Return to News and Initiatives > Press Releases

Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award Winners Announced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2006
Contact: Anne D. Garner
(202) 862-9893
agarner@ajcunet.edu

The 2006 Book Awards, sponsored by Alpha Sigma Nu and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, were announced today.  The category for this year's book awards was "The Sciences." Forty-four entries from 15 Jesuit institutions were submitted for this year's contest.

The following is the list of the 2006 winners in the category of "The Sciences."

The Social Sciences:  The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2003) by Marc Morjé Howard, Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University.

The Natural Sciences: Classical Theory of Electromagnetism (World Scientific, 2004) by Baldassare Di Bartolo, Professor of Physics at Boston College.

Mathematics/Computer Science: Complexities: Women in Mathematics (Princeton University Press, 2005) edited by Anne M. Leggett McDonald, Professor of Mathematics, Loyola University Chicago and Bettye Anne Case, Professor of Mathematics, Florida State University.

Health Sciences:  Educating for Moral Action: A Sourcebook for Health and Rehabilitation Ethics (F.A. Davis) edited by Gail Jensen, Professor of Physical Therapy, Creighton University; Charlotte Royeen, Dean of Allied Health, Saint Louis University; and Ruth Purtilo, Director of Ethics Initiative at MGH Institute, Boston.

The Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Awards are open to all faculty and administrators, including emeritus faculty and administrators, who have published a book in the three years immediately prior to the year of the discipline. The books are judged by volunteer faculty members on the basis of scholarship, significance of topic to scholars across several disciplines, authority in interpretation, objectivity, presentation, and style. All entries are due by March 1 of the category year and awards are announced October 1.

The 2007 Competition will be in the category of "Professional Studies" in which there will be four awards of $1,000 each.  For more information on the history of the award and how to enter, see the Alpha Sigma Nu website: www.AlphaSigmaNu.org.