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Appointments

Charles Nguyen, dean and professor, engineering, was elected a member of the advisory committee for the International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical Informatics and Image Processing and as associate editor of the IEEE Systems Journal in July.

Awards and Honors

Joanne Duffy, associate professor, nursing, was selected to receive the 2006 Clinical Article of the Year Award which will be presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2006 to be held Nov. 12-15 in Chicago. Her article, titled “Development and Testing of a Caring-based Intervention for Older Adults with Heart Failure,” was written with Lois Hoskins, professor emerita, nursing, and Sharon Dudley-Brown, assistant professor, nursing, and appeared in the September/October 2005 edition of Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Dean Hoge, professor emeritus, sociology, was elected in September as president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. His one-year term will begin at the end of the 2007 annual meeting.

Barbara Moran, assistant professor, nursing, was elected as president for the Association of Women’s Health, Neonatal and Obstetric Nurses, which has more than 20,000 members.

Charles Nguyen, dean and professor, engineering, received the Tenth Anniversary Award in July from the International Journal of Intelligent and Soft Computing (AutoSoft) for his contribution as founder, past editor-in-chief, founding editor and advisory board chair of AutoSoft.

He received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition on Aug. 27 in Westminster, Calif., from the Viet Bao newspaper and Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) for “outstanding achievements, wonderful service and exemplary contribution to the community of California.”

He was the recipient in August of Member Resolution No. 2580 from the California Legislature Assembly for his dedication and contributions in the area of education to the people of California.

Joseph Santo, assistant dean, music, was chosen as an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award recipient in the Concert Music Division.

On the Road

Very Rev. David M. O’Connell, C.M., university president, celebrated Mass and gave the Catholicism and Culture Lecture at Opus Dei’s Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4. His speech was titled “Identity and Mission in Catholic Colleges and Universities.”

Rev. John Beal III, professor, canon law, gave a speech on Oct. 11 titled “Consultation in Church Governance: Taking Care of Business by Taking After Business” at the 2006 Canon Law Society of America convention in Fort Worth, Texas.

Monica Blanchard, curator, Semitics/Institute of Christian Oriental Research Library, presented a paper at an Oct. 20-21 symposium that introduced the exhibition “In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000” at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer and Sackler Galleries. Blanchard’s paper is titled “Henri Hyvernat (1858-1941) and the Coptic Manuscript Collections of Europe and North America.” She also contributed an essay, “The Christian Orient,” to the exhibition catalog.

George Garvey, vice provost and dean of graduate studies and professor, law, spoke at the “Certificate Program in Catholic Social Teaching” that the university cosponsored with Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. The program, held Sept. 17 to 23, featured lectures by several university professors, including Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl, William Cardinal Baum University Professor of Theology; Andrew Abela, assistant professor, business and economics; Maria Sophia Aguirre, associate professor, business and economics; and Helen Alvaré, associate professor, law.

Monsignor Thomas Green, professor, canon law, gave a presentation titled “The 2004 Directory on the Ministry of Bishops: Reflections on Episcopal Governance in a Time of Crisis” at the annual convention of the Canadian Canon Law Society in Montreal on Oct. 5.

Rev. Robert Kaslyn, S.J., assistant professor, canon law, and Sister Rose McDermott, S.S.J., associate professor, canon law, gave a workshop on consecrated life to members of the Canon Law Society of America in Fort Worth, Texas, on Oct. 8-9.

James Loewen, adjunct professor, sociology, spoke about his book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School Textbook Got Wrong on Oct.18 at the University of Washington-Bothell.

Adnan Morshed, assistant professor, architecture and planning, will present a lecture titled “The Imagination of the City in Early 20th-Century America” as part of the F. Ross Johnson/Connaught Distinguished Speakers’ Series, to be held Nov. 24 at the Center for the Study of the United States, Munk Center for International Studies, at the University of Toronto.

Charles Nguyen, dean and professor, engineering, was a panelist at the “Moving up the Career Ladder Workshop” at the National Youth Leadership Development Camp (Len Duong 2006) in Triangle, Va., in May.

He was the keynote speaker at the Writing on America and Teen Writing Award Dinner, Viet Bao, in Westminster, Calif., in August.

Jordan Patty, processing archivist at the CUA Archives, presented a paper at the 33rd Annual Conference on Washington, D.C., Historical Studies at the District of Columbia’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on Oct. 27. The presentation was titled “Crime on the Bus: D.C. Transit and Driver Safety in 1968.” It draws on the papers of the late Monsignor George G. Higgins, a CUA lecturer and longtime head of the Social Action Division of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Higgins papers are housed in CUA’s American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives.

All of the CUA canon law professors attended the Canon Law Society of America’s annual convention held Oct. 9-12 in Fort Worth, Texas.
 

Publications

Zofia Dunian, head of collection management at the John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library, was a co-translator with Wojciech Paluchowski of Book III of Dante Alighieri’s The Banquet into Polish. Their translation was for the book Dante jako filozof, polityk i moralista, published by Instytut Teologiczny Ksiezy Misjonarzy in Krakow, Poland. Their translation into Polish is made from the scholar Christopher Ryan’s 1989 English translation of The Banquet. In Book III, which consists of a poem and commentary, Dante reflects on the nature and meaning of philosophy which he finds to signify “love and zeal for wisdom.”

Tobias Hoffmann, assistant professor, philosophy, along with colleagues Jörn Müller and Matthias Perkams, published a book in early September titled Das Promblem der Willensschwäche in mittelalterlichen Denken/The Problem of Weakness of Will in Medieval Thought. The book contains 14 papers on Aristotelian and non-Aristotelian medieval accounts of weakness of will.

Monsignor Ronny Jenkins, associate professor, canon law, along with German canonist Klaus Ludicke, wrote a book titled Dingnitalis Connubii: Norms and Commentary.

V. Bradley Lewis, associate professor, philosophy, published an article titled “Plato’s Minos: The Political and Philosophical Context of the Problem of Natural Right” in September’s The Review of Metaphysics.

Charles Nguyen, dean and professor, engineering, published “A Handbook-based Approach to Accreditation” in the Proceedings of the Best Assessment Processes VIII Symposium, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Ind., May 2006.

With colleague K. Cleary, he published a paper, “An Intelligent Approach to Robotic Respiratory Motion Compensation for Radiosurgery and Other Interventions,” in the Proceedings of the Seventh Biannual World Automation Congress, Budapest, Hungary, July 2006.

Rev. James Wiseman, O.S.B., associate professor, theology and religious studies, wrote a book titled Spirituality and Mysticism: A Global View, published by Orbis Books (Maryknoll, N.Y.) in spring 2006.

Students

David Bertaina, a doctoral student in Semitics, led a four-part series on the Eastern and Roman Catholic Church at the St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center in Chico, Calif., in October. The four programs were titled “The Eastern Catholic Churches,” “Peter in Scripture,” “Peter and the Papacy in the East” and “Scripture and Ecclesiology.”