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Prof. Nina Silverstein of the Gerontology Program has been elected chairperson of the board of directors of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Alzheimer's Association. The chapter is one of the largest and busiest in the nation, serving 328 cities and towns with a population of over 5 million.
Helena Ragoné of the Anthropology Department will serve as the program chair for the American Anthropological Association 2000 meeting to be held in November, 2000 in San Francisco. The theme will be "The Public Face of Anthropology at the Millennium."
Steven Kiser, senior project administrator of the Office of Sponsored Projects has been elected treasurer of the New England Region of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA). He will assume the office at the NCURA national meeting in Washington, D.C. in November.
Prof. James Jennings, senior fellow of the Trotter Institute, has been selected as co-president of the American Political Science Association's Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics. He will represent the section and organize and select formal papers and presentations for panels at the next annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in 2000.
WUMB general manager Pat Monteith has been elected to the Board of the Governors of the March of Dimes "Achievement in Boston Radio" awards.
Prof. Emeritus Joseph Cooney of the ECOS Department has published three papers in refereed journals: With A. Pain, "Characterization of organotin-resistant bacteria from Boston Harbor Sediments" in the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Vol. 35; with J.M. Tobin, "Action of inorganic tin and organotins on a hydrocarbon-using yeast" in the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol. 36; and with P. Goswami, "Subcellular location of enzymes involved in oxidation of n-alkaline by Cladosporium resinae" in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 51.
Prof. James Bierstaker of the College of Management had a paper, "A Test of the Split-Attention Effect in a Professional Context" accepted by the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences.
A poem, "Small Airport in Brazil" by English Prof. Lloyd Schwartz was published in the November issue of the Atlantic Monthly magazine.
American Studies Prof. Esther Kingston-Mann published In Search of True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development with Princeton University Press in Spring, 1999
Prof. Robert Johnson Jr. of the Africana Studies Department recently published a book and an article. His book, Why Blacks Left America for Africa: Interviews with Black Repatriates, 1971-1999 was published by Praeger Press. His article, "Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow-ism" appeared in When Sorry isn't Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Justice published by New York University Press.
An article, "Inverting for Higher Education Costs: Which Alternative is Best?" by Profs. James Bierstaker and Peter Westort of the College of Management was published in the Sept/Oct. issue of Personal Financial Planning.
Prof. Dennis Stevens of the Criminal Justice Center, CPCS, has published an article, "Police officer stress and their outcomes in Law and Order magazine in September.
Nursing Prof. Gail Russell and Karen Stupalski published an article based on their research, "Reported Medication Errors in Community Residences for Individuals with Mental Retardation" in the April issue of the journal Mental Retardation.
"Acts of God," an essay on the literature of disaster by English Prof. Robert Crossley, is a chapter in a new book, Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis published in London by Macmillan and in New York by St. Martin's Press.
American Studies Prof. Lois Rudnick published an abridged edition of Mabel Dodge Luhan's memoirs, Intimate Memories: The Autobiography of Mabel Dodge Luhan with the University of New Mexico Press this fall.
An article by GCOE Prof. Mitchell Chang on the growth of Asian American studies appeared in the October/November issue of A. Magazine. In it, Chang notes that there are twice as many Asian American studies programs today as there were in 1990.
Prof. Brian Thompson of the Modern Languages Department presented a paper at the Mauriac-Pascal colloquium at the Palais du Luxembourg, the home of the French Senate in Paris. His paper, "Mauriac et Pascal la lumiere du 'Mimorial' " will be published in the series, "Francois Mauriac et son temps." He also presented a session, "La Clef des chants: La Chanson dans la classe de français" at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association in Sturbridge during October.
Prof. Mari Koerner, director of Teacher Education in the Dept. of School Organization, Curriculum & Instruction will co-present a paper, "Working with Gay/Lesbian Parents: The Transformative Process of Integrating Understanding in Practice" at the National Association of Multicultural Education in San Diego during November.
Prof. Dennis Stevens of the Criminal Justice Center, CPCS, made a presentation, "Predators and Profiles" at the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology annual conference held on Long Island, N.Y. in October. Another presentation, "Canadian prison education: A plan to reform prison education through the federal prison system" will be given at the American Society of Criminology's annual conference in Toronto in November.
Prof. Nadim Rouhana of the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution presented a paper at the symposium in honor of Prof. Herbert Kelman of Harvard University. The paper was "Evaluation of Interactive Problem Solving." The symposium was titled "Adventures in Two Track Diplomacy."
Prof. Richard Gelpke of the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences gave a talk on "Bringing Order to a Wealth of Maps at the Massachusetts State Archives" in October as part of a program, "Using Historic Maps & Documents as Data Sources in GIS" sponsored by the Massachusetts Geographic Information Council.
Peter Schilling, associate director of admissions will represent the university at the annual conference of the European Council of International Schools in Nice, France, from Nov. 17-21. The conference attracts educators and guidance counselors from approximately 400 international secondary schools.
Sociology Prof. Siamak Movahedi presented a paper, "Rewriting the Third Movement of Dvorak's Cello Concerto: Movements of Passion Along Different Analytic Lines" at the annual Cape Cod Psychoanalytic Conference in Wellfleet in August. He also presented "The Unconscious Dynamics of Clinical Diagnosis" at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Boston during August.
Prof. Susan Opotow of the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution gave a presentation on "Moral exclusion and identity" as part of a symposium entitled Identity and the Natural Environment at the American Psychological Association Meeting in August.
Randy Bell, assistant vice chancellor for administrative redesign presented a workshop at the region 1 conference of the University Continuing Education Association in Stowe, Vermont on Oct. 28. Burton Holmes, director of continuing education marketing, participated in the organization of the three-day conference.
Ten students from CPCS travelled to Washington, D.C. in October to conduct a workshop, "Let's Get Real: Educate!" at the Paths of Poverty Conference sponsored by Wider Opportunities for Women. The group also met with legislators and aides and did advocacy work on welfare reform and access to higher education.
In September, Richard Delaney, director of the Urban Harbors Institute, gave a presentation, "Port and Harbor Management, Marine Transportation: A Method for Relieving Urban Congestion" at the International Workshop on Coastal Megacities: Challenges of Growing Urbanization of the World's Coastal Areas, in Hangzou, China. The conference was sponsored by the United Nations and the State Oceanic Administration of China.
English Prof. Thomas O'Grady, director of the Irish Studies Program, was recently awarded a grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation in recognition of his book of poems, What Really Matters which will be published in the Spring by McGill-Queens University Press.
Biology Prof. Joseph Ginhardt has been awarded a three-year grant of $331,000 by the National Science Foundation for his proposal, "Mechanisms of Kinesin-Cargo Interactions in Drosophila melangaster."
WUMB Radio has received a $148,000 community service grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to support its programming efforts.
The Coalition for Asian Pacific American Youth (CAPAY) has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to build the leadership capacity of young adult Asian Pacific Americans. CAPAY was one of 11 recipients of the grants, out of a pool of over 100 applicants.
Music Prof. Linnea Bardarson will premiere "Cheap Trills for Piano," a solo at the Society of Composers Regional Conference at Bowdoin College in November. Composed by Prof. David Patterson of the Music Department, this homage to Victor Borge takes its notes from Hildegaard de Bingen, Theolonius Monk, and others in between.
"Peace and Love,Tartuffe" by Theatre Arts Prof. John Conlon ran at the Black and White Theater in Middleborough through Oct. 23.
"The Train Ride," a play by Africana Studies Prof. Robert Johnson, Jr., was produced in Oct. by the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center as part of their Arts and Dialogues on Race series. The play was also produced in workshop form on campus on Oct. 22 with a follow up dialogue with a panel including Profs. Robert Johnson, Judith Smith, Paul Atwood, and Frank Bispham, whose experiences the play is based upon.
The Center for Social Development and Education hosted a workshop for 30 teachers representing Brockton, Boston, and Everett Public Schools here in August. The workshop, which provided tools and techniques for teaching social skills for special and general education students, was led by staff members Laura Clary, Emily Rickards. Alfie Altschuler, Jim Leffert, and GCOE Prof. MaryAnn Byrnes.
Prof. Peter Roberts of the University of Auckland-New Zealand was a guest lecturer sponsored by the Center for World Languages and Cultures on Oct. 4. His lecture, "Hope in Troubled Times?" focused on the work of Paulo Freire.
Russian Academician Vladimir S. Gorelik, Head of the Optics Department, Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow and his deputy, Dr. Anna Kudryavtseva visited Prof. Gopal Rao's laser research lab in September. They are exploring collaborative possibilities.
The Center for Democracy and Development of the McCormack Institute is hosting a group of 11 government officials and community leaders from the West African countries of Mali and Senegal for two weeks of workshops which promote decentralization and democratization in those countries.
Jackson Schilling, son of Peter Schilling, associate director of the Undergraduate Admissions Office,was born on July 28.
A daughter, Ana Gabriela Cardona was born to Ana Cardona of Human Resources on May 14.
Hannah Clark, daughter of Kelly Clark, assistant director of the Center for Social Development and Education, was born April 5.
Prof. Alan Clayton Matthews of the Public Policy Ph.D. Program was interviewed on NBC Nightly News on workers shortages and the slowdown in the Massachusetts economy on October 8.