Lore J. Aguilar, ADM
research analyst for the Fordham University Enrollment Group Institutional Research, presented a paper titled “The Marginal Effects of High School Visits: A Step Toward an Empirically Driven Marketing Program,” along with Donald A. Gillespie, Ph.D., director of institutional research, at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research in Toronto on June 5.

Bruce Andrews, Ph.D., A&S
associate professor of political science, was the subject of a panel titled “Bruce Andrews and the Social Politics of the Avant-Garde,” at the annual Modern Language Association convention held in New York City in December. He recently housed The Millennium Project (Editions Eclipse, 2001) at a new Web site, Eclipse (http://www.princeton.edu/eclipse), a digital archive devoted to contemporary experimental poetry, which launched on Feb.1.

Michael W. Cuneo, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor of sociology, gave a lecture titled “Ozark Blues: Crime, Punishment, and Redemption in Southwest Missouri,” at Mount St. Mary's College. Cuneo's recent book of cultural criticism, American Exorcism (Doubleday, 2001), has been published in Broadway paperback and Broadway E-Book editions; a Bantam United Kingdom edition; and a Random House Australian edition. The book was featured in an author-meets-critics session at the most recent meeting of the Association of the Sociology of Religion. It was also the featured review in the inaugural edition of Connections, a new publication of the American Sociological Association. American Exorcism has also been featured in recent profiles that have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Times, Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly.

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., A&S
Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, delivered the second annual Borromean Lecture, “Faith and Civility,” at St. Charles Preparatory School in Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 8. Recent publications include: “Can Philosophy Be Christian? The New State of the Question,” and “Faith and Reason: From Vatican I to John Paul II,” in The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides et ratio, edited by David Ruel Foster and Rev. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., associate professor of philosophy and chair of the department; “The Catechetical Process in the Light of the General Directory for Catechesis,” in Hear, O Islands: Theology and Catechesis in the New Millennium, edited by John Redford; and the following entries in the New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition (2002): New Evangelization, Fundamentalism, Lima Text, Mystery (in Theology), Fonts of Revelation, Theology of Revelation, and Symbol in Revelation.

John D. Feerick, Ph.D., LAW
Leonard Manning Professor of Law, received the William Nelson Cromwell Award for “unselfish service to the profession and community,” at the New York County Lawyers’ Association’s 88th annual dinner dance held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on Dec. 19.

Donald A. Gillespie, Ph.D., ADM
director of institutional research for the Fordham University Enrollment Group, presented a paper titled “Responsibilities and Staffing of Institutional Research Offices at Jesuit and Other Prominent Catholic Universities,” at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research held in Toronto last June. He served as the convener of the Special Interest Group for Catholic Colleges and Universities, which heard a proposal to establish a permanent organization to support research on Catholic higher education. He is also a member of a steering committee formed a year ago to develop a Catholic research consortium that might investigate topics such as institutional mission and identity, and characteristics of the students and alumni of Catholic colleges.

Albert Greco, Ed.D., BUS
associate professor of communications and media management, presented a lecture on “The History of the Book Publishing Industry: 1945-1999," at Harvard University, Dec. 16.

Lisa Green, ADM
was recently promoted to the position of program associate for the Transnational MBA Program. She previously served as the assistant to the dean for the Graduate School of Business Administration.

Frederick J. Harris, Ph.D., A&S
professor of French and comparative literature, recently published Friend and Foe: Marcel Proust and André Gide (University Press of America, 2002).

Elise Langan, Ph.D., GSE
adjunct professor of English as a second language, recently published an article, “Integrating French Education: The French Response to the European Union’s Education Policies,” on The Brookings Institution Web site (http://www.brookings.edu/fp/cusf/analysis/langan.htm).

Dean McKay, Ph.D., A&S
assistant professor of psychology, recently published “Introduction to the Special Series: The Role of Disgust in Anxiety Disorders” and “Attention Bias for Disgust,” in a special issue of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders (2002). The issue, which McKay guest-edited, focused on “The Role of Disgust in Anxiety Disorders.”

Robert K. Moniot, Ph.D., A&S
associate professor of computer and information sciences and physics, presented the lecture “Ethics in the Information Age” to the Catholic Accountants Guild of Brooklyn, on Nov. 19.

Philip M. Napoli, Ph.D., BUS
assistant professor of communications and media management, published an article, “Access and Fundamental Principles in Communication Policy,” in the Law Review of Michigan State University/Detroit College of Law (Fall 2002). He recently delivered the lecture “Media Policy as Social Policy: Research Challenges and Opportunities” before the Ford Foundation and a consortium of other foundations involved in funding media policy research, which was held at the Ford Foundation in Manhattan on Nov. 7.

Cathy O’Hara, ADM
was recently promoted to the position of program associate for the Transnational MBA Program. She last served as the assistant to the associate dean for corporate programs for the Graduate School of Business Administration.

Marcia Pally, Ed.D., GSE
adjunct professor of English as a second language, was the keynote speaker at the New York State Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) convention, “Entering the Race: Making Every Student a Winner,” held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in November. Her lecture was titled “Content-Based ESL: For the Imagination and Ambition of Every Student.”

Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ph.D., A&S
assistant professor of theology, recently published “Person, Kenosis and Abuse: Hans Urs von Balthasar and Feminist Theologies in Conversation,” in Modern Theology(19:1, January 2003), and “ReasonableFaith and a Trinitarian Logic: Faith and Reason in Eastern Orthodox Theology,” in Restoring Faith in Reason, edited by Laurence P. Hemmings and Susan F. Parsons (SCM Press, 2002). He presented the lecture “Divine Energies or Divine Personhood? Vladimir Lossky and John Zizioulas on Conceiving the Transcendent and Immanent God,” at the University of Sherbrooke’s Toronto campus on Nov. 24.

Barry Rosenfeld, Ph.D., A&S
associate professor of psychology, recently published “Assessing Psychological Distress Near the End of Life” in American Behavioral Scientist (2002); “Factors Associated With Violence in Stalking and Obsessional Harassment Cases,” in Criminal Justice and Behavior (2002); and “When Stalking Turns Violent—Developments in the Assessment of Stalking Risks,” in Stalking Victims and Offenders: Treatment, Intervention and Research (Civic Research Institute Press, 2003).

Dominick Salvatore, Ph.D., A&S
Distinguished Professor of Economics, published “International Competitiveness, Multifactor Productivity and Growth in the United States, Europe and Japan,” in Trade Integration and Transition (World Bank and Institute for World Economics, 2002). He also published the fourth edition of his leading text: Microeconomic Theory and Applications (Oxford University Press, 2002). He presented the lecture “Europe's Structural Problems and Slow Growth,” at the University of Vienna on Nov. 22 and “Prospects for the Euro and the Dollar in 2003,” at the European Commissions in Bruxelles on Nov. 29.

Kieran Scott, Ed.D., GSRRE
associate professor of theology and religious education, published the essay “Is Adult Education Unique?” in The Living Light (Fall 2002). He also presented a paper, “Calling All Adults: The Dilemma of Parish Religious Education,” at the annual meeting of the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education held in Philadelphia in November. At the meeting, he was elected to the executive board of the association for a three-year term.

Lonnie R. Sherrod, Ph.D., A&S
professor of psychology, published a special issue, “Growing into Citizenship: Multiple Pathways and Diverse Influences,” in Applied Developmental Science (Fall 2002). He was senior editor along with Pennsylvania State University’s Constance Flanagan, Ph.D., and Catholic University’s James Youniss, Ph.D. The three editors wrote a concluding chapter, “Dimensions of Citizenship and Opportunities for Youth Development.” Sherrod represented Fordham at a meeting of the newly formed consortium on Child Social Policy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in November. He also attended the fall meeting of the Committee on Communication and Policy of the Society for Research in Child Development, Nov. 1-2; the annual meeting of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences for which he serves as a board member, Nov. 14-15; and the first planning committee meeting for the seventh biennial conference on Head Start research, Dec. 10-11—all three meetings were held in Washington D.C.

Warren W. Tryon, Ph.D., A&S
professor of psychology and director of the clinical training in psychology program, presented five papers, “Validation of Response Latencies to Visual Analog Personality Ratings,” “ Reducing Hyperactivity With A Feedback Actigraph,” “Applying Artificial Neural Network Models to Behavioral Predictions,” “Validating Internet Research” and “Drawing Inferences About Individuals from a Group Study,” at the American Psychological Association’s annual convention held in Chicago in August.

Hrishikesh D. Vinod, Ph.D., A&S
professor of economics and director of the Institute of Ethics and Economic Policy, published “Open Economy and Financial Burden of Corruption: Theory and Application to Asia,” in the Journal of Asian Economics (12:873-890, 2002).

Jay C. Wade, Ph.D., A&S
assistant professor of psychology, recently published “Racial Peer Group Selection in African American High School Students,” in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (2002).

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