Appointments
• Dr. Howard Federoff, executive vice president for health sciences, has been named to the editorial board for a new journal focused on innovation.
Technology and Innovation -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors will concentrate on translational research and technology, areas Federoff has focused on at the Medical Center.
Awards and Honors
• The
Irish Voice newspaper named Provost James O’Donnell to its 2010 Irish Education 100, a list of the leading figures in education across North America. O’Donnell, who also is a professor of classics, will be listed in a special edition of the newspaper on Sept. 15.
• The American Antitrust Institute presented law professor Steven Salop with its 2010 Antitrust Achievement Award on June 24 at the institute’s annual conference in Washington. Albert Foer, president of the institute, called Salop “one of the most creative and influential economists of the last 30 years in terms of his impact on the field of competition.” The professor, who joined the law faculty in 1981, teaches courses on antitrust law as well as economic reasoning and the law.
• Virginia Steen, professor of medicine, was named the Scleroderma Foundation’s 2010 Doctor of the Year for her contributions to the foundation and the scleroderma community. The foundation honored Steen on July 30 at an awards banquet in Boston.
Books and Publications
• In the newest edition of his business ethics book, John Kline, professor of international business diplomacy, uses extensive real-world examples to demonstrate how to make and explain ethical judgments in international business.
Ethics for International Business: Decision-Making in a Global Political Economy (Routledge, 2010) draws from examples that include sweatshops, HIV/AIDS drugs and oil investments. Kline uses applied ethics and analytical tools to discuss the case studies.
• Patrick Laude, professor of French at the School of Foreign Service-Qatar, penned a book exploring how four French language 20th-century authors presented Islamic spirituality to the West.
Pathways To An Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin, Guenon, and Schuon (SUNY Press, 2010) is an in-depth study of the authors’ contributions to understanding Islam in the West. Laude covers central questions, such as the relationship between Christianity and Sufism; the mystical tradition of Islam; the role of women in Islamic spirituality; and the implications of the concept of jihad.
• Fathali Moghaddam, professor of psychology, and Rom Harré, distinguished research professor of psychology, recently co-edited
Words of Conflict, Words of War: How the Language We Use in Political Processes Sparks Fighting (Praeger, 2010). The book draws on positioning theory to show the way words influence intended results in conflict resolution. Nineteen essays are split between micropolitics and personal positioning and positioning by political parties and factions.
• Kenneth Tercyak, associate professor of oncology, addresses the social and behavioral aspects of genomics and society in his new book.
Handbook of Genomics and the Family (Springer, 2010) details the challenges inherent in the latest genetic advances and helps readers understand how genes affect health and behavior.
• Robert Veatch, professor of medical ethics, and Carol Taylor, senior research scholar, co-authored
Case Studies in Nursing Ethics (Jones Bartlett Learning, 2010). The text presents basic ethical principles and specific guidelines for applying these principles in nursing practice through analysis of more than 150 actual case study conflicts.
Research Grants
• Darlene Howard, professor of psychology, received a $441,241 grant from the National Institute on Aging for “Aging and the Cognitive and Neural Bases of Implicit Associative Learning.” The project seeks to provide better understanding of the cognitive and neural forms of implicit learning, and how to maximize such learning at all ages.
• Jean Mitchell, professor of public policy, received a $620,292 from the National Institute on Aging for “Financial Incentives, Treatment of Medicare Patients and Changes in Their Health.” The project will determine if greater resource intensity is associated with improvements in health and overall functioning.
