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Professional Notes: Mid-Summer 2017

07/05/2017

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

This year's awards from the Division of Student Development went to 27 staff members. Submitted photo

This year's awards from the Division of Student Development went to 27 staff members. Submitted photo

FACULTY AND STAFF

Awards

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

Publications

MariaTeresa Tersigni-Tarrant, Ph.D., is the co-author of the recently published textbook, Forensic Anthropology, A Comprehensive Introduction, Second Edition, from CRC Press. Tersigni-Tarrant is an associate professor and director of morgue and human anatomy lab operations with the Center for Anatomical Science and Education (CASE). She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Pathology and co-director of the Medicolegal Death Investigator courses offered at SLU. She is a practicing forensic anthropologist with the St. Louis City Medical Examiner's Office, the Missouri Disaster Response Team and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Harold Bush, professor of English, has recently published a new collection of the edited letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Twichell, The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell, with the University of Georgia Press. He also published his first novel, The Hemingway Files, with Blank Slate Press. The novel tells the story of  how the allure of literary letters and rare books drives the imaginations of three professors and leads to tragedy. 

George Grossberg, M.D.  is the co-author of the forthcoming Psychiatric Consultation in Long-Term Care, Second Edition, due out this month. He co-wrote the book with Abhilash Desai, M.D., who completed a fellowship under Grossberg at the School of Medicine. The book is published by Cambridge University Press. 

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.

Presentations and Professional Talks

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.

Lisa Dorsey, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy and athletic training, was interviewed by the American Physical Therapy Association's education section about women in leadership.

STUDENTS

Scholarships, Grants and Fellowships

Laura Silva, a senior in the Health Information Management program, recently received the Elmo and Jean Poole 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., pharmacological and physiological sciences, Mardell Wilson, Ph.D., dean of Doisy College of Health Sciences, Julie Howe, instructor of health sciences and informatics, and Teresa Neal, undergraduate program director and instructor of health sciences and informatics, 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. Jean Raffley Poole graduated from SLU in 1955 with a degree in medical record science. 

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.

Doctoral student Chris Presley, Higher Education Administration, and third-year law dual degree student Kwamane Liddell have both been selected for the St. Louis Business Journal’s “30 under 30” recognition for 2017. The pair will be honored on July 13.