November 2001 University Reporter

Presentations, Conferences, Lectures

The English Department’s Elsa Auerbach and Ines Brito, a graduate of the English master’s program, co-presented the paper “The Logic of Non-Standard Teaching: Two Perspectives on a Course in Cape Verdean Language, History, and Culture” at the Researching Literacy in Schools and in Communities Conference in Santa Barbara, California.

Faculty members Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Dharma Cortés, and Juan Carlos Gorlier presented their research on Latino consumers of US health care and Medicaid at the American Public Health Association 110th Annual Meeting held in Atlanta in October.

Lawrence Blum, professor of philosophy, presented the paper “Racism: What It Is, What It Isn’t, Why It Matters” at Boston University’s Institute on Race and Social Division on September 24.
The Joiner Center’s Paul Camacho and Kelly Johnson presented the paper “Passage of PL 106-50 as the Impetus for Change in the Veterans’ Lobby - The Interests of the States and Their Reservists and Guards” at the Biennial International Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society in Baltimore on October 20.

Diane Dujon, director of independent learning in the College of Public and Community Service’s Competency Connection, spoke at a tribute for the late Richard A. Cloward, a key architect of the nation’s welfare rights movement, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on September 20.

Avery Faigenbaum, assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education, presented “Strength Training and Children’s Health” to the New Hampshire Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in September.

Jacqueline Fawcett, professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, presented the paper “Multidisciplinary and Multisite Research” at the Boston College School of Nursing Colloquium Series on September 24.

Thomas O’Grady, professor of English and director of Irish studies, presented the paper “A Place of Writing: Seamus Heaney’s ‘At a Potato Digging’ Revisited” at the New England Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies on September 29.

Bill Overton, a Trotter Institute research associate, lectured and signed his book, The Media: Shaping the Image of a People, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

Mark Pawlak of Academic Support and Dick Lourie of the Publications Office introduced New York poets Ed Friedman and Tony Towle on November 7 at the Grolier Poetry Reading Series at Harvard University.

Sherry H. Penney, professor of leadership in the College of Management, presented the paper “New Leaders for a New Century” at the International Leadership Association conference in Miami on November 2. She also has been appointed to the Visiting Committee of the Gerald Ford Public Policy Institute in Michigan.

Professor Marc Prou of the Africana Studies Department organized, chaired, and participated in the 13th Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association held at St. Michael’s College in October.

Lorna Rivera, assistant professor in the College of Public and Community Service and the Gastón Institute, delivered a paper entitled “I’m Ready to Learn: Ethnographic Portraits of Homeless Latinas” at the 23rd International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Washington, D.C., in September.

Edith Shillue of Academic Support Programs, Miguel Alvarez of Undergraduate Admissions, and Carol Chandler of Community/University Project for Literacy presented a panel discussion, “Institutional Responses to Refugee/Immigrant Communities,” at the Seventh Annual Symposiumon Diversity and Pluralism at UMass Lowell on October 2.

Gerontology’s Nina Silverstein and students Michael Adams, Phyllis Ahearn, Patricia Gavin, Mary Griffin, Arlene Hanlon, Alice Ryan, and Katie Vanderscoff presented “A Look at Transportation Policy for an Aging Society” at the Annual Conference of the Massachusetts Association of Councils on Aging and Senior Centers held on October 24.

Brian Thompson, professor of French, will present the paper “La Quete de L’absolu Chez André Malraux” at the French Senate on November 23. He is co-organizing the colloquium, “Metamorphoses: André Malraux and the 21st Century” at Harvard University from December 7 to 8.

Ajume Wingo, assistant professor of philosophy and senior fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development, presented a paper entitled “What Make Liberal Democrats Tick?” at the University of Colorado in Boulder on November 5. His book on the same subject, Veil Politics in Liberal Democratic States, will be published by Cambridge University Press.

On October 15 and 16, the Division of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education (CCDE) hosted InterChange 2001, a conference for over 155 technical, marketing, and scientific writers, editors and managers. Joe Lally, Dirk Messelaar, and Brian Middleton of CCDE served on the program planning committee.

Publications

Paul Atwood of the Joiner Center and the American Studies Program published a review of Vietnam and Other American Fantasies by H. Bruce Franklin in the fall 2001 issue of Radical Teacher.

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, assistant professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program, co-wrote the articles “When Approval is not Enough: Development of a Supervision Consultation Model” in Journal of Marital & Family Therapy and “The Discourse of Culture and Race in Family Therapy Supervision: A Conversational Analysis” in Contemporary Family Therapy.

Ann S. Blum, professor of Hispanic studies, contributed the chapter “Dying of Sadness: Hospitalism and Child Welfare, Mexico City, 1920 – 1940” for the forthcoming book From Cholera to AIDS: A History and Disease in Modern Latin America.

Sharon Bostick, director of libraries, published the article “Academic Library Consortia in the United States: An Introduction” in LIBER Quarterly.

Reyes Coll-Tellechea, associate professor of Hispanic studies, wrote the chapter “En el Ultimo Azul: Memory’s Future and the History of the Spanish Jews” for the forthcoming book Models in Medieval Literature: Minority Views in Spanish Medieval Literature and their Modern Reflections.

H. G. Wells’s Perennial Time Machine, published by the University of Georgia Press to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Well’s masterpiece, contains a chapter by English Professor Robert Crossley titled “Taking It as a Story: The Beautiful Lie of The Time Machine.”

Jacqueline Fawcett, professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, published the article “The Nurse Theorists : 21st Century Updates – Imogene M. King” in Nursing Science Quarterly.

Claire Golomb, professor of psychology, has published Child Art in Context: A Cultural and Comparative Perspective with the American Psychological Association Press.
Edythe C. Haber, professor of Russian in the Modern Languages Department published the article “Mikhail Bulgakov: A Wolf’s Life” in Russian Life.

Up in the Air: The Story of Bessie Coleman by Philip Hart, director of the Trotter Institute, was reissued as a paperback by Scholastic, Inc. The story has been optioned for a television movie on which Hart is working as a co-producer.

Richard A. Hogarty, professor emeritus, published Leon Abbett’s New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governor with the American Philosophical Society.

“Invincible,” a short story by CPCS lecturer Kelly Matthews, will be published in the Fall/Winter 2001 issue of Salamander.

Jon C. Mitchell of the Music Department recently published his book A Comprehensive Biography of Composer Gustav Holst with Correspondence and Diary Excerpts with The Edwin Mellen Press.

William E. Robinson, professor in the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department, coauthored the article “Unprecedented Forms of Vanadium Observed within the Blood Cells of Phallusia Nigra Using K-Edge X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy,” which appeared in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.

Associate Professor Dennis J. Stevens of the College of Public and Community Service will write an introduction to corrections text to be published by McGraw Hill and a community corrections textbook to be published with Prentice Hall in 2003.

Esther Torrego of the Hispanic Studies Department wrote the chapter “Tense to C: Causes and Consequences” for the book A Life in Language.

Xuchen Wang, Bob Chen, and Yixian Zhang of the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department published “Distribution and Partitioning of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Different Size Fractions in Sediments from Boston Harbor, United States” in Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Performances

John Conlon, lecturer of the Division of Communications and Theatre Arts, and Bob Helm, alumnus, were featured in The Potting Shed by Graham Greene at the North Quincy Alumni Theater in October. Matt Breton, an undergraduate theater student, stage-managed the play.

Grants

Dale Lucy-Allen, Ph.D. candidate in the Public Policy Program, received a research fellowship with New England Resource Center for Higher Education and Institute for Higher Education Policy to study remedial education and college opportunity.

Seth Minkoff of the Hispanic Studies Department received two awards for his project “Syntax and Epistemiology in Guatemalan Spanish”: a $4,260 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Grant and a $1,000 UMass Endowed Faculty Career Development Fund Prize.

Robert Stevenson, associate professor of biology, received a $97,563 National Science Foundation grant to research eco-flight simulator technology and a $19,370 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust to explore the protection of aquatic biodiversity in Eastern Massachusetts.

The National Institute of Aging awarded three grants to Gerontology Institute researchers: Jan Mutchler will direct research on medication practices and language among Hispanic elders; Jeffrey Burr will lead research in changes in productive activity in later life; and Amy Stern will direct the study on consumer satisfaction and quality assessment of adult day care.

The Center for African Caribbean and Community Development received a $17,0824 grant from the Mass Department of Public Health in support of the Youth Collaborative Program spearheaded by the Haitian Studies Project.

Appointments and Honors

Kevin Bowen, director of the Joiner Center, was awarded a Pushcart Prize for his short story “The Thief of Tay Ninh,” which was originally published in Manoa last year. The story will be published in The Pushcart Prize Anthology: The Best of the Small Presses in November.

Carol L. Cardozo of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy has been invited to join the Health Sufficiency Standard Advisory Group.

Deborah Mahony, associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, received the Massachusetts Excellence Award for Nurse Practitioners from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in Orlando, FL.

Professor David Patterson of the Music Department has been invited to serve on the Council for International Exchange of Scholars Peer Review Committee in Music (Fulbright Awards) and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Panel.

Jim Green, professor of labor history, was appointed associate editor of the Journal of Labor History and asked to serve as vice president for the Labor and Working Class History Association. After two years in this post, he will assume presidency of the organization.

Regina Rodriguez-Mitchell has been appointed interim associate director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute.

College of Management MBA students Vanessa Wong, Rabia Koseagul, Ria Jauw, Wilbert Lyn, and Lily Nerukar scored second prize for their case analysis on “Risk Management Planning and Disaster Recovery” at the recent Annual Minority Business Conference held in Boston.

In the News

UMass Boston students and community members were featured on WB 56 on October 11 and WBZ TV 4 on October 12 for the donation of over $7,000 from disaster relief efforts held on campus September 24 – 27.

Hubie Jones, special assistant to the chancellor, was profiled in the Boston Globe Magazine on October 14 for his contributions to race relations and community development in Boston.

Thomas O’Grady of the English Department was featured in an interview, “Doubly-Crossing Syllables: Thomas O’Grady on Poetry, Exile, and Ireland,” in the most recent issue of Studies in Canadian Literature.