May 8, 1998

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Ralph Adamo, assistant professor, was awarded a grant by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to teach a Summer Institute at Loyola for high school teachers in modern poetry this July. A selection of his poetry also was published in the spring issue of the LEH magazine, Cultural Vistas. Adamo’s other poems were published recently in the anthology “A Bend in the River“ and are forthcoming in a new anthology later this spring. His work also appeared in the current issue of Connecticut Review and Louisiana Literature, where his poem, “New Orleans Elegies” was runner-up for the Louisiana Prize Literature. Adamo also read recently at the New Orleans Public Library as part of April’s National Poetry Month celebration and was interviewed on WWNO radio’s program, “Inside the Arts.” This summer, he will deliver a paper on New Orleans poetry at the New Orleans in Europe Conference in Warwick, England.

Pauline Bazin, part-time instructor of modern foreign languages, attended the International TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference in Seattle and was a speaker at the Roundtable Discussion “The Older Adult Learner” at the annual TESOL Conference last month at Delgado.

John Biguenet, professor of English, has had his story, “The Woman Taken in Adultery,” which first appeared in The Greensboro Review, reprinted in World Wide Writers, a British journal of prize-winning stories. Another of his stories, “And Never Come Up,” appears in the current issue of Granta. His essay, “Double Takes: The Role of Allusion in Cinema,” was published in Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes.

Biguenet recently conducted a series of creative writing workshops at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. He co-authored and presented a paper, “A Heart of Gold: Prostitution and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination” at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies annual conference. In addition, he served as a judge in the creative writing competition of the Overture Arts Scholarship Program and of the graduate and undergraduate Creative Writing Competition of the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers.

Carl Brans, professor of physics, gave a seminar for the Mathematics Department at UNO last month. The seminar was titled “Exotic Smoothness in Physics.” He also presented, “Gravitation and the Persistent Scalar Field” at Appalachian State University in North Carolina also in April.

Rogene A. Buchholz and Sandra B. Rosenthal have published a book titled Business Ethics: The Pragmatic Path Beyond Principles to Process accompanied by an instructor’s manual. They also attended a Liberty Fund colloquium on “Liberty and Markets in Mills” Principles of Political Economy held in Indianapolis, Ind., in March. Additionally, they had an article titled, “Business and Society: What’s In a Name,” published in The International Journal of Organizational Analysis. Also, Buchholz published the second edition of Principles of Environment Management: The Greening of Business by Prentice-Hall accompanied by an instructor’s manual. He also contributed to an Essay Forum: Voices From the Scholarly Generations of Business and Society, in Business and Society.

James Carter, S.J., chancellor, was awarded a Templeton grant of $10,000 in support of his course in Faith, Science, and Religion.

Laura Dankner, associate professor of music/music librarian, co-authored an article titled, “The Big Easy” with Ruth Leon for the BBC Music Magazine.

Yander Darden joined the university as a public safety officer.

As president-elect of the New Orleans Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, Kristine David, APR, director of public affairs, attended the PRSA Southwest District Conference annual meeting in Albuquerque, N.M.

George R. Green, assistant professor of biology, received an LEQSF grant for $97,000 to fund research with undergraduate students.

Karen Greenstone and Merry Toups, instructors in the Intensive English Program, presented a paper titled, “Three Faces of e-mail” at the Louisiana State Conference of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages in April. The paper, presented with Linda Scott of Delgado, explains a variety of ways to use e-mail in second language teaching.

Director of Planned Giving Robert Gross’ band, New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra, received “Special Recognition” by the Big Easy Awards. Also, the group performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival last month.

Bobby Harges, professor of law, spoke on “Alternative Dispute Resolution in the United States” to a group of government officials including judges, lawyers, and legislators. He accompanied a delegation of 10 American lawyers and judges who spoke at the conference titled, “Judicial Responsibility in Building Democracy.” The conference was organized by The Instituto de Estrategias para la Democracia and The Public Law Center at Tulane and Loyola law schools. It was sponsored by the United States Information Service, Santo Domingo and the United Sates Information Agency in Washington, D.C., and co-sponsored by the Comisionado Para la reforma y Modernization de la Justicia and The Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic.

Dee Wood Harper, Jr., City College professor, chaired a session titled, “Jesuit Issues in Criminal Justice,” at the Academy of Criminal Justice Science meeting in Albuquerque, N.M.

Craig Hood, associate professor of biological sciences, presented a paper titled, “Geographic Variation in Size Sexual Dimorphism in Gulf Coastal Populations of the Blacktail Shiner, Cyprinella Venusta” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists in Albuquerque, N.M.

Frank Jordan, assistant professor of biological sciences, co-authored the talk “Distribution and Habitat Use of Grass Shrimp in the Lower St. John River Basin, Fla.” which was presented at the Benthic Ecology meeting in Melbourne, Fla., and the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting in Monroe, La. He also moderated the “Invertebrate Zoology” session of talks at the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting also held in Monroe. Jordan received research grants from the Department of Defense and Florida International University to continue his research on the endangered Okaloosa darter and Everglades marsh fish, respectively.

Gina Macdonald, part-time instructor in English, attended the International TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference in Seattle. She participated in a Colloquium on Literature and Composition Instruction. Her topic “Acculturation Through Widely Varied Literary Writing Topics,” provided criteria for selecting literary works that non-native speakers of English could respond well to sample topics and assignments that promote good writing about literature. Additionally, she received a contract from the Popular Press for a trade book on popular author Louis L’ Amour.

Andrew Macdonald, associate professor of English, attended the International TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference in Seattle. He edited the Convention Daily, the paper for a conference of almost 9,000 English-language teachers. He and his wife, Gina, delivered a paper titled “Acculturating IEP Students to Standardized Testing,” a discussion of ways to improve student test taking.

Warren Martin, Jr., was hired as a public safety officer.

Patricia Mason was hired as a word processing specialist at the School of Law.

T. Davina McClain, assistant professor of classical studies, delivered a lecture titled, “Livy’s Report of the Oppian Law: A Debate About Women and Power,” at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., as part of St. Anselm College’s Colloquium in February. She authored entries on “Rome,” “Mime,” and “Pantomime” which will appear in the International Encyclopedia of Dance and wrote an article, “Redeeming Fabia: Sisters and Honor in Livy,” which will appear in the volume of The Ancient World. McClain delivered a paper, “When Families Fight: Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata,” at the 1998 meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in April.

Vicki McNeil, associate vice president for student affairs, served as chair of educational support services, for a recent Southern Association of Colleges and Schools reaffirmation visit to Marymount University.

Rosary O’Neill, professor in drama and speech, was awarded a fellowship to Wiepersdurf Arts Colony near Berlin, Germany, for her play Exposition Blvd. This year, she also was awarded fellowships to Ragdale Arts Colony in Chicago and Dosset Colony House in Vermont. This fall, O’Neill was awarded a fellowship to study writing with scholar/author Ernest Gaines at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Her play, A Louisiana Gentleman, will be performed at the Sorbonne University in June. The play will be staged in French by the drama workshop of Sorbonne in the Selle de Richelieu. Her unpublished novel, Wishing Aces, was a winner of the Deep South Writers Competition in October. Her dramatic monologues, “White Suits” and “Queen of Diamonds” were published in the spring issue of the University of Southwestern Louisiana Review.

Brenda Owens, associate professor of nursing in City College, recently published “A pre-arranged mentorship program: Can it work long distance?” in the Journal of Professional Nursing.

Bill Quigley, associate professor law and director of the Gillis Long Poverty Center, will receive the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Louisiana State Bar Association in June for his pro bono work. Last month, he was honored by the New Orleans Fair Housing Action Committee for his civil rights work and was one of four law professors chosen to assist Harvard University on “Building Racial and Ethnic Justice in Local Community Organizations.”

Frances K. Rousell was hired as the micro enterprise coordinator at the Twomey Center.

Cynthia Walsh, instructor of music, will serve as assistant composer/assistant sound designer for the Texas Skakespeare Festival. Walsh has composed incidental music, songs, and sound effects for the festival in the 1995 and 1997 seasons. This year, she will compose for Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and sound design Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The festival is located in Kilgore, Texas, and performances run from June 25 through July 26. Ticket information may be obtained by calling 903-983-8601.

Catherine Wessinger, associate professor of religious studies, presented a lecture, “Heaven’s Gate and Millennial Fever,” to the Honors Forum at University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Leslie C. Wilson, associate professor of chemistry, has co-authored a chapter with Stan Ivanov titled “A Correlation–Energy Functional for Addition to Hartree-Fock Energy,” in the book, Electronic Density Functional Theory: Recent Progress and New Direction. The book is a result of proceedings of an International Workshop on Electron Density Functional Theory in July in Nathan, Queensland, Australia.

Congratulations to . . .

Mike Pearson, professor of marketing, and faculty advisor to the Loyola collegiate chapter of the American Marketing Association which was national runner-up in the AMA Challenge. The chapter also was named “Outstanding Southern Regional Chapter” of AMA.