Administration

John Convey, provost and professor, education, was quoted in an article in the March 3 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, D.C.) about CUA’s categorization as a research university under a new classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching that discourages numeric ranking of colleges and universities.

He was quoted in the March 10 issue of The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) about recent Catholic school closings across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions of the United States.

Admissions

Christine Mica, director of admissions, was interviewed March 9 by WTOP-AM (Washington, D.C.) for a story about how area colleges and universities have been handling applications from students whose October 2005 SAT scores were incorrectly reported by the College Board.

Athletics The March 2 Catholic Standard (Arlington, Va.) noted the appointment of Dave Dunn as CUA’s head football coach.

Canon Law

Monsignor Brian Ferme, dean and professor, was quoted in a March 12 Washington Post story about artifacts purchased from closed churches for use in non-religious settings.

Debate

On March 8, a film crew from Discovery Communications (Silver Spring, Md.) taped Michael Dutcher, head debate coach, as well as members of CUA’s debate team and chess club. Discovery Education, a division of Discovery Communications, will use the footage for a digital video segment about math that will be made available to teachers in more than 50,000 schools across the country. 

Drama

Gary Sloan, associate professor, was quoted in a March 2 Baltimore Sun article about the historic value of the home formerly belonging to John Wilkes Booth.

CUA’s Feb. 3 production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Don Juan in Hell,” which reunited CUA alums Philip Bosco, David Sabin, Bob Milli and Barbara Andres, was noted in news briefs in the Jan. 29 National Catholic Register (New Haven, Conn.) the Feb. 3 Washington Post and the Feb. 2 Catholic Standard (Arlington, Va.).

General Counsel

Catholic University’s preventive law program, spearheaded by General Counsel Craig W. Parker, was profiled in the Jan. 27 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, D.C.). Margaret L. O’Donnell, assistant general counsel, Kathryn Bender, associate general counsel, and numerous university officials also were mentioned in this article.

Libraries

Michael J. McLane, director of CUA Libraries, and Douglas M. Gropp, associate professor, Semitics, were featured on a March 13 History Channel program titled Digging for the Truth: The Real Queen of Sheeba. The program’s opening segment was filmed in the Semitics/ICOR Library, which is housed at the John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library.

Music

Murry Sidlin, dean and professor, was quoted in a Feb. 10 article in the Buffalo (N.Y.) Jewish Review about his upcoming production of “Verdi at Terezin” a dramatic concert that he will conduct at the Terezin concentration camp as part of the Prague Spring Festival in May.

Jody Gatwood, associate professor, was mentioned in the Feb. 10 Washington Post for his work as a violinist for the National Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.

He also was praised in a Feb. 20 Washington Post article for his work as violin soloist in the National Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra’s Feb. 18 performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G at the Strathmore Music Center (Bethesda, Md.).

Philosophy

Monsignor Robert Sokolowski, ordinary professor, was quoted in a Feb. 16 Catholic Online (Bakersfield, Calif.) story about the philosophy conveyed by Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical.

Maryann Cusimano Love, associate professor, was quoted in a Feb. 16 Catholic News Service (Washington, D.C.) article in which she argued that lack of efficient governmental institutions trumps poverty as the primary cause of civil wars in many underdeveloped countries.

John Kenneth White, professor, published a commentary titled “2006: Prelude or Interlude?” about the midterm elections that appeared in The Polling Report (Washington, D.C.) during the week of Feb. 6.

He wrote a commentary titled “Alienated Voters Crave Change” that appeared in the Feb. 12 issue of the Press Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.).

He appeared on the Feb. 20 Regional News Network (New York) broadcast of Richard French Live to discuss midterm elections.

Sociology

James W. Loewen, adjunct professor, was quoted in a Feb. 21 Washington Post article that profiled his 2005 book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. 

Students

John Mish, freshman CUA basketball player, was profiled in a March 3 story that appeared in the Bucks County Courier Times (Levittown, Pa.) and on the phillyblurbs.com Web site.

S.B. Shivachandra, biology post-doctoral research assistant, was quoted in Feb. 13 Health and Medicine Week (Altanta) and Managed Care Business Week (Atlanta) articles about his recent findings, which concluded that strains of the bacteria Pasteurella multocida are found in fowl cholera outbreaks.

Shane Sowden, senior basketball player, was profiled in a March 16 article in The News Journal (Wilmington, Del.). Sowden scored more than 1,000 points in his CUA career and was named to the District 2 Academic All-District team in February.

Catholic University received $420,000 to fund scholarships for Catholic Native Americans who are studying nursing at the graduate level. The grant from the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions was mentioned in the March 2 issue of the Catholic Standard (Arlington, Va.) and the March 27 Issue of Nursing Spectrum (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).



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