Colleagues involved in stem cell research or students writing papers on the topic may find information on the John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute website helpful. Donations to The John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute are tax-deductible. Please check the institute’s website for more information: http://jp2sri.org/.
Author: Dr. Jeff Koloze
Dr. Jeff Koloze (English, Kent State University) is president and founder of Koloze Consultants, whose objective is "...to conduct research on the life issues for presentation and publication." Before his retirement under STRS (Ohio) in 2014, Dr. Koloze was Associate Professor of English at the Cleveland, Ohio Campus of South University. His most recent administrative position was Campus College Chair for the College of Humanities, the College of Natural Sciences, and the College of Social Sciences from 2005-2011 at the Columbus, Ohio Campus of the University of Phoenix; in 2009 he was appointed one of twelve senior research fellows for that institution. Dr. Koloze has taught communications, undergraduate and graduate English, and humanities courses since 1989 at several colleges and universities in the Cleveland, Columbus, and Springfield, Ohio metropolitan areas. His primary research interest is the presentation of the right-to-life issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia in literature; most of his publications are available in conference proceedings and on the web. He has presented over eighty papers before academic and professional organizations on these topics, most recently at conferences at the American University of Rome (2015), Fordham University (2014), Harvard University (2010 and 2012), Ryerson University (Toronto, 2009), the University of Notre Dame (2011), and the University of San Francisco (2013). He is the author of An Ethical Analysis of the Portrayal of Abortion in American Fiction: Dreiser, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Brautigan, and Irving (Edwin Mellen, 2005) and Testament to a Niagara Obsession (Spare Change Press; Ten Leaves Poetry Series, 2014). Dr. Koloze invites colleagues and students to join him on Facebook, Gab, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social networking services. He can be emailed at [email protected].
History and legal students and scholars may find an updated legislative fact sheet from Ohio RTL helpful in their research. Stephanie Krider, Director of Legislative Affairs for Ohio RTL, has compiled a brochure on Ohio laws concerning the life issues. Please call or email her for a copy of “Facts of Life—Ohio Laws REVISED”: [email protected] […]
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Review of Cornwell’s book on Newman
Anne Barbeau Gardiner’s review of John Cornwell’s Newman’s Unquiet Grave (Continuum, 2010) is now available. Please email me for the full text.
Colleagues involved in linguistic study may find Google’s Ngram feature helpful as a starting point for discussion about the use of words over the centuries. A word of caution, though: entering the words “abortion,” “infanticide,” and “euthanasia” results in a graph which may be misleading. As pro-life scholars know, “abortion” was often called “infanticide” by British […]
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Transfer of copyright agreements
A colleague has been asked to submit a paper to the US-China Education Review. A stipulation of the editor is that a “transfer of copyright agreement” should accompany the article. If anyone has experience with such agreements, please contact me at [email protected]; I will forward your comments as appropriate.
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Pro-life social networking?
A colleague has a question about social networking sites used for the purpose of communicating life-affirming news. Although social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn are wonderful means to communicate pro-life ideas and events, is there a social networking site specifically run by a pro-life group (preferably a 501-c-3, tax-exempt, non-profit)? The major social networking sites are run by for-profit companies; pro-lifers […]
A law school student would like to know if there has ever been a “fake opinion” written about the Supreme Court decisions of Roe v. Wade (1973) or Casey (1992). The student would like to write such a fictional account if it has not already been done. Please reply to [email protected]; I will forward your […]
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Scholarship on disabilities
Ann Millett-Gallant’s “The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art” offers trenchant commentary about art works depicting the “disabled,” the outmoded and now politically-incorrect word to denote persons who have physical challenges. Many of her statements can be useful for a life-affirming perspective towards those with disabilities whose right to life is being contested by infanticide and […]
A colleague on the Italian American Professionals group on LinkedIn posed the following question: “Since the death rate in Italy exceeds the birth rate, Italians are a disappearing race. How do we stop this from happening?” My response is as follows: “May I also suggest that you support the pro-life movement in Italy? As you […]
Colleagues interested in stem cell research may find information about “direct conversion” helpful; apparently, this development may make embryonic stem-cell research needless. Further information can be found at http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/29/bio-3220/.