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Professional and Academic Notes: December 2017

IPE 4900 Poster Day 2017

Students from 22 teams in the Center for Interprofessional Education's IPE 4900 course presented on their work on addressing population health issues with local community partner sites in December 2017. Submitted photo

STUDENTS

Academic Achievements

The Center for Interprofessional Education showcased the work of 22 teams of students in the center’s IPE 4900 course on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at its biannual Poster Day. The teams’ presented on their semester-long work addressing population health issues and their involvement with various community partner sites throughout the St. Louis area.

Poster Day is the culmination of IPE 4900, a practicum course that uses a service-learning model where students apply previous IPE course material in a community health setting. Throughout the semester, the goal is for students to demonstrate interprofessional collaboration readiness by working with a community health or social services agency to improve health or promote wellness among its target population. In partnership with their community coordinator and faculty adviser, each group identified specific needs or concerns relating to their agency’s population and developed and implemented a specific project.

This semester, students collaborated with the following community partner sites:

All SLU faculty and staff are invited to join the Center for Interprofessional Education and Research for its next Poster Day, which is scheduled for May 1, 2018.

National Competitions

A Saint Louis University team, including senior Sravya Ainapurapu, senior Matthew Graham, junior Jeffrey Kelley, senior Nikko Koutas, senior Nolan Michniewicz, and senior Rachel Mlsna, competed in the 78th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017.  The Putnam Competition is administered by the Mathematical Association of America and is considered the premier mathematics contest among colleges and universities throughout North America.  An estimated 4,200 undergraduates from 570 institutions throughout the United States and Canada competed this year.

The top five competitors will be designated as Putnam Fellows and awarded cash prizes.  In the past, Putnam Fellows have gone on to win two Nobel Prizes in Physics and three Fields Medals in Mathematics.  Greg Marks, Ph.D., is the faculty supervisor of the SLU Putnam Competition team.

SLU Putnam Competition Team

(From left) Seniors Matthew Graham, Nolan Michniewicz, Rachel Mlsna,  junior Jeffrey Kelley, and seniors Nikko Koutas and Sravya Ainapurapu, the SLU students who competed against more than 4,000 other undergraduates from the United States and Canada in 2017's William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Submitted photo

FACULTY AND STAFF

Awards and Fellowships

Officer Fred Hicks of the Department of Public Safety was selected to join SALUTE, the National Honor Society for Veterans on Thursday, Dec. 14.

Officer Fred Hicks joins SALUTE
SLU Public Safety Officer Fred Hicks (second from left) with his mother, Brenda Hicks (left), wife, Shannon Hicks (right) and father, Freddie Hicks (far right) at his Dec. 14, 2017 induction into SALUTE. Submitted photo

The School for Professional Studies (SPS) recognized six individuals on Friday, Dec. 15, during a ceremony on the steps of the Brouster Hall lobby in the presence of family and friends for their efforts supporting the school and its educational mission.

Those recognized included:

Publications

Laura Tedesco, Ph.D., of SLU-Madrid’s Department of Political Science, published an article, “Nationalism, or how to drown out what is important,” in Open Democracy, widely-circulated digital media platform for the exchange of political ideas and analyses. The article discusses the highly publicized Catalonian independence movement and contextualizes the movement through a reflection on the differences between First and Third World countries in terms of humanitarian struggles.

Miriam Cherry, J.D., wrote a law review article with visiting SLU LAW researcher Antonio Aloisi, “Dependent Contractors in the Gig Economy: A Comparative Approach,” that was published in the American University Law Review.

Sandra H. Johnson, J.D., Robert Gatter, J.D., Elizabeth Pendo, J.D., and Robert L. Schwartz, J.D., published the latest edition of Bioethics and Law in a Nutshell.

Joel Goldstein, J.D., published a review of Jeffrey Rosen’s new book on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in Law and History Review.

Constance Wagner, J.D., wrote an article, “Change from Within: Using Task Forces and Best Practices to Achieve Gender Equity for University Faculty,” that advocates for the use of university task forces and the institutionalization of best practices for achieving gender equity as means to remove the persistent barriers to professional advancement experienced by many women faculty.

Sidney Watson, J.D., wrote an article, “Health Law, Public Law and Social Justice," that was published in the Saint Louis University Law Journal.

An article by Alan Weinberger, J.D., "Forever Young: Texas Gulf Sulphur Rules at Fifty," was published in the Spring 2017 issue of the Securities Regulation Law Journal.

A  recently-published monograph by Rachel McBride Lindsey, Ph.D., of the Department of Theological Studies, A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, was noted in the Chronicle of Higher Education's  "Weekly Book List" for the week of Dec. 1, 2017.