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4 Drabble wins Literary Award Saint Louis University Library Associates presented English author Margaret Drabble with the 2003 Saint Louis Literary Award at a ceremony Oct. 21. Drabble, a novelist, biographer, critic and short story writer, is the author of The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, The Witch of Exmoor and The Millstone. She is also editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Drabble joins a distinguished group of authors honored with this award during the past 36 years. Recipients include such luminaries as Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates and Seamus Heaney. Last year’s winner was Joan Didion. Kavanaugh Kavanaugh wins press award Saint Louis University philosophy professor and magazine columnist John Kavanaugh, S.J., (A&S ’65, Grad ’66, ’71) received top honors from the National Catholic Press Association. His “Ethics Notebook,” which regularly appears in America magazine, earned the Best Regular Column Award from MIXING IT UP: What’s cooking in the department of nutrition and dietetics in the Doisy School of Allied Health Professions? Mark E. Miller, a certified executive chef, shown here supervising students Christina Bologna (left) and Diana Kingston, has joined the Saint Louis University faculty and is teaching future dietitians how healthy foods can be prepared to taste great. Miller, most recently a chef at Westborough Country Club, is sold on the University’s new, one-of-a-kind degree program that prepares students to become registered dietitians while they receive training for their culinary arts credential. “Our degree is perfect for students who want to work as personal chefs, among other specializations,” Miller said. the association, which represents 640 publications with a combined circulation of nearly 27 million in the United States and Canada. In honoring him, the National Catholic Press Association said: “Father Kavanaugh examines public issues through a moral lens and discusses them thoughtfully and powerfully.” Biodefense research brings schools together Anew research center based in St. Louis will play a major role in protecting the American public against bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases. Washington University School of Medicine and Saint Louis University School of Medicine will be part of a multi-institutional Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE). The center will be funded by a fiveyear, $35 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The founding members of the MRCE also include Case Western Reserve University, the University of Missouri- Columbia and the Midwest Research Institute of Kansas City. The new center will concentrate on expanding current research efforts in biodefense. For example, the team’s initial research effort will focus on poxvirus infections, which include diseases such as smallpox. The ultimate goals are to improve the safety of vaccines and to develop new therapies. New technology VP on board Ellen Watson is Saint Louis University’s new vice president for information technology services. Although Watson may be new to SLU, she is familiar with the Jesuit mission. Before coming to SLU, she was the vice president of information service at Loyola University Chicago, a post she had held since 1999. Watson boasts 19 years of experience in her field, having served as associate vice president for information services and dean of library services at Indiana State University for four years and associate provost for information resources and technology at Bradley University for two years. She received her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and her master’s from the University of Maryland. International HIV trial led by SLU Saint Louis University is leading an international vaccine trial to study a promising HIV prevention vaccine in humans. The trial is being conducted through the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) of the National Institutes of Health. This is the first HVTN trial to be conducted simultaneously in the United States and abroad — in St. Louis, Boston (through Harvard University) and Gaborone, Botswana — and it signifies a dedication to transcending borders in the fight against HIV. This vaccine has never been tested in humans. The trial is looking at the safety and immune response of an experimental HIV vaccine
FETCHING: Saint Louis University dedicated its Lay Center for Education and the Arts Oct. 4. Located in Louisiana, Mo., SLU’s Lay Center is on 350 acres of natural meadows, wooded rolling hills, lakes and streams. The center’s highlights include two sculpture parks nestled in natural surroundings. A children’s playland of art, literature and nature — called Story Woods — features sculpture designed to stimulate the imagination, including “Success” by Deborah Mae Broad, pictured above. The Henry Lay Sculpture Park includes a 20-acre area with a walking trail, eclectic sculpture, lakes and a maple grove. called EP HIV-1090, known as a DNA plasmid type of vaccine. It is the HVTN’s first African trial — involving some of the communities most affected by AIDS — in the development of an HIV vaccine. SLU nabs C-USA GPA award again Conference USA has named Saint Louis University as the recipient of the Institutional Excellence Award for the eighth consecutive year. The award is given to the member school with the highest cumulative grade point average during the academic year for all student-athletes in conference-sponsored sports. SLU student-athletes compiled a 3.24 GPA during the 2002-03 academic year. SLU has won the award every year of Conference USA’s existence. The Sport Academic Award is given to the team in each conference-sponsored sport with the highest grade point average for the academic year. The Billikens won five individual sport honors: baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, women’s soccer and women’s swimming and diving. Women’s golf tees up next year Saint Louis University’s department of athletics will sponsor women’s golf beginning in the 2004-05 academic year. Billiken men’s golf coach Ed Schwent will assume responsibility for both programs as director of golf. SLU is the 10th Conference USA program to sponsor both women’s and men’s golf. Gateway National in Illinois, which serves as the men’s team’s home course, also will serve as the home course for the women. Schwent, recently tabbed by Golf Digest as one of the top five teaching pros in Missouri, has begun recruiting for the 10-member team. For more information on how you can help, call Schwent at (314) 977-3981 or send e-mail to slugolf@pga.com. SLU listed as ‘Best Place to Work’ For the second time since 2000, Saint Louis University has made the St. Louis Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work” list. This year, SLU was honored in the “Best Practice” category — the only institution so recognized — for the development of Hometown SLU, which is designed to spur development near the St. Louis campus while assisting SLU employees looking to purchase a home in certain areas near campus. Since Hometown SLU was unveiled Feb. 5, 19 people have applied to the program and been approved. Full-time, eligible employees may receive forgivable loans of up to $5,000 if buying homes in select neighborhoods. The loan is forgiven after five years if the employee still works at SLU and the home remains the primary residence. 40 The December 1963 issue of Saint Louis University Magazine featured a cover photo of the new Griesedieck Memorial Hall, which was dedicated Nov. 30, 1963. A news item mentioned that fund raising for Busch Memorial Center was under way — $.1.5 million had been raised, and a $1.5 million loan had been secured. It was estimated that the total cost of construction would be $3.25 million. The issue also highlighted the Midwest Assembly on Outer Space, a conference co-sponsored by SLU and held that September. The assembly brought together a cross section of leaders in education, government, labor, business, industry, law, medicine, military and communications from a 14-state area to consider the topic, “Outer Space: Prospects for Man and Society.” Participants included James E. Webb, the head of NASA, and U.S. Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri. Another article featured an alumnus, Robert Burns (Parks ’59), who was the first Missourian to join the Peace Corps. Burns was a land irrigation specialist in Pakistan. Quotable UTAS: “It would be tragic if we were able to pinpoint rockets in space but unable to determine where we were going as human beings.” — Charles A. Sheehan, Missouri state representative and speaker at the Midwest Assembly on Outer Space Sign of the times: It was reported that tuition for the 1964-65 school year for full-time undergraduates and law students would be $575 per semester, which was an increase of $100 over 1963-64 rates. School of Medicine students were slated to pay $700 per semester.
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