May 12, 2000

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Tanya Ahern was hired as the assistant to the director in the communications department.

John Biguenet, Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor, chaired a panel on "The Short Story: The Part That Doesn't Show" at the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival. An excerpt of his story, "The Vulgar Soul," was reprinted in Imprint, Gambit magazine's quarterly literary review. He was invited by Esquire Magazine to read his fiction at the Union Square Theater in New York along with other award-winning Esquire writers and will be featured on the Esquire website. Biguenet also chaired a panel on "Literary Translation: Problems and Approaches" at the Annual Conference of the Associated Writing Programs in Kansas City. Additionally, he participated in a strategic planning retreat in his capacity as co-chair of the Diversity Taskforce at Metairie Park Country Day School. He has been appointed the New Orleans Millennium Celebration Commission by Mayor Marc Morial, under the auspices of the White House Millennium Council.

Assistant professor of creative writing Christopher Chambers' work will be published this semester in the Washington Review, The MacGuffin, The Evansville Review and the Wisconsin Review. His short fiction manuscript has been named one of four finalists by Sarabande Books for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction.

Sherri Gammage, site coordinator for the Twomey Center Resolving Conflict Creatively Project, is serving as an adjunct faculty, visiting scholar in the Lesley Peaceable Schools Masters Program. Students enrolled in this track earn an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction with a focus on Conflict Resolution and Peaceable School.

Carolyn Guidry was hired as a teacher in the Whelan Center.

Antoinette Jones joined student records as a customer service specialist.

Laurie Joyner, assistant professor of sociology, has had a co-authored paper titled, "Strategic Planning: A Foundation for Sustaining Change" accepted for publication by the National Forum of Applied Educational Research Journal in May. She also recently presented a paper based on her work with the Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy titled, "Generating Community Conversations Through Focus Group Research" at the annual meeting of the Association of Louisiana Evaluators.

Joyner continues to serve as faculty advisor of the Social Justice Scholarship program. In this role, she recently organized a student trip to Baton Rouge to explore issues surrounding public education reform. The trip included attendance at a meeting of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and meetings with representatives of the Governor's Office and the State Department of Education.

Anthony Ladd, chair and associate professor of sociology, served as local arrangements chair for the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society in New Orleans in April. At the conference, Ladd presented a co-authored paper titled "Expanding the Environmental Justice Frame: Reassessing Swine Production Impacts in Eastern North Carolina since Hurricane Floyd."

As President of the Association of Graduate Programs in Ministry (AGPIM), Bernard Lee, religious professor, presided at the annual meeting of the organization in San Antonio in February. AGPIM is a national association of Catholic colleges and universities with graduate ministry education programs.

Antonio Lopez, professor of mathematics and science, was selected to hold the chair of Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Engineering Group of the Center for Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The appointment is for one year. Lopez will leave for Carlisle sometime during the summer.

Also, Lopez presented a day-long professional development workshop titled "Using Graphing Calculators to Make Tables and Graph Functions" to the teachers at Sophie B. Wright Middle School.

He was the chairperson of the senior mathematics division judges at the 45th Science and Engineering Fair held at the University of New Orleans. The other judges were Stephen M. Scariano and Maria E. Calzada, both associate professors in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Lopez was one of the referees for an article on improving linear programming techniques that was submitted to the journal of Mathematics and Computer Education.

Kathryn Lorio was selected vice chair of the Louisiana Task Force to study assisted conception and artificial means of reproduction relative to state law.

Lisa Maloz joined the Loyola Institute for Ministry as an evaluation coordinator.

Ed McCaughan, assistant professor of sociology, has been awarded an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship for his research on "Nation, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Cultural Politics of Social Movements in Greater Mexico."

Denise Mcgraw, senior console attendant since 1993, has assumed the position of telecommunications associate in the telecommunications department. Her duties will now include more contact with university telephone users requesting telephone repair and work orders. McGraw also will assume duties in the administration of the university voice mail system.

Peter S. Rogers, S.J., associate professor of modern foreign languages and literature, delivered a paper at the Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature held at Covenant College. The paper was titled "Flaubert and the sens of modern poetry." His translation, with Richard Golsan, of Alain Finkielkraut's Dispatches from the Balkan War and Other Writings was a finalist for best translated book awarded by the Texas Society of Letters.

Mark D. Rubinfeld presented a paper, "Teaching Race and Race Relations Through Popular Music: From the Blues Through Rap," at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting this past April in New Orleans.

David A. White, associate professor, and Craig S. Hood, associate professor, both of biological sciences, presented a paper titled "Patterns of plant species composition and environmental variables in deciduous forests and Mayan ruin sites in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico" at the 61st annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Catherine P. Zeph, assistant professor of religious education and faculty coordinator LIMEX Instructional Design in City College, recently had an article and chapter published. The article, "Turning the Kaleidoscope: The Adult Religious Educator as Learning Consultant," was published in the Religious Education Journal and the chapter, "The Spiritual Dimensions of Lay Ministry Programs," was published in a recent New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education sourcebook by Jossey-Bass. Both publications covered Loyola's LIMEX program. Zeph also had a book review of Mentoring for Religious Education accepted for publication in the upcoming issue of the Religious Education Journal.