Awards and Honors

Kevin Forbes, professor, business and economics and director of the Center for the Study of Energy and Environmental Stewardship, was appointed to a National Academy of Sciences panel to study the effects of space weather on global commerce and technology. The panel is expected to release a report on the subject in September 2008.

Dean Hoge, professor emeritus, sociology, and a Life Cycle Institute fellow, was honored March 26 by the Seminary Department of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) in Indianapolis, Ind. Hoge received the 2008 John Paul II Seminary Leadership Award during the Seminary Convocation, an event for seminary leaders that ran concurrently with the NCEA Convention and Exposition March 25-28. The award is presented annually in recognition of distinguished service to the Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States and Canada.

Grants

Sarah Brown Ferrario, assistant professor, Greek and Latin, has been awarded a $6,000 stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support two months of summer 2008 research and writing on her book, which is tentatively titled “Athens ‘the Great’? The Ascendancy of the Individual in Classic Greek Historical Thought.” The book employs historiography, funerary monuments and inscriptions to show that the ‘great man’ of later Greek thought is the product of traceable changes in ancient ideas about the meaning and impact of an individual life.

Beverly Ress, visiting studio faculty member, art, has been awarded a prestigious grant — an $18,000 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. The foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of painter Jackson Pollock. Ress will use the award to continue her drawing research, working with themes of mortality, science and visual ideas.

On the Road

On March 17, Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, C.M., attended a White House dinner on the occasion of St. Patrick's Day. That same evening he delivered the keynote address to the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick's annual dinner.

Helen Alvaré, associate professor, law, participated in the Archdiocese of Denver’s Living the Catholic Faith Conference held March 7 and 8 in Denver.

Marshall Breger, professor, law, was a featured speaker at the “Jerusalem: Land, Law Buildings” forum held Feb. 25 at the Nasher Museum of Art on the campus of Duke University in Durham, N.C.

Law professors Catherine F. Klein, Faith Mullen and Leah Wortham participated in the International Conference on the Future of Legal Education held Feb. 20-23 at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta.

Lisa Lerman, professor, law, participated in a conference titled “Externships: A Bridge to Practice” at the Seattle University School of Law on Feb. 15.

V. Bradley Lewis, associate professor, philosophy, presented a paper titled “Higher Law and the Rule of Law: The Classical Theory” at the “Is there a Higher Law? Does it Matter?” conference held at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, Calif., Feb. 21-22. He also presented a paper titled “On Aquinas’s Definition of Law” at the Evangelicals and Catholics Together consultation on law at the same law school on Feb. 23.

Rett Ludwikowski, professor, law, addressed a three-day conference titled “Europe and Americas Together in a Concerned and Integral Development,” held in Rome Feb. 28 to March 1.

Leopold May, professor emeritus, chemistry, and Marvin Margoshes presented a poster entitled “The Early Years of SAS,” at Pittcon 2008, in New Orleans, La., March 2-6, 2008. The poster gives the history of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in its formative years.

Antonio Perez, professor, law, participated in a symposium titled “Latin America: Economic Development and Social Justice” at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis on March 7. 

Publications

Zofia Dunian, head of collection management, John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library, helped to translate the book The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand into Polish (as co-translator with Rev. Wojciech Paluchowski, C.M.). The translation, titled Przywilej bycia kobieta, was published in 2008 by Wydawnictwo sw. Wojciecha in Poznan, Poland. Alice von Hildebrand is an author, a philosophy professor and the wife of the late Dietrich von Hildebrand, a well-known 20th-century phenomenologist.

Matthew Green, assistant professor, politics, contributed an article titled “The 2006 Race for Democratic Majority Leader:  Money, Policy, and Personal Loyalty” in the January 2008 issue of the journal PS: Political Science and Politics.

Leopold May, professor emeritus, chemistry, published an article titled “Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and X-ray crystal and molecular structures of diphenyltin(IV) complexes of acetone Schiff bases of  S-alkyldithiocarcarbzates” in Polyhedron, volume 27, pages 977-984, February 2008.
 
May published an article titled "The lesser known chemist-composer, past and present" in the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, volume 33, pages 35-43, February 2008. The article details the chemistry, music and short biographies of chemist-composers George Berg, Sir Edward Elgar, Georges Urbain and Emil Votoček as well as contemporary chemist-composers E. L. Bearer, Morris Kates and Carlo Botteghi.

Students

Stephen Lewis, an M.F.A. playwriting student, won the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival’s Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award for his play Well Plotted, which was developed in a CUA playwriting class taught by Assistant Professor of Drama Jon Klein. The award comes with $2,500 in cash and a fellowship that includes an observership at the Sundance Institute’s Theatre Program in Park City, Utah. This is the second year in a row that a CUA M.F.A. playwriting student has won a national award at the Kennedy Center festival.

Elena Schwieger, a second-year law student, won first prize in the Mendes Hershman Student Writing Contest, an annual competition sponsored by the American Bar Association Section of Business Law. Her winning paper explores the repercussions of last summer’s introduction of PORTAL, a system created by NASDAQ as the first electronic marketplace for buying and selling private securities known as 144A's.