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and adjustment in lung, breast, and
prostate cancer patients.” The coauthors
of the article were Noelle LoConte and
Janet Hyde of the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, and Joan Schiller
of the University of Texas, Southwestern
Medical Center. A related article
coauthored by Dr. Else-Quest also
appeared in Clinical Lung Cancer in 2008.
Charles Folk, Ph.D., recently published a
paper in the journal Attention, Perception,
and Psychophysics entitled “Additivity of
abrupt onset effects supports nonspatial
distraction NOT the capture of
spatial attention.” The paper was
coauthored by Shu-Chei Wu of NASA
Ames Research Center and Roger
Remington of the University of
Queensland.
Irene Kan, Ph.D., presented a poster
entitled, “Memory monitoring failures
in confabulation: Evidence from the
semantic illusion paradigm” at the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual
Meeting in San Francisco, Ca. This work
was done in collaboration with Mieke
Verfaellie, Ph.D., and Karen Fossum,
B.S., at the Memory Disorders Research
Center, VA Boston Healthcare System,
and with H. Branch Coslett, M.D. at the
Department of Neurology, Hospital at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Public Administration
Christine Palus, Ph.D., delivered the
Alan Katz Lecture at Fairfield University
in Connecticut, her undergraduate alma
mater, in April 2009 to the inductees of
Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science
honor society.
Craig Wheeland, Ph.D., Catherine
Wilson, Ph.D., and Dr. Palus led a
workshop for The Association for
Pennsylvania Municipal Management
and The New Jersey Municipal
Management Association’s Annual
Managers Conference in May 2009,
Cape May, N.J. The title of their
presentation was “Fostering the
Common Good in Council Decision
Making.” Dr. Wheeland also coauthored
with Larry Comunale, Lower Gwynedd
Township Manager, a case study called
“Managing Without Fear or Favor.” The
case appears in the third edition (2008)
of Managing Local Government: Cases in
Effectiveness edited by Charldean Newell.
The book is published by the International
Poesía en Español: Two Poetry Recitals in Thirty Days
From left to right: Joseph Robertson, Carlos Trujillo,
Ph.D., Rudolfo Figueroa and Salvatore Poeta, Ph.D.
The Hispanic Studies division of the
Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures hosted two poetry recitals in
Spanish; the first on February 16, 2009,
and the other on March 16, 2009. Both
events took place in the Fray Luis de
León Room of Villanova’s Saint
Augustine Center. Fray Luis de León, in
addition to being a recognized ascetic
and theologian of the Augustinian
Order, is also recognized as one of
Spain’s greatest Renaissance poets. The
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first event was moderated by Carlos
Trujillo, Ph.D., director of the Graduate
Program in Hispanic Studies, and an
accomplished poet from Chile.
The event was opened by general
introductory remarks by Dr. Trujillo,
followed by a reading of Pablo Neruda’s
poem “La palabra” (“The Word”). The
first participant to recite his poetry was
Professor Carlos Jiménez, a recognized
poet from Spain, and who also teaches
Spanish at Villanova. Dr. Jiménez is the
author of two collections of verses, and
whose poetic style has been associated
with Spain’s “Poetry of Experience”
trend. Following an emotional and
moving reading of several his poems,
Carlos Jiménez’s recital was followed
by that of Joseph Robertson. Mr.
Robertson is a former student of
Villanova, having graduated with a
Master of Arts degree in Hispanic
Studies. Despite English being Mr.
Robertson’s native language, he is an
accomplished poet in Spanish, having
authored several collections of Spanish
verse. Mr. Robertson, in addition, is the
founder and director of the digital
publishing house known as
Casavaria.com. The third participant to
recite his poetry was Dr. Salvatore Poeta,
a faculty member in the Hispanic
Studies division of Villanova’s
Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures. In addition to teaching
poetry as one of his areas of expertise
(from Spain’s Early Modern period to
present day), he has also published his
own verses in several Hispanic journals.
This first recital session was closed by
Professor Roger Santiváñez, a Peruvian
poet associated with the Kloakla poetic
movement initiated in his native Peru
during the decade of the 80s.
The second poetry recital, which took
place on March 16, 2009, was devoted
to the verses of Chilean poets. This
event was moderated by Carlos
Yushimito, a graduate student working
toward his Master of Art degree in
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