Adrian G. Beaulieu, dean of international studies, has been chosen as an international peer reviewer for the Quality Improvement Program for Education Abroad (QUIP) by the Forum on Education Abroad.

Beaulieu was selected as one of Abroad View's three national reviewers for the magazine's annual Student Diplomat Essay Competition. The best essays will be published in the Spring 2009 edition of Abroad View.

Rev. Edward L. Cleary, O.P., professor of political science and advisor for Latin American studies, contributed a chapter, "Aparecida and Pentecostalism in Latin America," to the book Aparecida: Quo Vidas? (2009, University of Scranton Press). Father Cleary also wrote an article entitled "The Catholic Social Imagination: Activism and the Just Society in Latin America" for the Winter 2008 issue of A Contracorriente: Journal of Social History of Latin America.

Dr. Thomas J. Guilmette, professor of psychology, was one of the keynote speakers at the Southern New England Rehabilitation Center's 15th annual rehabilitation conference on October 3 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence.

Dr. Aurelie A. Hagstrom, associate professor of theology, gave the Bishop Imesch Annual Lecture on Women in the Church at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill. on September 10. Her lecture was titled "Spiritual Hospitality and the Role of Women in the Church."

Dr. Daniel R. Horne, associate professor of marketing, gave the keynote address entitled, "Gifting and Beyond" at the Retail Decisions Prepaid Summit in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on October 31.  The conference was attended by retail and financial service industry executives from Australia, Southeast Asia, and China.

Dr. Peter M. Johnson, professor of English, visited the Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of Minnesota on October 6-7 as part of the Edelstein-Keller Endowment series.  He visited classes, met individually with students, and read prose poems from his new manuscript, Rants & Raves: New and Selected Prose Poems.

Dr. Gregory L. Light, associate professor of management, wrote four papers that were printed or presented in 2008.

"Relative Derivative and Proportionality in Differential Geometry" appeared in the International Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 3 (1), pages 1-16, 2008.

"Lorentz Transformation as a Matrix of Rank 4," and "Einstein Field Equations Geometry for Electromagnetism and Gravity," appeared in the International Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2008, pages 139-145 and Vol. 21, No. 2, 2008, 289-313, respectively.

"General Relativity with Electromagnetism in the Role of Gravity" appeared in Advanced Studies in Theoretical Physics, Vol. 2, No. 17-20, 2008, pages 1013-1024.

Light also presented, "On Field Geometrization," at the Fifth International Conference of Applied Mathematics and Computing in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, held August 12-18, 2008.

Paul J. Maloney, C.P.A, CFP, assistant professor of finance and department chair, served as one of five Rhode Island representatives at the New England Youth Financial Education Forum in Boston on October 27-29. The new forum, which was organized by James Hedemark of the Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition, is designed to raise awareness of youth financial literacy.

Dr. Paul D. Quinlan, professor of history, delivered a lecture on Transnistria at Harvard University on February 13. He also had an article entitled "A Foot in Both Camps: Moldova and the Transnistrian Conundrum from the Kozak Memorandum" printed in the Summer 2008 issue of East European Quarterly. He presented a paper, "The Kozak Memorandum: A Turning Point in Recent Moldovan Foreign Policy," at the 32nd Annual Congress of the American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences in July.

Dr. Zachary S. Rossetti, assistant professor of education, wrote an article entitled "I Like Others to Not Try to Fix Me: Agency, Independence, and Autism" for the October 2008 issue of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Rossetti also gave a presentation titled "Learning to Connect: Developmental Disability and Friendship in High School" in November 2008 at the 33rd annual TASH conference in Nashville, Tenn.

Dr. Pamela D. Sherer, associate professor of management, wrote an article entitled "Diversity Changes in Tomorrow's Organizations," which will appear in Understanding and Managing Diversity: Reading, Cases, and Exercises, 4th edition (Prentice Hall, 2009). Additionally, Dr. Sherer delivered a presentation, "Using YouTube to Improve Student Engagement," at the 33rd International Conference on Improving University Teaching in Glasgow, Scotland, in August.

College President Rev. Brian Shanley, O.P. '80, delivered a lecture, "Thomas Aquinas on Demonstrating God's Providence," at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in September.

Dr. Giacomo Striuli,  professor of Italian, presented a paper entitled "The Pursuit of Selfhood and of Glory in Berto" during a conference celebrating Italian author Giuseppe Berto at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, N.Y., on November 1, 2008.

Dr. James J. Tattersall, professor of mathematics and computer science, had the second edition of his book, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, translated into Japanese by Tako Komatsu, professor of mathematics at Hirosaki University. Tattersall had the original version published in English by Cambridge University Press in 1999 and came out with the revised second edition in 2005. The Japanese translation has been published by Morikita Shuppan Co. Ltd. in Tokyo.