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May/June 2006
Fr. Dennis Hamm, S.J. (Theology) published an essay, "Dodging Faith's Call [to Justice]," as the lead article in the March 27th issue of America. Fr. Hamm also presented a paper, "Reading Hopkins after Hubble: Reflections on the Durability of Ignatian Creation Spirituality" at the international conference on Gerard Manley Hopkins-Jesuit Poet, Regis University, March 24-26.
Dr. Sharon Ishii-Jordan (Education) has a chapter entitled "Preparing Teachers to Develop Inclusive Communities" in the book White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms: A Guide to Building Inclusive Schools, Promoting High Expectations, and Eliminating Racism, edited by Julie Landsman and Chance W. Lewis, published by Stylus, 2006. Dr. Ishii-Jordan was also part of a 2-hour panel (by some of the authors) on the book contents at the national conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco in April.
Dr. Jon Schrage (Atmospheric Sciences) accepted a Visiting Instructor position at the University of Cologne for the summer, where he will teach a version of his Tropical Meteorology course. He hopes to return to Omaha in August with a new and improved version of the course for our own students.
Dr. Jeffrey Maciejewski (Journalism and Mass Communication) has learned that his paper, "Justice as a Nexus of Natural Law and Rhetoric," has been accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Communication Association to be held November 10-12, 2006, in San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. David Sidebottom (Physics) has received a Cottrell College Science Award from Research Corporation. The $37,200 award will support his work on a project with the title Dynamic Light Scattering Investigation of the Mixed Alkali Effect in Alkali Metaphosphate Glasses.
Dr. Julie Strauss-Soukup (Chemistry) and her husband, Dr. Garrett Soukup, a faculty member in Creighton's School of Medicine, have co-authored a study of riboswitch structure and function in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. Link to article:
www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nsmb1094.html
At the end of the last academic year, three Creighton students entered the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) examinations held in Denver, CO. The RAD is a United-Kingdom-based ballet examination board founded in 1920, the largest examining body in classical ballet in the world. The examinations are long and arduous and hold the candidates to a professional standard. Preparation for the examinations at Creighton is offered above and beyond the normal dance curriculum and requires at least an extra five classes (or roughly 10 hours of ballet) per week. This year's students achieved the following remarkable results: Andrew Jensen passed the Advanced I examination with Distinction; Lauren Obayashi passed the Intermediate examination with Merit; and Leslie Ibarolle passed the Intermediate examination with Distinction.
Dr. Timothy Cook (Education) published "Toward the Professionalization of Catholic High School Religion Teachers: An Assessment of Religion Teaching as a Profession" in the June issue of Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice.
Fr. Ray Bucko, S.J., (Sociology and Anthropology) has received word from the University of Nebraska Press that they are moving ahead with publication of a book to which he wrote the introduction. Compiled and edited by Professor Karl Markus Kreis of the University of Dortmund, the book is entitled Lakota, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions of South Dakota, 1886-1900. Fr. Bucko also published a review of Borden, John, Chauncey Neboyia, & Dorothy Neboyia's 2004 Seasons of a Navajo (Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences) in the June 22, 2006 issue of the Anthropology Review Database. The review may be found at wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi
Dr. Greg Zacharias (English) announces that he will be welcoming several young scholars to work on projects at the Henry James Center: Harriet Carter, Ph.D. student, University of East Anglia (for a week in June 2006); Anne-Claire LeReste, Ph.D. student, University of Rennes, (January to April, 2007); and Oliver Herford, Ph.D. student, University College London (either September 2006 or April 2007).
Dr. Bridget Keegan (English) reports that she has received a contract for A Handbook of Eighteenth Century Literature, which will form one of a series of collections devoted to British Literature that is being published by Continuum in the UK and targeted for use in the college classroom. Dr. Keegan will co-edit the collection of essays with Gary Day of De Montfort University (UK). The book is due out in 2008.
Dr. Lynne Houtz (Education) and Dr. Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, Associate Vice President for Health Sciences, have had their case study, "Creighton Collaborative Health Professions Partnership" published in the June 2006 special supplement of the journal Academic Medicine. Creighton's Health Professions Partnership Initiative (HPPI) was selected as one of eight case studies representative of the 26 HPPI projects around the country.
Congratulations are due to Dr. Ngwarsungu Chiwengo (English), who has been elected Deputy Vice President and a member of the Executive Council of the African Literature Association.
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