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Professional Notes: Mid-Summer 2017

A round-up of awards, presentations, papers and the other professional achievements of SLU faculty, staff and students. 

FACULTY AND STAFF

Awards

The Division of Student Development honored the following staff members at its annual year-end celebration May 25:

Advocacy and Service

Publications

MariaTeresa Tersigni-Tarrant, Ph.D., director of the morgue and human anatomy lab operations with the Center for Anatomical Science and Education, has co-edited the recently published text book Forensic Anthropology, A Comprehensive Introduction, Second Edition (CRC Press 2017). Tersigni-Tarrant is a board-certified forensic anthropologist and adjunct associate professor with the center. She is a practicing forensic anthropologist with the St. Louis City Medical Examiner’s Office, the Missouri Disaster Response Team and Georgia Bureau of Investigation. 

Simone Bregni Ph.D., associate professor of Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, delivered a paper, “Developing ITAL 1200, Intensive Italian for Gamers” in the roundtable session, “Innovative Approaches to Teaching Italian II: Teaching Italian through Games,” at the American Association of Italian Studies conference on April 20, 2017. 

Claudia Karagoz, Ph.D., associate professor of Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, delivered a presentation, “Double Exposures: Embodiment, Vulnerability, and Agency in Letizia Battaglia’s Photography,” and chaired a session, “Placing Sicily,” at the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) and Canadian Society for Italian Studies (CSIS) Joint Annual Conference at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, from April  20 to 22, 2017.

Sydney Norton, Ph.D., assistant professor of German in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, presented “Legacy and Transformation: German Nationalism in Turner Societies of Civil-War America” at the 41st annual symposium of the Society for German-American Studies in Philadelphia on April 22, 2017.

The Saint Louis University Libraries published their Spring 2017 newsletter with updates on new special collections, exhibits, updates on the furnishings of the Medical Center Library and other articles.

Doisy College of Health Sciences has published its biannual college magazine, On the Record for Spring 2017. 

Moves and New Staffing Additions

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has announced that the Research Innovation Group (RIG) – formerly the Office of Technology Management – has relocated to CIC@4240 in the Cortex Innovation Community. The move is designed to leverage SLU research more effectively and to represent the University in the Cortex community.

The RIG has also expanded its mission beyond technology transfer and commercialization to include the promotion of faculty entrepreneurship, support for the MEDLaunch student-led biomedical incubator and its related efforts, outreach to the corporate research and development community and management of research contracts.

The RIG has also added Malcolm Townes as business development manager. Townes joins SLU with a background in commercializing technology for nearly ten years with the Missouri University of Science and Technology’s Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development, where he served as associate director. (with photo of group)

STUDENTS

Scholarships, Grants and Fellowships

Laura Silva, a senior in the Health Information Management program, recently received the Elmo and Jean Poole (Check ’55) Health Information Management Scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year. The prize is worth $5,000 and recognizes Silva’s academic record, leadership and commitment to service in the field of health information management. Silva credited mentorship by Amy Harkins, Ph.D., Mardell Wilson, Ph.D., dean of Doisy College of Health Sciences, Julie Howe (check credential) and Teresa Neal (check credential) for guiding her education to date. “I was inspired by the fact that the health information management profession offers a diverse field of work,” Silva said. “You can work in health information technology, health law, you can go on to become a physician, physician assistant, veterinarian or – where I eventually see myself – work on the administrative side.” The Poole scholarship was established in 2003.

Awards

Satish Munigala, a doctoral student in the College for Public Health and Social Justice, received an AGA Student Abstract Prize from the American Gastroenterological Association for a project “Predictors for In-Hospital Mortality and 30-Day Readmission in Patients Presenting With Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the United States,” that was submitted to the Digestive Disease Week conference earlier this year. Munigala also gave a lecture and presentation on the project at the May conference and is now working on a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal with Thomas Burroughs, Ph.D., SLUCOR among other collaborators.

Publications

Advocacy and Service