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Honors and Awards
The Massachusetts School Psychologists Association has awarded Virginia Harvey, dean of the Graduate College of Education, the recognition and title of Outstanding Trainer of the Year for 2000. Dean Harvey will be honored at the MSPA's annual conference on May 5.
Professor Irving Gershenberg of the Department of Economics was selected as the Plaza hotel's "Leap Day Person of the Century Grand Prize Winner" in New York, NY. The grand prize includes a free weekend at the Plaza every leap year for the rest of his life.
Performances
Alumna Liz Lapuh will be the featured artist for the Communication and Theatre Arts Division's Dance Theatre Workshop performances on May 12 and 13. Lapuh, who is the director of the Cambridge Chamber Ballet, holds the dual role of choreographer and performer.
Conferences and Presentations
Paul M. Wright, Boston editor for the University of Massachusetts Press, will be presenting a paper entitled "Everyman His Own Gutenberg: Reflections on the Desktop Publishing Revolution" at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing's annual meeting in Mainz, Germany, July 3-8, in conjunction with the Gutenberg 600th anniversary celebration.
Associate Professor Thomas Hogan, Assistant Professor James Bierstaker, and Lecturer William Seltz of the Accounting and Finance Department, will present their case study "Laborers' Local 829 Health and Welfare Plan Health Fund: Sick-Leave Fund and Liability Consideration" at the Ninth Annual International Casewriters Workshop and Colloquium in Budapest, Hungary, this July.
UMass Poll Director Lou DiNatale, Poll Research Director Robert Bucci, and Professor Maurice Cunningham of the Department of Political Science will join with representatives of the Quinnipiac Poll to discuss innovations in survey research techniques at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association in Hartford, CT, in May.
Michael Mahan, director of international student services, and Peter Schilling, associate director of admissions, presented workshops on recruitment and retention of international students at the MaCIE Workshop at Worcester State College on April 26.
Assistant Professor James Bierstaker and Associate Professor Satish Thosar of the Accounting and Finance Department, along with their colleagues David Wiest and John Minahan, presented their paper "Financial Statement Disclosures of Derivatives: Does Format Affect Analysts' Information Processing?" at the Northeast Regional Conference of the American Accounting Association held in Boston, April 20-22.
Professor Harold Wolozin of the Economics Department presented his paper "Douglass C. North and Economic Behavior" at the 42nd Annual WSSA Conference in San Diego, April 26-29.
College of Management Visiting Scholar Professor Alberto Araoz and Management and Marketing Professor Edward Romar participated in the Third Annual Triple Helix Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 26-30. Professor Araoz chaired a session focusing on the developmental role of research universities, and Professor Romar presented their joint paper "Research Universities: Roles and Challenges."
Joan Garity, associate professor of nursing, was selected as the Massachusetts Council for International Education's lecturer for spring 2000. Her presentation, "Developing Cultural Competence in Assessment of Health Beliefs and Practices," was given at Cape Cod Community College on April 21 and at UMass Dartmouth's College of Nursing on April 28.
Kathleen Remillard, an M.A. student in the History Department, presented a paper entitled "The Boston Schools Desegregation Case: Preserving the Documentary Legacy of the Federal District Court" at the spring meeting of the New England Archivists on April 29.
On April 15, Professor James Green of the Labor Resource Center discussed a short history of the labor movement, commissioned by the AFL-CIO Education Department in Washington, at the Labor Educators Association Conference in Milwaukee. Green also presented a paper based on his forthcoming book about social movements at the Organization of American Historians meeting in St. Louis on April 1.
On April 15, Professor Siamak Movahedi of the Sociology Department was the moderator of a Strategic Discussion Group on Eliminating Ethnic Intolerance at an All-day Conference on Preventing Genocide held at the Suffolk University Law School.
Lou DiNatale, director of the UMass Poll, was a lead panelist at a roundtable entitled "What the Average Joe and Mary Think Now: Media, Democracy, and Public Opinion" on April 12 at Salem State College.
Roberto Olivarida, Clinical Psychology,defended his dissertation, "Body Image and Masculinity in College Men," on April 5.
Communication and Theatre Arts Professor John Conlon recently served as festival judge for the preliminary and semi-final rounds of the Massachusetts High School Drama Festival sponsored by the Mass High School Drama Guild and the Boston Globe. The final Globe festival took place March 30-April 1.
Dean Virginia Harvey and Professor Joan Struzziero, both of the Graduate College of Education, gave a joint presentation entitled "Administrative Supervision of School Psychologists" on March 29th at the Annual Convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, held in New Orleans.
Professor Philip Hart, director of the Trotter Institute, was invited by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, as part of its diversity initiative, to discuss his books and film on African-American participation in aviation technology. He was a keynote speaker at the DPH staff awards luncheon on March 24.
Lisa Abdallah, coordinator of the Nursing LRC at the College of Nursing, presented a seminar entitled "Assessment for Cardiac Disorders in the Elderly" on March 22 at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged in Boston.
Doreen Stern-Gordon, of the public policy program, presented her dissertation proposal, "A Study Examining Local Implementation of New Hampshire's Educational Improvement and Assessment Program (1994-1997)" on March 22.
Professor Robert Dentler of the Sociology Department presented a paper entitled, "Fifty Years of Brief Encounters with Psychoanalysis: A Sociologist's Memoir " at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Baltimore, March 4.
Professor Siamak Movahedi of the Sociology Department was the organizer and a presenter of a session on psychoanalysis and sociological discourse at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Baltimore in March where he also presented a paper entitled, Social Unconscious.
Management Professor Arthur A. Goldsmith presented a paper, "Risk, Rule, and Reason: Leadership in Africa," at the "African Governance and Civil Society; Equity, Efficiency, and Participation" conference held at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, in March.
At the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in March, Professor Siamak Movahedi and Professor Russell Schutt of the Sociology Department presented papers on the social psychological correlates of social adaptation and political participation in Romania. Their papers were part of a preliminary report on a large survey that they have recently conducted in Romania in collaboration with the University of the West Timisoara in Romania and Denisa Popesqu of Graduate Program in Applied Sociology.
In March, Professor David Matz, director of the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution, visited Manila and gave a series of lectures on the subject of mediation. His audience included the trial judges of Manila, the National Labor Relations Commission, representatives of unions and management, and law students and faculty from various schools.
Professor Lawrence Blum of the Philosophy Department gave two honorary lectures this semester: The Francis Villemain Memorial Lecture at San Jose State University, where he presented "Racism as a Moral Concept," and the Rosel Schewel Lecture on Education and Diversity at Lynchburg College in Virginia, where he presented "Can We Talk About Race?"
Dennis Leigh of the Urban Harbors Institute, Roger Wrubel of the Undergraduate Environmental Studies Program, and Aditi Pain of Auxiliary Services and ECOS presented a poster on "Best Practices in Higher Education at UMass Boston" as part of the Northeast Workshop on Education for Sustainability, held by Second Nature in West Cornwall, CT, November 1999.
In October, Ph.D. candidate Carson Tsao defended his dissertation, "Regional Coincident Economic Indexes: The New England States' State of Economy." Tsao's work earned him his degree in December 1999.
Denise Dugan, assistant director of facilities administration, presented a session on the use of recycled carpeting at UMass Boston at the state-sponsored 5th Annual Recycled and Environmentally Preferable Products Vendor Fair and Conference, held in Boxborough on October 1999.
Jayne West presented her dissertation "Smoking-Attributable Mortality of Consumers of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Services: 1989 through 1996," proving that smoking-related illnesses cause more deaths than anything else among Department of Mental Health patients. West earned her Ph.D. in public policy in December 1999.
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Publications
Dean Virginia Harvey of the Graduate College of Education and Professor Joan Struzziero of the Department of Counseling and School Psychology recently published a book entitled Effective Supervision in School Psychology through the National Association of School Psychologists.
Management Professor Arthur A. Goldsmith's article "Sizing Up the African State" was published in the March issue of the Journal of Modern African Studies.
Dennis J. Stevens, associate professor of criminal justice, has had an article entitled "Three Generations of Incarcerated Sexual Offenders: A Four Year Study of Sexual Addiction and Criminal Lifestyles Among the King Family" accepted for publication by Coursewise Publishers for their correctional perspective reader. Allyn and Bacon Publishers has contracted with Prof. Stevens for a text on community policing, and a condensed version of his educational program for prisoners in federal and provincial prisons will be published by the solicitor general of Canada and the territorial justice ministers of Canada, in the Compendium 2000 on Effective Correctional Programming.
Associate Professor David Lisak of the Psychology Department served as editor of the newest journal of the American Psychological Association, entitled Men and Masculinity. The journal also contained an article, "Borderline Personality Organization, Dissociation, and Willingness to use Force in Intimate Relationships," by Sheree Dukes Conrad of the Psychology Department and student Rachael Stevens Morrow.
Events
A variety of events, including tours, information fairs, a theater production, and lectures celebrated the 30th annual Earth Day at UMass Boston, April 11-22.
On April 5, the McCormack Institute welcomed two separate delegations to the university: five academics from Senegal and ten judges from eastern Europe, at a reception.
The 14th Annual UMass Boston Golf Classic hosted by the Department of Athletics will take place on June 16, 2000, at the Franklin Park Golf Course. An 8:00 a.m. shotgun start will begin a day of golf, lunch, awards, a silent auction, raffle prizes, and more. Those interested should call 617.287.7802 for more information.
The Africana Studies Department hosted a Black Men's Health Forum on April 5. Guest speakers included John Rich, medical director of the Boston Health Commission, and Charles Smith, director of the Men of Color Program at the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center. Bill Owens of the Africana Studies Department moderated the event.
In the News
Marketing Professor Mary Lou Roberts was featured in an April 4 article in The Boston Globe, entitled "Consumers Sold on Haggling," on how the Internet is changing the price people pay for goods and services.
A March 27 Boston Globe article featured the March 9
Adoption Colloquium held at UMass Boston. The conference,
hosted by Professor Janet Farrell Smith, Philosophy
Department, focused on DNA testing and its possible
violation of children's rights.
Now Playing
The musical Working, based on a study of the same name by Studds Terkel, with music by Steven Schwartz, is the Communication and Theatre Arts Division's spring 2000 Mainstage Production, directed by Professor Ashley Lieberman. Performances will take place on May 4 and 5 at 8:00 p.m., and May 6 at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Grants
Microsoft awarded a $250,000 grant to UMass Boston's Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) on April 18. The grant will benefit the work of the ICI in demonstrating how PC technologies, universal design and job accommodation can lead to increased numbers of adults with disabilities entering employment.
Professor Brian White of the Biology Department received a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Investigator Award to do further research on a biology lab that he developed in which students take an active role in learning through developing their own hypotheses and designing their own experiments.
Professors Carole Upshur and Miren Uriarte received a $40,000 Casey Foundation grant through the Gastón Institute to conduct an evaluation of community health outreach programs in Roxbury. Casey has extended the work for the year 2000 and increased funding.
Mary Spooner, a Ph.D. candidate in public policy, was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Health in support of her proposed dissertation, entitled "Women Under Subjection of the Law: A Study of the Legal Responses to Women's Abuse in the English-speaking Caribbean." The $2,000 grant is funded by Johnson & Johnson.
Honors
This spring, 219 undergraduates were inducted as new members of Golden Key National Honor Society and the society welcomed four new honorary members: Management Professor Mary Lou Roberts, Economics Professor Jeremiah Cotton, Dean of Students Stephanie Janey, and Urban Harbors Director Richard Delaney. Later in the month, Chapter Advisor Anita Miller and two chapter officers, Donald Gale and Susan Coughlin, attended the Northeastern Regional Conference at Syracuse University and gave a presentation to members from 16 other universities about how to improve their membership drives and increase campus awareness of Golden Key.