Campus Notes
Psychology
Professor Examines New Treatment for Chronic Anxiety
Campus
Reponds to Bioterrorism Alerts
Board
Approves Feasibility Study for Limited Residential Housing
Employees
Honored for Years of Service
Forum
for the 21st Century: Corporate Giving for the Arts
UMass
Journal Examines Commonwealth’s Economy and Poverty
Women
Make a Difference: The Mass Action for Women Audit Unveiled
1,200
Listeners Worldwide Support UMass Boston Radio
Looney
Receives Public Service Award
Avery
Faigenbaum Helps Kids Have Fun with Fitness
Best
Practices: Academic Support for Student Athletes
PeopleSoft
Prepares the University for Change
Michael
Chesson Examines the Civil War in Exile In Richmond
First
Recipient Awarded Guimond Scholarship
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Policy 2001-2002Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures
Randy Albelda, professor of economics, and Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy, presented the paper “After Welfare Reform: Trends in Poverty and Emergency Service Use in Massachusetts” at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. on November 1.
Elsa Auerbach, associate professor in the English Department, presented “Rewriting Freire Tales for the 21st Century: Literacy and the Globalization from Below Movement,” at the International Literacy Conference held in Cape Town, South Africa in November.
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, associate professor and director of the Family Therapy Program, presented “Couple Therapy as Intercultural Conversations” at the 59th Annual Conference of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy in October.
James Bierstaker, professor in the Accounting and Finance Department, served at an AICPA Item Development workshop from October 29 through 31.
Carol Cosenza and Floyd Fowler of the Center for Survey Research presented research on cognitive interviews at the 3rd International QUEST 2001 Workshop in Washington, D.C., in October.
In November, Professors Jane Cloutterbuck and Lin Zhan,
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, presented their research project
“Caregiving Experience for Persons with Dementia among Ethnocultural
Family Caregivers” at the Gerontology Society of America Annual Scientific
Conference held in Chicago.
Brian Dumser, associate director of the Environmental Health and Safety
Department, presented a workshop, “Airports: The Impacts to our Quality
of Life in the Air and on the Ground,” at the Northeast Regional
Conservation Summit held in October.
Avery Faigenbaum, assistant professor in the Department
of Exercise Science and Physical Education, gave a presentation entitled
“Strength Training Prescription: Beyond Sets and Reps” at the
New England American College of Sports Medicine Conference.
Donna Haig Friedman presented the paper “Reality Check: The Intersection
of Housing and Welfare Policies in the Lives of Homeless Families”
at the twenty-third annual conference of the Association for Public Policy
and Management in Washington, D.C. on November 2.
Lana Jackman of the University Advising Center gave the keynote address, “Developing an Information Literacy Culture: Making Waves - A Community Based Necessity,” at the 2001 Iowa Library Annual Conference on November 12.
Professor Pamela Jones of the Art Department delivered the paper “Landscapes and Still Lifes by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Paul Bril in Federico Borromeo’s Pinacoteca Ambrosiana” at the international symposium “Italy and the Low Countries: Artistic Relations” at the Museum Catharijne Convent in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on November 19.
Esther Kingston-Mann, professor of American studies and history, presented the paper “Private Tenure and Economic Incentive: Axiom or Hypothesis (Historical Case Studies from England, Russia, and Kenya) for the Economic History Workshop at Indiana University on October 11.
Kathleen Golden McAndrew, associate professor of nursing, presented “Substance Abuse in the Workplace: Understanding the Occupational Healthcare Provider’s Role” at a meeting of the Greater Boston Association of Occupational Health Nurses in Newton on November 5.
Anne McCauley, professor of art, was the Crane Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, where she presented the paper “Tableaux of Desire: Inventing Photographic Pornography in Second Empire Paris” on October 25.
Professor Siamak Movahedi of the Sociology Department presented a paper on the social transmission of passion at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, held on November 15 in Newport, R.I.
Nina Greenwald of the Graduate College of Education presented a workshop based on her work fostering creativity in children for the National Association for Gifted Children in November.
Mary Oleskiewicz, assistant professor of music, presented her paper “Transformative Reception: Lully and Handel at the 18th-Century Dresden Court” at the national convention of the American Musicological Society held in November.
Lorna Rivera, assistant professor in the College of Public and Community Service and the Gastón Institute, presented a paper on adult education programs at the “Trapped by Poverty, Trapped by Abuse” conference held at the University of Michigan in October. The Center for Survey Research’s Mary Ellen Colten and Carol Cosenza presented research on domestic violence at the conference.
Cindy Schuster of the Hispanic Studies Department led a workshop, “Keeping the Poetry in Prose,” at the annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association in Raleigh, NC on October 26.
Peter Taylor of the Critical and Creative Thinking Graduate Program delivered the papers “Unruly Complexity and the Limits of Ecology” at the University of Minnesota in October and “Generating Ecological Knowledge and Inquiry through Workshops Processes” to the Society for Social Studies of Science in November.
The Massachusetts Field Center for Teaching and Learning of the Graduate College of Education co-sponsored a conference held at Holy Cross College for over 200 educators to discuss how to enhance teacher education and student learning in Massachusetts.
Publications
Professor Paul Atwood of the Joiner Center and the American Studies Program published the article, “The Algebra of Terror and Counter Terror” in the November issue of the web-based magazine Intervention.
An essay by biology professor Kamal Bawa and graduate student Reinmar Seidler, “Uncertainty and Biodiversity Conservation,” will be published by Island Press in a collection of essays reflecting research presented at the International Summit on Science and Precautionary Principle held at UMass Lowell in September.
Chris Bobel, assistant professor of women’s studies, published her first book, The Paradox of Natural Mothering, with Temple University Press in November.
CPCS Labor Studies student Pete Capano and Labor Resource Center Research Associate Mary Jo Connelly are co-authors of “Economic Development for Whom? Labor Gets Involved in Massachusetts’ Economic Development,” published in the winter edition of WorkingUSA.
Two poems by Susan Eisenberg, of the College of Public and Community Service, appeared in the October issue of The Women’s Review of Books.
A recent issue of the British journal History Workshop excerpted chapters from Taking History of Heart, the UMass Press book by CPCS Professor James Green. The work also has been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Japanese by journals published in Rome, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo.
Arthur Goldsmith, professor of management and marketing, published the article “Donors, Dictators, and Democrats in Africa” in the Journal of Modern African Studies.
Alan Helms, professor of English, has been reviewing the productions of the Boston Ballet and Fleet Celebrity Series as the dance critic for the South End News.
Harlyn O. Halvorsen, director of the Policy Center for Marine Biosciences and Technology, in association with the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department and ECOS research associate Sarah Oktay, contributed editorially to create the book, Marine Aquaculture and the Environment: A Meeting for Stakeholders in the Northeast. The publication presents the workshop lectures and group findings of an international conference held in January 2001 at UMass Boston.
Mary Oleskiewicz, assistant professor of music, published the scholarly, critical edition Johann Joachim Quantz: Seven Trio Sonatas, Recent Researches in Music of the Baroque Era, volume 111.
Enrico A. Marcelli, assistant professor in the Department of Economics, coauthored “The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States,” which appeared in Latin American Research Review.
Stephen Silliman, assistant professor of anthropology, published the article “Agency, Practical Politics, and the Archaeology of Culture Contact” in the Journal of Social Archaeology.
Robert S. Weiss, senior fellow of the Gerontology Institute, co-edited and published Challenges of the Third Age, Meaning and Purpose in Later Life, a collection of articles concerned with the life phase no longer marked by employment and child-rearing.
Biology Professor Brian White published an article, “Note Sheets: A Reliable Predictor of Success?” in the Journal of College Science Teaching.
Exhibits, Readings, Performances
The Fort Point Community Gallery in Boston will feature
digital prints by Elizabeth Marran of the Art Department in the “The
Garden and the Map” exhibit, which will be held from November 16
through December 28.
Kevin Bowen, director of the Joiner Center, gave a reading of his poetry
on November 8 as part of Westchester Community College’s Veterans’
Day celebration.
Grants
Gerontology’s Jan Mutchler and Alison Gottlieb, with Gonzalo Bacigalupe, received a $67,000 grant from the National Institute of Aging to study medication use and English proficiency in the Hispanic elderly.
The New England Pension Assistance Project of the Gerontology Institute has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging to provide free pension counseling to residents of the six New England states.
Dissertation
Lisa Brabo of the Ph.D. in Public Policy Program defended her dissertation, “Wyoming Women’s Experiences in Separating from Violent Intimate Partners,” on November 2.
Appointments and Honors
Gissell Abreu-Rodríguez was appointed outreach coordinator for the Gastón Institute. Abreu-Rodríguez, a UMass Boston alumnus, most recently worked for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on elder health, Medicare, Medicaid, and immigration law.
Paul Camacho of the Joiner Center has been named by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee on Special Studies and to work in conjunction with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Yizette Colon and Niquicia Wilson, undergraduates in the College of Management, each received $2,500 Idea Coalition Scholarships from the Boston Idea Group, formerly the AdClub Foundation.
Mary Oleskiewicz, assistant professor of music, has won first prize for her performance in Dallas at the National Flute Association’s Baroque Flute Artist Competition, an international solo competition held triennially.
William E. Seltz, Department of Accounting and Finance, has become a chartered financial analyst. The distinction is conferred by the Association for Investment Management and Research.
Professor Louise Smith of the English Department has been appointed interim dean of the Liberal Arts Faculty. Smith, who is currently the chairperson of the department, will begin her term as dean at the end of the current semester.
The Clinical Psychology Program’s Cass Turner has been elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association.
Professor Lin Zhan, along with a team of stroke rehabilitation experts from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Institute for Health Professions, received the Partners Excellence Award of Mass General Hospital for successfully implementing the first stroke rehabilitation program in China.
The Community Technology Centers AmeriCorps VISTA Project, housed at the College of Public and Community Service, swore in nine new VISTA members during its three day preservice orientation program November 5 through 7.
Visiting Lecturers
Joyce C. Clifford, founder and executive director of the Institute of Nursing Healthcare Leadership, led a discussion on “The Physician-Nurse Relationship: An increasingly Important Health Policy Issue” for the College of Nursing and Health Science Ph.D. Program in Health Policy.
In the News
Ann Blum, Latin American Studies, was interviewed on practices associated with Mexico’s Day of the Dead by Barbara Neely, host of WUMB’s Commonwealth Journal. The program aired on Sunday, November 18.
Lloyd Schwartz, director of the creative writing program, discussed the New York poetry of Frank O’Hara on WBUR’s “The Connection” program on November 19.