Dean`s Report - Saint Leo University

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SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY
School of
Arts &
Sciences
2011 DEAN’S REPORT
On our cover: Theology major Jonathan Galo ’11 reads between classes in the meditation garden behind
Saint Edward Hall at Saint Leo University’s main campus.
S A I N T
L E O
U N I V E R S I T Y
School of Arts & Sciences
Dean’s Report 2011
Faculty Council
Leland T. Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
and Religion
FEATURES
Corey R. Anthony, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
of Chemistry
Lights, Camera,
Learning
Linda L. Bergen-Losee, M.A.
Laboratory Director and
Instructor of Biology
Susan Arden
Karen M. Bryant, M.A.
Instructor of Fine Arts
Patricia Campion, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Sociology
La Dolce Vita
Anthony V. Esposito, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Italy Immersion Course
Allyson D. Marino, M.A.
Instructor of English and
Fine Arts Events Director
GreenFaith
Fellow
Robin F. van Tine, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Photographs courtesy of:
Karen Bryant, Jo-Ann
Johnston, Ralph Romero,
Beata Plawska, Benjamin
Watters, Jaime Wharton
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ARTICLES
Teaching
Jo-Ann Johnston
Contributing Writer
Scholarship
Jack McTague, Ph.D......................... 3
Jacci White, Ed.D............................ 5
Celebrating Women’s
History Month....................... 15
Honors Program
Meet the New Team...................... 18
Service
Randall Woodard, Ph.D..................... 7
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Robin van Tine
Editorial Staff:
Molly-Dodd Adams
Editor
Benjamin Watters
Art Director
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Alumni Profile
Jerry Hansen ’89........................... 10
Alumni Profile
Audrey Cate ’87............................ 11
A New Face for Science
Biology Lab Renovations................ 14
Student & Alumni
Accomplishments.................. 20
Faculty Publications &
Conference Presentations...... 23
About the School of
Arts & Sciences..................... 28
A Message from the Dean
Greetings! The School of Arts and Sciences at Saint Leo University has
had a productive year. We are excited to share some of the achievements
of our students and faculty with you in this second edition of the Dean’s
Report. In reading this year’s report, you will find the diversity and creativity that are hallmarks of the School of Arts and Sciences, whether it be
in the creation of new programs and courses, a new vision for the Honors
Program, or teaching innovations like using video teleconferencing technology to reach students throughout the university in our many military
and civilian centers.
Our faculty members continue to be highly regarded. Word is getting out
about the great work they are doing, resulting in positive news coverage
in local media outlets. We have added six new faculty members in biology, chemistry, anthropology,
music, religion, and philosophy and are highlighting three of our talented faculty members in the
report for their teaching, scholarship, and service.
The sciences are getting a new face, as one of our three biology labs begins renovations, providing
expanded space and new technology for our students. A third installment in the literature and
fine arts immersion courses took a group of 19 students to Italy this year, and a new travel-embedded course in theology, In the Footsteps of Saint Paul, is underway for fall 2011. New vocal groups
took the center stage in music as Totally T.A.B.S., our a cappella group, and our new Saint Leo
Singers performed throughout the university. We also graduated our first classes in our new B.S.
in psychology program and our newest online major, liberal studies. You will also see some of our
students’ achievements as they take their places in competitive internships or move on to graduate
school.
I want to take this opportunity to thank our faculty and staff for their contributions to the successes
of the past year. A special thanks goes to the School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Council, whose
members worked tirelessly throughout the year on this report and on many important school-wide
events. This report captures the broad range of talents and the unique character of the School of
Arts and Sciences.
It is an honor to serve you. I am grateful to have the opportunity to work with such talented faculty,
staff, students, alumni, and friends of the university as we continue to work towards our goal of
becoming a distinctive and innovative school, delivering quality programs to all students.
Mary T. Spoto, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
S c h o ol o f A r t s & S c ien c e s 2 011 D e a n’s R e p o r t 1
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S a i nt L e o Un iver sity
TEACHING
JACK MCTAGUE, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY
F
ew people know better
how Saint Leo University
runs than Professor of
History Dr. John (Jack)
T. McTague. Dr. McTague has
been a member of the university
faculty for more than 35 years. He
has a rocking chair in his office
to prove it—a gift from a grateful
school; however, on the day of this
interview, he sits between his large
desk and the broad window that
looks down on the quadrangle
between Saint Edward and Saint
Francis Halls.
Dr. McTague explains that he
has seen the campus, the faculty
and staff, and the student body
grow larger than he ever thought
possible. He seems proud of
the growth and the role he says
so many people have played in
making expansion happen.
He came to Saint Leo University
after receiving his undergraduate
degree from Siena College, his
master’s from Fordham University,
and his Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo.
In graduate school, Dr. McTague
did not want to focus on American
history, and instead was attracted
to the Middle East after doing
research in 1970 on the British
Mandate of Palestine. After that,
he says, his interest in the region
steadily grew. It was exciting to
watch the current revolution that
was unfolding in Egypt, he says,
adding, “It was a long time coming.”
Dr. McTague’s interest in the
Middle East has resulted in a
book, British Policy in Palestine,
1917-1922, and more recently an
article titled, “Arab State Peace
Overtures, 1949-Present,” in the
Encyclopedia of Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict, Vol. I, edited by Cheryle
A. Rubenberg.
“My job as a teacher is to get
students to understand and
appreciate societies beyond
America,” Dr. McTague explains.
If he could give his students
“a taste of being in the Middle
East and a feel for the culture”
of the region, then he was doing
something right, he says.
Dr. McTague has passions beyond
teaching. For some 27 years he
has played rock music in the band
“Time Warp.” Founded in 1984 by
Dr. McTague and Dr. Terry Danner,
a professor of criminal justice at
Saint Leo, the band has entertained
its share of students, faculty and
members of the public alike.
Another of Dr. McTague’s passions
is world travel. He has been to
Turkey, Morocco, Peru, the Amazon
jungle, and China. The thin air
of Peru was hard to breathe, he
says, and the constant rain of the
Amazon was hard to take. One
gets the sense that Dr. McTague’s
travel bug is not yet sated and that
more adventures are to come.
Yet, travel is not Dr. McTague’s true
passion—acting and singing are.
Dr. McTague has performed in at
least 12 productions, the last seven
of which were musicals. Being a
member of the Community Theater
Group in Dade City, Dr. McTague
says, is truly satisfying, and is a
perfect counterpoint to his teaching
and scholarly work. As a member of
Center Stage Players, Dr. McTague
has performed in “South Pacific,”
“Guys and Dolls,” “My Fair Lady,”
and “The Sound of Music,” among
others. Listening to him talk about
these productions, one can see
that it was no great leap for Jack
McTague to move from being behind
the academic podium to being up
on stage.
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SCHOLARSHIP
JACCI WHITE, Ed.D.
PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS
D
r. Jacquelyn White
has been teaching
mathematics to undergraduates in Florida
for almost 20 years. She began her
career as the Mathematics Division Chair at Florida Technical
College in 1992 before accepting
a position at Brevard Community
College (BCC) in 1993. While at
BCC, Dr. White was the principal
investigator on two National Science Foundation grants and was
tenured as an assistant professor
of mathematics before joining the
SLU faculty in 1998.
Since joining the SLU family, Dr.
White has had an exceptional
career as an educator and
researcher, and in her service
to the community. Examples of
her accomplishments include:
serving on the executive board
of the University Senate for 11 of
the last 12 years; membership on
the Board of Trustees since 2009;
receiving the 2007 Outstanding
Teacher of the Year for higher
education math in the state
of Florida; being named 2007
Researcher of the Year for SLU
School of Arts and Sciences;
recieving the 2005 Phyllis Meek
Service Award in recognition of
leadership, guidance and service
to the Florida Association for
Women in Education; and being
included in Who’s Who Among
America’s Teachers 2003-2006. In
recognition of her contribution
to the Saint Leo community, Dr.
White was promoted in 2008 from
associate professor to professor of
mathematics.
Dr. White’s educational
background includes a Bachelor
of Arts in mathematics from
Rollins College, a Master of
Arts in applied mathematics
from University of California,
Santa Barbara, and a doctorate
in curriculum and instruction
for higher education from the
University of Central Florida. It
was while performing her doctoral
studies at UCF that her interest
in studying student learning was
ignited. Since then, the majority
of her scholarship has centered
on student teaching and learning.
Examples of this include several
articles studying the impact that
service learning, MyMathLab
(online tutorials), calculator
technology, and online learning
have on higher education students.
Dr. White has also produced and
appeared in several tutorial videos
used to supplement more than
eight different textbooks. In 2006,
She coauthored her first book, An
Intersection of Finite Mathematics
and Benedictine Values. Shortly
after that book was published,
she wrote The Value of Thinking
Mathematically. As is evident
from their titles, these books
challenge students to go beyond
the use of only a mathematical
formula. Instead, students
are encouraged to use math in
combination with their values
to arrive at the “best solution”
(critical thinking + core values =
decision making).
In the last five years, the math
program at Saint Leo has grown
by leaps and bounds, from being
offered as a minor (started by
Dr. White in 2001) to its current
status as a vibrant major with
32 students pursuing a Bachelor
of Arts. Because of this growth,
Dr. White and other math faculty
members now serve as research
advisors to a growing number of
senior capstone projects. One
such project, with Dr. White as the
faculty advisor, won Outstanding
Undergraduate Computer Science
and Mathematics paper at the
2009 Florida Academy of Sciences
conference.
Jacci White’s scholarship
activities at Saint Leo are
student-focused, ranging from
her research of new teaching
methods to her mentorship of
fledgling mathematicians and
to the publication of books that
advocate a holistic approach to
problem solving.
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SERV CE
D
r. Randall “Woody”
Woodard, assistant
professor of theology,
exemplifies Saint
Leo University’s core value
of community through his
commitment to service and
social justice. Since joining the
Department of Religion, Philosophy,
and Theology faculty in 2008, Dr.
Woodard’s engagement with many
service projects as both a leader
and participant has enriched
the campus community as well
as the larger local and global
communities. Educated in the
Catholic tradition, he received a
B.A. from Franciscan University,
an M.A. from Providence College,
an M.Ed. from the University
of Manitoba, and a Ph.D. from
Duquesne University.
Some of Dr. Woodard’s recent
service projects have included the
development and leadership of
social justice initiatives through
ongoing workshops designed to
enrich faculty commitment to social
justice and service in the classroom.
He also organized a viewing of
a recent documentary about
religion and peacemaking which
was followed by a panel discussion
featuring local interfaith scholars.
Rev. Anthony Kissel, associate
professor of religion, says, “Dr.
Woodard is a dedicated theologian
who helps his students apply the
RANDALL WOODARD, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY
gospel virtues of faith, hope, and
love to real world social justice
concerns. He is a creative scholar
and skilled professor who provides
opportunities for his students to
actively engage in life changing
service learning experiences.”
During the spring 2011 semester,
Dr. Woodard offered HUS
101: Service Learning, a class
designed for students interested
in empowering and revitalizing
their communities through
volunteer work. In March, the
class traveled to Immokalee,
FL, to work with the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers. Dr. Woodard
has supported this organization in
the past by sponsoring a campus
visit of the Florida Modern-Day
Slavery Museum, a traveling
exhibit that memorializes the
plight of Florida’s migrant and
largely immigrant farmworkers.
Recently, he brought his fraternity,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, to work
with an organization that
supports farmworkers.
Dr. Woodard’s service projects
often focus on outreach at a global
level, including traveling to schools
in Haiti several times to work
with children, and most recently
traveling with Saint Leo’s Haitian
Education Program (HEP) to
volunteer at an orphanage. In 2009,
he established the International
Journal of African Catholicism to
give voice to the African experience
of Catholicism among global
scholars, and in December 2010, he
led a group of students on a SERVE*
trip to Ecuador.
During his time off-campus, Dr.
Woodard continues his dedication to
supporting his community through
volunteer work. He lends a hand
at a local soup kitchen through his
church, organizes soccer clinics for
local children of migrant workers,
and recently hosted a group of
children at a Saint Leo women’s
soccer game.
Randall Woodard credits his wife,
Rose, for his dedication to helping
others. “I have really have been
challenged by my wife’s incredible
passion for those in need and the
example she sets as well as constant
development she makes in terms
of loving others,” he explains. “She
has helped me become less selfish
and move toward being open to
others. It’s a process, and I’m trying
to grow.” He believes that “we’re
called to promote and respect
human dignity in every person.
We are called to live in solidarity
with our one human family, to do
what we can to help our brothers
and sisters.” Randall Woodard’s
dedication inspires his colleagues
and students at Saint Leo University
to embrace the spirit of community
and service.
*SERVE is Students Engaged in Rewarding Volunteer Experiences, a student directed initiative that provides members
of the Saint Leo University community with opportunities to participate in service learning spring break mission
trips. Trips are designed to promote living the Benedictine core values of community, respect, integrity, personal
development, excellence, and responsible stewardship through service to those in need.
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Lights, Camera, Learning
Susan Ardern, Lead Contract Faculty of Fine Arts
Like most college
teachers leading a
classroom lesson,
Susan Ardern
often peers into
the faces of her
students and asks them questions
to make sure they understand
the material. What sets Ardern
apart among teachers is the added
challenge of not having all the
students in her fine arts class in
the same Langley, VA, classroom
with her. Some are not even in
the same city or the same state.
Fortunately, Ardern is adept at
the use of video teleconferencing
technology, or VTT, which permits
two or more locations to share
the same class time, and to see
and hear each other via television
monitors. Because of VTT, students
at some Saint Leo locations that
are too small to support an onsite instructor can still enroll in
the same classroom-led courses
with the same instructor as their
counterparts elsewhere.
“It’s really a
joy to teach
this class...
It enriches
my life.”
And since the course Ardern
teaches most often—integrated fine
arts—is required of all students at
Saint Leo, her proficiency with VTT
is essential.
So while Ardern stands only feet
away from students in a Langley, VA,
classroom, she may also be teaching
another five students at Naval Air
Station Key West, FL, and another
eight at Shaw Air Force Base near
Charleston, SC. “You really have to
be on your toes,” she says.
While observing and engaging
students in multiple locations,
she must also stay within range
of the camera broadcasting her
image. She keeps in mind the
advantages and disadvantages of
VTT instruction given the various
art forms covered in the course,
as well. “Visual work is better
than auditory. Music is not quite
as successful because of a threesecond sound delay.”
Accordingly, she instructs students
to attend live performing arts
events and write about them, and
to visit a museum or gallery. For
another assignment, she requires
the students stand in front of the
lens and deliver oral reports to
their peers about one aspect of
the life or work of an artist so
that they gain experience not just
in public speaking, but in public
speaking on camera to fellow
students elsewhere. In the process
of hearing those presentations,
she says, she invariably learns
something new about an artist, as
do her students. “It’s really a joy
to teach this class,” she says. “It
enriches my life.”
Outstanding Alumnus
Jerry Hansen ’89
Gerald D. “Jerry” Hansen ’89 is
an outstanding alumnus of the
School of Arts and Sciences. Jerry,
who earned his B.A. in sociology
cum laude at the university’s
continuing education center
at MacDill Air Force Base, is a
very warm and giving man who
epitomizes the Saint Leo core
values of excellence, community,
and personal development.
Now executive director of
The Builder’s Exchange, Inc.,
Hansen is also a retired U.S.
Air Force Master Sergeant; expresident of the International
Builders Exchange Executives;
co-chairperson of Paint Your Heart
Out, Tampa; and a board member
of Messiah Lutheran School. He
has been giving of himself to his
community for most of his adult life.
Hansen’s Air Force career started
when, after a year of college
at Concordia University in
Wisconsin, he joined for a fouryear tour during the Vietnam
conflict. “Next thing you know it
was 21 years later,” he says. He
served at Holloman Air Force Base
(New Mexico), Japan, Germany,
and MacDill Air Force Base in
Tampa, where he was on special
assignment to teach Professional
Military Education (PME).
It was at MacDill AFB in 1986
that Hansen decided to continue
his education through Saint Leo
College’s Military Education
Program—now the university’s
10 S a i nt L e o Un iver sity
Division of Continuing Education.
He chose Saint Leo because there
were “so many good courses
available” and “it was a nice
atmosphere.” English literature
classes available during the lunch
hour with Professor Don Lewis
stand out as memorable to Hansen.
Asked how he was able to balance
school, a military career, and
family, Hansen says, “Because my
wife did such a good job raising
the four kids while I was in school.”
Also, he says the Saint Leo faculty
at MacDill understood that
students had to juggle military
and family responsibilities
with their studies, and were
accordingly flexible. While
working on his Saint Leo degree,
he was also teaching accredited
Non-Commissioned Officer
PME courses.
During this time, Hansen was
proclaimed “Tampa Military
Citizen of the Year,” and he, his
wife Vickie, and their children
were honored as MacDill’s
“Enlisted Family of the Year”
for their volunteer work with
organizations such as HandsOn
Tampa Bay. While in the military,
Hansen also participated in and
helped to promote the Senior
Home Improvement Program
(SHIP) which enlisted the students
from the NCO Leadership School
to paint houses for the elderly as
a class project. With the success
of this initiative, he convinced
MacDill’s First Sergeants to put
together additional work crews to
paint more houses. This project
led to what is known today as Paint
Your Heart Out, Tampa. After 23
years, Hansen is still very active
with the organization that former
Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio has called
“the best all-volunteer program
that this community has ever had.”
Recently, Hansen’s wife was
diagnosed with ALS. In
typical fashion, Hansen began
volunteering for the ALS
Association to help people with
ALS have a voice and to help to
raise money toward finding a cure.
Asked if being a Saint Leo student
all those years ago inspired him
to value community service,
Hansen responds, “Volunteering
is a deep part of military tradition,
so maybe the military has helped
Saint Leo to develop its philosophy
of volunteering. It’s always been
the way of my life in the military.”
Outstanding Alumna
Audrey Cate ’87
Audrey Cate graduated from Saint
Leo in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree
in religious education and English.
Part of her college experience
included living in the residential
hall at the Holy Name Monastery
where, each week, she sang and
played guitar for the Sunday
evening Mass in the chapel and
participated in events sponsored by
the Benedictine Sisters of Florida. The Sisters often included student
residents in their community
meals and weekend retreats
where they shared the teachings
of Saint Benedict. “I am grateful
for the years I lived at Saint Leo
where I became acquainted with
Benedictine spirituality. I still enjoy
reading daily reflections of The
Rule of Saint Benedict, who teaches
us to live a life that balances work,
study, and prayer,” Cate says. The
practice of “balance” has allowed
Cate to work full time, continue
her commitment to being a lifelong
learner, and raise four children.
During her years living at the
monastery, Cate also learned
the comfort of spending time in
solitude. “Observing periods
of silence, and practicing a
contemplative lifestyle in the midst
of a busy world is something even
lay persons can achieve.” One way
Cate builds this practice into her life
is by “unplugging” and turning off
her radio and cell phone during her
long commute to work each day. It’s
a simple approach that has become
part of her regular routine. “At
first it takes discipline to break the
habit of being constantly connected
through technologies around us
but the reward is worth the effort.”
The moments of quiet reflection
help prepare her for the day ahead
and serve as a means to process
the day’s events as she drives home
each evening. “Many times this
practice helps me to soften my
attitude towards a difficult situation
I may be struggling with,” Cate says.
One of Cate’s favorite quotes by
Ralph Waldo Emerson captures the
value of practicing this idea: “Let
us be silent that we may hear the
whisper of God.”
After 20 years working with young
people in youth ministry programs
and teaching high school, Cate
returned to Saint Leo University
and earned a Master of Education
in educational leadership. Even
with the challenges of being a
working mother entering into a fulltime distance learning graduate
program, there was no question that
Saint Leo would once again be her
school of choice. The university’s
core values of excellence,
community, and integrity directly
align with her new career as
Project Manager at the Institute of
Nuclear Power Operations (INPO).
INPO was created after the Three
Mile Island event and provides
accreditation of training programs
at all commercial nuclear power
plants in the United States. Cate’s
role as project manager allows her
to serve the global community by
managing the Nuclear Uniform
Curriculum Program and
developing and evaluating effective
leadership training across the
entire industry.
Cate sees similarities between
the monastic community and the
nuclear industry. The Institute of
Nuclear Power Operations fosters
an attitude of sharing and learning
across the industry. The goal is to
support each other in an effort to
constantly make improvements.
Saint Benedict stated, “Founding a
monastery is a continuous process
of sawing to build your design and
trying to dispose of the sawdust,
while you’re always being forced to
reconstruct. You have to give it your
all and it’s never done.” One of the
institute’s core values is excellence,
Audrey Cate says, “We demand
excellence of ourselves and expect
it from others. Choosing a career
at INPO allows me to put into
practice the values I learned while
at Saint Leo University, and that is
important to me.”
David Salviejo atop the Duomo
La Dolce Vita:
Italy Immersion
Course
When we climbed the last stair of the Duomo and the
crisp November air of a Florentine morning washed
over us, we fell into a hushed silence. We were at the
very top of the dome of the Florence cathedral and
all the city was spread out before us.
Since August, our class had met three times a week
in Lewis Hall to unravel the mysterious skein of
magic Italy has woven to bewitch the hearts and
minds of travelers and citizens alike. Like so many
others before us—Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Goethe,
Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Mark Twain—we
found ourselves just as beguiled. We knew then that
what the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova said was
right: we would never be the same, for “Italy is a
dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.”
Under the course title IDS 340: International
Influences in Arts and Humanities in the Western
World, Elisabeth Aiken and I team-teach three
rotating classes that focus, respectively, on the
United Kingdom and Ireland, France or Italy.
These courses seek to promote within students an
understanding of British and American perceptions
of themselves and Europe. We accomplish this
task primarily by studying the art, literature, and
historic events that inspired British and American
authors. After 13 weeks in the classroom, the entire
class travels to Britain, France or Italy for nine days
of cultural immersion.
An immersion education experience is more than
just going on a trip and staring, mouths agape, at
monuments. It’s being prepared by challenging and
thorough coursework that reflects both the dynamic
nature of the classes and the host country. Each of
these courses strives to provide the student with the
knowledge and sensitivity needed to be an informed
traveler, wholly open to new experiences.
Chapel or the Colosseum armed
with a wealth of information, our
appreciation of the work increases
tenfold.
Kelly Norris holding up the tower of Pisa
Because Aiken and I believe that
the marriage of knowledge and
experience breeds the very best
memories, any one of our students
peering over Florence, Rome
or Pisa from atop the domes of
those cities could have pointed
out landmarks to you, told you
when important buildings were
constructed, by whom, and for
what purpose. It’s been our
experience that when we approach
works of art like the Sistine
In order to give our students
every opportunity to excel
in the classroom and have a
complete and enlightening travel
experience, we work hard to
ensure the class and trip are
academically sound and snafufree. Creating, organizing,
and supervising an immersion
education experience is
demanding in every imaginable
way—and it’s also the best fun.
Aiken and I approach every idea
and every chore together and
since we are of one mind on so
many things, we find working
together to be a great source of
satisfaction.
Our creative process is now
focused on sculpting the British
leg of the series that will take
place in the fall of 2012. As we
walk in the footsteps of Yeats,
Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Robert
Louis Stevenson, and Henry
VIII, we will build memories that
forever more will lead us back
through winding, narrow streets
to the storied cities of London,
Dublin, and Edinburgh.
Karen Bryant is an
instructor of Fine Arts
for the School of Arts and
Sciences.
Allison Cary and Alisha Adams at the Colosseum
THY 700: In the Footsteps of Saint Paul
An Immersion Learning Course in Turkey and Greece
Imagine retracing one of the greatest physical and spiritual journeys of all time. This is the ambitious challenge to be offered
by the Graduate Theology Program this fall. Associate Professor Anthony Kissel will lead a group of students, deacons, lay
ministers, priests, and others on a journey retracing the steps of Saint Paul in a
quest to better understand the inner journey of faith and commitment that Paul
experienced. The group will travel through Turkey and Greece from October
9 to 19 in an attempt to better understand Paul’s inner transformation and the
rise of the early church. The goal of the trip will be to stimulate the possibility of
inner growth and shared transformation, accomplished as the travelers sojourn
together, interact with each other, and discuss their responses and insights.
Participation in the trip will not require registration in a college course.
Visit www.travelillume.com/trc/sle for more information.
A New Face for Science:
Biology Lab Renovations
The second floor of Lewis Hall
will be getting a major makeover!
Work started in May 2011 on the
first of three biology laboratories
to be renovated, Room 217 of Lewis
Hall. Renovations were made in
2005 to the third floor, including
the integration of lecture and
laboratory space in the chemistry
laboratory, followed by a major
overhaul of the two chemistry
laboratories in 2006. Phase 1 of
this latest renovation project will
transform Room 217 into a stateof-the-art teaching laboratory for
biology.
The Biology Laboratory Renovation
Committee has been meeting since
January 2010 with Lunz, Prebor,
Fowler Architects to update the
existing space to accommodate
new technology and teaching
techniques. New wooden student
work tables with chemical resistant
epoxy countertops and matching
cabinetry will replace existing
benches and cabinets. Student
work tables will be angled to
improve visibility along with new
indirect fluorescent lighting to
minimize glare. New cabinetry
will be installed to provide much
needed laboratory storage. The
cabinets will come installed with
marker board laminates on the
front of the doors, which will
afford more space for faculty
members and students to write
instructions and notes, which can
be particularly useful in helping
students working in small groups.
Large wall-mounted Smart
Boards, wall-mounted TV monitors
and horizontal white boards with
hidden storage will finish out the
laboratory space. Laboratories
will have wireless data service.
In addition, new flooring and a
suspended acoustical ceiling tile
system will be installed.
The three rooms adjacent to
Room 217 will be transformed into
an enlarged space dedicated to
laboratory preparation work. It will
have a center island and ample
room for small groups to assemble
and prepare materials to be used
in hundreds of student laboratory
exercises each year. Though this
work happens beyond the view of
many students, each and every
one will benefit from the enhanced
efficiency made possible by the new
space. Previously, faculty members
and student workers have had to
cram this important function into
existing laboratory space, and work
between scheduled laboratory
classes. The preparation space
will also be equipped with a new
Millipore water purification system,
new refrigeration equipment,
sterilization equipment, and a new
dishwashing system. New fume
hoods will be installed in both the
teaching laboratory space and the
preparation area.
Lewis Hall laboratories in Rooms
224 and 208 will be renovated
during Phase 2 of the renovation
project, beginning in May of 2012.
The laboratory configuration will
be similar to the Phase 1 project.
Additions to these spaces will
include a walk-in cold room and an
improved chemical storage room.
The number of students majoring in
biology at Saint Leo has increased
dramatically over the last 10 years,
and we expect this trend to continue
as demand for jobs in the health
professions and basic sciences
increases. The complete makeover
of the laboratories and preparatory
areas will create an environment
much more suitable to learning and
teaching in the 21st century.
Celebrating
Women’s History
In March, the School of Arts and
Sciences marked Women’s History Month
with a series of events celebrating the
contributions and achievements of women.
The celebration began with a panel
discussion “Women’s Health: Then and
Now” with faculty members Dr. Patricia
Campion, Dr. Audrey Shor, Dr. Rhondda
Waddell, and Dr. Galo Alava. Later in
the month, students reflected on women’s
achievements in the arts and sciences
through commemorative posters exhibited
in the Student Community Center.
A third event, co-hosted by the Saint Leo
University Film Society, was a viewing and
discussion of the powerful film “Winter’s
Bone,” which tells the story of a young
woman from the Ozark Mountains who
must track down her drug-dealing father
in order to save her family’s home.
WoMen’s
History MontH
SponSored by the School of ArtS And ScienceS
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Women’s HealtH: tHen
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A panel discussion with Saint leo University faculty members:
dr. patricia campion, dr. Audrey Shor, dr. rhondda Waddell,
and dr. Galo Avala
thursday, March 10, 2011 | 7 p.m.
Selby Auditorium
Celebrating Women’s aCHievements
in tHe
arts
and
sCienCes
A poster exhibit featuring important women in the history of
the Arts and Sciences
thursday, March 24, 2011 | 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Greenfelder-denlinger boardroom | Student community center
“Winter’s bone”
Winner of the Grand Jury prize for dramatic film at the 2010
Sundance film festival and nominated for four 2011 Academy
Awards including best picture and best Actress
discussion with faculty to follow the film
Monday, March 28, 2011 | 7 p.m.
Selby Auditorium
this event is co-sponsored by the Saint leo University film
Society’s 2010-2011 core Values Series.
building Your Personal HistorY
With keynote speaker Alex Sink, 2010 democratic party
nominee for Governor of florida
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 | 7 p.m.
for more information, contact director of fine Arts events
Allyson Marino at (352) 588-8662 or [email protected]
The Women’s History Month
celebration concluded with
a keynote address by former
Florida gubernatorial
candidate Alex Sink on
the topic of “Building Your
Personal History.”
GreenFaith is an interfaith
environmental coalition whose
mission is to educate and
mobilize diverse religious
communities for environmental
leadership. The GreenFaith
Fellowship Program is the only
comprehensive program in the
U.S. to prepare both lay and
ordained professionals from
diverse religious traditions for
environmental leadership.
Dr. van Tine is working with the
other GreenFaith Fellows in many
areas of ecotheology, “greening”
the operation of institutions,
environmental advocacy, and
environmental justice. Each
Fellow carries out a leadership
project, often mobilizing
religious leaders in relation to
an environmental issue. Upon
graduating, he will join the
Fellowship’s alumni network and
mentor other emerging leaders
in this field.
GreenFaith Fellow:
Dr. Robin van Tine
Dr. Robin van Tine, professor of
biology, was selected this year
to be a GreenFaith Fellow to
help create an environmentally
just and sustainable world. The
fellowship’s class of 25 comes from
diverse religious backgrounds—
Jewish, Muslim, Evangelical and
Pentecostal Christian, mainline
Protestant, Roman Catholic, and
Unitarian Universalist—from
all across the U.S. Fellows work
in a wide variety of settings,
including congregations,
universities, campus ministries,
non-governmental organizations,
and denominational organizations.
“We’re thrilled to welcome
Dr. van Tine to the program,”
said Rabbi Lawrence Troster,
fellowship program director.
“We look forward to working with
him to support his growth as a
religious-environmental leader.”
Dr. van Tine has been
teaching about environmental
sustainability for many decades
and is also a religious leader,
deeply involved in “Green
Spirituality” and ecotheology.
He has presented many papers
at academic gatherings around
the world on comparative
ecospirituality, ecotheology,
ecopsychology, and applied
environmental ethics. Since
1982, he has taught courses in life
science, physical science, biology,
environmental science, health
science, oceanography, animal
behavior and environmental
If we know and
feel—at a gut
level—that we
are related to
all of life, and
studies. He has recently developed
and is now teaching the first
online environmental studies
course at Saint Leo University, a
required course for the Bachelor
of Arts in liberal studies. He
is working on developing an
Environmental Studies minor for
Saint Leo, and a possible green
course for the university’s MBA
program. He is past chair of the
Newport News Environmental
Commission.
Dr. van Tine’s GreenFaith
Fellowship has been endorsed
by the School of Arts & Sciences
of Saint Leo University, by his
church, and by the TJ District
(southeastern US) of the Unitarian
Universalist Association. As
a GreenFaith Fellow, he will
be initiating Environmental
Justice and Ecotheological
leadership programs and applied
ecologically ethical projects
for both Saint Leo University
and the southeastern district
of his denomination. He finds
his interactions with the
other GreenFaith Fellows both
intellectually and spiritually
nurturing. The mutual support
network of Muslim, Protestant,
Catholic, Evangelical and Jewish
religious professionals renews
and supports his deeply held
convictions and life’s work.
His work is informed by Saint
Leo University’s core value
of responsible stewardship,
and Unitarian Universalism’s
7 th Principle: Respect for the
interdependent web of existence
of which we are a part.
For more information about
GreenFaith, see www.greenfaith.org.
interdependent
with all of life, if
we feel that all
of life and our
relationships with
it are sacred, if we
feel that the air,
the water and soil
are sacred, will
we continue to
poison, waste and
destroy creation?
If we can find
ways to celebrate
our innate sense
of the sacredness
of creation, then
our destruction of
nature will cease.
Robin van Tine
“Gaeaphobia: Ecophobia,
Ecomania and ‘Otherness’
in the Late 20th Century”
Jacci White and Patrick Crerand
Honors Program:
Meet the New Team
Dr. Hudson Reynolds, professor of
political science, stepped down as
director of the Honors Program at the end
of last year. Dr. Patrick Crerand, assistant
professor of English, took up the position,
with help from Dr. Jacci White, professor
of mathematics, in her second year as
assistant director.
Dr. Crerand is in his third year at Saint
Leo. He completed his Ph.D. in English
at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
Aside from teaching courses in English
and creative writing, he has published
numerous short stories in professional
journals, newspapers, and magazines.
To balance his background in the
humanities, Dr. White, who has been with
Saint Leo for more than 12 years. She is
passionate about teaching math in higher
education, and conducts her research in
that area.
The Honors Program, active since 1982,
has grown over the decades to reach 143
students this year. Dr. Crerand describes
it as “liberal arts in their purest form,
an opportunity to take historically
arranged, multidisciplinary classes.”
The small class size and seminar format
emphasize creative discussions about
the ideas presented in original texts
from antiquity to the contemporary era.
Freshmen also have the opportunity to
work in an apprenticeship with a faculty
member of their choice, for a semester or
two. Fourteen students this year enrolled
in this course, covering a wide range of
disciplines from English to computer
science and social work. In their senior
honors projects, students spend a
semester researching and exploring a
topic and then work one-on-one with a
faculty mentor over a semester
to learn how to conduct research
in the field. They present
their findings in professional
settings, preparing to conduct
formal research in their future
endeavors.
Dr. Crerand has plans to expand
and strengthen the existing
program, some of which have
already been implemented. It
all started last summer with
the creation of a Facebook
site for the program and a
reception for incoming students
and parents during the July
orientation weekend. New
enrollees also participated
in a special orientation day
where they learned about the
sequence of honors courses. A
Students Honors Council was also
created to serve as an advisory
board to the director. And in
February 2011, the program held
a scholarship day to reward
several outstanding applicants.
Finally, Dr. Crerand and Dr.
White have worked to enhance
Scholarship Day
Incoming honors student and family members
service learning and community
engagement inside and outside of
the classroom. In addition to their
regular participation in campuswide community service days, in
2010, honors students led more
than half of the Saint Leo
SERVE* trips.
This year, for the first time,
incoming freshmen will be
participating in a common text
reading over the summer. Also
over the summer, Dr. Crerand will
attend a City as Text™ conference
in Santa Fe with the aim of
bringing this interdisciplinary
travel component to Saint
Leo’s main campus. Through
the program, students work in
small teams to explore urban or
ecological issues. Next year, Drs.
Crerand and White plan to take
their Honors Program students
to the state honors conference to
integrate them into the program
and to foster their sense of
community.
*SERVE is Students Engaged in Rewarding Volunteer Experiences, a student
directed initiative that provides members of the Saint Leo University community
with opportunities to participate in service learning spring break mission trips.
Trips are designed to promote living the Benedictine core values of community,
respect, integrity, personal development, excellence, and responsible
stewardship through service to those in need.
Internship and Fellowship News from
Arts and Sciences Undergraduates
degree from Saint Leo University
upon completion of the one-year
Bayfront program.
Margaurete Romero, an
environmental science major
who graduated in April, was an
REU Intern at the Harvard Forest
Summer Research Program
in Ecology in Petersham,
MA. Romero researched and
presented “How Climate Change
Will Affect the Ant, Aphid, Plant
Relationship” at the program’s
symposium in August 2010.
Dr. Iain Duffy, January Watters, and Linda Bergen-Losee
During the summer of 2010,
English major Sarah Stromer
completed an internship at
Associated Press in Manhattan,
in the news service’s New Media
Markets Department. She had
the opportunity to work with the
photo research team, and to work
with the sales department of the
news service. She will graduate
in 2012.
Jonathan Till, who completed
a dual major in history and
political science, also interned
during the spring semester with
Florida House Representative
Will Weatherford.
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January Watters, a senior
majoring in biology, earned a
spot in the 2011 Summer Program
for the Advancement of Research
Knowledge (SPARK) at Moffitt
Cancer Center in Tampa. She will
work directly with a mentor in
immunology.
Xao Mai T. Bui, a third-year
medical technology student,
was accepted into the Bayfront
Medical Center School of Medical
Technology as an intern in
pursuit of a Bachelor of Science
in medical technology. Bui was
one of only six students accepted
into the annual program. Bui
will be awarded her bachelor’s
Several psychology majors had
competitive internships this year:
Nicoletta Everett and Delrea
Wilson interned at Suncoast
Kid’s Place. Kimberly Young and
Olyvia Harris interned at Sunrise
of Pasco, and Kelly Harris and
Cedrika Carver had internships
at Eckerd Youth Challenge.
Margaurete Romero at Academic Excellence Day
Highlights from Our
Recent Graduates
pre-law student after working as a
paralegal and judicial assistant, has
selected Barry University Dwayne
O. Andreas Law School in Orlando
to attend in the fall. She was
accepted into five other Florida law
schools as well.
Brandon Brooks
Brandon Brooks, a biology major,
will enroll in the fall at Barry
University School of Podiatric
Medicine in Miami Shores, FL.
Bruce Cutler, a mathematics major
and soccer player from Scotland,
was awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship to help fund
his master’s degree studies in
computer science at the College of
William & Mary in Williamsburg,
VA. He will also be working as a
teaching assistant.
Lizette Martinez, an English major
who concentrated in creative
writing, will purse the Master of
Fine Arts in creative writing at
Newcastle University in England.
English major Kristina Nolan
will continue her studies in creative
writing in Boston at Emerson
College’s Master of
Fine Arts program.
Class of 2011 biology program
graduates Alysha Wilkinson and
Robin Hughes
Christian Schneider have been
accepted into Life University’s
Doctor of Chiropractic program.
A third student, Matt Smith, is the
first to be admitted under the 3+1
articulation agreement between
Life University and Saint Leo
University. Smith will be awarded
Class of 2010 biology program
graduates Chad Kucharski and
Brandy Lopez have been accepted
into the Nova Southeastern
University’s Master of Biomedical
Sciences program, a preparatory
program for admission into the NSU
College of Medicine for Kucharski,
and the NSU College of Dental
Medicine for Lopez.
Robin Hughes, who came to Saint
Leo as a political science and
Bruce Cutler with Siamack Bondari, Mathematics and Science Department Chair, at Academic
Excellence Day
Daniel Salahuddin
David Marcello
Robert Tester
his B.S. in biology from Saint Leo
University upon completion of his
first year at Life University.
Barrett Rivera, a December
2010 graduate in psychology, is
currently in a Psy.D. program at
Argosy University.
Meharry Medical College School
of Dentistry in Nashville, TN.
Daniel Salahuddin, a biology
major, has been selected for the
National Institutes of Health
Academy program in Bethesda,
MD, a nationally competitive
fellowship program in biomedical
research for future doctors
and scientists.
Two U.S. Army ROTC cadets
who became Second Lieutenants
were also named Distinguished
Military Graduates for ranking
in the top 20 percent of cadets
nationally. Second Lieutenant
David Marcello earned his
Bachelor of Arts in international
studies and Second Lieutenant
Robert Tester earned his
Bachelor of Arts in history with a
minor in international relations.
Cedrika Carver, a psychology major,
will attend a graduate program in
counseling psychology at Western
Illinois University.
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Biology program graduate
Tamara Marsh was accepted into
English program graduate
Mary Chuinko was accepted to
Pepperdine University where she
will pursue a Master of Fine Arts.
Two new vocal groups, Totally T.A.B.S. and The Saint Leo Singers, are expanding
the School of Arts and Sciences’ musical offerings. Totally T.A.B.S. (pictured),
an a cappella group known for innovative vocal arrangements of popular songs,
is directed by Director of Drama and Music Ministry Melissa Hollis (second from
left). The Saint Leo Singers, directed by Instructor of Music Cynthia Selph,
performs a wide variety of music including classical, folk, and pop.
Faculty Publications and
Conference Presentations
Elisabeth Aiken, M.A.,
Instructor of English
“Dogs, Tonight.” Tipton Poetry
Journal. Issue #20. (Winter 2011)
“Lost in the River’s Vast and
Generous Unremembering: The
Role of Rivers in Ron Rash’s One
Foot in Eden and Saints at the
River.” Southern Appalachian
Culture Series Ron Rash Festival,
Shelby, NC. (October 2010)
“A Dream of Beatrice.” Poem. Dr.
Mossberg’s Poetry Hour: Poetry
Slowdown. KRXA 540 AM. (March
13, 2011)
“Promoting Student Engagement
with Classroom Technology.”
Conference on College
Composition and Communication,
Computer Connection, Atlanta,
GA. (April 2011)
“La Dolce Vita: (Re)Creating the
Grand Tour through Collaborative
Teaching.” Co-authored with
K. Bryant. College English
Association Conference, St.
Petersburg, FL. (April 2011)
Tyson Anderson, Ph.D.,
Professor of Theology and Religion
“Doing the Truth: Reflections
on the Philosophy of Georg
Kuhlewind and American
Pragmatism.” Invited lecture at
The Logos Workshop, New York
City. (October 21, 2010)
Karen Bryant, M.A.,
“Review of Nigel Aston’s Art and
Religion in Eighteenth-Century
Europe.” Religion in the Age of the
Enlightenment 2: 379-382. (2010)
“Lost Gardens.” Essay. Dr.
Mossberg’s Poetry Hour: Poetry
Slowdown. KRXA 540 AM. (March
20, 2011)
“From ‘Rude Boys’ to ‘Complete
Gentlemen’: Identity Construction
in the Age of the Grand Tour.”
South Central Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, St.
Simons Island, GA. (February 2011)
Patricia Campion, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Sociology
“Towards the Internationalization
of Religious Capital?” Sociology in
a Changing World: Challenges and
Perspectives, edited by G. Katsas.
Athens, Greece: ATINER (2009)
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“Walk a Mile in Someone Else’s
Shoes: Teaching Diversity and
Social Justice in Introduction to
Sociology.” Paper presented to
the annual meeting of the Justice
Studies Association in Knoxville,
TN. (June 2010)
“The Role of Religious
Organizations in the Integration
of New Immigrant Populations: A
Comparison of Southern Louisiana
and Middle-Tennessee.” Presented
at the Annual meeting of the
Southern Sociological Society, New
Orleans, LA. (April 2009)
Needs Assessment of Hispanic
Parents in Monterey, TN.
Prepared for the L.B.J. & C.
Head Start. Research funded
by the American Sociological
Association’s Sydney S. Spivack
Program in Applied Social
Research and Social Policy
Community Action Research
Award. (October 2009)
Patrick J. Crerand, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of English
Artists’ retreat residency with
The Ragdale Foundation in Lake
Forest, IL. (Summer 2010)
“The Glory of Keys.” McSweeney’s
Quarterly Concern. Ed. Dave
Eggers. #35 (2010)
“Death at the Shower” and “The
Jacket.” Requited. (2010)
“42nd and Lexington.”
ekleksographia. 4.1. (August 2010)
“The Fleas.” St. Petersburg Times
(February 6, 2011)
“Between the Hyphens: Building
the Writing Community Using
Prose-Poetry/Flash-Fiction.” Coauthored with K. Wilt. Florida
College English Association
Annual Conference. Rollins
College, Winter Park, FL.
(October 2010)
S c h o ol o f A r t s & S c ien c e s 2 011 D e a n’s R e p o r t 2 3
“The Pedagogy of Creative
Writing.” Association of Writers
and Writing Programs Annual
Conference in Washington, D.C.
(2010)
William T. Ditewig, Ph.D.,
Forming Deacons: Ministers of Soul
and Leaven. With M.J. Tkacik. New
York: Paulist Press. (2010)
“A Letter to a Newly-Ordained
Deacon,” National Catholic
Reporter. (February 2010)
“The Diaconate Today,” at the
Vatican. (March 2011)
“The Future of the Diaconate,”
Boston College, Chesnut Hill, MA.
(March 2011)
B. Lee Hobbs, Ph.D.,
“Facebooking Your Students:
What Role(s) Should Online Social
Networking Play in Academia?”
Florida College English
Association Annual Conference.
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.
(October 2010)
“Steampunk.” Sense of Wonder:
A Century of Science Fiction.
Ed. L. Grossman. Swordsmith
Productions. (Forthcoming Fall
2011)
“Edible Currency: The
Commodified Human Body in
Post-Millennial, Post-Apocalyptic
Literature and Film.”Annual
Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.
(March 2011)
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Valerie E. Kasper, M.A.,
“The Failure and Oppression
Associated with Patriarchal Views
in Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s
Gourd Vine.” Florida College
English Association Annual
Conference. Rollins College,
Winter Park, FL. (October 2010)
Allyson Marino, M.A.,
Director of Fine Arts Events
“Food Production and Identity
Consumption in Tsitsi
Dangarembga’s Nervous
Conditions.” Annual College
English Association Conference,
St. Petersburg, FL. (March 2011)
David McGinnis, M.F.A.,
Assistant Professor of English,
Director of Theatre
“Mr. Healthy’s Happy Land.”
Thirteen episodes. Season 1, video
series. (Forthcoming Summer 2011)
“Mr. Healthy’s Happy Land.”
Stageplay. Orlando Fringe
Festival. (May 2011)
“Mr. Healthy’s Happy Land.” Stage
premiere in Orlando, FL. Dir. D.
McGinnis. (May 2011)
Michael McLaughlin, S.T.D.,
Assistant Professor of Theology
and Religion
“Comparative Theology: The
Postcolonial Corrective.”
Presented at the Postcolonial
Theology Network Conference
hosted jointly by the Lincoln
Institute at the University of
Manchester, United Theological
College and the Society of Biblical
Studies in India, Bangalore, India.
(January 20-23, 2010)
“What has Bhakti to Do with
Mysticism? Embodiment,
Aesthetics and Models of
Realization.” Panel discussion
respondent at the American
Academy of Religion Annual
Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (October 31,
2010)
Christopher J. Miller, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Biology
and Environmental Science
Review of Growing American
Rubber: Strategic Plants and the
Politics of National Security by
Mark Finlay. Economic Botany
65(1). (2010) “Conducting Undergraduate
Research and Service Learning
in a Small Liberal Arts College
Setting” Presented with Drs.
Iain Duffy and Howard Carey at
the 3rd Annual Florida Statewide
Symposium: Engagement in
Undergraduate Research. University of Central Florida,
Orlando, FL. (October 9, 2010)
“Alternatives to Deforestation
in the Amazon” Invited talk at
University of South Florida, St.
Petersburg, FL. (February 22, 2010)
“Conducting Ecological Research
and Community Service: Killing
(?) Two Birds with One Stone”
Presented at the 2nd Annual
Florida Statewide Symposium: Engagement in Undergraduate
Research. Orlando, FL.
(September 26, 2009)
“Mapping and documenting forest
resources in Amazonia: Assisting
Communities with efforts to
manage useful palm species.”
Presented with J. Penn, M. van
Sledright, and A. Guel at the 50 th
Annual Society for Economic
Botany meeting. Charleston, SC.
(June 2, 2009)
“Restoration of aguajales (Mauritia
flexuosa) Palm Swamps in
Amazonian Peru: A Proposal.”
Presented at 73rd Annual Meeting
of the Florida Academy of
Sciences. Saint Leo University,
Saint Leo, FL. (March 20, 2009)
Leo E. Ondrovic, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Biology
and Physics
Evaluation of Porcine Model to
Teach Ancillary Procedures to
Gynecologic Oncology Fellows.
With M.S. Hoffman, R.M. Wenham,
S.M. Apte, M.L. Shames; E.E.
Zervos, W.S. Weinberg, and W.S.
Roberts in American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynecology. 201(1):
116.e1-3 (2009)
“Incorporating First Source
Reading and Media Elements in
a Science Survey Course.” With
T. Arnold. Presented at the 73rd
Annual Meeting of the Florida
Academy of Sciences. Saint Leo
University, Saint Leo, FL.
(March 20, 2009)
“Incorporating Media in Science
Courses Enhances Learning”
Presented with T. Arnold at
Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning (SoTL) Conference,
Statesboro, GA (March 13, 2009)
“The Envelope.” The Sandhill
Review. Saint Leo University, Saint
Leo, FL. Volume 10 (Spring 2009)
Marco Rimanelli, Ph.D., Professor of
Political Science
Heather Parker, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of History
NATO & Other International
Security Organizations: Historical
Dictionary. Lanham, MD:
Scarecrow/Rowman & Littlefield.
(2009)
“Field Fusion: Interdisciplinarity
and the Confluence of the Social
Sciences and the Humanities
within the Study and Practice
of History.” Paper presented to
the International Conference on
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences,
Cambridge University, Cambridge,
England. (2010)
“Smoke and Mirrors: Presidential
Rhetoric and the Politics of
Inclusiveness in Mid-TwentiethCentury America.” Paper presented
to the NAAAS National Conference,
Baton Rouge, (LA. 2009)
Donald Pharr, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of English
“‘Is That a Hay Tree?:’ Contextual
Problems for Students of
Twentieth-Century American
Literature and Film.” Florida
Annual Conference. Rollins
College, Winter Park, FL.
(October 2010)
Hudson Reynolds, Ph.D.,
Political Science
“Using Core Texts to Enrich
Honors Curricula.” Presented at
the 45th Annual Conference of
the National Collegiate Honors
Council in Kansas City, MO.
(October 2010)
“NATO in the Post-Cold War:
Enlargements, Globalized Security
and Oil in the Middle-East/Central
Asia.” Paper presented to the
IMISE Conference, Naples, Italy.
(2009)
“U.S./NATO Geo-Strategic
Lessons-Learned from II Gulf War:
Iraq-Iran Regional Stabilization or
Exit Strategies?” Paper presented
to the Florida Conference of
Historians. (2009)
“NATO & Iraq: Lessons-Learned.”
Paper presented to the regional
Florida Conference of Historians,
Ft. Myers, FL. (2010)
“Third World Challenges in
E-Learning.” Paper presented
to the GUIDE Conference 2010,
Rome, Italy. (2010)
“NATO’s Transformation and
‘Out-of-Area’ Peacekeeping:
Afghanistan, Iraq, ex-Yugoslavia &
Mediterranean, 1970-2010.” Paper
presented to the ATINER-Athens
Technological Institute, Athens,
Greece. (2010)
Participant in international
conference: “Iran & Nuclear
Weapons” at French Senate, Paris.
(2010)
“NATO from Cold War & World War
III Conventional/Nuclear O-plans
to Post-Cold War Peacekeeping.”
In Ashgate Research Companion to
War: Origins & Prevention, edited
by H. Gardner and O. Kobtzeff.
London: Ashgate. (2011)
“Desert Warfare from the ArabIsraeli Wars to the Gulf Wars:
Origins & Military Impact.” In
Ashgate Research Companion to
War: Origins & Prevention, edited
by H. Gardner and O. Kobtzeff.
London: Ashgate. (2011)
“Napoleonic Wars, 1789-1815: Art
of War, Diplomacy of Force &
Imperialism.” In Ashgate Research
Companion to War: Origins &
Prevention, edited by H. Gardner
and O. Kobtzeff. London: Ashgate.
(2011)
“Napoleon’s Politico-Propaganda
Image & Pictorial Art of War.” With
Massimo Carducci. In Ashgate
Research Companion to War:
Origins & Prevention, edited by H.
Gardner and O. Kobtzeff. London:
Ashgate. (2011)
Kathryn Stasio, Ph.D., Associate
Professor of English
Book Review Editor, Religion in the
Age of Enlightenment. New York:
AMS Press. Volumes One through
Three, 2008-present (Volume 1,
2010; Volume 2, 2011; Volume 3, in
press).
“The Primitive Church, the
Primitive Mind, and Methodism
in the Eighteenth Century.” With
M. Stasio. Religion in the Age of
Enlightenment 1 (2010): 59-81.
“Review of Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley’s Frankenstein Longman
Cultural Edition Second edition.
Ed. Susan J. Wolfson.” ECCB:
The Eighteenth Century Current
Bibliography. (Forthcoming)
“Review of Gregg A. Hecimovich’s
Austen’s Emma.” ECCB: The
Eighteenth Century Current
Bibliography. (Forthcoming)
“Review of Erin Mackie’s Rakes,
Highwaymen, and Pirates: The
Making of the Modern Gentleman
in the Eighteenth Century.”
The Eighteenth-Century Novel.
(Forthcoming)
“Review of David P. Barash and
Nanelle R. Barash’s Madame
Bovary’s Ovaries: A Darwinian
Look at Literature.” ECCB: The
Eighteenth Century Current
Bibliography 31 (2010): 453-4.
“Membership, Methodists, and
the Mob: Reciprocity in The
Expedition of Humphry Clinker.”
Co-authored with C. Bolich. South
Central Society for EighteenthCentury Studies Conference, St.
Simons Island, GA. (February
2011)
Panel Chair, “Interdisciplinary
Approaches to the Long
Eighteenth Century,” South
Central Society for EighteenthCentury Studies, St. Simons
Island, GA. (February 2010)
Audrey C. Shor, Ph.D.,
“Inhibition of p27Kip1 Gene
Transcription by Mitogens.”
With T.K. Bagui, D. Cui, S. Roy,
S. Mohapatra, L. Ma, and W.J.
Pledger. Cell Cycle.; 8(10):115-24.
(January 1, 2009)
“TrialNet Laboratory Monitoring
Subcommittee Reporting
and Split Duplicate Program
Enhancements.” TrialNet Steering
Committee, Redondo Beach, CA.
(October 2009)
“TrialNet Mechanistic Outcomes
Committee Review of Residual
Sample Handling Procedures
and Long-term Storage.” TrialNet
Steering Committee, Redondo
Beach, CA. (October 2009)
“TrialNet Laboratory Monitoring
Subcommittee Reporting and Split
Duplicate Program Overview.”
TrialNet Steering Committee,
Rockville, MD. (April 2009)
Linda Tavernier-Almada, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of
Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies
“Beyond the Bottleneck.” Paper
presented to the 22nd Annual
Haitian Studies Association
Conference. Brown University,
Providence, RI. (November 2010)
“De-lionizing Zora Neale
Hurston?” The Inside Light: New
Critical Essays on Zora Neale
Hurston, edited by D.G. Plant.
(2010)
Michael J. Tkacik, Ph.D., Associate
Forming Deacons: Ministers of Soul
and Leaven. With W.T. Ditewig.
New York: Paulist Press. (2010)
“The Sacramental Theology of
Virgil Michel, O.S.B., and Vatican
II: Prophetic Engagement
with Culture and Economics.”
Presented at the Annual Meeting
of the College Theology Society,
University of Portland, Portland,
OR. (June 3-6, 2010)
Jacquelyn A. White, Ed.D., Professor
of Mathematics
“Reducing the number of
prerequisites courses results in
an equal success rate.” With S.B.
White. Florida Scientist, Volume 73
Supplement 1. (March 2009)
“Instructor interactions are
critical for increased student
success in online Elementary
Algebra.” With S.B. White. Florida
Scientist, Volume 72 Supplement 1.
(March 2009)
Videos on DVD for the Triola
Statistics Series, 11th Edition. With
M. Triola. Pearson Education, Inc.
Upper Saddle River, NJ. (2010)
“Report from Vice President of
Site.” 44th Annual Joint Meetings
of Mathematical Association of
America and Florida Two Year
Mathematics Association. Orlando,
FL. (February 2011)
“Decreasing the number of
prerequisite courses results in
an equal success rate.” With S.B.
White. 74th Annual Meeting of the
Florida Academy of Sciences. Fort
Pierce, FL. (March 2010)
“Instructor interactions are
critical for increased student
success in online Elementary
Algebra.” With S.B. White. 73rd
Annual Meeting of the Florida
Academy of Sciences, Saint Leo
University, Saint Leo, FL. (March
2009)
“Instructor added value in
Elementary Algebra.” Annual
Meeting of the Suncoast Region of
the MAA-FL section. (December
2009)
Kurt V. Wilt, Ph.D.,
The Visionary: Entering the Mystic
Universe of Joseph Rael (Beautiful
Painted Arrow). San Francisco:
Council Oak Books. (2010)
Randall J. Woodard, Ph.D., Assistant
International Journal of African
Catholicism, Editor with P.N.
Mwaura, J. Healey, P. Bere, A.E.
Orobator, and W. Komakech. Saint
Leo University, Saint Leo, FL.
(Summer 2010)
Catholicism, Editor with P.N.
Mwaura, J. Healey, P. Bere, A.E.
Orobator, and W. Komakech. Saint
Leo University, Saint Leo, FL.
(Winter 2011)
Catholicism: Special issue on
Catholic-Muslim Dialogue, Editor
with P.N. Mwaura, J. Healey,
P. Bere, A.E. Orobator, and W.
Komakech. Saint Leo University,
Saint Leo, FL. (Spring 2011)
“The Religious Web-Quest.” With
R. Woodard. Teaching Theology &
Religion, Volume 13, Issue 2, Page:
139. (April 2010)
“Higher Order Thinking Through
the Synthesis of Theological
Models.” With R. Woodard.
Teaching Theology & Religion,
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages: 23–24.
(January 2011)
“Book Review of Giving a Lecture:
From Presenting to Teaching By
Kate Exley and Reg Dennick,”
Teaching Theology & Religion,
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages: 85–86.
(January 2011)
“Book Review of Educators in the
Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Edited by John Elias and Lucinda
Nolan” Reviews in Religion
&Theology. Volume 18, Issue 2,
Pages 241-242. (March 2011)
“Not My Area—Reflections on
College Writing Skills,” Writing on
the Edge. University of California,
Davis.
Astrid Vicas, Ph.D., Associate
“Narrative as Accretive Coconstruction.” International
Journal of the Arts in Society 5.3:
91-104. (2010)
“Repetition in Shang Oracle
Bone Inscriptions as Narrative.”
International Journal of the
Humanities. (2010)
“Narrative in Shang Oracle Bone
Inscriptions.” Presented at the
8th International Conference on
New Directions in the Humanities.
University of California, Los
Angeles, CA. (June-July 2010)
“A Transactional Account of
Narrative.” Presented at the 5th
International Conference in the
Arts in Society. University of Sydney,
Sydney, Australia. (July 2010)
About the School
of Arts & Sciences
FACULTY COUNCIL
Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Laboratory Director and
Fine Arts Events Director
Robin F. Van Tine, Ph.D.
Richard G. Bryan, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
GRADUATE PROGRAM
IN THEOLOGY
Anthony B. Kissel, S.T.D., Ph.D.
Director, Master of Arts in Theology
Howard F. Carey, D.C.M.
William T. Poyner, M.Div.
Graduate Theology
Program Administrator
Michael W. Cooper, S.J., S.T.D
Assistant Professor of Religion
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND
SCIENCES STAFF
Penny Freeman
Executive Coordinator
Tamra Hunt
Student Services Coordinator
Emma Tadeo
Mathematics and Sciences
Academic Coordinator
Evelyne Morrisett
Philosphy, Theology and Religion
Academic Coordinator
Patrick J. Crerand, Ph.D.
Christopher J. Cronin, Ph.D.
William T. Ditewig, Ph.D.
Professor of Religious Studies
Patrick R.A. Draves, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Iain Duffy, Ph.D.
William L. Ellis, Ph.D.
FULL-TIME FACULTY
Elisabeth C. Aiken, M.A.
June C. Hammond, D.M.
Associate Professor of Music
Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Burgsbee L. Hobbs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Robert L. Imperato, Ph.D.
Professor of Religion
Douglas M. Astolfi, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Valerie E. Kasper, M.A.
Frank J. Barthel, M.Ed.
Instructor of Mathematics
Kevin M. Kieffer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Kevin M. Kieffer, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Psychology
Labratory Director and
Religious Studies
Heather R. Parker, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Social Sciences
Siamack Bondari, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics
Marilyn M. Mallue, Ph.D.
DEPARTMENT CHAIRS
Kurt Wilt, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of
English and Fine Arts
Siamack Bondari, Ph.D.
Mathematics and Science
Philosophy, Theology and Religion
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Instructor of English and Fine Arts
Events Director
David A. McGinnis, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor of English Theatre
Michael T. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religion
John J. McTague, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Christopher J. Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology and
Environmental Science
Leo E. Ondrovic, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Heather R. Parker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Donald B. Pharr, Ph.D.
Hudson G. Reynolds, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Marco Rimanelli, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science and
International Studies
Armira Shkembi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mary T. Spoto, Ph.D.
Kathryn L. Stasio, Ph.D.
Ernie M. Williams, Ph.D.
Jerome K. Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Kurt V. Wilt, Ph.D.
Randall J. Woodard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Theology/Religion
Tammy L. Zacchilli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Astrid M. Vicas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Monika Vo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Jacquelyn A. White, Ed.D.
Professor of Mathematics
ACADEMIC
MAJORS
Biology
English with
specializations in:
•Advanced
Literary Study
•Theatre
New Faculty
Aaron Fehir, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
of Philosophy
Darin Bell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
of Chemistry
•Professional
Writing
English with minor
in Secondary
Education
Environmental
Science
History
International
Studies
James Cross, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
of Religion
Liberal Studies
Mathematics
Medical
Technology
Cynthia Selph, M.M.
Instructor of Music
Michael J. Tkacik, Ph.D.
Religious Studies
Robin F. van Tine, Ph.D.
Academic
Programs
Political Science
Psychology
Religion
Sociology
Audrey Shor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
of Biology
Linda TavernierAlmada , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
of Interdisciplinary
Liberal Studies
Theology/Religion
ACADEMIC
MINORS
Art
Biology
Chemistry
English
Ethics and Social
Responsibility
History
Interdisciplinary
Arts
International
Studies
Mathematics
Middle-East
Studies
Certificate/Minor
Music
Music Ministry
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Theatre
Theology/Religion
SPECIAL AREAS
OF STUDY
Honors
Pre-professional
Studies
•Dentistry
•Law
•Medicine
•Veterinary
Undergraduate
Certificate in
Pastoral Studies
School of Arts & Sciences
University Campus - MC2127
P.O. Box 6665
Saint Leo, FL 33574-6665
www.saintleo.edu
WoMen’s
History MontH
SponSored by the School of ArtS And ScienceS
10
24
28
30
Women’s HealtH: tHen
and
noW
A panel discussion with Saint leo University faculty members:
dr. patricia campion, dr. Audrey Shor, dr. rhondda Waddell,
and dr. Galo Avala
thursday, March 10, 2011 | 7 p.m.
Selby Auditorium
Celebrating Women’s aCHievements
in tHe
arts
and
sCienCes
A poster exhibit featuring important women in the history of
the Arts and Sciences
thursday, March 24, 2011 | 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
“Winter’s bone”
Winner of the Grand Jury prize for dramatic film at the 2010
Sundance film festival and nominated for four 2011 Academy
Awards including best picture and best Actress
discussion with faculty to follow the film
Monday, March 28, 2011 | 7 p.m.
Selby Auditorium
this event is co-sponsored by the Saint leo University film
Society’s 2010-2011 core Values Series.
building Your Personal HistorY
With keynote speaker Alex Sink, 2010 democratic party
nominee for Governor of florida
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 | 7 p.m.
for more information, contact director of fine Arts events
Allyson Marino at (352) 588-8662 or [email protected]

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