October 24, 2002

Ed Kain, professor of sociology and University Scholar, has had a chapter titled "A Case Study of Departmental Change Aimed at Promoting the Success of Students of Color" published this week. The chapter is pp. 95-113 in "Included in Sociology: Learning Climates That Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity," edited by Jeffrey Chin, Catherine White Berheide, and Dennis Rome. The book is published by the American Association of Higher Education in Washington, DC.

October 17, 2002

Barbara Boucher Owens, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, presented a paper titled "Ethics and the Internet: An Approach to Computer Literacy" at the Association for Computer Educators in Texas meeting held in Corpus Christi on Sept. 27. She also was an invited speaker, along with Leigh Lambert '02, at a banquet sponsored by the Computing Research Association in conjunction with the Grace Murray Hopper Conference for Women in Computing in Vancouver, B.C. on Oct. 11.

Amy Wendling '98, visiting instructor in philosophy, presented a paper titled "Sovereign Consumption as a Species of Communist Theory: A Reading of Volume III of Georges Bataille's Accursed Share" at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)'s annual meeting in October, in Chicago. Her article "Partial Liberations: The Machine, Gender, and High Tech Culture" also has just come out in the edition of "International Studies in Philosophy" (2002 Issue 2).

Shannon Winnubst, associate professor of philosophy, and Amy Wendling '98, Ph.D. Candidate at The Pennsylvania State University and visiting instructor of philosophy, presented two papers, "Exceeding the 'Place' of Limits: Bataille, Hegel, and Irigaray"(Winnubst) and "Consumption, Sovereignty, Revolution: Bataille's Marxism" (Wendling), at the annual meeting of the Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy at Loyola University. They were part of the panel, "Bataille's General Economy: Ethics, Limits and Revolution."

October 3, 2002

La Vonne I. Neal, assistant professor of education, will present a paper at the National Middle School Association Conference in November in Portland, Ore. The paper is titled "Something in the Way He Moves: Teachers' Perceptions of African American Males' Behavior and School Achievement."