Professional Notes: February 2021
02/26/2021
A round-up of awards, presentations, papers and the other professional achievements of SLU faculty, staff and students.
Faculty and Staff
Gretchen Arnold, Ph.D., chair and professor (Women’s and Gender Studies) has co-won the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute the Open Scholarship Awards (2021) for her work on Nuisance Laws and Battered Women. The award is given for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.
Fraternity and Sorority Life Professor Recognition Recipients
As part of Panhellenic Scholarship week, each fraternity and sorority chapter at SLU nominated a professor who their members said helped lead to their academic success. The nominations were the following:
- Alpha Delta Pi: Sarah Zimmerman, Occupational Therapy
- Alpha Delta Gamma: Sridhar Condoor, Ph.D., Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Delta Gamma: Margaret Bultas, Ph.D., School of Nursing
- Alpha Iota Omicron and Kappa Delta: Kevin Syberg, DrPH, Health Management and Policy
- Gamma Phi Beta: Laurel Boone, J.D., Chaifetz School of Business
- Beta Theta Pi: Ronald O'Dwyer, S.J., Education
- Kappa Alpha Theta: Kimberly Spencer-Suarez, School of Social Work
- Phi Mu: Lisa Gladson, Economics
- Sigma Tau Gamma: James Coughlin, S.J., Mathematics
- Zeta Tau Alpha: Julie Howe, Health Sciences
- Sigma Chi and Tau Kappa Epsilon: Asmira Alagic, Ph.D., Chemistry
- Panhellenic Executive Board: Jessica Leonard, Ph.D., Educational Studies
Stephen Edward McMillin, Ph.D. (Social Work) published “Innovating vocational resilience: Getting a second start at work through the Ignatian Examen,” in Social Work & Christianity.
Chris Sebelski, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) in collaboration with her coauthors, published “Leadership development of nursing professionals: Education and influences of self-efficacy” in Nursing Outlook.
Yolonda Wilson, Ph.D. (Health Care Ethics) has a guest editorial that has been published in the The American Journal of Bioethics, “Racial Injustice and Meaning Well: A Challenge for Bioethics.”
Ruqaiijah Yearby, J.D. (Law) has published, “Race Based Medicine, Colorblind Disease: How Racism in Medicine Harms Us All,” in The American Journal of Bioethics.
Oluwatoyosi Owoeye, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) published two new papers in collaboration with the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, AB, Canada. “Warm-ups and Coaches’ Perceptions: Searching for Clues to Improve Injury Prevention in Youth Basketball,” was published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living and “Evaluating Methods for Imputing Missing Data from Longitudinal Monitoring of Athlete Workload” in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine.
Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D. (director, Health Care Ethics) had his article, “Visions of the Common Good: Engelhardt’s Engagement with Catholic Social Teaching,” published in Christian Bioethics.
Jeffrey Bishop, M.D., Ph.D. (Health Care Ethics) and Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D. (Health Care Ethics) published an article in CHEST, “Is It Ethically Permissible to Unilaterally Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatments during Crisis Standards of Care? Yes,” and “Rebuttal to a Counterpoint.”
Routledge published Power and Protest at an American University: No Confidence, No Fear, a volume edited by Ellen Carnaghan, Ph.D. (Political Science) and Kathryn Kuhn, Ph.D. (Sociology and Anthropology) and featuring chapters by Robert Cropf, Ph.D. (Political Science), Paul Lynch, Ph.D. (English), Wynne Moskop, Ph.D. (Political Science), David Rapach, Ph.D. (Economics), Mark Ruff, Ph.D. (History), Silvana Siddali, Ph.D. (History), Penny Weiss, Ph.D. (Women's and Gender Studies), Bonnie Wilson, Ph.D. (Economics), and Annette Clark (former dean of SLU Law), and Carnaghan and Kuhn. The volume analyzes the 2012-2013 no confidence movement at SLU from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Amanda L. Izzo, Ph.D. (Women’s and Gender Studies) gave a public lecture for the Missouri History Museum on Feb. 2. The lecture, “The Unfinished Business of the Equal Rights Amendment.” The event was associated with the museum’s ongoing series “Beyond the Ballot: St. Louis and Suffrage.”
Ann Hayes, DPT (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) and Howard Place, M.D. (Orthopaedic Surgery) presented an ON-DEMAND poster, “The Effectiveness of Schroth-Based Physiotherapeutic Scoliosis Specific Exercise for an Adult with De Novo Scoliosis” at the 2021 Combined Sections meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association that took place virtually during the month of February.
Kim Levenhagen, DPT (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) in collaboration with her co-authors, presented “Clinical Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: A Case Based Approach” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting.
Richard Marks, Jr., Ph.D. (Cross Cultural Center) was the keynote speaker at Youngstown State University’s Men of Color Summit on Feb. 26.
Harold Braswell, Ph.D. (Health Care Ethics) has published an op-ed in the Washington Post criticizing Canada’s new bill extending medical aid-in-dying to disabled people.
Scholarship by Benjamin Looker, Ph.D. (American Studies) was referenced in a The New York Times article about the late Julius Hemphill, a legendary jazz composer and saxophonist. Research by Looker was also discussed on the music review site Stereogum, in a column on the works of Julius Hemphill.
Bill McCormick, S.J., Ph.D. (Political Science) penned a column for America Magazine on how Catholics will treat each other during President Joe Biden’s term in office.
Oluwatoyosi Owoeye, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) delivered a special lecture at the Billikens Impacting the Future webinar on Feb. 22. This was an inaugural event sponsored by the SLU Physical Therapy Student Association to raise funds for the Marquette Challenge for The Foundation for Physical Therapy Research.
Students
Three athletic training students from Saint Louis University finished first in the Missouri Athletic Trainers’ Association (MoATA) Quiz Bowl competition to qualify for the district competition in March 2021. This year’s event was conducted virtually, as will the district’s event.
MoATA holds a Quiz Bowl competition yearly to determine Missouri’s representatives for the Mid-America Athletic Trainers’ Association (MAATA) Quiz Bowl competition. The winners of the district Quiz Bowls qualify for the national competition at the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Clinical Symposia and AT Expo in June. These Jeopardy-style competitions require teams of three to answer questions on all the domains of Athletic Training.
SLU’s Quiz Bowl team is comprised of second-year professional students Jose Blanco, Kate Perko, and Joey Wenzl. They will be graduating with a master’s degree in athletic training in May of 2021.
Kaylan Schardan (Law) was mentioned in a WCIA TV Ch. 4 (Springfield, IL) story on the release of prisoner Norman Propst through the work of the Illinois Innocence Project.