25 Years of Schoenfeldt Writers

February 3, 2014

This year marks 25 years since the first Schoenfeldt Distinguished Visiting Writer, Barry Lopez, appeared on campus. Since the Schoenfeldt Writers Series was founded by the late Rev. Arthur Schoenfeldt, C.S.C. (pictured, with the right half of novelist David James Duncan) and his sister, the late Suzanne Fields, many of the finest writers in the United States have offered public readings and visited classrooms at the University. In honor of this milestone for the Schoenfeldt Series, all are welcome to view a display of some of the past Schoenfeldt visitors in the display case across from the Shepard Freshman Resource Center on the first floor of Buckley Center, created by the University Museum. The museum is located in the basement of Shipstad Hall in room 014. Hours are Monday & Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and also by appointment. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are invited to stop in and learn more about the University’s history. Contact museum coordinator Carolyn Connolly at 8038 or piatz@up.edu for more information.

SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai, theology, reviewed and endorsed book manuscript: Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions. Edited by Nobuntu Penxa Matholemi, Georgina Kwanima Boateng, and Molly Manyonganise. African Sun Media, 2020. ISBN: 9781928480730. He also served as reviewer and endorser of manuscript: “Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility” by Damasus C. Okoro, Wipf and Stock Publishers, July 2020.

Corey Pressman, nursing, had his poem, Quarantine Circuit, published in September 13th “Introspection” issue of the Lucky Jefferson Literary Journal. You can listen to a reading of the poem here.

Dawn Garzon Maaks, nursing, wrote “A cost-effective solution to video debriefing and livestreaming in simulation” (with Douglas Hughley) in Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 48 (November 2020), 15-19.

Kevin Jones, social work, had a poem, “A Painting of a Painting on Fire,” published in The Ekphrastic Review, an online literary journal dedicated to poetry inspired by visual art. Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma.

Jakob Kotas, mathematics, contributed “Specifications-based grading reduces anxiety for students of ordinary differential equations” (with Mel Henriksen, Mami Wentworth) to CODEE Journal: Vol. 13, Article 1, September 2020. Available at this link.

Buck Taylor, chemistry, contributed “Metal/Organosilicon Complexes: Structure, Reactivity, and Considerations for Catalysis” (with Matthew Whited) to Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, August 2020, 40, 217–276.