Return to Table of ContentsMay 1998
CAMPUS NOTES Conference & Presentations | Publications | Exhibitions & Events
Honors & Appointments | In the News | Fund Raisers | Grants
Doctoral Dissertation Defenses | New on the Web
Conference & Presentations
Biology Prof. Richard White gave an invited talk on the molecular biology of insect color vision at the 26th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference in Germany on Mar. 26.
Art Prof. Victoria Weston was guest speaker for a lecture series accompanying an exhibition,"Imaging Meiji: Emperor and Era," at the University of Oregon Museum of Art in February. She was also interviewed and served as a consultant for a Japanese National Public Television special, "Yokoyama Taikan in America," broadcast in March.
Art Prof. Anne McCauley presented a lecture, "Dead Heads: Portrait Aesthetics and the Shock of the Photographic during the Second Empire," at the Harvard University Art Museums on Mar. 10.
NERCHE Visiting Fellow Nancy Thomas explored the role of legal counsel working with university personnel to develop policies and procedures to head off potential litigation at NERCHE's Spring Breakfast, April 13.
In March, Modern Languages Prof. Brian Thompson gave a workshop, "Play it Again, Sam: Teaching Language and Culture Through Song,"for world language teachers in the Boston Public Schools. A 4-hour version of the workshop, "The Song's the Thing," will be presented for the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association in May.
Helena Ragone (Anthropology) gave a lecture at the Einstein School of Medicine in New York City on Mar. 18. Her talk was "Gestational (IVF) Surrogacy and Gamete Donation: Fragmentation and Reunification of the Body."
Prof. Richard Hogarty, McCormack Institute, moderated a panel, "Mental Health: Managing Transition" at the Harvard Institute for International Development on April 15. He also spoke at a symposium on the Separation of Powers in State Constitutional Law on April 25 in Bristol, R.I.
Dr. Siddiq Ali, visiting Fulbright scholar, spoke on "Women in Sufi Poetry" at Northern Essex Community College during International Women's Week in March.
Michele Fazio, master's candidate in English, received a scholarship from the American Italian Historical Association to attend its annual conference. Fazio also presented a paper,"Lost Dreams, Accepted Realities: A Class and Ethnic Study of Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete," at a conference sponsored by the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery and the University of Southern Colorado, in March.
English master's candidate Marie Theodore presented "Native Realism: Authenticity or Exploitation?" at the Haitian Studies Association Conference in Detroit, and "Blood Brother to the Rattlesnake: Vaudun and Their Eyes were Watching God" at the Women of Color Conference at Salisbury State University.
Sociology Prof. Susan Gore presented a lecture, "Vulnerability and Growth in the Adolescent Years" as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies on April 8.
History Prof. Thomas McMullin presents a lecture, "Soaring Triumphs--Tragic Endings: The Lives of Industrialists William Howland and William Wood," at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday May 7 at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Sociology student Mary Fortunato received a travel award to attend the 4th Annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, which she will attend with Dr. Tiffany Cunningham (Psychology).
ECOS Prof. Jack Archer will moderate a panel for The Stratton Roundtable on May 1 in Washington D.C. The Roundtable will provide recommendations for a new ocean policy commission. Prof. Archer will moderate a session, "The Changed Context of the Late 1990s: Forces that have Affected and Will Affect National Ocean Policy."
Publications
Teaching Language and Communication by English Prof. Elsa Auerbach has been published by JUTA of South Africa.
Explorations in College Algebra by Mathematics and Computer Sciences Prof. Linda Kime and GCOE Prof. Judy Clark was published by John Wiley & Sons in January.
English Prof. Lloyd Schwartz's poem, "Pornography," has been included in Too Darn Hot: An Anthology of American Sexual Mores Since Kinsey. Four poems in a bilingual edition of An Anthology of Contemporary North American Poetry were published by the Federal University of Florianopolis, Brazil.
Prof. Michael LaFargue, director of the Program in East Asian Studies, co-edited a volume of essays on Chinese Taoism, Lao-Tzu and the Tao-te-ching, published by SUNY Press, 1998.
Lecturer Jeslyn Medoff (English) is co-author of "Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record" in the current issue of Eighteenth Century Life.
The third edition of a textbook co-authored by Biology Prof. Karlene Schwartz, Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth, has been published by W.H. Freeman and Company.
Exhibitions & Events
Husband and wife team Prof. Mark Schlesinger and Healey Library Reference Librarian Fran Schlesinger brought classroom instruction (from UMass Lowell) and a demonstration of web research methods (from Healey Library) to students in his interactive seminar, "Cyberspace and Human Communications,"which is taught via distance learning to students at both campuses.
The College of Nursing hosted 3 visitors from Kemi Tornio Polytechnic Institute of Finland, April 7 & 8. Ms. Air Rajamaki, International Officer, Mr. Hannu Torma, Director, and Ms. Arja Lenna Jokinen, Dean, met with faculty to explore student and faculty exchange.
ECOS Prof. Robert Bowen organized "Polar Blast,"a day-long event in New Bedford sponsored by the New Bedford Aquarium on Feb. 28 that attracted 10,000 visitors. Prof. Robert Chen and three graduate students, Stephen Rudnick, Ray Siegener and Carl Ruesz, demonstrated use of laser fluorescence and fiber optic cables for environmental monitoring.
Photography by art majors Kimberly Jenner and Luke Baer, was selected for the Third Annual Photographic Resource Center Student Member Exhibition held at Boston's Photographic Resource Center, March 21 to April 17. Their work can also be seen in the 5th floor gallery, Healey Library.
Edith Shillue (Joiner Center) and student Truong Chinh Nguyen were readers at Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's "Favorite Poem" event at the Boston Public Library on April 8. Shillue read in English, and Chinh in Vietnamese, "To Return to the Urges Unconscious of their Beginning," by Phan Tien Duat.
Honors & Appointments
English Prof. Lloyd Schwartz was named one of Queen's College's 1000 "alumni stars" to be honored at the 60th Anniversary Alumni Dinner on May 2.
CPCS Prof. Marie Kennedy was a finalist for the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, presented by the Campus Compact, the Project for Public and Community Service.
American Studies Prof. Charles Shively has been selected to attend the "Crossroads of Atlantic Cultures: Brazil at 500" Summer Institute, funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH).
Mathematics and Computer Sciences Prof. Linda Kime was recognized for her work reviewing proposals submitted to the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Elizabeth Sherman, director, Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, will join a bipartisan panel on preserving the integrity of the American Judicial system, sponsored by the Twentieth Century Fund/Century Foundation.
Associate Director Ellen Bruce (Gerontology Institute) was chosen by President Clinton as a delegate to the National Summit on Retirement Savings in Washington, D.C. on June 4 & 5.
Human Performance and Fitness Prof. Margaret Musmon was selected as a Dance Panel Member by the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), and will adjudicate dance companies for the MCC's 3-year funding cycle.
Mary Jo Marion has been appointed associate director of the Gastón Institute.
Barbara Davis, administrative assistant (Anthropology) has been re-elected to a second term on the Holbrook school committee.
In the News
Al Cardarelli (McCormack Institute) appeared on New England Cable News on April 2 to discuss alleged misconduct by the Somerville Police Department.
Sophomore Michael Ferrante, winner of the 1997 NPC Teen National Bodybuilding Championship, was profiled in the May issue of Muscle and Fitness magazine.
Padraig O'Malley's article, "An Upbeat Mood, but What Next?" on the conflict negotiations in Northern Ireland appeared in The Boston Globe, March 26.
Prof. Richard Hogarty was interviewed by WBZ-TV on the Republican State Convention and the gubernatorial candidates on April 17.
The UMass Boston greenhouse was featured in a Sunday Boston Herald article on April 5.
Two new books by General Center Prof. Susan Eisenberg were reviewed on WBUR radio on April 13.
Dr. Harlyn Halvorson (Policy Center for Marine Bioscience and Technology) was interviewed for an article, "The Crop's Underwater and Harvest Hopes are High," in Newsday Discovery magazine, March 31.
Prof. Ramona Hernandez of Latino Studies was interviewed on CNN's Page One program on Dominicans in baseball, on March 21.
Fund Raisers
WUMB-FM raised $86,000 during its March fundraiser. The first day of the fundraiser brought in a record-breaking $32,000.
The University's Daffodil Days flower sale raised $1,256 for the American Cancer Society during the Mar. 24-25 benefit sponsored by the Department of Human Resources.
Grants
ECOS Prof. Robert Chen received a NATO Collaborative Research Grant for $8,400 to cover travel expenses for work with Prof. Eduardo Blanco of the University of Cadiz, Spain on"Sol-gel fiber optic chemical sensors for environmental monitoring."
Doctoral Dissertation Defenses
Paul Harrington, (Higher Education Administration) defended "The Economic Returns to a College Degree: With Special Reference to Major Field of Study and Race/Ethnicity and Gender," on April 27.
Godwin Ariguzo (Higher Education Administration) defended "An Examination of the Effects of the Federal College Work-Study Program on Minority Students' Persistence, Academic Performance, and Graduation Rates: Based on the NCES 1990-94 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study," on April 27.
Leslie Hitch (Higher Education Administration) defended "Needs and Expectations: The Hiring of Full-time Faculty in Selected Metropolitan Universities following Financial Distress," on April 23.
Maria del Carmen Perez (Clinical Psychology) defended "The Language of Native Spanish and English Speaking Schizotypal College Students" on April 23.
New on the Web
The Mathematics and Computer Sciences department is hosting "mahistory," a new internet mailing list to facilitate communications within the state's historical records community. To subscribe, click here and follow the link labelled "listserv."