Prof. Lois Rudnick, director of the American Studies Program, served as editor for the Winter 1999 issue of Magazine of History, which is published by the Organization of American Historians for secondary school history and social studies teachers. The theme of the issue is "Using Literature to Teach History."
English Prof. Susan Horton served as advisory editor to the newly released The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens, published by Oxford University Press.
History/American Studies Prof. Esther Kingston-Mann published an article, "The Danger of Universal Principles" in Challenge: A Magazine of Economic Affairs, in January.
ECOS Prof. Emeritus Joseph J. Cooney and Dr. John M. Tobin of the Dublin City University, Ireland, have published "Action of inorganic tin and oraniotins on a hydrocarbon-using yeast, Candida Maltosa," in the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 36: 7-12 (1999).
An article by Chemistry Prof. John Warner and student Khai Bui highlighting Bui's award winning research on "The Reaction of Benzal-doximoyl chlorides with organic oxides as a form of Green Chemistry," was published in the American Chemical Society's newsletter, The Nucleus.
Biology Prof. Solange Brault is co-author of an article, "Declining Survival Probability threatens the North Atlantic Right Whale," which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , March, 1999.
Sociology Prof. Siamak Movahedi's research report, "The Utopian Pursuit of Death," appears in the Spring 1999 issue of the journal American Imago.
Physics Prof. Edward Ginsberg's solutions manuals for instructors and students, which are supplements to the text Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Richard Wolfson and Jay M. Pasachoff, have been published in third editions by AddisonWesley Publishers.
GCOE Prof. Peter Kiang's article, "Writing from the Past, Writing for the Future: Healing Effects of Asian American Studies in the Curriculum," appears in Transformations: A Resource for Curriculum Transformation and Scholarship, in April. His article, "Curricular Connections and Reflections for the Pacific Century" appears in Intersections: A Professional Development Project in Multicultural and Global Education published by the Children's Museum.
Sociology Prof. Stephanie Hartwell co-authored an article, "Taking the Long View: Joint Training of Criminal Justice and Mental Health Professionals in the Assessment of Substance Abuse Problems Among the Incarcerated Dually Diagnosed in Massachusetts," which appeared in the Jan/Feb. issue of American Jails.
Graduate Dean Martin Quitt commented on three papers and chaired a session on "Science and Reform in Early Republican Philadelphia" at the New England Historical Association at Rivier College in Nashua, New Hampshire on April 17. He also moderated and presented at a session, "The Role of Research at Public Urban Universities"at the 4th annual meeting of Urban 13 Graduate Deans and Research Officers in New Orleans.
The recent national conference of the Association for Asian American Studies in Philadelphia was attended by UMass Boston faculty members Profs. Andrew Leong and Madhulika Khandelwal of CPCS, English Prof. Rajini Srikanth, and GCOE Prof. Peter Kiang, who presented papers and chaired a variety of sessions.
Art Prof. Victoria Weston will speak on issues of art pedagogy at a round table discussion focusing on the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe on May 22 in Washington D.C. The roundtable is being held in conjunction with an exhibit, "Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things" at the Phillips Collection which opened April 16.
Theatre Arts Prof. Ron Nash was invited to hang an exhibition of art from the People's Republic of China at the United States Institute for Theater Technology Convention in Toronto, Canada, held March 23 to 27. The work of two designers, Wang Cunyu of the Bejing Peoples Art Theater, and Suo Wanjin, China's foremost puppet designer, were displayed in the exhibition for the first time in the West.
Melodie Wenz-Gross and Robin Parker of the Center for Social Development and Education presented a poster, "Differences in Stress and Social Support Among Students entering Urban, Urban Fringe, or Suburban Middle Schools," at the 1999 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in April.
Sociology Prof. Stephanie Hartwell, CPCS Prof. Sylvia Mignon and Applied Sociology Graduate Student Laura Lempicki presented their paper, " Reducing Alcohol Misuse Among College Students: Results from a Model Brief Intervention Feasibility Study," at the 1999 Eastern Sociological Society meeting in Boston.
Harold Horton, associate director of the Trotter Institute, served as a discussant at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Montreal, Canada, on April 19. He responded to papers on the role of research in challenging racial inequality in education.
English Prof. Lloyd Schwartz took part in a poetry reading at Holyoke Center, Harvard Square as part of National Poetry Week on April 8, and also read the part of Virgil in a reading of Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's version of "Dante's Inferno" at Butler University in Indiana on April 14, and in Santa Fe New Mexico on April 26. Participants besides Schwartz and Pinsky were poets Eavan Boland and Frank Bidart, and replacing Boland in Santa Fe was Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Gluck.
College of Management Prof. Abhijit Chaudury will present a paper, "Impact of Web Technologies on Information Systems Skill Requirements," at the Information Resource Management Association conference on May 17.
Sociology Prof. Siamak Movahedi presented a paper on gender and attitude towards risk, and sat on a panel on graduate education at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in March.
Prof. Linda Eisenmann of the GCOE moderated a panel discussion, "Breaking Boundaries: Origins of Single-Sex Education for Girls and Women" as part of a lecture series sponsored by the Old South Meeting House on April 7.
Music Prof. David Patterson's composition, "Strayhorn in Harlem, 1941" has its American premiere by the Portland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Toshiyuki Shimada in "A Tribute to Duke Ellington" on May 1 and 2 at the Merrill Auditorium, Portland Maine. An arrangement of Patterson's composition for clarinet and piano will be performed by the composer and Gerald Farmer at the College Music Society's international meeting in Kyoto, Japan, in June.
Prof. Jon C. Mitchell, chair of the Music Department, will conduct the Filharmonia Sudecka in Walbrzych, Poland, on May 7. The program will include works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Rachmaninoff.
The College of Management has received a $150,000 grant from the Lloyd G. Balfour Foundation to support the Minority Scholarship Model Program, which creates academic support services and scholarships for students who are first generation, new immigrants, minorities, or low-income management students.
Psychology Prof. Amy Weisman has been awarded a $25,000 B Start Grant, a behavioral sciences-track award for young investigators, from the National Institute of Health for her research proposal, "Culture and Family Reactions to Schizophrenia."
Two students working with Chemistry Prof. John Warner have received summer fellowships: Iyore Otabor has received a Council on Undergraduate Research Summer Research Fellowship in Chemistry for research on synthetic derivatives of thymidine; and Brian Ferla has received a 1999 Pfizer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program to work with Warner on a project, "Templated Photodimerization of Cinnamic Acids."
History/American Studies Prof. Esther Kingston-Mann recently completed a fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden. She completed a project, " A Comparative History of Private Property/Privatization Across Cultures: England, Russia, Sweden, Botswana."
An article, "Asian Elders in America: Health Researcher Lin Zhan discusses the health concerns of Boston's elderly Asian immigrants," appeared in the March 19 issue of Sampan, a bilingual newspaper serving the Asian American community.
English Prof. Lloyd Schwartz's poem, "Her Waltz," first published in Microsoft's online magazine Slate was reprinted in the April 15 Somerville Journal for National Poetry Month.
UMass Boston's Asian American Studies Program was highlighted in the Chronicle of Higher Education's feature story on the field of Asian American studies which appeared in the April 2 issue.
Gerontology faculty member Marion Spencer will receive the Frank J. Manning Elder Advocate of the Year Award from Governor Cellucci at the annual Governor's Conference on Aging, held May 19 in Boxborough.
Anthropology Prof. Barbara Luedtke received the Society for American Archaeology's Award for Excellence in Lithic Studies at their annual meeting in Chicago.
Chemistry Prof. John Warner has been named an American Chemical Society "College Chemistry Consultant" to help colleges develop interdisciplinary research programs and integrate environmental concerns throughout undergraduate education.
Prof. Emeritus Joseph Cooney of the ECOS Department has been named a Foundation for Microbiology Lecturer from July 1999 to June 2001. The Foundation makes speakers available throughout the U.S.
Nursing Prof. Lin Zhan has been appointed an editorial board member of the Journal of Nursing and Health Care, an official Journal of the National League for Nursing, and as an editorial review panel member of the Journal of Gerontological Nursing.
Karen O'Connor, director of the GCOE's Massachusetts Field Center for Teaching and Learning, has been appointed to the Governor's Design Team on Teacher Professional Development and Support.
GCOE Counseling Program student Barbara Davis was honored by the Medford Human Rights Commission as a"Women of Achievement." The award highlights individuals who make a positive impact on the reputation of the city.
Profs. Prudence King and Jim Collins of the GCOE's Teacher Education Program have been made honorary members of the Golden Key National Honor Society for their enthusiastic commitment to teaching.
Prof. Michael LaFargue of the Study of Religion Program has
won the Choice 35th Annual Outstanding Book Award for Lao-tzu and
the Tao-te-ching, which he coedited.
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Fred Koed, a student in the Master's Program in Public Affairs, has been elected a selectman in the town of Cohasset. Koed will graduate from the Masters Program in June.
The Biology Department held an alumni gathering to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the University on April 30. Retired faculty members from the department, including Profs. Ruth Bennett, Lawrence Kaplan, Fuad Safwat, and Bettina Harrison were present, along with alums, department faculty and staff.