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December 8, 2000

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Kurt Bindewald joined the Loyola community as a resident chaplain in University Ministry.

Carl Brans, the BancOne/J.C. Carter Professor of Physics, gave a physics colloquium lecture, "Scalar Fields and Gravity," on November 16 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.

Kay Clouatre joined the Division of Institutional Advancement and the School of Law. Clouatre serves as administrative assistant for both the law school's major gifts fund-raising effort and the law annual fund and alumni office. Prior to joining the Loyola community, she worked with the Jefferson Parish District Attorney's office.

Craig S. Hood, chair and professor of biological sciences, and David A. White, associate professor of biological sciences, participated in National Wildlife Refuge Week in Lacombe, La., in October. Hood presented a talk on "The Natural History of Louisiana Bats" and staffed an educational booth on the biology of bats. White presented a talk and demonstration on "Wetland Research in the Mississippi River Delta." Titled "Wild Things 2000," this public education event is hosted annually by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and attracted over 1,000 members of the public.

Anthony Ladd, chair and associate professor of sociology, delivered a presentation at the annual meetings of the Association for Humanist Sociology in Covington, Ky. The presentation was titled "Bridging the Waters in the Classroom Between Sociology and Environmental Studies." Ladd also chaired a session on "Environmental Injustice: Lessons Learned and Work to be Done."

Kathryn Venturatos Lorio, Leon Sarpy Professor of Law, was the guest speaker at the meeting of the Association for Women Attorneys in October. Her topic was "Progress of the Louisiana Task Force on Assisted Conception and Artificial Means of Reproduction."

With the help of a $25,000 grant from Mary Kay Inc., M. Isabel Medina, associate professor, organized a very successful symposium in October on integrating responses to domestic violence. The symposium was co-sponsored by the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence. Medina appeared on the WWL Radio News and WDSU News Channel 6 to talk about domestic violence and the symposium. She was one of four panelists featured on the "It's the Law" Fox television hour-long television show on the issue of domestic violence. Also, Medina was a panelist on "Scholarship for Underserved Populations" at the AALS Equal Justice Colloquium held at Tulane University in November.

Jan Moppet was hired in the College of Business Administration as the coordinator of graduate studies.

In October, Robert Thomas, director of the Center for Environmental Communications, spoke to the Texas Herpetological Society at the University of Texas. His topic was "Herpetology as a Medium for Communicating Science." Also in October, Thomas gave a talk on ecotourism at the annual Society of Environmental Journalists Conference that was held at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Scott Vallory was hired as electrician in Physical Plant.

Keith Vetter, professor of law, spoke at a Roman Law Conference in Antalya, Turkey, in September. His talk, sponsored by the University of Ankara Law School, was titled "Some Examples of the Roman Law of Slavery Applied in the Spanish American Colony of Louisiana." It will be published in Proceedings of the LIV Section of the Societe Internationale pour l' Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquite, and, in French, in Revue Internationale des Droits de l'Antiquite.

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