March 15, 2008

Frank Guziek, Dishman Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Lynn Guziek, assistant professor of chemistry and honors student Kyle Marshall have had their article titled “The structure-based design, synthesis and biological evaluation of DNA-binding bisintercalating bisanthrapyrazole anticancer compounds” accepted for publication in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry.

March 7, 2008

Mary Grace Neville, assistant professor of business, had a paper accepted for presentation at the 9th International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Theory conference in July.

President Jake B. Schrum received a Cornerstone Award from the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce Feb. 29 in the area of education. Schrum was recognized for his leadership of Southwestern and for his efforts in building town-gown relations.

Ellen Davis, director of communications, received two Best of Texas Awards from the Texas Public Relations Association at its March 1 awards banquet.

February 29, 2008

Alicia L. Moore, associate professor of education, was invited to present two teacher workshop sessions as a part of the Children’s Courtyard Professional Development University. The workshops were presented to Early Childhood teachers and caregivers and focused on the ABCs of Culturally Responsive Teaching and their importance in
educational settings.

Bill O’Brien, professor of physics, will have his paper, “Hassel-Free Energy Consumption Measurements of Electrical Devices,” published in the May 2008 issue of The Physics Teacher. The paper develops classroom uses of a new metering device, the Kill-A-Watt, which makes it very easy for people to measure the energy consumed by household (and dorm-room) appliances. The paper elaborates on the themes developed in his 2007 paper in Physics Education titled “Mining Power and Hydrocarbon Consciousness from the Monthly Electric Bill: A Classroom Project.” This paper is accessible at here.

Ron Swain, senior advisor to the president, participated in a Feb. 26 forum hosted by Concordia University. The forum was titled “A Bold Vision: The Effect of Austin Area Colleges and Universities on Closing the Gap.”

February 15, 2008

Laura Hobgood-Oster, associate professor of religion and holder of the Elizabeth Root Paden Chair in religion, recently published a book titled “Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition.” The University of Illinois Press published the book.

Maria R. Lowe, associate professor of sociology, recently published an article titled “An Unseen Hand: The Role of Sociology Professor Ernst Borinski in Mississippi's Struggle for Racial Integration in the 1950s and 1960s.” The article appears in the February 2008 issue of Leadership.

February 8, 2008

Aaron Prevots, assistant professor of French, published a bilingual edition of a poetry volume by French writer Jacques Réda titled"Thirteen Songs of Dark Love" (Halifax, Nova Scotia: Editions VVV, 2008). "Thirteen Songs" tells in succinct yet lyrical tones a bittersweet love story, set against a muted backdrop of wartime in days past. Jacques Réda is the author of numerous award-winning essays, short novels, and poetry collections, including "Return to Calm,” also translated by Prevots.

February 1, 2008

Cristina Acalde, assistant professor of anthropology, and Joe Zavala, assistant professor of Spanish, co-authored a book titled “Visión del Perú de académicos peruanos en Estados Unidos” (“Vision of Peru by Peruvian Academics residing in the United States”). Daniel Castro, professor of history and chair of the Latin American Studies Program, contributed an article to the book.

Darren Aversa, visiting assistant professor of Spanish, recently published an article titled “The Mystical Feeling: Three Instances of Aporia in Madero, el otro.”

Dirk Early, professor of economics, presented “A New Geographical Housing Price Index for All Areas in the United States” at one of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association sessions at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings held in New Orleans. This work was coauthored with Edgar Olsen at the University of Virginia and Paul Carrillo of George Washington University.

Mary Grace Neville, assistant professor of business, has had an article accepted for publication titled “Using Appreciative Inquiry and Dialogical Learning to Explore Dominant Paradigms.”

Hai Zheng-Olefsky, cellist and part-time assistant professor of music, has been invited by the conservatories in Guang Zhou and Macau to perform concerts and give master classes. In addition, Zheng-Olefsky was invited to perform a concert for the Asia Society in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Club. Kiyoshi Tamagawa will accompany her on the Asia concert tour March 12-19. Their concert program will include premier works by Chinese composers as well as a work by the famous American composer Samuel Barber. A concert at Southwestern will be held Sat., Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. in the Alma Thomas Theater.

Romi Burks, assistant professor of biology and chair of the Animal Behavior Program, has had her paper titled “Juvenile Snails, Adult Appetites: Contrasting Resource Consumption Between Two Species of Applesnails” published in the Journal of Molluscan Studies. The paper was a collaboration with student authors Brandon B. Boland, Mariana Meerhoff, Claudia Fosalba, Nestor Mazzeo and Matthew A. Barnes.

January 25, 2008

Joe Zavala, assistant professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled, “A Nation without Citizens: Peru's Postcolonial Predicament” at the Chimalpahin 5th Conference on Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness held in Mexico City. The paper evolved from his summer 2007 research in Peru that was funded by a Cullen grant. It is currently being developed into an article that will be submitted to a journal in fall 2008.

The January 2008 issue of the journal Teaching Sociology includes an article co-authored by Edward L. Kain, professor of sociology and University Scholar in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The article is titled “Information Literacy: The Partnership of Sociology Faculty and Social Science Librarians.” Joan Parks, head of reference services at the Smith Library Center, worked with Kain during the early stages of his involvement with the national committee of the American Library Association.

January 11, 2008

Maria R. Lowe, associate professor of sociology, recently published an article titled “An ‘Oasis of Freedom’ in a ‘Closed Society’: The Development of Tougaloo College as a Free Space in Mississippi’s Civil Rights Movement, 1960 to 1964.” The article appeared in the December 2007 issue of The Journal of Historical Sociology.

Michael Wolfe, assistant professor of English, recently published a short story, “Big and Confidential.” The story appears in the current issue of Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art.

January 18, 2008

Fay Guarraci, assistant professor of psychology, has had a paper accepted for publication in Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. The paper is titled “Intracranial Infusions of Amphetamine into the Medial Preoptic Area but not the Nucleus Accumbens Affect Paced Mating Behavior in Female Rats.” Several students from Southwestern and St. Edward’s University collaborated with her on the paper, along with a faculty member from St. Edward’s.

Ben Pierce, professor of biology and holder of the Lillian Nelson Pratt Chair, authored a new 3rd edition of Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, a college-level textbook in genetics published in December by W. H. Freeman and Company. Previous editions of the book have been used at more than 270 colleges and universities and have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.