Awards and Honors

Helen Alvaré, associate professor, Columbus School of Law, was appointed as a consultor for the Pontifical Council for the Laity by Pope Benedict XVI.

Therese-Anne Druart, professor, philosophy, has been elected Vice President/President Elect of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Leah Wortham, professor, law, will be awarded the Jagiellonian University medal during the summer of 2008 by the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Wortham is the director of the Columbus School of Law’s master of laws program in Poland.

Grants

Poul Lade, professor and chair, civil engineering, received a three-year, $290,982 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Experimental Study of Stress Rotation Effects in Cross-Anisotropic Sand.”

Adnan Morshed, assistant professor, architecture and planning, received the 2007 $10,000 Graham Foundation and 2007 $6,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grants for the publication of his forthcoming book, The Architecture of Ascension: Airplanes, Skyscrapers, and the American Imagination of the Future City. He also has been awarded the 2007 $8,000 biennial MIT Lawrence B. Anderson Award for his proposed study of women's empowerment through the language of vernacular architecture in rural Bangladesh.

On the Road

Helen Alvaré, associate professor, law, will deliver the keynote address at a conference titled “Celebrating the Dignity and Vocation of Women: A Day of Reflection” in Harrisburg, Pa., on May 3.

John Anderson, professor, anthropology, lectured at Swarthmore College April 10 and April 17 on “Mediatized Islam, Cyberspace and the Public Sphere in the Muslim World.”

On January 25, Rev. John J. M. Foster, J.C.D., assistant professor, canon law, gave a presentation to the bishops of the California Catholic Conference and their diocesan leadership on the canonical issues of diocesan and parish restructuring in Los Angeles.

On April 8, Father Foster gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the Midwest Canon Law Society on the Communion Rite in Traverse City, Michigan.

James Greene, professor, biology, gave a lecture titled “Biotechnology and the Changing Practice of Medicine” at the Penn State University campus in York, Pa., on April 15.

Nora Heimann, associate professor, art, has been asked to give a lecture at the Musée du Louvre in Paris as the inaugural event in a series of lectures this spring devoted to the theme of “Le gout néo-gothique en France” (“Neo-Gothic Taste in France”). The title of her talk, which will be held in the Auditorium du Louvre on May 19, will be “La Pucelle, la Patrie, la Princesse: Jeanne d’Arc et la Monarchie de Juillet” (“The Maid, the Fatherland, the Princess: Joan of Arc and the July Monarchy”).

Vadim Knyazev, associate professor, chemistry, contributed a chapter titled “Modeling the Thermal Decomposition of Large Molecules and Nanostructures” to a book titled Multiscale Simulation Methods for Nanomaterials. The book was published by Wiley in 2008.

Monsignor Robert Sokolowski, Elizabeth Breckenridge Caldwell Professor of Philosophy, delivered a lecture titled “Truth and the Human Person” at Providence College in Rhode Island on April 9.

Publications

Rev. Phillip Brown, assistant professor, published an article titled "The Non-Sacramental Internal Forum: A Matter of Conscience" in Touchstone, published by the National Federation of Priests' Councils.

Leopold May, professor emeritus, chemistry, co-wrote an article titled "In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of SAS: A Brief History of the Early Years" for the 2008 SAS Spectrum Newsletter, published by the Society for Applied Sprectroscopy. He co-wrote another article, "In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of SAS: A Selection of Ground Breaking Papers from Applied Spectroscopy," for the same publication.

Rev. Anthony Pogorelc, S.S., counseling associate and Life Cycle Institute associate fellow, contributed a sociological reflection on the papal visit titled "What the Pope's Visit Reveals About American Catholics" to Catholic Digest Online.

Father Pogorelc also contributed a chapter, "Embodying and Passing on the Tradition Together" to Shaping Catholic Parishes: Pastoral Leaders in the Twenty-First Century (Loyola Press 2008).

His review of the book Clericalism: The Death of Priesthood (Liturgical Press 2008) appeared on the Catholic Book Reviews Web site.

Emily Singer, director of disability support services, published an article titled “Five Steps to Create a University Evacuation Plan” in the May issue of Thompson’s ADA Compliance Guide.

Stephen Wright, professor, English, published an essay titled "Genres of Sanctity:  Literary Representations of Archbishop Scrope," in Richard Scrope:  Archbishop, Rebel, Martyr, ed. P. J. P. Goldberg (Donginton, UK:  Tyas, 2008), pp. 113-37.  The volume is a collection of essays commemorating the 600th anniversary of the death of Richard Scrope, archbishop of York.

Students

Ben Bernstein, graduate student, music, is having the first act of his thesis musical, an adaptation of “Count of Monte Cristo,” performed at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on April 20.

Two National Catholic School of Social Service doctoral students, Sage Bolte and Christine Callahan, have been awarded American Cancer Society doctoral fellowships worth $40,000 each. The fellowships are for two years and each student is to receive $20,000 each year.