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The University 281 ...... Academic Apparel Rental Faculty Notes 281 ...... Honors 281 ...... Activities 283 ...... Publications Administrators’ Notes 286 ...... Honors 286 ...... Activities 286 ...... Publications Documentation 287 ...... Corrections and Omissions 287 ...... University Committee on Women Faculty and Students, December 8, 2006 289 ...... Academic Council, November 22, 2006 291 ...... Minutes of the 308th Graduate Council Meeting, November 29, 2006 294 ...... University Council for Academic Technologies (UCAT), December 8, 2006 295 ...... James A. Burns, CSC, Graduate School Award 295 ...... Research Achievement Award 296 ...... Faculty Award Nominations Sought 296 ...... Reinhold Niebuhr Award Nominations Sought 297 ...... Grenville Clark Award Nominations Sought 297 ...... Foik Award Nominations Sought 297 ...... Special Presidential Award Nominations Sought Research 298 ...... December 2006 F E B R U A R Y 2 3 , 2 0 0 7 N U M B E R 6 #8-5-281 Charles K. Wilber, emeritus professor of economics and Kroc Institute Fellow, received the Thomas F. Divine Award from The University the Association for Social Economics at the ASSA Conference in Chicago, Jan. 6, in recognition of a lifetime of important contributions to social economics and the Academic Apparel Rental may also order online at www.herffjones. social economy. com/faculty, April 2–27. The rental of a doctoral cap, gown, and hood is $46. Measurements for academic apparel for Faculty who received a PhD or law degree Activities the May 2007 Commencement Exercises from Notre Dame may rent the Notre will take place on Wednesday and Dame doctoral cap, gown, and hood. The Thursday, April 4 and 5, ONLY from 10:00 David Bartels, professional specialist rental fee is $100. The rental of a cap, gown, in the Radiation Laboratory, presented a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Hammes Notre and hood for the master’s degree is $45. Dame Bookstore in the Eck Center. You “Cracking Supercritical Water with Ionizing Radiation: Properties and Reactions of OH Radicals, H Atoms, and Solvated Electrons in Hot Pressurized Water” at the physical chemistry seminars, Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn., on Feb. 7, and Brown Univ., Faculty Notes Providence, R.I., on Feb. 8. Bruce Bunker, professor of physics, presented “Environmental Science on Ralph McInerny, professor of philosophy, Honors the Molecular Scale: How can a Physicist received the Charles Cardinal Journet Help?” at the “Physics Colloquium,” Prize Medal from the Aquinas Center for Bruce Bunker, professor of physics, was Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, on Theological Renewal, Ave Maria Univ., appointed to a two-year term on the Peer Nov. 20. Naples, Fla., on Feb 3. Review Committee at Canadian Light Rev. David Burrell, CSC, the Hesburgh Dean A. Porter, director emeritus of the Source. Professor Emeritus of Theology and Snite Museum of Art, was elected to the Pascal Calarco, librarian, was appointed Philosophy, presented “Primordial Board of Fire Arts, South Bend. program chair, Ex Libris Users of North Relationship between God and Human America (ELUNA) 2006 annual meet- Mark R. Schurr, associate professor Person in Catholicism and Islam: an ing, Spearfish, S.D., June 4–8, 2007; and and chair of the Dept. of Anthropology, Invitational Dialogue” at the John Paul II was invited to serve on the Publications has been invited to serve a three-year Center for dialogue of Faith and Culture, Committee for the American Society for term on the advisory board of American Washington D.C., on Jan. 16; and “A Information Science and Technology and Archaeology magazine, published by the Conversation among Friends: Lindbeck, also the Digitool Product Working Group Archaeological Conservancy. Burrell, and Hauerwas” at Nazarene of the International Group of Ex Libris Donald E. Sporleder, professor of Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Mo., Users (IGELU). architecture emeritus, was reappointed to Jan. 18. Jianguo Cao, professor of mathematics, was the Indiana Trails Advisory Board by the David E. Campbell, assistant professor appointed a “2006 Chang-Jiang Scholar” Indiana Department of Natural Resources of political science and Institute for (Yangtze River Scholar) at Nanjing Univ. for a three-year term to represent Educational Initiatives Fellow, presented by the Ministry of Education, People’s pedestrians. “The Measurement of Civic and Social Republic of China. Joannes J. Westerink, professor of civil Engagement, and Its Relationship to Michael Driscoll, the Tisch Family engineering and geological sciences, was Education and Skills” to the Centre for Professor of Theology, was elected chair of appointed a member of the Southeast Research on Lifelong Learning, European the education committee of the Council Louisiana Flood Protection Authority— Commission, Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 2. of the National Association of Pastoral West Bank, which agency acts as the local Mary Rose D’Angelo, associate professor of Musicians for a four-year term. sponsor for the construction, operation, theology, was an invited panelist at “Space, and maintenance of all of the hurricane, Kwan S. Kim, professor of economics and Place and Lived Experience in Antiquity,” storm damage reduction, and flood control policy studies and Kellogg Institute fellow, “Paul and Politics Session,” Society of projects in the greater New Orleans and was re-elected to serve on the advisory Biblical Literature annual meeting, southeastern Louisiana area. board of the North American Economics Washington, D.C., Nov. 18; and delivered and Finance Association until the end of an invited paper, “Imperial Family Values academic year 2010. and Fictive Kinship among the First Urban 282 Faculty Notes Christians at Rome” at the “Social Scientific “Bonhoeffer’s ‘Religious Clothes’: The Krajewski-Ritzman-Malhotra Operations Criticism of the New Testament,” Society Naked Man, The Secret, and What We Management Text from Prentice-Hall” of Biblical Literature annual meeting, Hear.” at the “2006 INFORMS Conference,” Washington, D.C., Nov. 19. Bei Hu, professor of mathematics, Pittsburgh, Nov. 5; and “On the Trail of Julia Douthwaite, professor of French, presented an invited talk titled “Optimal Supply Chain Integration: A Tale of Three assistant provost for International Convergence Rate for the Binomial Tree Methodologies” at the “2006 Annual Studies, and Fellow of the Nanovic Scheme for a Variational Inequality Decision Sciences Institute Conference,” Institute, presented “On Identity and from American Options” at the Dept. of San Antonio, Nov. 20. Power: Why Humanists are Necessary Mathematics, National Chung Cheng Univ., David Lodge, professor of biological sci- to Administration” and “The Clever Chia-yi, Taiwan, on Dec 20; “Transport ences, presented “Forecasting and Adaptive Automata and Other Subversive Things: of Neurofilaments in Axons—Uniform Management of Invasive Species” to the Technological Inventions in Revolutionary Convergence for Approximating Travelling Nature Conservancy’s Global Freshwater Fiction” at the convention of the Modern Waves in Linear Reaction-Hyperbolic retreat in Boulder, Colo., Jan. 8–12. Languages Association, Philadelphia, on Systems” at the 15th (Taiwan) “Workshop Cynthia Mahmood, associate professor of Dec. 30. on Differential Equations,” Southern anthropology, presented “Risking the Face Richard M. Economakis, associate profes- Taiwan Univ. of Technology, Tainan, on to Face in an Age of Terror: Dialogues with sor of architecture, was an invited critic at Dec. 23; and “Stability Analysis for Several Religious Militants” as an invited public a review of fourth-year student designs at Tumor Growth Models” at the PDE semi- speaker at Emory Univ., Atlanta, Dec. 14; the Division of Architecture of Andrews nar at the Dept. of Mathematics, National and was the inaugural speaker in a new Univ., Michigan, on Feb. 15, 2006; and par- Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei, on Dec. 26. initiative in religion, conflict, and peace- ticipated in a WNIT television round table Maxwell Johnson, professor of theology, building jointly sponsored by Emory Univ. discussion on “Urban Renewal in the Arts,” presented the invited talk, “Baptism and and the Carter Center. as part of the Economic Outlook program, Chrismation in the Egyptian Tradition Rev. Richard P. McBrien, the Crowley- aired on January 5. of the 3–4th Centuries” at “Orthodox O’Brien Professor of Theology, presented Keith J. Egan, adjunct professor of theol- Teaching on the Sacraments,” Moscow, “Being Catholic in a Time of Change” for ogy, gave three presentations to the faculty Nov. 13–16. five parishes at St. Paul’s Catholic Church of St. Joseph High School, South Bend, on Robert L. Jones Jr., professional special- in Fish Creek, Wisc., on Sept. 23. He was Jan. 22. ist and director of the Legal Aid Clinic, interviewed for “Exorcism: Driving Out David Fagerberg, associate professor of presented “Teaching Legal Ethics in a the Devil,” aired Oct. 31 on the History theology, presented a day-long retreat Social Justice Context” and also made a Channel, and “Can America’s Catholics for the Theology Dept. of the Univ. of St presentation on the Law School’s GALILEE Adapt to Tridentine Mass?” for Weekend Francis, Fort Wayne, on Jan. 10; a presenta- Program at the “2006 Midwest Clinical Edition Sunday, aired Nov. 12 on NPR. tion on liturgical marriage at St. Mary’s Legal Education Conference,” hosted by Ralph McInerny, professor of philosophy, Catholic Church, Grayslake, Ill., on Jan. 26; Notre Dame Law School; and presented presented the “Cardinal