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SNAPSHOTS ROTC Honors Father O’Hare

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Miriam R. Albert, J.D., LL.M., BUS
assistant professor of business law, recently published “Because We Said So: The SEC's Overreaching Attempts to Regulate Mini-Tender Offers,” in the Arizona Law Review (Spring 2003), and “Common Sense for Common Stock Options: Inconsistent Interpretation of Anti-Dilution Provisions in Options and Warrants,” in the Rutgers Law Journal (Spring 2003).

David Bernstein, Ph.D., A&S
associate professor of psychology, was elected president of the Association for Research on Personality Disorders. He is currently serving a five-year term of office. He has recently developed a series of workshops for the New York State Department of Corrections on the assessment of psychopaths. Bernstein presented an invited workshop titled “Schema Therapy for Patients with Histories of Childhood Trauma,” at the Millon Clinical Inventories Conference held in Minneapolis in October. He recently published “Development and Validation of a Brief Screening Version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire,” in Child Abuse and Neglect, vol. 27 (2003); “Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders in Patients with Histories of Emotional Abuse or Neglect,” in Psychiatric Annals, vol. 32 (2002); and “Understanding Measurement,” in Understanding Research in Clinical and Counseling Psychology (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002).

Francine Blumberg, Ph.D., GSE
assistant professor of educational psychology, attention and learning strategies, recently published an article titled “Managing the Responsibilities of Work and Family,” co-written with Jennifer Tramontozzi, in Worklife Matters (Spring 2003).

Eileen Burchell, Ph.D., MC
associate professor of French and president of Marymount Chapter-AAUP, and Leo Cooley, Ph.D., professor of English and past president of Marymount Chapter-AAUP, gave a presentation, “Maintaining Academic Freedom in a Time of Financial Crisis: Surviving Reorganization, Merger, and Acquisition,” at the American Association of University Professors Joint Conference on Academic Freedom at Religiously Affiliated Institutions, Unity and Diversity, held at the University of San Diego, March 13-16. They presented an overview of the financial situation at women's colleges in recent years and provided a narrative of the history of the consolidation of Marymount College with Fordham University, stressing the vision of the Rev. Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J., the complementary missions of the two institutions, and the prospects for the future of Marymount College of Fordham University.

Leslie A. Burton, Ph.D., A&S
associate professor of psychology, recently published “Statistical Analysis of Hormonal Influences on Arousal Measures in Ovariectomized Female Mice,” in Hormones and Behavior (2002), and “Global Affective Memory for Faces in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” in Applied Neuropsychology (2002).

Leonard Cassuto, Ph.D., A&S
associate professor of English, had his article, “Big Trouble in the World of Big Physics,” selected for publication in Best American Science Writing 2003 (Ecco Press, 2003). Publication is scheduled for September.

Elaine Congress, D.S.W., GSS
associate dean, attended the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting held in Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27-March 2. At the meeting, Congress presented a paper titled “Ethical Issues in Authorship Credit: A Study of Social Work Educators' Beliefs”; participated in a meet-the-authors session for her recent book, Teaching Social Work Values and Ethics: A Curriculum Resource (Council on Social Work Education, 2002); and conducted a curriculum workshop on “Teaching Social Work Values and Ethics.”

John Cosgrove, Ph.D., GSS
associate dean, delivered an invited presentation at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) in Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27. His faculty development presentation was titled “Using the Internet to Find Funding Opportunities and Develop Winning Proposals.” He was certified by CSWE as a site visitor for accreditation of Schools of Social Work and recently participated in the meeting of CSWE's International Commission. A former Fulbright senior fellow and visiting professor, he is now a participant in the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program.

Myrna Delson-Karan, Ph.D., A&S
adjunct associate professor of modern languages and literatures, was honored with the Ordre des francophones d’Amérique presented by the Conseil supérieur de la langue française du Québec at a ceremony held in Québec City on March 19. The award was given in recognition of her devotion and love of the French language and also because she is a distinguished representative of Québec’s creative artists, particularly through promoting the study of Québec literature and civilization.

G. Richard Dimler, S.J., Ph.D., A&S
research professor of Jesuit Emblem Studies, recently published the following articles: “Emblematic Structures in Celebrations of Francis Borgia’s Canonization,” in Multivalence and Multifunctionality of the Emblem (2002); “Emblemas, Libro de,” in Diccionario Histórico De la Compañia de Jesus (Comillos, 2001); “Emblemas y retórica: ejemplos silogisticos del Principe perfecto de Andrés Mendo (1662),” in Los Días del Alción Emblemas, Literature y Arte del siglo de Oro, Barcelona (Liberdúplex, 2002); and “The New Edition of Hugo’s Pia Desideria in Polish and Recent Hugo Scholarship,” co-written with Peter M. Daly, in Emblematica An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies (2002).


Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., A&S
Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, delivered the lectures “Interpreting Vatican II: The Egalitarian Spin,” at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, South Orange, N.J., on March 11, and “Philosophy and Priestly Formation,” the Peter Richard Kenrick Lecture, at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis on March 18. Recent publications include: “A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty,” Criterion 41:10-15; a review of the book Le désir de Dieu: Sur le traces de S. Thomas by Georges Cottier, in Nova et Vetera 1: 218-21; and “Easter Sunday,” in Lenten Reflections 2003 published by the New York Province of the Society of Jesus. Cardinal Dulles’ 15th annual Fall McGinley Lecture, The Population of Hell, was published as a pamphlet by Fordham University. An interview by Joop Koopman entitled “Entretien avec le cardinal Avery Dulles des États-Unis,” appeared in Questions Actuelles 30:20-23.

James Fisher, Ph.D., A&S
visiting professor of theology and interim director of the Center for American Catholic Studies, presented the Archbishop Gerety Lecture titled “Jersey City and the Soul of the Waterfront,” at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., in February. He also presented a paper titled “Irish-American Labor Priests and Longshoremen, 1945-1955,” at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, in Memphis on April 4.

Elizabeth A. Frost, Ph.D., A&S
assistant professor of English and director of Poets Out Loud, recently released The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2003). She also was awarded a fellowship from the Saltonstall Foundation. In May, she will read from her poetry at the American Literature Association’s annual meeting in Cambridge, Mass.

Michael E. Latham, Ph.D., A&S
associate professor of history, recently co-edited a new book, Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003). The volume's essays analyze the way that American approaches to development were promoted and challenged in countries as diverse as Japan, India, and Mozambique.

Leo Lefebure, Ph.D., A&S
associate professor of theology and associate chair of the Department of Theology, delivered the paper “Barriers and Challenges to Interfaith Education,” at the Consultation on Interfaith Education for a Global Age at the United Nations Church Center, March 17. The consultation was sponsored by the Temple of Understanding, the Jewish Center for Learning and Education, and Cross-Currents magazine.

Dean McKay, Ph.D., A&S
assistant professor of psychology, recently published “Neuropsychology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review and Treatment Implications,” in Clinical Psychology Review (2003).

Roger Panetta, Ph.D., MC
associate professor and chair of history department at Marymount College, recently participated in a panel discussion titled “Westchester’s Virtual Archives: Connecting Primary Sources with Learning,” at the 65th Annual Conference, Teaching Social Studies in a Changing World, held at the Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, N.Y., on March 13. He also delivered a lecture titled “Conflicting Visions: American Paradise or Engine of Progress,” during a workshop sponsored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Hudson River Estuary Program. The workshop, titled “The Hudson River: Inspiration and the Environment,” was held in New Paltz, N.Y., on March 18.

Robert J. Parmach, PhD., A&S
adjunct professor of philosophy and director of the student assistance program, delivered the following lectures: “Ethics, Habituation, and Aristotle,” at the Fordham University Emerging Leaders (FUEL) symposia cosponsored by Student Affairs and the Fordham College dean's office, Feb. 5; “Physical and Intellectual Relationships: Moving Beyond Thursday Nights,” at Fordham’s Finlay Forum Lecture Series, March 11; “Levels of Being: Aristotle, Ethics, and Self-Awareness," at Notre Dame High School, Fairfield, Conn., March 21; and “Intellectual Heroes and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit,” at St. Catharine's Church, Pelham, N.Y., March 23.

Monica Rivera-Mindt, Ph.D., A&S
assistant professor of psychology, recently published “The Accuracy of Premorbid IQ Estimation Varies with Intellectual Abilities,” in Clinician's Research Digest (2003).

Dominick Salvatore, Ph.D., A&S
Distinguished Professor of Economics, presented the following papers: “Changes in the International Competitiveness of the United States, Europe and Japan,” at Columbia University, Feb. 7; “Globalization, Growth and Poverty,” with Amartya Sen (1998 Nobel Prize winner) at the Italian National Research Institute, Feb. 14; “World Economic Conditions and Forecasts with the LINK System,” with Lawrence Klein (1980 Nobel Prize winner) at the University of Triest, March 14; and “Europe's Double Competitive Squeeze,” at the University of Vienna, March 17. He was also elected vice president of the North American Economics and Finance Association at the Association's Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in January.

Kari Solomon, M.Ed., MC
assistant director of career planning and placement, presented a program titled “Educating Ourselves, Educating Others: Career Programs That Target International Students," at the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) convention held in Minneapolis, March 29-April 2. Her program highlighted the accomplishments of the Marymount College Office of Career Planning and Placement in serving the needs of international students through internships and other career programs.

Daniel J. Sullivan, S.J., Ph.D., A&S
professor of biological sciences, recently published an article on “Hyperparasitism” in the Encyclopedia of Insects (Academic Press, 2003).

Joel P. Whitney, A&S
adjunct professor of English, was recently awarded a “Discovery”/The Nation poetry prize. In addition to a cash prize, Whitney’s work was published in The Nation in March.