroarty’s program, “Building Support with Health Sciences Campus Faculty through their Vocation.” The program is designed for assisting faculty and supporting one another, living the Jesuit Mission of the University through conversation, and helping to rekindle their sense of vocational calling in the health sciences. The Lilly Foundations Small Grant program is for the 2020-20201 academic year.
Interviews and Media Appearances
Ethel Frese, DPT, of the Physical Therapy Program in Doisy College of Health Sciences, was quoted multiple times in a June 30, 2020 article in U.S. News & World Report, “Exercises to Lower Cholesterol.”