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Conferences
and Presentations
- Prof. Zong-Guo Xia of the
Department of Earth and Geographic Sciences gave two
presentations at the New England Geographic Information
Science (GIS) '99 Conference in Sturbridge held in June.
His presentations were "GIS Certification" and "Emerging
Trends in GIS Research and Education."
- CPCS Prof. Joan Arches and
Suzanne Allmendinger, director of the Urban Program at
CPCS, presented on the topic "Promoting Political
Participation: Service Learning with Ethnically Diverse
Teen" at the 12th Annual National Conference on Race and
Ethnicity in Higher Education held in Memphis in
June.
- Joan Becker, asst. vice provost
for academic support services, moderated a session at the
Council for Opportunity in Education Conference in San
Antonio. The session was "GEAR UP and TRIO: A Match Made
in Congress."
- Bill Pollard, director of
Project REACH, presented a workshop at the Council for
Opportunity in Education Conference in San Antonio. The
workshop was "IEP, IDEA, 504, ADA...Serving Pre-College
Students with Disabilities: Learn the Alphabet and Stay
Out of the Soup."
- Prof. John Conlon of the
Division of Communications and Theatre Arts had a public
reading of his play, Peace Love and Tartuffe at the Black
and White Theatre in Middleboro in August. It is now in
rehearsal there for Nemasket River Productions.
- Prof. Arindam Bandopadhyaya of
the Department of Accounting and Finance presented a
paper at the 1999 European Finance Association meeting in
Helsinki, Finland in August. His presentation was "An
Analysis of Second Time Around Bankruptcies Using a Split
Population Duration Model" which he will also present at
an October conference in Orlando, Florida.
- Chemistry Prof. John Warner has
been invited to give the keynote address at a conference,
"Chemistry and Innovations in the 21st Century" which
will be held in Yokohama, Japan, in October. His topic
will be "Designing Chemical Processes in Harmony with the
Environment."
- Gerontology Prof. Nina
Silverstein presented a talk, "Aging Women Veterans:
Knowledge and Use of VA Benefits and Services" at the
National Women Veterans Coordinator Conference in Chicago
in September.
- Prof. John Papageorgiou of the
Department of Management Science and Information Systems
organized, chaired, and participated as a panelist in a
session, "Teaching Operations Research/Management Science
to Undergraduate Business Students: A knapsack Problem"
at the Decision Sciences Institute International
Conference during July in Athens, Greece.
- Prof. Ron Nash of the Division
of Communications and Theatre Arts held a public reading
of his new play, Christmas Spirits at the Manhattan Club
in New York on September 12.
- Zehra Schneider Graham,
environmental coordinator of the Environmental Health and
Safety Office, presented "Development of an Environmental
Management Plan: Site-specific Plans under the New
England Universities' XL Project" at the 17th Annual
College and University Hazardous Waste Conference at Yale
University in August.
- Profs. James Bierstaker and
Sally Wright of the Department of Accounting and Finance
made a presentation, " The Effect of Practical Problem
Solving Ability on Performance in Auditing Tasks" at two
conferences: The Fifth Annual Auditing Mid-Year
Conference in Atlanta (Jan. 1999), and the International
Symposium of Audit Research in Los Angeles (June 1999).
Another presentation, "The Effects of Fee Pressure and
Partner Pressure on Audit Planning Decisions" was given
at the Fifth Annual Auditing Mid-Year Conference and at
the AAA Annual Meeting in San Diego (August 1999).
Honors
and Awards
- Prof. Marian Spencer of the
Gerontology Institute and Center was the recipient of the
1999 Frank J. Manning Award, which was presented to her
at the Governor's Conference on Aging in May. She was
honored for her achievements in the fields of elder
advocacy and health care, and she was also cited for her
work to develop a course for grandparents raising
grandchildren.
- College of Management Senior
Darci M. Miller is the first recipient of the Vitale,
Caturano and Company PC Award, given to a rising senior
concentrating in accounting who also demonstrates
excellence in academics and service. The award comes from
an endowment established by Vitale, Caturano and Company
PC at the College of Management.
- Mary Barrett, who retired from
the University last year after a long career with the
Athletics Department as associate director of athletics,
will be honored with the 1999 Katherine Ley Award at the
Eastern College Athletic Conference Fall Awards banquet
on October 4. The Ley Award recognizes an eastern women's
athletics administrator of demonstrated leadership
ability, and a role model for women coaches.
- Prof. Zong-Guo Xia of the
Department of Earth and Geographic Sciences has been
invited to serve on the Chinese National Committee for
the Standardization of Nomenclature in Geographic
Information Science. He has also been invited to serve on
the editorial board of a new electronic journal of the
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
Applications and Advances in Remote Sensing.
- Sharon L. Bostick, director of
libraries, was elected president of the Boston Library
Consortium (BLC) for the 1999-2000 academic year. The BLC
is a resource sharing consortium of 16 research libraries
in the Boston area and Rhode Island.
- English Prof. Lloyd Schwartz,
director of the Creative Writing Program, became the
first UMass Boston faculty member to chair a Ph.D.
dissertation defense committee at UMass Amherst. Schwartz
also served as advisor to the graduate student, whose
dissertation topic was poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Publications
- Prof. Edythe C. Haber of the
Modern Languages Department has published two articles.
"Teffi's Ved'ma: A Mythology of the Russian Soul"
appeared in The Works of N.A. Teffi and the Russian
Literary Process of the First Half of the XX Century, was
published by the Institute of World Literature of the
Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. "The Mythic
Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita and Arthur Drew's 'The
Christ Myth' " appeared in the Slavic and Eastern
European Journal, (Summer, 1999). Haber also served as
co-editor of the Newsletter of the Mikhail Bulgakov
Society, nos. 4-5 (1998-99).
- Anthropology Prof. Barbara
Luedtke has published two articles, "Gunflints in the
Northeast" in Northeast Anthropology, and "What Makes a
Good Gunflint?" in Archaeology of Eastern North
America.
- Modern Languages Prof. Brian
Thompson presented a paper, "De Boston Malagar:
Rencontres mauriaciennes" at a colloquium on Mauriac at
the Institut de France. His presentation will be
published in the colloquium proceedings. Thompson spent
the Spring semester as director of the UMass Year of
Study in France.
- Prof. Arthur Goldsmith of the
Department of Management and Marketing and senior fellow,
McCormack Institute, published an article, "Africa's
Overgrown State Revisited" in the July 1999 issue of
World Politics .
- Prof. Nina Silverstein of the
Gerontology Program and doctoral student Jennifer
Moorhead have published a project report, "Raising
Awareness About Aging Women Veterans in Massachusetts.
This report, cosponsored by the Gerontology Institute and
the Joiner Center, is available through the Gerontology
Institute.
- Prof. James Bierstaker
published an article, "Internal Control Documentation:
Which Format is Preferred?" in the winter issue of The
Auditor's Report. Along with two colleagues, Bierstaker
also published "The Effect of Problem Representation
Shifts on Auditor Performance in Analytical Procedures"
in the Spring issue of Auditing: A Journal of Practice
and Theory.
- Sociology Prof. Stephanie
Hartwell co-authored a 1999 article, "Models of Care:
Massachusetts Forensic Transition Program" which appeared
in the journal Psychiatric Services,. She also wrote "The
Working Life of Homeless Street Addicts" which appeared
in the Journal of Substance Abuse.
- Prof. Abhijit Chaudhury of the
Department of Management Sciences was written a web-based
course on telecommunications fundamentals, "Essentials of
the Internet, Intranet and Extranet" which is being
offered by the Boston University Corporate Education
Center. He also presented and published "Impact of
Internet on Information Systems Skills and Requirements"
in the Proceedings of IRMA Tenth Annual Conference in
May.
- Prof. Thomas Hogan of the
Department of Accounting and Finance was co-editor of The
Careers in Public Accounting Directory, 1999-2000
published by the Massachusetts Society of CPA's.
- Sharon L. Bostick, director of
libraries, presented a paper, "Trends in American
Academic Libraries: Services, Collections, and Consortia"
at two seminars entitled "Electronic Resource Sharing in
Libraries" held in Taipei and in Hong Kong in August.
Dissertation
Defenses
- Regina Kuecks-Morgan, a
doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D.
program, defended her dissertation, "A Transactional
Dyadic Intervention for Foster Providers and Infants
Prenatally Exposed to Illegal Drugs" on September 13.
- Carson Tsao, doctoral candidate
in the Public Policy Program, will defend his
dissertation, "Regional Coincident Economic Indexes: The
New England States' State of the Economy" on October 7 in
the Public Policy Program Suite, Healey LIbrary, 10th
floor, room 26 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Grants
- In August, a $22,500 grant from
the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) was received by
WUMB 91.9 FM in support of the Boston Folk Festival. This
is the third year that the MCC has supported WUMB and its
partners in their efforts to ensure the preservation of
folk music in Massachusetts.
- Four Academic Support Services
programs have been re-funded by the U.S. Department of
Education. Upward Bound and Veterans Upward Bound were
each re-funded for a four-year period at $482,626 and
$325,810 per year, respectively. Math Science Upward
Bound and the McNair Fellows Program were each refunded
for a five year period at $281,331 and $222,150 per year
respectively.
Displays
- Artifacts and information from
UMass Boston archaeological excavations on the Boston
Harbor Islands are included in a new display at the
Commonwealth Museum at the State Archives Building.
Anthropology Prof. Barbara Luedtke served as a consultant
for the display, "Archaeology of the Central Artery
Project: Highway to the Past." It can be viewed weekdays
from 9 to 5 through November 2000.
New
Resources
- The Healey Library installed a
new web-based catalog in June. It may be accessed from
the Healey Library home page at www.lib.umb.edu. For
access to the most of databases from off-campus
locations, users must have a university ppp account.
However, library staff is presently installing patron
identification software which will allow anyone with a
valid barcode to search databases from the web using any
commercial internet provider. Seven databases are already
available in this manner, and two more popular databases,
First Search and Uncover will be available in November.
Births
- Kelly McLaughlin, coordinator
for merit-based scholarships, gave birth to an eight
pound baby girl on August 18. Her name is Jillian
Margaret.
In
the News
- Senior Colin Ward was
interviewed on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather on the
topic of college tuition on September 13.
- Seabird research by Biology
Prof. Jeremy Hatch and colleague Ian Nisbet was
highlighted in reports appearing on WBZ -TV Ch. 4 and
WHDH-TV Ch. 7 this summer, as well as several
newspapers.
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