September 3, 1999

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

S.L. Alexander, assistant professor of communications, was an invited participant at the Cantigny Conference on "The Future of the American Jury System," sponsored by the American Judicature Society and the McCormick Tribune Foundation in Chicago in June. Judges, lawyers, court administrators, and three journalists (including Alexander) discussed current issues and solutions to problems. Alexander also was cited for her outstanding service as chair of the host committee of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) national convention held in August. At the conference, she participated in an ethics workshop. Cathy Rogers, associate professor of communications, also served as a member of the host committee. The university was cited for its support of convention activities.

Carmen Balthazar was hired as an administrative assistant in the College of Music.

John Biguenet, Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor, has had his essay "A Gentle-man's Guide to the Love Letter" accepted for publication by Joe Magazine, the new cultural quarterly published by Time magazine. His interview of Jorge Luis Borges, conducted with Tom Whalen and originally published in New Orleans Review, was recently reprinted in Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, an anthology of interviews with the Argentine writer. In August, Biguenet participated in the Statutory Congress of the Federation Inter-nationale des Traducteurs (FIT) in Mons, Belgium; he also spoke on "Translation and the Education of a Writer" at FIT's Congres Mondial at the Universite de Mons-Hainaut. Finally, he conducted a series of creative writing workshops at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts.

Patrick L. Bourgeois, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy, had a book manuscript accepted for publication by SUNY Press: Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason: Ethics and Post-modernity, Vol. I of III. He also recently had published "Violence and Postmodernity," Vol. X of Bulletin de la societe de philosophie de langue fran-aise (which he edited, introduced, and to which he contributed). Bourgeois is presently editing the English translation of Gabriel Marcel's autobiography, Chemin vers quell Èveil? (Marquette University Press, Peter Rogers, S.J., translator), with a grant from the Alliance Francaise. This summer, he completed a 95-page contribution, "Phenomenology as Philosophy: Maurice Merleau-Ponty" for Phenomenology Worldwide as well as an invited essay, "Critical Reason and the Faith of the Christian," for an anthology. He has had seven articles published so far in 1999 and is now serving his seventh year as president of the Gabriel Marcel Society.

Dawn Buras was hired in the Whelan Children's Center as a toddler caregiver.

Janel Chaix was hired as the OCLP production coordinator in City College.

Stacia Crosier joined the Office of Admissions as an administrative assistant.

Matthew Dabdoub joined the Department of University Police as a dispatcher.

Dominick DiPascal was hired as a carpenter in Physical Plant.

Michele Dupre joined the Division of Student Affairs as an administrative assistant.

Barbara Ewell, professor of English in City College and co-chair of the Women's Studies Committee, edited a special feature on Kate Chopin which included her essay, "Unlinking Race and Gender: The Awakening as a Southern Novel," that was published in The Southern Quarterly. Ewell also gave the keynote at the Kate Chopin Centennial Conference in Natchitoches.

Marsha Ferguson was hired as an admissions counselor in the Office of Admissions. The director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology appointed Caroline Fisher, associated professor of business administration and director of the master of quality management program, to the 1999 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. The award, created by public law in 1987, is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive. As an examiner, Fisher is responsible for reviewing and evaluating applications submitted for the Baldridge Award. The board is comprised of 400 leading experts selected from industry, professional, and trades organizations, education and health care organizations; and government.

Don Hauber, associate professor of biological sciences, and Lance Leg, A'96, co-published an article in the July 1999 issue of The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society titled "A survey of allozymic variation among three members of the Sagittaria graminea complex (Alismataceae) from the southeastern United States." The work was based on Leg's undergraduate honors thesis. Hauber recently returned from the International Botanical Congress in St. Louis where he presented a paper co-authored with Vita Venezia, A'99, and Brian Mailey, A'00, titled "Patterns of genetic variation in lonal populations of the common reed revealed by RAPDs." Venezia and Mailey based the paper on a joint honors thesis research.

Craig S. Hood, associate professor of biological sciences, presented a paper titled "Application of Procrustes Methods to the Study of Sexual Dimorphism in Size and Shape" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Seattle, Washington. He also served as moderator of a contributed paper session in evolution and served as evaluator of student presentations for the best student paper award. Additionally, Hood presented a paper, "Ontogeny and Allometry of Body Shape in the Blacktail Shiner, Cyprinella Venusta" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists at State College in Pennsylvania.

Denis Janz, Provost Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, presented a paper, "Christianity and the Concept of National Guilt," at the annual conference on the Future of Religion in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Janz also published A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions.

Jeremy Johnson was hired as an operations assistant in Intercollegiate Athletics.

Prince M. Kaywood joined University Police as a police officer.

Edward LaMeire joined the Office of Admissions as an admissions counselor.

Antonio M. Lopez, Jr., professor of mathematics and computer science, made a presentation titled "Collecting Data from Experiments and Developing a Mathematical Model" at the annual National Council of Teachers of Mathematics meeting in San Francisco. He reviewed grants for the Directorate for Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. Also, Lopez was the project director/principal investigator for a $29,987 New Orleans Public School Urban Systemic Initiative grant titled "Standards-based Teacher Development in Mathematics." Stephen M. Scariano and Maria E. Calzada, both associate professors of mathematics and computer science, were co-principal investigators.

Luis Martinez joined Information Technology as a computer operator.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Edward J. McCaughan's article, "Competing Perspectives on Democracy in Cuba," was published in Global Development Studies (Winter 1998­Spring 1999).

Professor of Drama and Speech Rosary O'Neill's play, A Woman of Property, will be performed in Georgia, Russia, as part of an international exchange coordinated by the vice president of Georgia. In the spring, O'Neill will select two Russian students to serve as interns in the Southern Repertory Theater program. Senior psychology student Allison Muso, who will serve as coordinator of the Southern Rep program, accompanied O'Neill to Georgia. A Woman of Property was nominated by the Consul General of Mexico for the Cervantes Festival, the leading theater festival in Mexico.

Steven Poche joined University Police as a police officer.

Paula Quenoy is the new associate director of Counseling & Career Services.

Michael Saliba, associate professor of economics, and Caroline Fisher, associate professor of marketing and director of the master of quality management program, published an article, "A Framework for Thinking About Customer Value to Achieve and Sustain Competitive Advantage" in Quality Progress, the Journal of the American Society for Quality.

Stephen M. Scariano, associate professor of mathematics and computer science is the project director/principal investigator for a $30,188 Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund grant titled "Technology for Enhancing Mathematics Education Reform." Antonio M. Lopez, Jr., professor of mathematics and computer science, and Maria E. Calzada, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, were co-principal investigators.

Janice Schroeder was hired as assistant to the director of the Boggs Literacy Center.

Emili Segovia joined the Whelan Children's Care Center as a teacher to three-year-olds.

Sally Smith was hired as an administrative assistant in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences.

Meredith Spivey joined the Office of Admissions as an admissions counselor.

Arthur Stern, assistant director of publications and 1999 ­ 2000 Administrative Senate chair, moderated a panel on working with student and alumni volunteers at the July meeting of the Association of Editors of Jesuit Publications (AEJP) at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. AEJP is an international organization of editors and writers representing Jesuit university, high school, province, and other publications. Loyola will play host to the group's conference in July 2000.

Robert A. Thomas, Loyola Chair in Environmental Communications and director of the Center for Environmental Communications, recently made several presentations. Thomas gave the banquet speech to the Louisiana Environmental Health Association, Risk and Environmental Communication. He addressed the Rotary Club of Metairie on the Trials and Tribulations of Being an Environmental Communicator and the Louisiana Environment '99 Conference at Tulane University School of Law on the "Free Market Approaches to Environmental Challenges." Before members of Leadership Slidell, Thomas discussed "Coastal Erosion in Louisiana: How Must Our Leaders Respond?" In Washington, D.C., at the Institute for Humane Studies at James Madison University, he presented, "The Environment, Markets, and Responsible Reporting: Covering the Environmental Beata Rational Approach to the Profession," to the editors of America's top university daily papers.

Angela Vachetta joined the Division of Institutional Advancement as special events coordinator. For the last 11 years, Vachetta has worked at the Louisiana State Museum as the community relations and special events coordinator. She earned a bachelor of arts in journalism from Louisiana State University.

JoAnn Wellmeyer was hired as director in Information Technology.

Catherine Wessinger, professor of religious studies, made presentations on millennialism and violence at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and to the Crisis Incident Response Group of the FBI.

Linda Wilder joined the School of Law library as an acquisitions assistant.

Jade Williams joined the Office of Admissions as an admissions counselor.