Grants

NASA's Science Mission Directorate, University Division (Washington, D.C.), awarded The Catholic University of America with grants to support CUA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer program. The maximum value of the grants is $126,000.

On the Road

Karlynn BrintzenhofeSzoc, associate professor, social service, presented two lectures at the 22nd annual Conference of the Association of Oncology Social Work Training, held May 3 to 6 in Minneapolis, Minn. The titles of her lectures were “American Cancer Society: I Can Cope Facilitator Training” and “American Cancer Society: I Can Cope Train-the-Trainer Training.”

She presented a lecture titled “Case Management and Documentation” to case workers from across the country at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care, held April 5 in Washington, D.C.

Kevin F. Forbes, associate professor, business and economics, presented the paper, “Solar Activity and California’s Perfect Storm” April 8 at the International Industrial Organization Conference in Boston. The paper examines the impact of the geomagnetically induced currents associated with solar activity on California's electricity crisis in 2000. The paper was co-authored with Chris St. Cyr of NASA.

Marietta Hedges, assistant professor, drama, co-wrote a docudrama titled Fear Up about the war in Iraq and about detainee abuse at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. The play was given a stage reading in September 2005 at Busboys and Poets Books in Washington, D.C. In April, Hedges performed in a staged reading of the play at The Camden Peoples’ Theater in London.

V. Bradley Lewis, associate professor, philosophy, participated in a symposium organized by Cardinal Christof Schönborn, archbishop of Vienna, called “A Growing Gap — Living and Forgotten Christian Roots in Europe and the United States,” held April 26 to 29 in Vienna, Austria.

Stefania Lucamante, associate professor, modern languages and literatures, gave a presentation on March 27 about Italian cinema at the 2006 Italian Film Festival, sponsored by the Italian Program at the College of Charleston (S.C.).

Leopold May, professor emeritus, chemistry, organized the 231st American Chemical Society National Meeting titled “Symposium on Chemist-Composers: Their Chemistry and Music,” held in Atlanta on March 28. He presented a paper titled “Other chemist-composers: Edward William Elgar, Georges Urbain, and Emil Votoček” at the symposium. He also delivered papers titled “Some Techniques of Teaching of Chemical History Outside the Classroom” and “Effect of e. coli on the speciation of tributyltin compounds in sediments and clays using Mössbauer spectroscopy” with CUA alumnus T. B. Chirdon (B.A., 2004) and three students from the University of the District of Columbia.

Claes Ryn, professor, politics, delivered an address to the Philadelphia Society on April 2 about the state of conservatism in the United States titled “Where in the World Are We Going?” A transcript of the address is available online at LewRockwell.com — a Libertarian Web magazine.

John Kenneth White, professor, politics, gave a lecture March 29 at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., titled “The Death of a Presidency.” The lecture focused on the general collapse of public support for President George W. Bush and his prospects for political recovery.

James Zabora, dean, social service; Karlynn BrintzenhofeSzoc, associate professor, social service; Nancy Fox, adjunct professor, social service; and Hal Lipton, president emeritus of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the Society of Social Work Leadership in Health Care, led a pre-conference workshop for the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care held in Washington, D.C., in April. The title of the April 5 workshop was “Town-Gown Collaboration: Health Care Clinicians and a School of Social Work Partner to Develop an Evidence-Based Research Network.”

Publications

Karlynn BrintzenhofeSzoc, associate professor, social service, co-wrote an article titled “The Development of the Profile of Adaptation to Live Within a Medically Ill Population: PAL-M” that was published in Social Work and Health Care.

Sister Rosemary Donley, S.C., professor, wrote a book titled Reflecting on 30 Years of Nursing Leadership: 1975-2005 and published by Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing (Indianapolis, Ind.).

Stefania Lucamante, associate professor, modern languages and literatures, published a review of Italian prize-winning author Melania Mazzucco’s latest novel, Un giorno perfetto, in the February issue of Leggendaria — the leading Italian women’s studies journal.

She wrote an article titled “Quel che resta di Auschwitz nel mettersi al mondo. Lezioni di Tenebra di Helena Janeczek” that appeared in the journal Nuova Prosa, vol. 44.

Farzana A. McRae, associate professor, mathematics, co-wrote an article titled “Monotone iterative technique for periodic boundary value problems with casual operators,” which appeared in the journal Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 64, issue 6.

Sister Mary Elizabeth O’Brien, professor,  nursing, wrote a book titled The Nurse with an Alabaster Jar and published by Nursing Christian Fellowship Press (Madison, Wis.).

Peter Shoemaker, assistant professor, modern languages and literatures, wrote an article titled "Violence and Piety in Jean-Pierre Camus's Histoires Tragiques," which appeared in the French Review, vol. 79, issue 3, in February 2006.

Sally Stokes, adjunct professor, library and information science, published the essay "Noel Streatfeild's Secret Gardens," in W.W. Norton’s Critical Edition of The Secret Garden (New York).

Rev. James A. Wiseman O.S.B., associate professor, theology and religious studies, wrote a book titled Spirituality and Mysticism published by Obis Books (Maryknoll, N.Y.).