Education Alumni Society to Present Awards
The USF Education Alumni Society will salute three School of Education alumni and one professor at its annual awards banquet March 24.
The Dr. Edward J. Griffin Award will be presented to Aggie C. Idemoto, EdD ’86, who is now the assistant superintendent for human resources at the Oak Grove School District in San Jose.
The Outstanding Educator in Administration Award will be presented to Robi Woody, EdD ’93. Woody is the associate dean of the USF School of Education.
The Outstanding Educator in Teaching Award will be presented to Doreen Jones, EdD ’00, who is the Catholic School Educational Consultant in Castro Valley.
The Outstanding Faculty Award will be presented to Patricia Busk, a professor in the School of Education.
For information, email alumni@usfca.edu or call (800) 449-4873.
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Workshops Focus on Rape Prevention
The "Men Can Stop Rape" program will come to USF March 27-29 as part of the Student Health Education Program.
The program will include three workshops. The first will be geared toward the general student body, another will be for men, and another for faculty and staff. The men’s program will be held at the same time as “Take Back the Night,” a women’s program hosted by the Women’s Resource Center as part of Women’s Week. The faculty and staff workshop will offer university professionals the skills and tools necessary to effectively address issues of sexism and male violence.
For information on "Men Can Stop Rape", call Melissa Kenzig at (415) 422-6702.
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Italian Handpress Printings Displayed in Rare Book Room
The Donohue Rare Book Room at the Gleeson Library is hosting a new exhibit, “Two Private Presses from Verona.”
On display are books printed at two traditional, small, handpress printers, Officina Chimerea and Ampersand. “There may not be many handpress printers left in the world today, but the books of the Officina Chimerea and Ampersand—two of the finest private presses in Europe—will continue to serve as models of technical excellence and inspiration for generations of printers and collectors to come,” writes Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, who edited the exhibition catalog.
The books are on display until May 17. The hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday.
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April Action Aims to Fight Hunger
The Office of Community Service and Service Learning is sponsoring the fourth annual April Action, a community service event involving students, faculty, staff, and four community partners working on hunger prevention. The theme of the 2001 April Action is “Enough Food to Go Around.”
The event will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 21. Students, faculty, and staff participating will volunteer with the following four organizations that day: San Francisco Food Bank, Project Open Hand, St. Anthony’s Dining Room, and the Episcopal Sanctuary. There will also be a briefing session for all participants on April 19.
The deadline to register is April 12. For information, call Jack McLean at (415) 422-2156.
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Jobs and Volunteer Activities Focus of Annual Recruiting Fair
Dozens of local and national non-profit, social service, environmental, religious, and other organizations will be on campus April 3 for the annual Jobs And Volunteer Activities (JAVA) Fair. The organizations will be recruiting students for volunteer, internship, full-time, part-time, and summer positions.
The fair will be from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p m. at Harney Plaza. JAVA is sponsored jointly by the Priscilla A. Scotlan Career Services Center, the Office of Community Service and Service Learning, University Ministry, and the SKILL Steering Committee.
Organizations that will be represented at the fair include Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Sports 4 Kids, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Rainforest Action Network, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and more.
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Physics Colloquium Invites Bay Area Scientists
The annual department of physics colloquia are underway, with several lectures planned throughout the semester. Speakers include prominent professors from several Bay Area universities. The lecture schedule is listed below:
March 22: Chris McKee, departments of physics & astronomy, University of California, Berkeley;
April 19: Leo Blitz, department of astronomy, University of California, Berkeley;
April 26: Zhigang Chen, departments of physics and astronomy, San Francisco State University;
May 3: Jean Brodie, department of astronomy and astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Computer Science Lecture Series Initiates its 30th Year
The chairman of Adobe Systems, Inc. is among several noted computer science professionals who will take part in the 30th year of the USF computer science department’s annual lecture series. The following is the lecture schedule:
March 29: “Creating a Successful Software Company”; Charles Geschke, co-founder and chairman of Adobe Systems Inc., and USF trustee;
April 5: “Improving System Functionality Using Auxiliary Processing”; Diana Keen, University of California, Davis ;
April 12: “The Computer Security Problem: Convergence of Technological, Legal, and Ethical Issues”; George Ledin, Sonoma State University;
April 19: “Characters Everywhere”; Barbara Hayes-Roth, Stanford University
April 26: “Pilot ACE, the Computer that Turing Built and the First Computer in London”; Nick Rugai, Athena Huang, and Benjamin Wells, USF.
All lectures will be from 11 a.m. to noon in Harney Science Center room 235. For information, contact Benjamin Wells at (415) 422-6235 or wells@usfca.edu
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Thacher Gallery Hosts Works by Noted French Artist
The exhibit, “Miserere et Guerre,” the complete series of etchings by Georges Rouault, is on display at the Thacher Gallery through April 22.
This exhibition presents the complete series of 58 etchings by the French artist Rouault, one of the great printmakers of the modern age. The works lament evils of the modern world, including the oppression of the downtrodden and sufferings of the war-torn.
The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Saint Ignatius Institute, Archive of Modern Christian Art, and University Ministry.
For information, call 422-2434 or visit the gallery online.
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New Venture Center Accepting Submissions for Spring Business Plan Competition
The New Venture Center and the USF Entrepreneur Club are accepting submissions for the spring 2001 Business Plan Competition.
The competition will be at 9:30 a.m. April 27 in the Maraschi Room of Xavier Hall. All USF students, alumni, and Bay Area companies are invited to submit two- to three-page summaries of their business plans by April 2. Professional investors will judge the submissions based on the viability of their business plans. Cash awards and other prizes will be presented to the winning entry.
There are two categories for competition: growth ventures, with forecast fifth-year revenues of more than $20 million, and small businesses, with forecast fifth-year revenues of less than $20 million. There will also be a not-for-profit presentation.
All entrants must have at least one USF student or alumni as part of the presenting team. Local businesses may contact USF Entrepreneur Club President Tyler Bennett at tylerbennett@home.com, to arrange for student team members. Companies that have raised more than $250,000 in equity capital are not eligible to compete.
Contestants will be notified of the results of the initial screening by April 12. Workshops will be held for those selected to participate in the final competition. For submission information, contact Todd Sayre at sayre@usfca.edu
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Christian Ethicists Meet at USF
More than 30 Christian ethicists from the University of Southern California, University of the Pacific, the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, California State University Long Beach, and other western colleges and universities gathered at USF on Feb. 16 for the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (Pacific Region).
George Schultze, S.J., program director of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Professional Studies, hosted the conference. Fr. Schultze was also elected president of the Pacific Region at the meeting.
Gene Outka, a professor at Yale Divinity School and the president of the Society of Christian Ethics, gave the keynote address on St. Augustine titled, “On Differences and Points of Correspondence Between God and Ourselves: A Search for the Right Interplay.”
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