http://www.stvincent.edu/april_13_2005/faculty_news http://www.stvincent.edu/mckenna_school_professor_named_academic_fellow <P><B>Dr. </B><B>Brad Watson </B>of the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">McKenna</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> faculty has been named an Academic Fellow of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He will travel to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> in May and June for seminars at the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Jaffee</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> for Strategic Studies at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tel</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Aviv</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> and visits to various front line areas such as <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gaza</st1:place></st1:City> and the Lebanese border.</P> http://www.stvincent.edu/mckenna_school_professor_named_academic_fellow Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:31:18 -0500 http://www.stvincent.edu/faculty_member_invited_to_participate_in_conference_on_hans_urs_von_balthasar <P><B>Fr. Mark Wenzinger, O.S.B.,</B>has been invited to participate in a conference sponsored by the journal, <I>Communio</I>, April 14-17 near <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">DC</st1:State></st1:place>.&nbsp; The conference is entitled "Love Alone is Credible:&nbsp; Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpeter of the Catholic Tradition."&nbsp; The conference is being held to mark the 100th anniversary of Fr. von Balthasar's birth and the completion of the translation into English of the final volume of Fr. von Balthasar's multivolume philosophical/theological trilogy.&nbsp; Participants and speakers for this conference include a large number of internationally known philosophers and theologians from Europe, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region></P> http://www.stvincent.edu/faculty_member_invited_to_participate_in_conference_on_hans_urs_von_balthasar Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:31:19 -0500 http://www.stvincent.edu/education_professor_presents_at_conference <P><B>Dr. Kristin Harty, </B>assistant professor of education<B>, </B>&nbsp;presented "<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:place w:st="on">School District</st1:place> and Higher Education Collaboration: Improving the Reading Abilities of Students" at the International Conference for the Council for Exceptional Children April 6 to 8. Dr. Harty and her colleague, Dr. Kathryn Bell from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">West Virginia</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, presented results of a study they were involved with that improved the reading abilities of students in grades K-2.</P> http://www.stvincent.edu/education_professor_presents_at_conference Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:31:18 -0500 http://www.stvincent.edu/philosophy_professor_presents_at_conference_on_value_inquiry <P><B>Dr. Gene Torisky</B>, assistant professor of philosophy, presented a paper at the 32nd Conference on Value Inquiry, held at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baton Rouge</st1:place></st1:City> from April 8 to 10.&nbsp; Titled “ The Two Faces of Moral Modesty,” the paper considers and rejects two arguments that no action is ethically supererogatory--that is, can have positive moral value yet not be required by duty--since those considered ethical saints or heroes nonetheless claim not to have done anything special.&nbsp; The conference attracted 120 participating philosophers from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and eight other countries.</P> http://www.stvincent.edu/philosophy_professor_presents_at_conference_on_value_inquiry Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:31:18 -0500 http://www.stvincent.edu/dr__grumbine_presents_poster_at_meeting_of_american_physical_society <P><B>Dr. David W. Grumbine, Jr.</B>presented a poster over break at the March meeting of the American Physical Society in Los Angeles, California, on some of his research entitled “Absorption on Carbon Nanotubes: A Transfer Matrix Method.” He also gave a talk on some of the “side-effects” of this research at the spring 2005 meeting of the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Western Pennsylvania</st1:place> section of the American Association of Physics Teachers entitled “ Super-Computing for the Rest of Us.”</P> http://www.stvincent.edu/dr__grumbine_presents_poster_at_meeting_of_american_physical_society Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:31:18 -0500