Campus Notes
University Communications
University Reporter
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Prostate Cancer Study Examines Treatment Decisions by Doctors |
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Economics Professor Argues for Paid Parental Leave at State House |
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Publications
Assistant Professor Elsa Auerbach of the English Department recently published "Creating Participatory Learning Communities: Paradoxes and Possibilities" in The Sociopolitics of English Language Teaching and the lead article, "The Power of Writing and the Writing of Power" in Focus on Basics, a journal of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy.
Sara Baron, Director, Instructional Technology Center and Coordinator of Library Instruction published an articled in The Reference Librarian titled, "A Close Encounter Model for Reference Services to Adult Learners: the Value of Flexibility and Variance." She also edited a chapter in Recommended Reference Books in Paperback published by Libraries Unlimited.
Assistant Professor James Bierstaker, Accounting and Finance Department recently published articles "A Test of Split Attention Effect in a Professional Context" in The Journal of Business and Behavorial Sciences; "A Comparison of Internal and External Auditors. Choice of Internal Control Documentation Format" in the Auditors Report, and "Fostering Critical Thinking in Accounting Education: Implications of Analytical Procedures Research" in Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations.
Heidi Blair-Esteves, research fellow at the Center for State and Local Policy/UMass Poll, has been selected by the American Political Science Association and Nova Science Publishers to author a book on First Lady Letitia Christian Tyler, wife of President John Tyler. The book will be part of a First Ladies series coming out in 2003.
Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy at the McCormack Institute, published Parenting in Public: Family Shelter and Public Assistance through Columbia University Press. The book is an in-depth examination of the realities of life for parents and their children in family shelters.
Professor Stephanie Hartwell, Sociology Department, recently published, "Not All Work is Created Equal: Homeless Substance Abuses and Marginal Employment" in Research in the Sociology of Work. and "Models of Care: Massachusetts Forensic Transition Program" in Psychiatric Services.
Alumna Maria Elena Letona and Graduate Program Director Carole Upshur recently co-authored "The Government -- Non Profit Relationship: Towards a Partnership Model for HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Latino Community" in Organizations and Public Policy Change: Responding to Institutional Failure, Volume 9 of a special issue of Research in Social Problems and Public Policy Series.
Chair of Sociology, Russell Schutt, published two articles, "The Contingent Rationality of Housing Preferences: Homeless Mentally Ill Persons Housing Choices Before and After Housing Experience" in Research in Community and Mental Health and "Housing Placement and Subsequent Days Homeless Among Formerly Homeless Adults with Mental Illness" in Psychiatric Services. He also reviewed the book Social Experimentation by Donald T. Campbell and M. Jean Russo in Field Methods.
Professor of English Lloyd Schwartz new book of poems, Cairo Traffic, will be published by the University of Chicago Press on September 15. He also recently published new poems and translations in The Cortland Review, The Paris Review, Angi, and Tikkun. He has written articles "Michael Mazur: The Poetry of Illustration" for the Prints of Michael Mazur: With a Catalogue Raisonne and "On Elizabeth Bishops Sonnet" in Atlantic Unbound, The Atlantic Monthly Poetry Pages.
Weili Ye, who teaches in East Asian Studies, Womens Studies and History will have her book Seeking Modernity in Chinas Name: Chinese Students in the United States. 1900-1927 published by Stanford University Press this fall.
Presentations and Conferences
Edmund Beard, director of the McCormack Institute, and Paul Bookbinder, professor of History, traveled to Bucharest, Romania, in late June to participate in the conference "One Year after NATO Bombardments in Yugoslavia: Security Issues, Policy Approaches, and Public Perception." There, Professor Bookbinder presented a paper on parallels to the ethnic cleansing in the Balkan area during World War I.
On June 29, reference librarian Janet DiPaolo presented a paper entitled "Takin It to the Taylors: A UMB Information Literacy Curriculum Model" at the annual program of the New England Bibliographic Instruction Interest Group which was held at Simmons College.
Joel Grossman, coordinator of the Health Promotion Program of University Health Service, and Adrian Haugabrook, Assistant Dean of Students, presented a workshop titled" Speaking Spirituality Publicly: Voices from a Public University" at the National "Going Public with Spirituality in Work and Higher Education" at UMass Amherst on June 5. Joel also was a member of the planning committee that organized the conference which included such keynoters as David Whyte, Margaret Wheatley, Peter Senge, and Dana Zohar.
Professor Philip S. Hart, director of the Trotter Institute, discussed his work on the digital divide at the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Coalition for Economic Development national forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 31. His work is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration and is being carried out jointly by the Trotter Institute and the Donohue Institute.
Jemedari Kamara, chairperson of African Studies, Herman Hemingway, professor of Criminal Justice/CPCS, Brian Thompson, professor of French, Edmund Beard, director of the McCormack Institute, and Margery ODonnell of McCormacks Center for Democracy and Development conducted a series of workshop series for over two weeks June in Senegal and Mali devoted to promoting decentralization and improving local government administration in those two countries.
On May 24, Elizabeth Sherman, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was the featured speaker at the Brook Farm Forum. Her topic was Elections 2000 -- Women…Invited or Not? The Forum is an annual cultural, social and political event featuring speakers on contemporary issues.
College of Nursings Francis Portnoy and Gerontology Institutes Tamara Harden, Bei Wu, and Nina Silverstein represented UMass Boston at the World Alzheimers Congress 2000 in Washington, D.C. in July.
Ann Froines, Elaine Morse, Weili Ye, Ann Cordilia, Ramona Hernandex, Machulika Khandelwal, Asgedet Stefanos, Shisoko Seunaga and Dottie Stevens, faculty and alumna from CAS and CPCS, presented at the National Womens Studies Association Conference, "Womens Studies and the 21st Century" held at Simmons College, Boston in June.
Performances
Music Professor David Patterson performed and directed his compositions American Revival Hymns for organ and Psalm 150 for choir and organ commissioned by the First Congregational Church of Somerville for both the celebration of its 125th anniversary and the dedication of a new organ on May 21.
Grants
Lauren Mayhew, assistant director of the Center for World Languages and Cultures, has been awarded two new grants totaling $100,000 for the implementation of an immigrant parent education project. The Parents Empowered with Education, Resources and Support (P.E.E.R.S.) project received $80,000 from the Nellie Mae Foundation and $20,000 from the Florian O. Bartlett Trust.
The library of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy recently received a $4,500 grant from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation to develop information resources for the Center in the area of women in politics and policy issues of importance to women. The foundation has supported the library since 1994.
Lois Beiner, senior research fellow at the Center for Survey Research, has been awarded a grant from the National Cancer Institute, with supplemental funding from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The project, "Demoralizing Smoking Through Policy and Media Interventions," is a four-year study designed to investigate the effectiveness of public health interventions.
Births
Jim Bierstaker, assistant professor of Accounting, and his wife welcomed their second child, Jacob Giolas Bierstaker, on July 6.
Abayomi Bashiru Thompson, Undergraduate Admissions, and Titilayo Aminat Thompsons daughter was born on Thursday, July 13.
Adan Colon Carmona, Assistant Professor of Biology, and his wife Irene had their third child, Irene Lauren, on June 8.
In the News
Economics Professor Randy Albelda and the paper she co-authored "Filling the Work and Family Gap" study were referenced in the Boston Herald and State House News Service on June 26.
Robert Bucci, UMass Poll Research Director, was quoted on the results from a UMass Poll conducted April 12 -- 15, 2000 showing public support for a needle exchange program in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette on May 29.
Camp Telecom 2000 and its participants were featured in The Boston Globes Learning Section on August 20 in an article outlining the three-week technology camp co-sponsored and hosted by UMass Boston in July.
Lou DiNatale, director of the McCormack Institute for Public Affairs, was quoted in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, May 25 regarding the re-emerging health care debate following the Worcester nurses strike.
CPCS Professor James Green of the Labor Resource Center has been interviewed on thirty radio programs about his book Taking History to Heart since it was published by UMass Press on May 1. He discussed social movements, past and present, on programs including: "The Voice of America," "Radio Nation," "Voices of the World," WBURs "Here and Now, " and NPRs "Morning Edition." The July 28 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes his editorial on public intellectuals, universities, and social movements.
Health Services Nurse Practitioner Virginia Lynch was featured in Mansfield News on June 23 for her volunteer work providing medicine and education to people in Honduras.
Andres Torres, director of the Gaston Institute, was quoted in a July 2 Boston Globe article, which outlined steps taken to bring Latin culture to the State House.
UMass Poll results from the McCormack Institute of Public Affairs were quoted in an article covering campaign finance reform in the Boston Globe on July 15.
Appointments
Mary E. Brady has joined the Center for Social Development and Education as the Director of Professional Development. Dr. Brady is a special educator, an applied researcher, and a former administrator who specializes in curriculum development and modes of professional development.
The Biology Department welcomes two new faculty members Alexia Pollock and Ying Tan. Dr. Pollack is a Neurobiologist whose research focuses on the role of dopamine in regulating motor behavior and neuronal activity in the rat basal ganglia. Ying Tan is a Molecular Systematist whose research focuses on how fundamental evolutionary forces, such as mutation, selection, and genetic drift, govern the evolutionary process at the molecular level.
Miren Uriarte, a faculty member of CPCS, has been appointed interim director of the Gaston Institute for a year beginning in September while director Andre Torres is on sabbatical leave. Professor Uriarte, who was the founding director of the Institute, has written on a number of public policy issues impacting Latinos, including education, employment, and poverty.
Correction
Brenda Gordon from University Advising was misidentified as Bertha Hoskins on Page 3 in the May issue of the University Reporter.