January 2001 University Reporter

Conferences, Presentations, and Lectures

Professor Emeritus Joseph Cooney of the ECOS Department gave two lectures as a Foundation for Microbiology lecturer of the American Society for Microbiology. He presented his lecture, “The Action of Organotin Compounds on Aquatic Bacteria,” to the Eastern NY Branch and a joint meeting of the New York City, Connecticut Valley, and Northeastern Branches of the ASM.

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Juan Carlos Gorlier, Dharma Cortes, and Carole Upshur, Gastón Institute, presented five papers and poster sessions at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association of Boston, November 12 to 16. The research drew from data collected from the Mas Salud Project, which is funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Financing Administration.

Jacqueline Fawcett, College of Nursing, presented the keynote address “The State of Nursing Science: Where is the Nursing in the Science?” at the Thirteenth Annual Celebration of Nursing Scholarship at New York University in November.

CPCS Professor James Green of the Labor Resource Center delivered the Peg Jones Memorial Lecture to National Education Association’s research staff in Seattle on December 1. His topic was “Strengthening Democracy in the 21st Century: The Challenge to Teachers, Citizens, and Union Members.”

Harlyn Halvorson , ECOS faculty and director of the Policy Center for Marine Biosciences and Technology (PCMBT), presented “The Role of the Public in Sustainable Aquaculture” on November 27 at the International Marine Center in Italy. Halvorson also has been selected as the chair of the European Science Foundation Feasibility Study Group to plan a five-year funding program in Marine Biotechnology for the European Union.

William Holmes, visiting associate professor of sociology, presented a paper on “Delays in Determining Innocence in Capital Cases” at the November meeting of the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco.

Curtis Olsen, ECOS, presented his lecture, “Quantifying Environmental Processes using Cosmogenic Be-7,” at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on November 1. He also was an invited speaker at the Coastal Marsh Research Symposium, November 29 in Plymouth, MA. His talk described coastal marsh restoration techniques.

Elizabeth Sherman, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy served on the panel “Women’s Place, Women’s Power” to discuss the award-winning documentary, “Sixteen Decisions.” The screening was held at the Museum of Fine Arts on December 1 and sponsored by the Boston Women’s Commission.

Carole Upshur, Gastón Institute, presented a talk on using participatory action research to work on quality of health access for immigrants, language minority groups, and children with special health care needs at the annual meeting of the Children’s Health Care Quality Initiative on December 9. Her talk was shared with Deborah Clarke, a CPCS graduate.

Publications

Elsa Auerbach, English Department, recently published her article “When Pedagogy Meets Politics: Challenging English Only in Adult Education,” in Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement.

ECOS Professor Emeritus Joseph Cooney and doctoral student Ruey Jing-Tang published a chapter, “Quantifying Effects of Antifouling Paints on Microbial Biofilm Formation,” in Methods in Enzymology. Former student David Ricca and Cooney published two articles, in the Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, on “Coliphages and Indicator Bacteria in Birds around Boston Harbor” and “Screening Environmental Samples for Source-Specific Bacteriophage Hosts Using a Method for the Simultaneous Pouring of Twelve Petri Plates.”

Joseph Dyer, Music Department, recently published chapters on, “Double Offices at the Lateran in the Mid-Twelfth Century” in The Varieties of Musicology: Essays in Honor of Murray Lefkowitz, “Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master” in The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages: Methodology and Source Studies, Regional Developments, Hagiography, and “The Voice in the Middle Ages” in The Cambridge Companion to Singing.

Jacqueline Fawcett, College of Nursing, recently published her book, Analysis and Evaluation of Contemporary Nursing Knowledge: Nursing Models and Theories. She has published several articles, including “Teaching, Practice, Community Service, and Research: An Idea for Putting it all Together,” in The Maine Nurse and a guest editorial, “But is it Nursing Research?,” in Western Journal of Nursing Research.

Biology Professor Joseph Gindhart, in collaboration with researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine, recently published a paper in the November 10 issue of Cell. The paper, entitled “Kinesin-Dependent Axonal Transport is Mediated by the Sunday Driver (SYD) Protein,” described the identification and characterization of a protein required for intracellular transport in the nervous system.

Retired biology faculty member Lawrence Kaplan recently completed a fifty-year index of the journal, Economic Botany. The publication of the index by the New York Botanical Garden is planned for 2001. Also, his chapter on “Beans, Peas and Lentils” appeared in the two-volume Cambridge World History of Food in November. The entire 1,200 page work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the New Yorker.

Dennis Stevens, CPCS, will publish his article, “Community Policing, Managerial Style, and TQM” in January’s Community Policing Consortium, a publication of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also edited the book Policing and Community Policing in which he has a chapter, “A Study in Community Policing and Managerial Issues.”

Harold Wolozin, Economics Department, learned his manuscript, “The Individual in Economic Analysis: Toward a Psychology of Economic Behavior,” has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Socio-Economics for their fifth issue of 2001. This manuscript is based on a paper delivered last April for the annual meetings of the WSSA at Reno.

Dissertations

Catherine Birgeneau, Ph.D. candidate in the Clinical Psychology Program, presented her dissertation, “Body Image in Infancy: Adult Body Weight-Related Biases Applied to Infants,” on Wednesday, December 20.

Awards

Jacqueline Fawcett, College of Nursing, received the Distinguished Scholar in Nursing Award from New York University at the Annual Celebration of Nursing Scholarship in November.

Alison Gottlieb, Gerontology Institute, was the principle investigator of the Institute’s Assistive Equipment Demonstration Project, which recently received an Award for Excellence in Program Innovation from the Archstone Project.

Research and Grants

Under the direction of Lois Biener, the Center for Survey Research will be undertaking a four-year project investigating the effectiveness of three types of public health interventions being used by the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program to assist states and communities in finding the most effective ways to design and evaluate tobacco control interventions.

Bob Chen, associate professor in ECOS, received a research grant for his work “Identification of Endocrine Disruptors in Coastal Waters” from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant program. The grant supports a collaborative research effort between Dr. Chen and Dr. Ana Soto at Tufts Medical School, and totals $150,000 from SeaGrant and $40,000 in matching funds from the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority for the two-year project.

Harlyn Halvorson received funding for an upcoming workshop, “Marine Aquaculture and the Environment: A Meeting for Stakeholders in the Northeast,” to be held January 11 - 13, 2001. Contributors include UMass Boston, NOAA, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Women’s Seamen’s Friend Society of Connecticut.

Anthony Roman, study director at the Center for Survey Research, will be mailing 30,000 college alcohol questionnaires in early 2001 to students at 128 colleges and universities nationwide. This survey, the third since l993, will measure the percentage of college students who engage in “binge” drinking; and assess the personal, social and other negative consequences of this behavior.

The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences has received a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) to provide organizational support of its literary activities. The MCC recognized the Joiner Center for the scope of its activities, which include the annual Writer’s Workshop, a Rockefeller Foundation humanities program on the Vietnamese diaspora, and a copyright program for Vietnamese authors.

Births

Arindam Bandopadhyaya, College of Management, and his wife are the proud parents of first-born daughter Ina Baek Bando.

In the News

Maurice Cunningham, Political Science Department, and UMB student Rio Foster were featured in the December 11 Patriot Ledger story on the number of students choosing political science courses and majors following the recent election fever.

Professor Philip Hart, director of the Trotter Institute, and his work on America’s early black aviators will be featured on The History Channel in February 2001. Hart’s work also has recently been featured in the Los Angeles Times “Then and Now” weekly column. His great-uncle, James Herman Banning, was the first African-American pilot to be licensed by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1926 and the first to complete a transcontinental flight in 1932.

UMass Boston student David Fernandez profiled the University in his article, “UMass Is Striving for a Friendlier Facade” for the Boston Sunday Globe on December 10.

Pat Monteith and WUMB-FM were featured in a full-length station profile in the November 19 Patriot Ledger.

Elizabeth Sherman, CWPP, and her husband Mickey Edwards, Harvard JFK School of Government professor, provided election commentary on WGBH’s Greater Boston with Emily Rooney on November 22 and December 7. They recently served as official election analysts for WHDH 7 and NPR’s Morning Edition on WBUR. Sherman and Edwards taped a program for WBZ News Conference which aired on December 17.

UMass Boston First Campaign’s achievements were noted in newscasts on WLVI 56 and WCVB 5 on November 27 and 28.

Corrections

University Advancement’s Cynthia Williams and Erika McCarthy were not pictured in the photograph of the department in the December issue.

Stuart Phillips, CCDE, was the co-recipient with Jack Hughes of the Innovative and Creative Continuing Education Programming Award listed in the December issue. Phillips’ name was erroneously omitted in the original Campus Notes.