The Association of Black Psychologists Student Research Award goes to Lindsey West of UMass Boston
Lindsey West, doctoral student in Clinical Psychology, has won the Association of Black Psychologists Student Research Award.  It is a $500 cash award and an opportunity to present at the Association of Black Psychologists annual conference.  The award is based on an article first authored by Ms. West entitled Coping with Racism: What Works and Doesn't Work for Black Women?  Ms. West wrote the article based on her masters thesis research. The article is in press at the Journal of Black Psychology.  Liz Roemer and Roxanne Donovan are faculty co-authors.

2009 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History goes to James Green of UMass Boston
As President of the Textile Workers Union of America, Sol Stetin led the first campaigns to organize workers in southern textile mills. Deeply committee to this cause, he concluded that merging with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America would create a stronger union capable of raising standards and making gains for southern workers. And with this, in 1976, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU)was born. Stetin was passionate about preserving the stories of workers’ lives and worked with the American Labor Museum to do so. View the video of Jim Green’s speech for the Hillman award. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9J8Joh6XI

All the World’s a Page: 400 Years of Shakespeare in Print

Professor Scott Maisano and graduate students of the English Department at UMass Boston in collaboration with the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Boston Public Library.

July 1 through September 30th, 2008, weekdays, 9am-5pm, Boston Public Library, Rare Books Exhibition Room

A new exhibit in the Rare Books and Manuscript Room of the Boston Public Library. This elegant and informative exhibit is the result of a great deal of hard work by the graduate students in the Spring 2008 special topics course on “Shakespeare and the History of the Book.” These students have helped to create an exhibit that will educate and entertain not only the community of greater Boston but visitors from all over the world.

Click for interview in the Shakespeare Post.

The exhibit is part of the “Literature First Hand” Partnership between UMass Boston and the Boston Public Library. The partnership is funded in part by a grant from the University of Massachusetts President’s Creative Economy Initiative.

Psychology Faculty Win Technology Initiatives Grant

Development of screening tools for early detection of anxiety disorders
Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy, Dr. Alice Carter, Dr. Erik Blaser
Many anxiety disorders - which constitute a major mental health problem, and cost billions of dollars per year in treatment and lost work capacity - have their roots in early childhood. Early detection of symptoms allows for the design and implementation of targeted intervention techniques that can improve these conditions in the short term as well as mitigate the severity of their progression.
Working within a translational framework, our team combines the expertise of experimental and clinical scientists to study basic cognitive and attentional capacities of children at risk for developing anxiety disorders using state-of-the-art eye tracking technology. This work serves as a basis for developing patentable tools that can be employed in the public and private sector for early screening of at-risk infants and toddlers.

Spring 2008 News