Awards and Honors

David Shove-Brown, architecture instructor and director of the School of Architecture and Planning’s Foreign Programs and Experiences in Architecture, was selected as the 2008 recipient of the Washington Architectural Foundation’s John “Wieb” Wiebenson Award for Architecture in the Public Interest. The award has been given annually for the last six years to an architect who has spent his or her career championing design in the public interest. Shove-Brown was presented with the award at the American Institute of Architects Annual Awards Gala on Oct. 30.

Grants

Vladimir Osherovich, research associate, physics, received a one-year $52,580 grant from NASA for his project titled “Classification of Plasma Resonances in a Magnetic Field as a Diagnostic Tool for Active Space Plasma Experiments.”

The Life Cycle Institute has received a $450,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to investigate spirituality and religion in young adults. Rev. Anthony J. Pogorelc, S.S., adjunct assistant professor of sociology, Life Cycle Institute fellow, and faculty member and director of pastoral formation and liturgy at Theological College, will be the principal investigator.

On the Road

Very Rev. David M. O’Connell, C.M., university president, delivered an update about The Catholic University of America to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' fall general assembly on Nov. 10 in Baltimore.

Father O’Connell delivered a speech on “The State of Catholic Education in America Today” at the Knights of Malta American Association Annual Meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Nov. 15.

Sidney Griffith, professor, semitics, participated in a conference titled "Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement," held Nov. 14 and 15 at Georgetown University.

Monsignor Kevin Irwin, dean, theology and religious studies,  was the main presenter at a Nov. 1 forum in Richmond, Va., on “Catholic Identity — Capturing the Catholic Imagination” for educators with the Richmond diocese. 

Monsignor Irwin gave two presentations on Nov. 5 at the annual convention of the National Association of Shrine and Pilgrimage Directors in Philadelphia. His presentations were titled “Shrine Spirituality vs. Scrupulosity” and “Issues on Implementing Summorum Pontificum.”

He participated in the meetings of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship in Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 8 and 9.

Leslie Knoblauch, records management archivist, gave a presentation Nov. 16 at Triway International Group consulting firm in Falls Church, Va., on the principles of Archival Management in the United States to a delegation of 20 professionals from China. The participants were all from the Pudong area, outside of Shanghai, and included professional archivists as well as individuals in the field of public policy.

Monsignor Paul McPartlan, Carl J. Peter Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecumenism, participated in a meeting of the International Commission for Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council from Oct. 31 to Nov. 7 in Dublin, Ireland.

Andrew Simpson, associate professor, music, attended the Giornate del Cinema Muto conference on silent films in Pordenone, Italy, from Oct. 4 to 11. He was one of two participants in the Pordenone master class advanced workshop for silent film pianists, and on Saturday, Oct. 11, he provided piano accompaniment for the feature film “Janice Meredith.”

Publications

Robert J. Garofalo, emeritus professor, music, edited Volume 4 Wind Band/Ensemble Anthology: Folk Songs & Dances in Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger (Whirlwind Music Publications).

Leopold May, professor emeritus of chemistry, co-wrote an article titled "Mössbauer spectroscopy of 151europium dicarboxylates" in the journal Hyperfine Interactions (2008, 185, 123-127).

Stephen Wright, professor, English, published the article "Wrangling Livestock, Dragons and Children:  Practical Stagecraft and Its Thematic Consequences in the Augsburg St. George Play (ca. 1486)," in Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama, vol. 47.

Stephen Young, reference librarian, Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library, wrote an article titled “Taking the Show on the Road” about the American Law Program at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, for the November issue of AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) Spectrum. The program is co-sponsored by CUA’s Columbus School of Law.

Students

Dorle Hellmuth, a doctoral candidate in politics, was selected as a 2009 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University. During her two-month stay at the institute, she will focus on her project "German and U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Reponses: Only Half A World Apart," which will culminate in a Web essay and a seminar.