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Conferences and Presentations
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- Prof. James Jennings will deliver a Columbia
University and Institute for Research in African American
Studies-sponsored distinguished lecture during the fall
semester. His lecture, "The Role of the Black
Intellectual in American Life," will be published by
Columbia University Press in 2000.
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- Joel Grossman, Coordinator of the Health Promotion
Program, organized a regional meeting on spirituality and
higher education at UMass Boston July 21. The meeting was
a follow-up to a conference at Wellesley College,
"Education as Transformation," which was held in
September, 1998.
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- The Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution
co-sponsored a one-day conference for 100 trial court
judges in May. The topic was techniques and ethical
issues for trial judges mediating disputes. Co-sponsors
were the Flaschner Judicial Institute, the Massachusetts
Bar Association, and the Boston Bar Association.
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- Prof. Avery Faigenbaum of the Human Performance and
Fitness Program was an invited speaker at the Center for
Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, in
June. His presentation was "Youth Strength Training:
Benefits, Concerns, and Program Design
Considerations."
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- Director of Athletics Charlie Titus spoke at the
National Collegiate Athletic Association's fifth annual
Title IX seminar held in May in Chicago. His topic was
"NCAA Athletics Certification&emdash; Institutional
Self-Study."
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- CPCS Prof. James Green chaired and participated in a
panel discussion on working-class nationalism in the new
era of "free trade" while attending the Organization of
American Historians meeting in Toronto in May. He also
attended the meeting of the Public History Council, where
he made a presentation about putting "movement history"
on film, which is the subject of his new book.
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- Chemistry Prof. John Warner was the invited speaker
at the annual meeting of The MIT Association for Post-
doctoral Women in May. He spoke on "Learning Effective
Grant-Writing Skills."
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- The Gerontology Institute co-sponsored the Summer
Series on Aging of the American Society on Aging, which
was held at Boston University in June. Prof. Nina
Silverstein was co-chair of the Program Steering
Committee and presented a workshop, as did faculty member
Beth Clemens and doctoral students Bei Wu, Dena Schulman,
and Mary Whelan.
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Publications
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- Officer Richard Lee of the Public Safety Office had
his article "Striving to Build Community Partnerships"
published in the May/June issue of the Campus Law
Enforcement Journal.
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- The journal Mediation Quarterly has devoted its
Summer 1999 issue entirely to papers written by dispute
resolution students who attended the 1998 conference
sponsored by the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution,
held here last fall.
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- History Prof. Julie Winch has edited and written a
forward to a new edition of Cyprian Clamorgan's 1858
book, The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. Winch's
annotated version of the historic book is published by
the University of Missouri Press.
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- Nursing Prof. Lin Zhan has published two articles,
"Cognitive adaptation processing and self consistency in
hearing impaired elders" in Nursing Science Quarterly,
and "Nursing care models: reality and challenges" in
Chinese Nursing Journal.
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- Prof. Abhijit Chaudury of the College of Management
had his paper "Web Channels and Electronic Commerce"
accepted for publication in the journal, Communications
of the ACM.
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- Chemistry Prof. John Warner's textbook, Green
Chemistry: Theory and Practice was published in a
Japanese translation in April.
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- Psychology Prof. Helen Tager-Flusberg edited a book,
Neurodevelopmental Disorders, published by the MIT Press.
She also wrote the book's introductory chapter. Prof.
Jane Adams of the Psychology Department contributed a
chapter to the book, "On Neurodevelopmental Disorders:
Perspectives from Neurobehavioral Teratology."
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Grants
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- The McCormack Institute's Center for Democracy and
Development (CDD) received a $130,000 grant from The
United States Information Agency for phase II of a
program to aid the West African countries of Senegal and
Mali promote democratic practices. The CDD will bring a
diverse group of citizens to the United States for
seminars, site visits, and town meetings, and a
delegation of University experts will travel to Mali and
Senegal for roundtable discussions and workshops.
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- A grant of $250,000 has been made by the Rockefeller
Foundation for a four-year Rockefeller Foundation
Resident Fellowship in the Humanities at the Joiner
Center. The grant supports the proposal, "(Re)
Constructing Identity and Place in the Vietnamese
Diaspora."
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- Prof. Lin Zhan of the College of Nursing has received
a grant of $41,700 from the Charles H. Farnsworth Medical
Foundation to study medication practices in
community-based Chinese elders.
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- Political Science Prof. Karen Callaghan won a 1999
American Political Science Association grant for her
project, "Liberal Journalists and Liberal Agendas?
Testing the Biased Media Hypothesis."
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- Prof. Steven Schwartz, Chair of the Psychology
Department and Prof. Delores Gallo of the Critical and
Creative Thinking Program have obtained a three-year,
$28,400 grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and
Innovators Alliance to further develop the creative and
innovative aspects of the Critical and Creative Thinking
Program.
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- A $663,000 grant from the U.S. Department of
Education will support the establishment of a new program
in Leadership in Special Education and Disability Policy.
The Management team developing the program are Prof.
Joseph Check, director of the GCOE's Leadership in Urban
Schools Doctoral program, Prof. Carole Upshur, director
of the Public Policy Doctoral Program, and William
Kiernan, director of the Institute for Community
Inclusion of Children's Hospital and UMass Boston. The
three programs were awarded the grant jointly.
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Awards and Honors
- At the Annual Spring Conference of the Massachusetts
School Psychologists Association, Prof. Emeritus Vincent
A. Cristiani of the Graduate College of Education was
presented with the Massachusetts School Psychologists
Association's first Lifetime Achievement Award. Cristiani
was recognized for "lifelong meritorious service to the
children of our society and to the profession" at the
conference, held May 6 and 7 in Worcester.
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- Music Prof. David Patterson has received a commission
from the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Lexington for
"Revivals,"old spirituals in new settings, to be heard in
services there during the month of September.
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- Prof. Lois Rudnick of the American Studies Program
received the New England American Studies Association's
book award for the best American Studies book written by
a member for her book, Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge
Luhan House and the American Counterculture.
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- Charlie Titus, director of athletics, will be
inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at St. Michael's
College in Colchester, Vermont, in September. Titus is a
1972 graduate of the college and sits on its board of
trustees.
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- Two student athletes have been named finalists for
the Second Annual Boston Sports Awards, which will be
presented on Sept. 15 at the Emerson Majestic Theatre.
Sean Harrington of the men's basketball team is a
finalist for "Male Collegiate Athlete of the Year" and
Andreen Gilpin of the women's basketball team is a
finalist for "Female Collegiate Athlete of the Year. You
can cast a vote for these athletes online at
www.bostonsports awards.com.
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- Prof. Lin Zhan of the College of Nursing has been
elected a member of the board of directors of the
Massachusetts Association of Older Americans. In
addition, Zhan serves on the advisory board of the Office
of Minority Health of the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health, and has been appointed to serve on the
editorial board for two nursing journals, Nursing and
Health Care Perspectives, and The Journal of
Gerontological Nursing.
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- Two students in the Department of Mathematics and
Computer Sciences, Joseph Churchman and Aaron Ball, were
one of the winning teams in the prediction portion of the
1999 Undergraduate Data Analysis Contest, sponsored by
the Department of the Air Force Department of
Mathematical Sciences. Prof. Dina Goldin served as their
faculty advisor.
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- Events
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- In August, Prof. John Warner of the Chemistry
Department hosted a workshop on campus for 20 university
faculty members from across the country on green
chemistry experiment modules to be used in their
classrooms.
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- A kickoff breakfast for the Graduate Program in
Forensic Services ( a certificate program in sociology
and a track of the Master's Program in Counseling of the
GCOE) was held for interested students. Speakers included
Deborah Scott, assistant commissioner of forensic
services of the Massachusetts Department of Mental
Health, Dr. William Fisher, associate professor of the
Department of Psychology, UMass Medical School, and Sgt.
R.C. Stevens of the Behavioral Sciences Unit of the State
Police. They spoke on opportunities in the field.
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- In June, the Graduate Program in Forensic Sciences
hosted a telecast of the White House Conference on Mental
Illness in the Media Auditorium, Healey Library. Issues
addressed included the current status of mental health
care, the homeless mentally ill, and the stigma of mental
illness. President Clinton, First Lady Hilary Rodham
Clinton, and Vice President Al Gore were among the
speakers, and Tipper Gore was the conference moderator.
The UMass Boston telecast was organized by Prof. Rick
Houser.
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- In August, the Department of Classics hosted a
one-day gathering of 70 area Latin teachers in the Healey
Library. The event, which focused on workshops for the
Latin Advanced Placement Examination, was supported by a
grant from the Classical Association of New England.
Among the presenters was Prof. Kenneth Rothwell of the
Department of Classics.
- The Critical and Creative Thinking Program hosted a
workshop in July for 40 teachers, students, and concerned
citizens on the topic "Science-in-society, Society
in-Science." The workshop explored ways in which
developments in science and technology can enrich science
education and citizen activism. The workshop was
organized by Prof. Peter Taylor of the GCOE.
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- In August, the Psychology Department hosted a
reception for conventioneers at this year's American
Psychological Association meeting in Boston. Attendees
were treated to a tour of the John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library and a reception on the UMass Boston
campus.
- In the News
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- Leonard Robinson, senior fellow of the McCormack
Institute, was interviewed by Chris Lydon on WBUR's The
Connection on the National Summit on Africa, held in
July.
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- Elizabeth Sherman, director of the McCormack
Institute's Center for Women in Politics and Public
Policy, was a guest commentator on the television show,
"Boston Common" on August 15.
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- The voyage of the tall ship Ernestina to Nova Scotia
this summer, led by Geography Prof. John Looney and a
crew composed of UMass Boston students and others, was
the topic of several articles in local newspapers,
including the Yarmouth Vanguard, The Sunday Herald of
Nova Scotia, and Le Courrier de la Nouvelle Ecosse.
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- Psychology Prof. Ester Shapiro was quoted in an
August 27 Boston Globe front page article exploring why
only 35% of teenagers wear seatbelts, according to a
Massachusetts survey.
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- In July, Prof. Kyle McInnis of the Human Performance
and Fitness Program was interviewed on WCVB-TV5 news on
his new study on exercise and calories.
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- Debra Wein, manager of the Beacon Fitness Center, was
interviewed on FOX-25 News in August on the topic of
carbohydrates and how to find the right balance between
too many and too few in your diet. In July, she was
quoted in Fitness Magazine on eating before
exercising.
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- Athletic Director Charlie Titus and his commitment to
the youth of Boston was the focus of a Metro/Region
section column by Boston Globe columnist Adrian Walker on
July 31.
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