Campus Notes
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Reporter
National
Cancer Institute Grant Funds New Phase of Anti-Smoking Research
President
Bulger Appoints David MacKenzie Acting Chancellor
Changes
in Athletics Program Bring Women's Ice Hockey to Campus
Hart's
Family Stories Become American History
UMass
Boston Holds its Own in The College Student Report
Conference
on Teaching for Transformation Held on Campus
Early
Warning System Works at Student Retention
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Boston Playwright's Work Debuts in New York
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Notes
Conferences, Panels, and Presentations
Richard Gelpke of the Earth and Geographic Sciences Department gave a talk on the map collection at the Massachusetts State Archives to the Boston Map Society in December. Also, he and Nancy Seasholes discussed the history of Columbia Point and the accompanying UMass Boston's website which details the history on WUMB's Commonwealth Journal.
Adrian K. Haugabrook, assistant dean of student affairs, was the keynote
speaker on January 15 for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day observance
at Temple Emmanuel in Newton, MA. The event was sponsored by the Foundation
for Racial, Religious, and Ethnic Harmony, and the Newton Interfaith
Clergy Association. His topic was “The Beloved Community.”
Students of English professor Lovalerie King presented a memorial reading
of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, who died in December at the age of 83.
Professor Robert Crossley helped to arrange the event.
On October 27, Esther Kingston-Mann, American studies and history professor, presented a lecture based on her book In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics and Problems of Development for the “Rethinking Socialism” lecture series at the University of Virginia. She also presented a lecture for the Historians Seminar at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian Affairs on “The Uses of Western Economic Models: Russia Past and Present.”
Richard Lee, UMass Boston public safety officer, participated in a
recent meeting of police chiefs, police officers, community leaders,
and educators who gathered at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel to discuss
models for ethics and integrity in community policing.
Monica McAlpine, director of the University Honors Program and professor
of English, has just completed her third year of service on a review
panel for postgraduate Fulbright Fellowships in the Northeast Region.
Anne McCauley of the Art Department presented her paper, “Shocking Materialism: Photography and the Construction of the Modern City,” at Tulane University, New Orleans, in conjunction with the exhibition, New Orleans in 1867: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal for Napoleon III. She also presented a paper, “Natural Philosophy, Romanticism, and the Invention of Photography” on November 30 for the M.I.T. Media and Society Graduate Program evening lecture series.
Denise Patmon, Graduate College of Education, will present a paper on tapping the potential of academically talented students in the Boston Public Schools at the upcoming Massachusetts Reading Association conference, to be held in Sturbridge in March. She is the literacy consultant for the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade advanced work class teachers in the Boston schools.
Steven Schwartz, Psychology Department, and Nina Greenwald and Delores Gallo, both of the critical and creative thinking program, presented “ A Study of the Short-Term Effects of a Semester-Long Creative Thinking Course” as a poster on January 4 at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology in St. Petersburg, Florida. Their research indicated substantial student gains over the semester on a number of indices associated with creativity.
Lin Zhan, College of Nursing, gave the keynote speech, “Attention Capacity and Physical Environment for our seniors,” at Malden's Celebrating Aging and Asian Outreach Program event sponsored by the Malden Mayor's Office and Council on Aging.
Both the Population Association of America and the Institute for Women's Policy research have accepted a paper, “Post Welfare Reform: Trends in Demand for Emergency Services,” for presentation at their spring conferences. The Center for Social Policy conducted the study to analyze the extent to which the demand for food, emergency shelter, hotline support, housing search services, homeless prevention services, fuel assistance, and cash assistance has changed during the post-welfare-reform period in Massachusetts.
Publications
Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy, has published Parenting in Public: Family Shelter and Public Assistance, a book about families utilizing the Massachusetts family shelter system and the strain faced when their family lives become subject to public scrutiny and criticism. The book explores the impact of asset and deficit-oriented help-giving approaches as mothers and service providers experience them.
Stephanie Hartwell, Sociology Department, recently published several articles, including “Juvenile Delinquency and the Social Development Model: The Retrospective Accounts of Homeless Substance Abusers” in Criminal Justice Policy Review, and “Release Planning and the Distinctions for Mentally Ill Offenders Returning to the Community from Jails versus Prisons” and “Where The Action is” in American Jails.
Public Policy doctoral student Udaya Wagle recently published her article
"The Policy Science of Democracy: The Issues of Methodology and
Citizen Participation" in Policy Sciences.
Greg Huber of the Physics Department published an article, “Swimming
in Flatsea,” in the January 7 issue of Nature magazine. The article
answered the question of why flags flap.
Anne McCauley, Art Department, published her essay, “Le Réalisme
et ses Détracteurs,” in the catalogueParis en 3D: de la
Steréoscopie à la Realité Virtuelle, 1850-2000
for an exhibition held at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, from October
3 to December 31.
Dennis J. Stevens, CPCS, recently published his book Case Studies of Community Policing with Prentice Hall and an article on community policing and managerial problems in Law and Order.
Music professor David Patterson has published Spin, a piece for flute and harp or piano, with Falls Halls Press. The work was commissioned by the Pappoutsakis Flute Competition.
Lin Zhan, College of Nursing, and Anli Jiang, a visiting professor in the College of Nursing at the 2nd Military Medical University in Shanghai, P.R. China, published two articles, “Accreditation in Nursing Education: Process, Procedures, Outcome Measures, and Implications for Chinese Nursing Education” and “Nursing Education for the 21st Century” in The Journal of Chinese PLA Nursing.
Readings and Performances
John Conlon, Communications and Theatre Arts Division, will direct
Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile for the Spring 2001 Workshop-Stagecraft
Mainstage Production.
Lloyd Schwartz, English Department, gave poetry readings from his book
Cairo Traffic at the Fireside Poetry Series on January 23 and at the
Somerville Public Library on January 30. He has scheduled future readings
at the Brookline Booksmith on February 7, the KGB Poetry Series in New
York on February 12, the Blacksmith House on April 9, George Washington
University in Washington, D.C. on April 12, and the Andover Bookstore
on May 17.
Grants
Adán Colón-Carmona, Biology Department, received a one-year $50,000 grant award, for a project entitled “Cell Division Control During Photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana” from the National Science Foundation. Colón-Carmona's group will use molecular tools to analyze patterns of cell division in Arabidopsis mutants defective in light perception and seedling development.
The Center for Social Policy has received a HUD Community Development Technical Assistance Awards grant for $70,000 to accelerate the implementation of the CSPTech project in two additional communities in Massachusetts.
Project REACH was recently awarded a $35,000 grant from the Nellie Mae Foundation for an after-school reading program and to support their summer academic program. Project REACH serves Boston public middle and high school students with disabilities.
Appointments
Management and marketing professor Gunther S. Boroschek has been appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Fulbright Peer Review Committee for the Western Hemisphere. The appointment was made under the auspices of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, an organization that assists in the administration of the Fulbright Scholar Program and conducts the merit review of candidates for Fulbright awards.
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, assistant professor and director of the Family
Therapy Program at the Graduate College of Education, has been elected
chair of the Elections Council of the American Association of Marriage
and Family Therapy (AAMFT) for the year 2001. The Elections Council
plans, nominates, and oversees the annual elections of AAMFT board members.
Joel Grossman, coordinator of the Health Promotion Program of University
Health Service, was recently ordained as an interfaith minister. Grossman
graduated from and was ordained by the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts
and Interfaith Ministries, Fairfax, CA.
Awards
Lisa M. Abdallah of the College of Nursing was awarded the Outstanding Volunteer Leadership Award by the Merrimack Valley YMCA on December 8 at the YMCA annual volunteer recognition breakfast. Lisa received this for her exemplary service as a Board of Manager for the Lawrence Branch of the YMCA.
College of Management management and marketing professor Betty J. Diener has received a Fulbright award to teach environmental management in the MBA program at Tsinghua University in Beijing for the spring 2001 semester.
Miscellaneous
The Center for Survey Research has opened their new telephone data collection facility at the UMass Lowell. The Lowell facility houses a twenty-station Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) system. The UMass Tobacco Survey is the first data collection activity at the Center's new facility.
In January, the Labor Resource Center of CPCS launched a program with the North Shore Labor Council to provide training in local economic development to labor and community activists in the North Shore. The Job Toolkit is a set of interactive training and research tools that will help organizations to better understand their local labor markets and regional economy; voice their concerns about local economic development plans; and create more effective strategies for influencing community labor decisions. For more information, please contact Mary Jo Connelly at 7-7267.
In The News
McCormack Institute's Paul Watanabe has appeared on WCVB 5's Five on Five program to discuss George Bush's appointment of the first African American as secretary of state and on NECN on January 10 to discuss the Clinton legacy.
UMass Boston's nontraditional students were featured in a Boston Herald article on January 2.
Public policy's Alan Clayton-Matthews discussed the possibility of a recession on WBZ 1030 AM on January 11 and 12.
Avery Faigenbaum, Human Performance and Fitness Department, appeared on WCVB 5 on January 3 to discuss exercise fads and tips. The interview was held at the Beacon Fitness Center.
Correction
Louis Paradise's title was incorrectly reported in the January issue. He is the executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of New Orleans.