HELEN WAY KLINGLER COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES


Dr. Stephani Richards-Wilson

Assistant Dean of Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

PUBLISHED: review of Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory, (2007) Fordham University Press, New York, on H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences on-line, January 2008.

PRESENTED: “The Role of Spiritual Beliefs in the Formation of Leaders,” Jepson School Summer Institute for Leadership and the Liberal Arts, University of Richmond, May 19-21, 2008.

AWARDED: Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service, April 2008.

Department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Allison Abbott

Assistant Professor

GRANT: $74,500, National Institutes of Health, “Genetic Analysis of Conserved MicroRNAs in C. elegans.”

Dr. Jane E. Dorweiler

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

PUBLISHED: "An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is required for paramutation in maize," Nature, 442 (2006), pp. 295-298, with Alleman, M., L. Sidorenko, K. McGinnis, V. Seshadri, J. E. Dorweiler, J. White, K. Sikkink and V. L. Chandler.

PRESENTED: "Flowering Time and Developmental Effects of Epigenetic Mutants," at Genes to Products – Agricultural Plant, Microbe, and Biobased Product Research, Bethesda, Md., March 12-14, 2007.

PRESENTED: "Expression and Functional Characterization of zmco1, a Putative Floral Regulator," at the 49th annual Maize Genetics Research Conference, St. Charles, Ill., March 22-25, 2007, with Theresa Miller and Elizabeth Muslin.

PRESENTED: "Differential Gene Expression of Sbp-Box Genes in Zea mays mop1-1 Mutants," at the 49th annual Maize Genetics Research Conference, St. Charles, Ill., March 22-25, 2007, with Judd Hultquist.

Dr. Stephen M. Downs

Professor of Biological Sciences

PUBLISHED: "Meiotic induction by heat stress in Mouse oocytes: involvement of AMP-activated protein kinase and MAPK family members," Biol. Reprod., pp. 476-485, 2007, with LaRosa, Cean and S.M. Downs.

Dr. Thomas J. Eddinger

Professor of Biological Sciences

PUBLISHED: "Preferential Myosin Heavy Chain Isoform B Expression May Contribute to the Faster Velocity of Contraction in Veins versus Arteries," Journal of Vascular Research, Vol. 44 (2007), pp 264-272, with C.M. Rondelli, I. T. Szasz, A. Kayal, K. Thakali, R. E. Watson, A. S. Rovner, G. D. Fink, and S. W. Watts.

Dr. Michael R. Schlappi

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

PRESENTED: "The cold responsive hybrid proline-rich Arabidopsis protein EARLI1 is localized to the cell periphery and forms protein complexes via disulfide bonds," at the Gordon Research Conference on Temperature Stress in Plants, Ventura, Calif., Jan. 21-26, 2007.

PRESENTED: "FRL2 in Landsberg erecta is functional and compensates for a nonsense allele of FRL1" at Plant Biology, Boston, Aug. 5-9, 2006.

PRESENTED: with MU graduate student Yi Zhang "The cold responsive hybrid proline-rich protein EARLI1 forms complexes through disulfide bonds in Arabidopsis" at Plant Biology, Boston, Aug. 5-9, 2006.

PRESENTED: "Low Temperature Stress in Arabidopsis thaliana," at Northwest University, Xi'an, China, Dec. 21, 2006.

PRESENTED: "Role of the HyPRP EARLI1 in the Freezing Tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana," at Northwest University, Xi'an, China, Dec. 26, 2006.

PRESENTED: "In silico Analysis of the HyPRP Gene Family in Rice and Arabidopsis," at Northwest University, Xi'an, China, Dec. 28, 2006.

PRESENTED: "Role of FRIGIDA LIKE 2 in the Flowering Time Regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana," at Northwest University, Xi'an, China, Jan. 5, 2007.

PRESENTED: "Genes Involved in Cold Acclimation and Flowering Time Regulation in Plants" at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, Jan. 9, 2007.

Dr. Gail L. Schumann

Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences

PRESENTED: "Plant pathology in a Jesuit education: Enriching the core curriculum for liberal arts students" at Teaching Non-Traditional Mycology/Plant Pathology Courses for Undergraduates, annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society (with American Mycological Society), Quebec City, Canada, Aug. 2, 2006.

PUBLISHED: The textbook "Essential Plant Pathology," American Phytopathological Society Press, 2006, with C.J. D'Arcy.

Department of Chemistry

Dr. Daniel T. Haworth

Professor of Chemistry

PUBLISHED: "Classroom Scale Demonstrations Using Flash Ignition of Carbon Nanotubes," Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 83, pages 1511-1515 (2006), with M.R. Bartell, D.J. Campbell and K. E. Korte.

Dr. William A Donaldson

Wehr Professor of Chemistry, and

Dr. Daniel T. Haworth

Professor of Chemistry

PUBLISHED: "Crystal and Molecular Structure of Bis(8-phenylmenthyl) 2-(2-methyl-5-oxo-3-cyclohexen-1-yl) propandioate, C42H54O5CH3CN," Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 31 (11), pages 777-780 (2006), with D. W. Bennett, T. A. Siddiquee and S. Chaudbury.

PUBLISHED: "Synthesis of Cyclopropanes via Organoiron Methodology: Preparation and Rearrangement of Divinylcyclopropanes – Studies Directed Toward the Synthesis of Hydroazulenes" in Synthesis, Vol. 21, pages 3639-3646, 2006, with Dr. Nathaniel A. Wallock, Dennis Bennett and Tasneem Siddiquee.

Department of English

Dr. Virginia A. Chappell

Associate Professor of English

PRESENTED: "Building Community Identity: Art as Rhetorical Tool in Post-Conflict West Africa," at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, March 22, 2007.

Dr. Heather Hathaway

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of English

GRANT: $2,500, Simmons Religious Commitment Fund award, to increase faculty familiarity with contemplative pedagogies and practices and expand these offerings on campus.

Dr. Diane Hoeveler

Professor of English and Coordinator of Women's Studies

AWARDED: One of the three Jean-Pierre Barricelli Awards for best books in the field of Romanticism for her co-edited volume "Romanticism: Comparative Discourses" (Ashgate, 2006). She shares the award with Larry Peer, her co-editor.

Dr. Christine L. Krueger

Associate Professor of English and Director of University Core of Common Studies

ELECTED: President of Interdisciplinary Ninteenth Century Studies, April 2007.

PRESENTED: "Global to the Core: Collaborations among Jesuit and Non-Jesuit Institutions for Global Learning," at Jesuit Core Curriculum Conference, John Carroll University, April 2007.

PRESENTED: "Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time," at Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, Kansas City, Mo., April 2007.

with Colleen Willenbring, M.A., and Kaye Wierzbicki (Arts '08)

PRESENTED: "Teaching Narrative in the Classroom and Beyond: Undergraduate, graduate and faculty collaborative research in Literature and Law," at Narrative Literature Conference, Washington, D.C., March 2007.

PRESENTED: "Humane Assessment: Representing the Value of Humanities in Higher Education," at International Humanities Symposium, Columbia University, February 2007, with Bruce Keith.

Benjamin Percy

Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English

AWARDED: The $10,000 Plimpton Prize for "Refresh, Refresh," in The Paris Review, No. 175, and anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2006.

Department of Foreign Languages and Literature

Dr. Scott Dale

Associate Professor of Spanish

GRANT: $500, International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, for participation at 18th-century culture conference in Montpellier, France, July 2007.

APPOINTED: Visiting Editor of literary studies series, "Biblioteca Russell Sebold," at Juan de la Cuesta Monographs, April 2007.

Department of History

Rev. John P. Donnelly, S.J.

Professor of History

PUBLISHED: "Jesuit Writings of the Early Modern Period," Hackett Publishing, Cambridge, Mass., November 2006.

Dr. Irene Guenther

Assistant Professor of History

PUBLISHED: “The Destruction of a Culture and an Industry,” in Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria, ed. Roberta Kremer, 77-97, Oxford: Berg Publishers, November 2006.

PUBLISHED: “Modern German Art and Its Demise, 1914-1945,” in Broken Brushes: German Art from the Kaiserreich to the Third Reich, ed. Gustav Kopriva, 20-37, Los Angeles/Tokyo: Redbud, December 2006.

PUBLISHED: a report on 2007 AHA Conference Central European panels, “History, Art, and the Cultural (De)mobilization of Europe during and after the First World War,” solicited by H-German for H-German and H-SOC&KULT, February 2007.

PRESENTED: “’Nie Wieder Krieg’: Painting for Peace in Unsettled Times,” American Historical Association Conference, Atlanta, Jan. 4-7, 2007.

PRESENTED: as commentator, “Audience and Agency: Women and New Media in International Perspective, 1920-1940,” Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, Nov. 2-5, 2006.

PRESENTED: “Nazi ‘Chic’? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich,” Costume Society of America Annual Conference, Davenport Book Award, fall 2006.

REVIEWED: Die Verpackung des Männlichen Geschlechts:Eine illustrierte Kulturgeschichte der Hose, by Gundula Wolter, (Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 1991).

REVIEWED: Hosen, weiblich: Kulturgeschichte der Frauenhose, Gundula Wolter, (Marburg: Jonas Verlag: 1994).

Dr. Thomas Jablonsky

Associate Professor of History

PARTICIPATED: See entry under Raynor Memorial Libraries

Dr. James Marten

Professor and Chair of History

PRESENTED: “Teaching the Civil War Through the Eyes of Children,” at Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Madison, Wis., April 2007.

Dr. Phillip C. Naylor

Associate Professor of History

PRESENTED: "Bishop Pierre Claverie and the Risks of Religious Reconciliation," at the American Catholic Historical Association meeting, Marquette University, March 31, 2007

Dr. Annemarie Sawkins

Associate Curator of the Haggerty Museum of Art and Adjunct Professor of History

PRESENTED: See entry under Haggerty Museum of Art

Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

Dr. Gary S. Krenz

Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

PRESENTED: "Model of Rat Pulmonary Hemodynamics Incorporating Vascular Distensibility," American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference, San Francisco, May 21, 2007, with A. V. Clough, J. B. Gordon and R. C. Molthen.

Department of Philosophy

Dr. Curtis L. Carter

Professor of Philosophy

PUBLISHED: "Visual Arts Education," Art Forum, 21-Vol. 14, 2006

Dr. Sebastian Luft

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

CHAIRED: Creativity Session, American Society for Aesthetics, Milwaukee, Oct. 26.

PRESENTED: "Construction and Constitution, or: What is the Content of Experience? Husserl versus the Neo-Kantians," 45th Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (panel, together with Pol Vandevelde & Michael Shim), Philadelphia, Oct. 14, 2006.

Dr. Anthony Peressini

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program

GRANT: $2,500, Simmons Religious Commitment Fund award, to increase faculty familiarity with contemplative pedagogies and practices and expand these offerings on campus.

Dr. Richard C. Taylor

Associate Professor of Philosophy

PRESENTED: "Averroes’ Critical Encounter with Themistius in Interpreting Aristotle’s De Anima" at "Soul and Mind. Ancient and Medieval Perspectives," the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the “De Wulf-Mansioncentrum” at the Catholic University of Leuven and the “Centre De Wulf-Mansion” at the Catholic University of Louvain, at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Feb. 14-17, 2007.

PRESENTED: "The Roles of Themistius and al-Farabi in development of the noetics of Averroes" and "Averroes and Aquinas on intellect," at the Commissio Leonina in the Bibliothèque du Saulchoir, Paris, Feb. 12, 2007.

Dr. Richard C. Taylor

Associate Professor of Philosophy

PRESENTED: “Averroes' Mature Doctrine of Separate Intellects: The Function of Insights from Themistius,” at Boston College, Boston, April 20, 2007.

PRESENTED: “Intellect as Intrinsic Formal Cause in Averroes and Aquinas,” at Medieval Academy of America annual meeting, Toronto, April 12-14, 2007.

PRESENTED: “Averroes on the Sharî`ah of the Philosophers” and "The Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Explorations in the Abrahamic Traditions," Marquette University, Feb. 28 to March 2, 2007.

PRESENTED: “Averroes’ Critical Encounter with Themistius in Interpreting Aristotle’s De Anima,” at Soul and Mind, Ancient and Medieval Perspectives, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Feb. 14-17, 2007.

PRESENTED: "The Roles of Themistius and al-Farabi in development of the noetics of Averroes" and "Averroes and Aquinas on intellect," Commissio Leonina, La bibliothèque du Saulchoir, Paris, Feb. 12, 2007.

Roland J. Teske, S.J.

Donald J. Schuenke Professor of Philosophy

PUBLISHED: “Distinctions in the Metaphysics of Henry of Ghent,” Traditio, Vol. 61 (2006) pp 237-245.

Dr. David Twetten

Associate Professor of Philosophy

PRESENTED: “Aristotelian Theology in Averroes and the Judaeo-Christian Averroean Tradition,” at Averroes, l’averroisme, l’antiaverroisme, SIEPM XIVth Symposium Annuel, Université de Geneve, Oct. 4, 2006.

PRESENTED: “Epistemology as the Key to Causality in Averroes’ Aristotelian Cosmos,” at The Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Explorations in the Abrahamic Traditions, Marquette University, Feb. 28 to March 2, 2007.

Department of Physics

Dr. Michael Politano

Assistant Professor of Physics

PARTICIPATED: See entry in the School of Education

Department of Political Science

Dr. Janet K. Boles

Professor of Political Science

PRESENTED: "A Movement Transformed: The U.S. Feminist Movement and Domestic Diversity," at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.

Steve Schultz, Comm '98

Legislative Policy Analyst, Office of Public Affairs and Political Science Graduate Student

PRESENTED: See entry under the Office of Public Affairs.

Department of Theology

Dr. Ralph Del Colle

Associate Profressor of Theology

PRESENTED: “Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Life of Discipleship Today: A Catholic Perspective,” at the Wisconsin Council of Churches Faith and Order Retreat, Green Lake, Wis., May 7, 2007.

PRESENTED: “The Theme of Reconciliation in Sacred Scripture,” at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Milwaukee, April 22, 2007.

PRESENTED: “Authority and Piety: A Window into Fundamentalism,” at St. Robert Catholic Church, Shorewood, Wis., April 15, 2007.

PRESENTED: “Pilgrimage and Dialogue,” at the Harmony Foundation Dialogue Dinner, Milwaukee, Jan. 4, 2007.

Dr. Irfan A. Omar

Assistant Professor of Theology

PRESENTED:"Seeking Justice without Violence: Christians and Muslims in a Globalized World" and "Inter-religious Dialogue: A Muslim Perspective," at Daring to Embrace the Other: Franciscans and Muslims in Dialogue, The Franciscan Institute, Colorado Springs, Col., July 7-10, 2007.

PRESENTED: "Islam in the United States post 9/11" and "Sufism — An Introduction," Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, July 3-6, 2007.

PRESENTED: "Jihad and Violence in the Qur’an: Potential for Peace in the Islamic Tradition," Das Friedenspotential von Religion, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany, July 6-7, 2007.

CHAIRED: "Christianity and Islam" at the American Catholic Historical Association's Spring Meeting 2007, Marquette University, March 29-31, 2007.

PRESENTED: "Delhi's Debates on 'People of the Book': Eclectic and Syncretistic Movements in Late Medieval India," at the conference on The Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Heritage: Explorations in the Abrahamic Traiditions, Marquette University, Feb. 28 to March 2, 2007.

PRESENTED: "Contextualizing Muslim Liberationist Struggle: Current Perspectives and Challenges," at a panel on Are the Ethics Associated with Liberation Theology Still Alive and Relevant? An Interfaith Conversation, at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Dallas, Jan. 4-7, 2007.

PRESENTED: "The Ideology of Jihad: Radical Islamism in Indonesia," and "Islam and Muslims in the United States," at Shihezi University, Xinjiang, P.R. China, Dec. 19-21, 2006.

Philip J. Rossi, S.J.

Professor of Theology and Associate Dean of Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

PRESENTED: "Historical and Cultural Contexts for Just War Doctrine," The Eighth International Conference on Military Pedagogy, The Jerusalem Centre for Ethics, Jerusalem, June 6, 2007.

PRESENTED: "Making Just War Theological" at the Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany, June 13, 2007,
with Joseph Runzo.

Dr. Jame Schaefer

Assistant Professor of Theology

GRANT: $2,500, Simmons Religious Commitment Fund award, for Dr. Calvin Dewitt, Professor of Biology in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and President Emeritus of the Au Sable Institute for Environmental Studies, to visit campus.

Dr. John J. Schmitt

Associate Professor of Theology

PRESENTED: "What If Israel Never Became A Woman?" at the Joint meeting of the Midwest Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Middle West branch of the American Oriental Society and the American Schools of Oriental Research–Midwest at The Weber Center of Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, Ill., Feb. 16-18, 2007.

Dr. Robert B. Slocum

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology

PRESENTED: "Waiting God's Purpose in the World: Austin Farrer's Vision of Hope," The DeKoven Center, Racine, Wis., Jan. 9, 2007.

ELECTED: At-large Board Member, Anglican Theological Review, 2006

CO-CONVENED: The Spirituality and Practice of Reconciliation in the Midst of Division and Diversity, Society for the Study of Anglicanism, American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C., Nov. 18, 2006, with Rev. Canon Dr. Martyn Percy.


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