Faculty/Staff Achievements

Faustus at the George Mason University’s Professional Company Cenpany Center for the Arts. It was directed by Rick Davis. ROBERT MOONEY’s short story, “First Funeral,” has been accepted for publication in the Paterson Literary Review, and will appear in its Spring 1999 issue. He also has been invited by the estate of American novelist John Gardner to contribute an essay that will be included in an

anthology dealing with the late author’s life and works. DONALD McCOLL, assistant professor of art, published an electronic review of a book titled Dürer and His Culture for the College Art Association. The paper he read at last year’s Second International Meeting of the Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär at Duke University, “Swiss Public Fountains and the Coming of the Reformation,” has been accepted for publication in a volume of

H. LOUISE AMICK, assistant professor of mathematics, had an article titled “Personalizing Mathematics” published in the December 1998 edition of The Teaching Professor. MARTIN CONNAUGHTON, assistant professor of biology, has recently co-authored two manuscripts titled “On the Mechanism of Lactational Anovulation in the Rhesus Monkey” and “On the Mechanism of the Positive Feedback Action of Estradiol on Lutenizing Hormone Secretion in the Rhesus Monkey” in American Journal of Physiology and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, respectively. He also wrote a chapter on the female reproductive system of fishes for the four-volume Encyclopedia of Reproduction published by Academic Press, titled “Female Reproductive System, Fish.” MIKE DAVENPORT, assistant to the athletic director and head coach of rowing, received his doctor of education degree from Wilmington College in January. In recognition of his 3.97 grade point average and demonstration of “the highest principles of academic research and educational leadership and innovation,” he

was presented with the Doctor of Education Award. ROBERT FALLAW, the Everett E. Nuttle Professor of History, delivered a series of lectures in American history at the University of Artois at Arras, France, in January. Tom Finnegan, professor of physical education, picked up his 350th career coaching victory after the men’s basketball team won its game at St. Mary’s College on November 30, 1998. ROBERT LYNCH, associate professor of economics, co-authored a study titled “Choices For Iowa: Building a Better Tax System,” which has since been published by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The study received wide coverage in the Iowa media, including reports in over two dozen Iowa newspapers and several favorable editorials in leading papers such as The Des Moines Register and The Tribune. TIM MALONEY, professor of drama, wrote a short introduction “Peering into the World of Renaissance Magic” for the November production of Doctor

Claire Katz, assistant professor of philosophy, was an invited speaker at the November Penn State University fall colloquium, The Histories of Philosophy. Her paper was titled “Begetting History: Levinas, Genealogy, and the Questions of Ethics.” At the annual meeting in October of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Denver, Katz delivered a paper titled “Erotic Responsibility: Looking for Eros in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas.” Professor Katz’s paper “Ambiguous Boundaries in Our Relations With Others: Mapping Together Merleau-Ponty’s Two Accounts of Subjectivity,” which she presented at the August meeting of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Haifa, was invited for publication by the journal of the society. Katz also succesfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Eros, Dwelling, Ethics: The Face of the Feminine and the Judaic in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas,” in February at the University of Memphis.

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