New Orleans filmmaker and Loyola University New Orleans Artist-in-Residence and Professor of Video Technology Jim Gabour has been selected as a featured director for the annual International Broadcasters Conference in Amsterdam. The conference, which typically draws more than 50,000 international technical and creative executives each year, will be held September 10–14, at the RAI Convention Center, in the Netherlands. As part of the conference, Gabour will present a masterclass on the making of his current feature-length concert film which documents the 25th anniversary tour of the legendary mockumentary rock band, Spinal Tap. The film, “unwigged & unplugged,” will be released globally on September 1. The video project features Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer performing acoustic versions of their original tunes and reprised songs written for Guest’s movies “A Mighty Wind” and “Waiting for Guffman.” It also includes vintage clips of the original band, along with fans’ outrageous YouTube videos. Gabour produced and directed the concert with eight high-definition cameras utilizing the New Orleans YES Productions location truck, a New Orleans-based technical crew and a Loyola graduate as production coordinator. He also supervised post-production, sound remix, color correction and DVD authoring of the 2 hour seventeen-minute film. Gabour has been given the IBC honor twice before, once in 2001, showcasing his Quincy Jones and Kelsey Grammer projects, and again in 2003 for his worldwide number 1 DVD, “Norah Jones Live in New Orleans.”

Posted on August 26, 2009

Loyola College of Law professor Mitchell Crusto recently published a scholarly article in the University of Pennsylvania's Journal of Constitutional Law (Vol. 11, No. 2 , January 2009). The journal “provides a forum for the interdisciplinary study of and rigorous analysis of constitutional law.” Crusto’s article, “Unconscious Classism: Entity Equality for Sole Proprietors,” explores the constitutionality of failing to treat sole proprietors as legal entities for titling purposes and provides insight into how the law legally disadvantages small and minority businesses.

Posted on June 1, 2009

Lydia Voigt, Ph.D., distinguished professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology, William Thornton, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, and Patrick D. Walsh, Ph.D., assistant professor of criminal justice, presented a paper titled “Crime, Criminal Justice and Community Efficacy: Insights Gained from the Katrina Disaster” at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Boston, Mass., in March 2009.

Posted on June 1, 2009

William E. Thornton, Ph.D., professor of sociology and chair of the Loyola University New Orleans Department of Criminal Justice, was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Security Research published by the Taylor & Francis Group.

Posted on June 1, 2009

Hiroko Kusuda, clinical instructor of the immigration law section of the Loyola Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice, presented “Recent Developments on the Law of Asylum, Withholding of Removal and U.N. Convention Against Torture,” at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network annual convention in Colorado Springs, Colo., in May. Kusuda presented the paper with Regina Germain, legal director of Rocky Mountain Survivors Network in Denver and author of “Asylum Primer.” Kusuda and Germain discussed recent Board of Immigration Appeals and federal circuit court cases involving cutting-edge asylum issues, including a recent U.S. Supreme Court case involving a Loyola Law Clinic client.

Posted on June 1, 2009

Accounting professor Lee Yao co-authored a paper, "An Explanation for Earnings Manipulation: Opportunistic or Signaling?" which has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Theoretical Accounting Review. Yao's paper "Takeover Protection and Earnings Manipulation: Evidence from Restating Firms," co-authored with colleagues from the University of Nebraska and University of Alaska, has been accepted for publication by the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

Posted on April 16, 2009

Economics professor Dan D'Amico presented a paper "What Transition Economics Can Teach Us About America's Criminal Justice System" at the Association for Private Enterprise Education's annual meeting in Guatemala City on April 5-6.

Posted on April 16, 2009

Glenn Hymel, Ed.D, L.M.T., professor of psychology in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences, has recently published two textbooks, “Research Methods for Massage and Holistic Therapies” and “Clinical Massage in the Healthcare Setting,” published by Elsevier/Mosby Publishing. Hymel is also currently serving as the founding executive editor of the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork: Research, Education and Practice. The inaugural issue was launched last August, with a follow-up issue in December. The journal is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Multimed Inc., a Canadian-based international medical-publishing and marketing corporation in Milton, Ontario. Hymel spearheaded the planning and development of the journal over the past four years through the Massage Therapy Foundation based in Evanston, Ill. Starting this year, the journal will be published quarterly in March, June, September and December. The journal can be viewed click here. In other news, Hymel has recently accepted an invitation to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Massage Science and is serving as associate editor of the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.

Posted on March 17, 2009

Lee Yao, Ph.D., who is the chair of the accounting, economics and finance department and the Fr. Joseph A. Butt, S.J., Distinguished Professor in Accounting, was recognized by the Emerald Literati Network with its 2008 Outstanding Reviewer Award in December. The Emerald Literati Network is the world’s leading publisher of business and management research, with more than 190 journals. The award recognizes excellent peer reviewers annually, saluting “the guardians of the body of knowledge, ensuring that every published paper makes a genuine contribution.” Yao has also been invited to be a keynote speaker for the 4th International Conference of Accounting and Management Information Systems in Europe. This conference will be hosted by the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, in Bucharest, Romania, June 18-20. Later this summer, Yao will lead an international conference in Beijing, China, August 7-9. Yao’s work has also garnered recent media attention. In February, Yao was interviewed on the subject of forensic accounting by Lee Zurik of WWL-TV, who was preparing a special investigative news story on trash hauling services in New Orleans. Later that month, The Times-Picayune reported on Yao’s role in the Chinese conference.

Posted on March 13, 2009

Biology faculty members receive grant funding

Loyola’s College of Humanities and Natural Sciences Biological Sciences faculty members Patricia Dorn, Ph.D., and Rosalie Anderson, Ph.D., recently received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dorn received $180,542 for the research of “Taxanomy and Epidemiological Importance of Divergent Chagas Disease Vector Taxa,” and Anderson received $212,936 to research “Regeneration of the Developing Chick Elbow Joint.”

The National Institutes of Health provides funding that supports the advancement of knowledge about the nature and the behavior of living systems.

Posted on February 17, 2009

Video technology professor publishes article about Republicans in Louisiana

Jim Gabour, professor of video technology at Loyola University New Orleans and featured writer for London’s openDemocracy.net, recently published an article about Louisiana politics, “Three regular guys,” in several publications, including USA Today, Business Exchange, Australia.TO and Internal Relations and Security Network.

Posted on February 17, 2009

Mass Communication head elected to two important posts

Robert A. Thomas, Ph.D., interim director of the School of Mass Communication and the Loyola chair of Environmental Communications in the College of Social Sciences, was elected president of the Louisiana Children’s Museum board of directors for 2009-10. He was also elected to co-chair the steering committee of the Early Learning Village, a subsidiary of the LCM to be constructed in City Park.

Thomas has been widely recognized for his community work and was named one of New Orleans Magazine’s “People to Watch” last November for elevating the status of environmental issues in public discourse.

The Louisiana Children’s Museum is in its 20th year of service to the New Orleans community. According to its mission statement, the LCM “motivates children to develop their cognitive, physical and social skills while enjoying fruitful interaction with adults and peers.”

Posted on February 17, 2009

Professor and playwright keeps busy outside of classroom

John Biguenet, Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor and professor of English in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences, has maintained an active schedule outside of the classroom throughout the summer and fall.

In July, his novel, “Oyster,” was published in French by publisher Editions Albin Michel in Paris. Le Figaro, a French newspaper, described the book as “masterfully written from beginning to end,” and l’Humanite, another French newspaper, called it “an immemorial tragedy… a beautiful novel.”

In August, he was interviewed on “Doing Time with Ron Kuby” on Air America Radio and on “The Gayle King Show” on Oprah and Friends Radio Network. He also gave a reading of his work at the Louisiana State Archives in Baton Rouge in honor of the opening of the exhibit, “40 Days and 40 Nights: The Artistic Resiliency of Louisiana,” in which his writing is included.

He co-edited “Strange Harbors,” an anthology of contemporary international literature in translation, published in August by the Center for the Art of Translation located in San Francisco, Calif.

He was the subject of “Travaux d’écritures,” an article by Marie Koch in August issue Livres Hebdo, a French magazine that covers creative writing teaching in the U.S.

“Spotlight on John Biguenet,” an interview, appeared in summer edition of Ripples from the Center, the publication for the Center for the Art of Translation.

He also spoke on “The Quality Enhancement Planning Process” at the Xavier University of Louisiana Fall Faculty Institute.

Posted on February 17, 2009

Professor Mitchell Crusto to publish two articles this semester

Professor of Law Mitchell Crusto will be publishing two articles this semester. The first, titled “Enslaved Constitution: Obstructing the Freedom to Travel,” will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. The second, titled “Unconscious Classism: Entity Equality for Sole Proprietors,” will be published by The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.

Posted on February 17, 2009

Law professor invited to lecture in Europe

Professor Keith Vetter, the Ted and Louana Frois Distinguished Professor of International Law Studies, was invited to lecture before the University of Edinburgh Faculty of Law, Centre for Legal History, in December 2008.

The topic was “A Contribution of Roman Law to the New World: The Creation of the Creoles of Colour in the United States.” He also delivered a lecture at the University of Glasgow Faculty of Law, in December, on “The Different Law of Manumission in Louisiana: The Contribution of Roman Law to the Formation of Jazz.”

Vetter was also cited by the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico, for his contribution to the development of tourism in the city. Vetter has been director of the Loyola College of Law’s Summer Program in Cuernavaca for the past 19 years. Each summer, the program brings up to 80 law students from law schools in the United States to Cuernavaca for a three-week session.

Posted on February 17, 2009

Glenn Hymel, Ed.D, L.M.T., professor of psychology in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences, has recently published two textbooks, “Research Methods for Massage and Holistic Therapies” and “Clinical Massage in the Healthcare Setting,” published by Elsevier/Mosby Publishing. Hymel is also currently serving as the founding executive editor of the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork: Research, Education and Practice. The inaugural issue was launched last August, with a follow-up issue in December. The journal is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Multimed Inc., a Canadian-based international medical-publishing and marketing corporation in Milton, Ontario. Hymel spearheaded the planning and development of the journal over the past four years through the Massage Therapy Foundation based in Evanston, Ill. Starting this year, the journal will be published quarterly in March, June, September and December. The journal can be viewed online at www.ijtmb.org.

Posted on February 17, 2009

Chemistry chair receives award for published paper

Thomas Spence, associate professor and chair of the chemistry department in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences, received a Most Highly Cited Paper award for his contribution to “Optical diagnostics of atmospheric pressure air plasmas.” The journal “Plasma Sources Science and Technology”recognized the paper as its second most highly cited paper in the past five years.

According to the journal, “the aim of these awards is to recognize papers which have made a significant, long-term impact on the journal and on the plasma physics community as a whole.”

Posted on February 17, 2009

Visiting Professor Jean Meyer received a service learning mini grant through Kentucky Campus Compact and Louisiana Campus Compact to work on a service learning program with nonprofit organizations this summer.

Posted on February 12, 2009

Economics Professor John Levendis will publish "The predictive ability of the Ricardian growth model" in the Fall 2009 issue of the Virginia Economic Journal.

Posted on February 12, 2009

Professor Nick Capaldi directed the "Ethics and Economics of Healthcare" conference at the Westin Canal Place in January 2008.

Posted on February 12, 2009

The Journal of International Business Studies has accepted international business professor Len Trevino's original manuscript "Consumer Animosity in the Global Value Chain: The Effect of International Production Shifts on Willingness to Purchase Hybrid Products" for publication.

Posted on February 12, 2009

John Snyder, Loyola's Conrad N. Hilton Eminent Scholar and chair of Music Industry Studies, was honored Friday, Jan. 16, at the annual Contemporary Arts Center benefit SweetArts 2009. Snyder was awarded for his efforts facilitating the Prospect.1 exhibit at the CAC and "for giving wholehearted support to New Orleans' cultural arts community." He was recognized along with six others. Snyder appreciates the honor and says it underscores the importance of the arts in the New Orleans community. "There are many of us who believe that the arts can heal us, that they can inspire us to recreate ourselves, and they can support us in our efforts to meet the needs of a city that is in the process of reinventing itself even as it restores itself," Snyder said. "I count myself as extremely fortunate to be one of those people and to be able to participate in these vital efforts." The theme for SweetArts 2009 was "An International Tryst," and it featured four floors of international art, courtesy of Prospect.1, complimentary cocktails and cuisine, and the entertainment of African stilt dancers, strolling Geisha girls, the Versailles Lion Dance Team and the Haptic Heat Hip Hop Dance Team.

Posted on February 2, 2009

Law professor to be visiting fellow in Boston

Professor William P. Quigley, Janet Mary Riley Professor of Law, will be the 2009 Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Mass., this month. Among other activities, he will give addresses on “Social Justice Lawyering: A Radical Revolution of Values” and “Is Justice a Counter-Cultural Value in the Legal Profession?”

Quigley has also been appointed to a three-year term on the American Association of Law Schools Committee on Clinical Legal Education. Quigley is one of four professors nationwide appointed by Rachel F. Moran, AALS president-elect.

Posted on January 22, 2009

Monroe Library's Laurie Phillips publishes book chapter

Laurie Phillips, associate dean for technical services in the J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library, has published a book chapter titled, “Creative Ideas in Staffing: Shared Responsibilities, Hybrid Positions, and Taking Full Advantage of the Connections Between Public and Technical Services,” in “More Innovative Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services,” edited by Brad Eden.

Posted on January 22, 2009

Law professor publishes on indigent defense

College of Law professor M. Isabel Medina’s “Reforming Criminal Indigent Defense in Louisiana - An Introduction to the Symposium and a Brief Exploration of Criminal Indigent Defense and its Relationship to Immigrant Indigent Defense” has been published in volume 9 of the “Loyola University New Orleans Journal of Public Interest” on page 111. This issue of the “Journal” is devoted to the symposium organized by Medina, with the assistance of Stephen Singer, held at the College of Law on April 4, 2008.

Posted on January 22, 2009