Two faculty members have been selected to present the 1998-99 Distinguished Lectures, based on their contributions to and impact made on their fields. Professor Zelda F. Gamson of the Graduate College of Education and director of the New England Research Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) will speak on "The Academy and the Public Realm" on Nov. 19. CPCS Professor David Matz, founding director of the Dispute Resolution Graduate Program, will speak on "The Emotional Life of a Mediation" on April 7. Both lectures will take place in the Chancellor's Conference room at 4 p.m.
Since the inception of the Distinguished Lecture Series in 1984, approximately 45 faculty members have been invited to present their work through the series. "This is a record we should not take for granted," says Graduate Dean Martin Quitt, a member of the selection committee. "Only a small portion of the more than 200 colleges and universities in New England would be able to mount a comparable series."
UMass Boston has a talented array of natural and physical scientists and mathematicians, social and behavioral scientists, and humanists on faculty and staff, notes Quitt. So far, 23 academic and research units have been represented in the series. This year, three more units&emdash;the Doctoral Program in Higher Education Administration, NERCHE, and the Dispute Resolution Program&emdash;have been added to the list.