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Inaugural
Symposium, January 14, 2005
SISTAR & COSTAR
Presentations
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Program
Standardized
Testing: Will Our Children Be Left Behind?
Mary Ann Kanieski, assistant
professor, sociology
Tosha Smith '05
This session offers discussion regarding the impact
of "high stakes" graduation exams on high
schools and high school students.
Reintroducing Voices
from the Past:
Sister Miriam Joseph Rauh, CSC, and Sisters of the
Holy Cross
John
L. Pauley, II, chair and associate professor,
communication studies, dance, and theatre
Anne Werring '98
This session is a look at Pauley and Werring's ethnographic
study of the Sisters of the Holy Cross who live in
the South Bend area and research on Sister Miriam
Joseph Rauh, CSC, and her work on developing and teaching
the trivium.
Database
Tango: The Use of the Library Databases by Undergraduate
Students
Frances B. Kominkiewicz, chair and associate professor,
social work and anthropology
Susan E. Wiegand, librarian
Faculty members want students to develop critical
thinking and evaluation skills across all formats.
This faculty collaboration examined improving students'
educational experiences by adapting scholarly research
skills to 21st-century technology.
Research
and Resources in a Networked Environment
Mary V. Connolly, chair and associate professor, mathematics
Julia A. Long, librarian
Connolly
and Long collaborated to develop a course for those
students who will do research in a networked environment
but who will never program a computer. The goals and
content of the course will be discussed, as well as
the problems faced in implementing the course.
Seeing
the World Aright: Wittgenstein and Moral Psychology
and
Exploring Empathy: Wittgenstein and the Problem
of Private Experience
Patricia A. Sayre, associate professor, philosophy
Katherine Bumb Prellwitz '94
Together Sayre and Prellwitz explored a perennial
problem in philosophy: the problem of other minds.
They asked, "Are my feelings always private
and specific to me, or are there feelings that are
neither yours nor mine but ours?" Each studied
one aspect of the question
Spirituality
and Ethics for Women in the Work World
Jerome L. McElroy, professor, business administration
and economics
John A. Ruhe, professor, business administration
and economics
A
survey of Saint Mary's alumnae sheds light on the
stresses alumnae faced while trying to balance work
and family and how they were able to use their faith
to deal with ethical challenges in the workplace.
Media
and Public Discourse:
Narrative Diversity in the Era of Media Consolidation
Linda
E. Berdayes, assistant professor,
communication studies, dance, and theatre
Hayley Dawson '02
This
session will report on an analysis of the structural
and story telling techniques used in two media:
Dallas Morning News (newspaper) and the Art Bell
Show (radio).
Characterization
of Drosophila Retinal Degeneration Mutants
Donald W. Paetkau, assistant professor, biology
Maria Khan '05
Several
projects will be presented that employed mutant
fruit flies as models for studying the causes of
inherited retinal degeneration. These studies provided
the tools for practical scientific inquiry.
Marston Morse: The
Man, the Mathematician, the Humanist
Colleen M. Hoover, associate professor, mathematics
Joanne R. Snow, professor, mathematics
Marston
Morse, one of the great mathematicians of the 20th
century, was one of the first members of the Institute
for Advanced Study at Princeton. Initial research
on Morse's life and work took the professors to
the archives at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced
Study, and to the home of his widow, Louise Morse.
The
Politics of Legalized Gambling
Donald E. Miller, professor, mathematics
Patrick A. Pierce, professor, political science,
and associate dean of faculty
This
session offers a look at the statistical analysis
of the politics of legalized gambling in the American
states and why states establish lotteries and legalize
casino gambling.
African Island Development
Experiences
Jerome L. McElroy, professor, business administration
and economics
Leslie Morris '03
This
collaboration studied the unique development traits
of African islands.
Space:
Harmony of Math, Motion, and Forms
Indi Dieckgrafe, associate professor,
communication studies, dance, and theatre
Jaclyn Thompson '04
This
presentation is a dance concert showing the creative
collaboration efforts and research learned at the
Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London.
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