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AKADEMEIA
REWIND
Let us count the ways... the UD community is enriching the campus’ intellectual life.
“The joyful opportunity that I had to be part of UD’s unique doctoral program has transformed my life, leading me to my calling as a teacher while impressing upon me the responsibility and grace that comes with such an honor.” This winter, after successfully defending her dissertation “Ishmael’s Cetological Quest: A Progression of Imagination in Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’,” Elizabeth Reyes ’06, ’12 was awarded the 200th doctoral degree from the Braniff Graduate School’s Institute of Philosophic Studies. Now, she teaches at Thomas Aquinas College.
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“AS BOTH AN EDUCATOR AND ADMINISTRATOR, DR. HATLIE POSSESSES AN EXCEPTIONAL AND UNIQUE COMBINATION OF SKILLS THAT HAS GREATLY BENEFITTED OUR ROME PROGRAM AND CAMPUS,” SAID PRESIDENT THOMAS W. KEEFE. “HIS EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF OTHER AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES WITH SIMILAR PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT EUROPE WILL CONTINUE TO BE A VALUABLE RESOURCE IN THIS EXPANDED ROLE AS WE FURTHER DEVELOP THIS DISTINCTIVE PART OF UD’S CULTURE.” For more than a decade, Peter Hatlie has served in various capacities with the university’s nationally-recognized study abroad program, most recently as the Rome campus’ dean and director. Now, in his newly-created role as vice president, dean and director of the Rome Program, he hopes to capitalize on those experiences to further enhance the development of the “Rome Experience.” Before arriving on the Rome campus in 1999, he taught in Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Turkey.
▶ Mobile industry data indicates that next year mobile Internet usage will overtake desktop usage, and nine of 10 adults in America will own a smartphone by 2015.
The William A. Blakley Library, anticipating increased mobile expectations, secured a Mobile Solutions Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Texas State Library that has helped it go mobile. The free “UD Library” mobile app, which is now available on iTunes, provides students, faculty and other patrons the ability to search the catalog, renew materials, pay fines and more right from a smartphone or tablet. The Android app will be available later this month. 8 l TOWER l SUMMER 2013
From left: Bainard Cowan, Elizabeth Reyes and Louise Cowan
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A SOCIAL GATHERING
▶ Take a select group of behavioral and social scientists from around the world, put them together at UD for four days and you get “The Horse That Will Not Go Away: Spontaneous Social Self-Deception,” “‘Rich Men Over 50 Kill Selves for Lack of Woman Attention!’ John B. Watson’s Changing Views on Suicide” or some other equally intriguing presentation. In June, the Psychology Department hosted the annual gathering of Cheiron: the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences, which attracted experts from as far away as Hong Kong. w
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FULFILLING FORMATION NEEDS
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The School of Ministry and the Archdiocese of Atlanta are partnering to provide an online pastoral theology certificate program to Hispanic catechetical leaders and other Spanishspeaking Catholics in the Atlanta area. Graduates of the program, which consists of 12 theology and six pastoral courses taught in Spanish and taken over three years, will receive a Certificado en Teología Pastoral (CTP) and become master catechists for the archdiocese. There are currently 75 students enrolled.