September 1997
Campus Notes Publications
Prof. Robert Johnson of the Dept. of Africana Studies has co-written a book, Shona, with Dr. Gary Van Wyk. Shona is part of the 56 volume "Heritage Library of African Peoples" published by The Rosen Publishing Group of New York City.
Prof. Roger Wrubel, director of the Undergraduate Environmental Studies Program has co-written an article, "Regulatory Oversight of Genetically Engineered Microorganisms: Has Regulation Inhibited Innovation?" in the July issue of the journal Environmental Management.
The Women Carry River Water, a volume of poetry by Vietnamese author Nguyen Quang Thieu, has been translated by Prof. Martha Collins of the English department and published by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Grants
The Center for World Languages and Cultures received a $102,000 grant from the University of Puerto Rico to provide a summer English program for 30 students. The Center has also received several grants in conjunction with the graduate programs in bilingual and ESL studies totalling over $400,000 for 1997-98.
Richard Delaney and Jack Wiggin of the Urban Harbors Institute have been awarded a $9,000 grant from the City of Boston's Environmental Office to develop an existing use and physical constraint map of Boston Harbor.
The Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy will participate in $75,000 study investigating alternative sentencing for female substance abusers in the state criminal justice system. The study is funded by the Massachusetts Legislature.
Five faculty members, Arthur MacEwan, economics; Margaret McAllister and Victoria Palmer-Erbs, Nursing; Frank Porrell, Gerontology; and Meredith Ramsay, political science were awarded public policy summer research grants by the McCormack Institute.
Appointments
Professor Bette Woody of the Human Service Program, CPCS, was a visiting professor in Yale University's Community Renaissance Fellows Program this summer. She presented recent research on Boston's neighborhood retail centers as new urban economic models.
Prof. Victoria Palmer-Erbs of the College of Nursing was chosen as an American Psychiatric Nurses Association delegate to the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center.
Gillian Krajewski will serve as the acting director of the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution while Director David Matz is on sabbatical until Spring of 1998.
Conferences and Presentations
Melodie Wenz-Gross, senior research associate with the Center for Social Development and Education, presented a poster at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Her presentation was "Stress, Social Support and Adjustment During the Transition to Middle School."
The Urban Harbors Institute co-sponsored the annual conference of the Environmental Diversity Forum, Neighbors and Neighborhoods in Partnership, at UMass Boston in June. Jack Wiggin, assistant director of the Urban Harbors Institute, is vice president of the Forum.
McCormack Institute Senior Fellow Al Cardarelli was honored at a June luncheon by the Boston Police Department for his report on the restructuring of the Municipal Police Department.
Zelda Gamson and Catherine Burack of NERCHE conducted a Project Colleague institute in Sturbridge, MA., July 21-24, to show faculty associates how to design workshops to create community-based programs. Profs. Peter Kiang and Cass Turner attended as faculty associates.
Acquisitions
The Archives and Special Collections department of Healey Library has acquired the Hanoi Journal of community organizer and anti-war activist Carol McEldowney, who died in 1973 at the age of 30. McEldowney travelled to Hanoi, North Vietnam, in 1967 to observe and record uncensored images during the Vietnam war.
Faculty and Staff in the News...
"US college in Bulgaria could be a model for the post-Cold War world," an op-ed by Robert Woodbury, McCormack Institute Director, appeared in The Boston Globe June 21.
McCormack Institute Senior Fellow Padraig O'Malley's op-ed, "Will peace be a casualty of Northern Ireland's marching season?" appeared in The Boston Globe July 12.
Dr. Allan Sloane, project director of the McCormack Institute's Big Dig Study was interviewed by WLVI-56, WBZ-4, and New England Cable News on July 30.
Professor Andres Torres' op-ed, "Boston's 'job gap' for minorities" appeared in The Boston Globe on August 3.
Hubie Jones, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Urban Affairs, was interviewed on Acting Governor Paul Cellucci by WCVB-5 on August 10.
CPCS Prof. James Green was interviewed on the UPS strike by WLVI-56 August 19 and 21.
Lou DiNatale, senior fellow of the McCormack Institute, was interviewed on Washington D.C.'s WABU-FM regarding the receiverships for the cities of Chelsea, MA, and Washington, D.C., on August 23.
In Memoriam
Gilman Hebert, an instructor in the Bilingual/ESL master's program, passed away July 8 at the age of 51. Mr. Hebert was a respected educator whose special areas of interest were methodology and Franco-American culture. He also served as Director of Bilingual Education in the Massachusetts Department of Education for 15 years.