Campus Notes
University
Reporter 
Institute
for Community Inclusion, A National Center,
To Move To UMass Boston
Russert
to Speak at Commencement
Fulbright
Scholar Aids
Environmental Management in China
WUMB
Debuts New Station at WNEF 91.7
Educator
Inspires Beacon Leadership Students
Technology-Enhanced
Classrooms Open for Spring Semester
Reality
Check Conference Examines Gap Between Income and Housing Costs
“Happenings
@ UMB” Column New to University Home Page
Center
for Social Policy Researchers Recognized for Work on Issues of Homelessness
in America
Celebrating
Black History Month: How Academics and Athletics Led to Success
Best
Practices: Nursing Students Connecting with Communities
Annual
“Teaching for Transformation” Conference Held at University
Revealing
and Celebrating a Great Poet
PeopleSoft:
Where in the World is Becky Hsu?
Music
Department Debuts New CD
Campus
Notes
Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures
In January, Randy Albelda, director of the Public Policy Ph.D. Program and professor of economics, presented the paper “Under the Margins: Feminist Economic Analysis of Poverty” at the Allied Social Sciences Association Meeting, held in Atlanta.
Pratyush Bharati, assistant professor of management science and information systems in the College of Management, presented “The Global Internet Diffusion: A Country Level Analysis” at the OASIS 2001 Workshop at the International Conference of Information Systems in December.
Jay R. Dee, assistant professor in the Graduate College of Education, presented “Reconciling Differences: Conflict Management Strategies of Catholic College and University Presidents” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Mirtha Crisostomo, a doctoral student in the higher education administration program, presented “Immigrants in US Colleges: What Contributes to Their Academic Success” at the same meeting.
Richard Delaney, director of the Urban Harbors Institute, served on the organizing committee and participated in “Global Conference on Oceans and Coasts at Rio +10” in December at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris.
Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was the featured speaker at the 25th Anniversary WEMO Luncheon, a gathering of women who are elected municipal leaders in the Commonwealth, held on January 11.
Patricia Gallagher, senior fellow at the Center for Survey Research, presented “Strategies to Increase Response Rates from Physicians” at a Statistics Canada symposium entitled “Achieving Data Quality in a Statistical Agency: A Methodological Perspective.”
ECOS doctoral candidate Aditi Pain and Professor Emeritus Joseph Cooney co-authored and presented the paper “Endocrine-Disrupting Biocide (Tributyltin) and Marine Bacteria” at the 7th annual Boston Bacterial Meeting held at Tufts University.
Professor David Patterson of the Music Department has been invited to give a workshop on introducing world music to the beginning pianist at the Eastern Regional Meeting of the Music Teachers National Association to be held at Rowan University.
David Rubin of the Applied Language and Math Center presented a post-screening discussion of Frederick Wiseman’s documentary Titicut Follies, which was shown at the Museum of Fine Arts on January 9.
Elizabeth Sherman, senior fellow at the McCormack Institute, moderated a panel on public leadership at Harvard Business School’s “Dynamic Women in Business Conference,” held on January 26.
Professor Michael Stone of the College of Public and Community Service,
the Public Policy Ph.D. Program, and the McCormack Institute discussed
options for increasing housing opportunities, as well as explain the housing
provisions of the Community Preservation Act to housing organizations
in Duxbury and on the South Shore in January.
Peter Taylor of the Graduate College of Education was a keynote speaker and workshop leader at the “Building Transversal Bridges Between the Social and Natural Sciences” symposium held at the University of Coimbra in Portugal in January.
A paper by Public Policy Program student Randall Wilson, which reviews his ongoing dissertation research “Career Ladder Consortia in Long-Term Care: A Comparative Case Study of Emergent Labor Market Institution,” was accepted for the 2002 meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, to be held in Boston in March.
Ajume H. Wingo, an assistant professor of philosophy and a senior fellow at the McCormack Institute’s Center for Democracy and Development, gave a lecture on “What Makes Liberal Democrats Tick” at the University of Texas’ Austin Law School on January 18.
Publications
Professor Randy Albelda is a contributor to Squaring Up: Policy Strategies to Raise Women’s Income in the United States edited by Mary C. King.
The Joiner Center’s Kevin Bowen, director, and Nguyen Ba Chung, research associate, translated and edited the book 6 Vietnamese Poets, published by Curbstone Press in January. It is part of a new series that includes work by Carolyn Forché and UMass Boston’s Martha Collins.
Jay R. Dee, assistant professor in the Graduate College of Education, published “Institutional Identity, Pressures for Change, and Executive Leadership at US Catholic Colleges and Universities” in the Journal of Research in Education.
Professor Jacqueline Fawcett of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences published “On Science and Human Science: A Conversation with Marilyn M. Rawnsley” in Nursing Science Quarterly.
Joel Grossman, coordinator of the Health Promotion Program of University Health Services, contributed the chapter “Innate Mental Health: Tapping the Divine Gift for Learning and Well-being” toTransforming Campus Life: Reflections on Spirituality and Religious Pluralism.
Leon Abbett’s New Jersey, a political biography by Richard Hogarty, professor emeritus, was recently published by the American Philosophical Society.
“Survivors,” a short story by CPCS lecturer Kelly Matthews, was published in the January/February 2002 issue of Jewish Currents.
An article by music professor Jon C. Mitchell, “John Philip Sousa: A Comparative Study of the Manuscript Scores of Selected Orchestral Works,” was published by the Journal of the Conductors Guild.
Reinmar Seidler, biology graduate student, authored the chapter “Uncertainty and Biodiversity Conservation” for a book of essays inspired by the International Summit on Science and the Precautionary Principle held at UMass Lowell. Seidler had presented the topic of his chapter with Distinguished Professor Kamal Bawa at the seminar.
Stephen Silliman, assistant professor of anthropology, published the article “Theoretical Perspectives on Labor and Colonialism: Rethinking the California Missions” in the December issue of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
In January, Nina M. Silverstein, associate professor of gerontology, presented “What Council on Aging Directors are Saying about Transportation and Aging” at the Transportation Research Board’s 81st Annual Meeting, held in January in Washington, D.C.
Exhibits, Readings, Performances
Music professor and flutist Mary Oleskiewicz performed with her husband, David Schulenberg of Wagner University, in a series of flute and harpsichord concerts in Japan.
Appointments and Honors
Victoria Palmer-Erbs of the Department of Community and Family Nursing received a certificate of appreciation commending her for years of service to the Human Studies and Clinical Investigations Committee/Institutional Review Board at the Mount Auburn Hospital.
Betsy Klimasmith, assistant professor of English, was recently elected to the New England American Studies Association Council.
Tiffany Manuel and Doreen Stern Gordon, students in the Ph.D. in Public Policy Program, were nominated for 2002’s Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.
Philosophy professor Jennifer Radden has been named a consultant to the American Psychiatric Association committee to revise Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry on the American Medical Association’s Principles of Ethics.
Professor Michael Rex of the Department of Biology was appointed by Gale Norton, the secretary of the interior, to serve a two-year term on the Outer Continental Shelf Scientific Committee of the Minerals Management Advisory Board.
Professor Bette Woody of the Sociology and Criminal Justice Departments has been selected as the new editor of Race and Society, the referred journal of the Association of Black Sociologists. The publications review committee appointed Woody and selected UMass Boston as the host site for the journal in December.
Dissertations
Joshua Lowenstein, a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Program, defended his dissertation “Conflict from the Word Go: Ubiquity and Influence of Affect Regulatory Conflict in Mother-Infant Interaction” on December 12.
Grants and Research
Manikam Sugumaran of the Biology Department and Gaduate Studies Office and William Robinson of the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department and Provost’s Office received a $136,000 grant from MIT Sea Grant for their proposal “Novel Biomaterials with Potential Antibacterial and Adhesive/structural Properties from Ascidians.”
The Urban Harbors Institute received a grant of $150,000 from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative to conduct a predevelopment feasibility study of three renewable energy sources - solar, wind, tidal - in the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area. The institute’s partners include the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department. Jack Wiggin, the institute’s associate director, is the project manager.
Birth
Daphne Inara Freeman was born on December 20 to Dale Freeman and his wife Andra. Dale works in the Archives in the Healey Library.
Obituaries
Josh Brown, a UMass Boston undergraduate, passed away on January 6 after a short illness. Josh interned for the Office of University Communications, writing several articles for the University Reporter in 2001 and contributing to the recent publication UMass Research.
Sarah Small, who served as UMass Boston’s Protestant Campus Minister for many years before illness prevented her from continuing to work, passed away on the morning of December 25.
In the News
Issues of The Boston Globe West and The Dover-Sherborn Press quoted Professor Paul Atwood of the William Joiner Center and the American Studies Department on his lecture “What the Mainstream Press is not Saying about the War in Afghanistan,” held on December 21 at the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, MA.
Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public
Policy, was interviewed by the Boston Globe on Latino/a politics in Massachusetts
for a January 1 article.
Elizabeth Sherman of the McCormack Institute spoke on NPR’s Morning
Edition January 2 on congressional redistricting in Massachusetts and
January 16 on Governor Swift’s annual State of the State address.
Sherman was also quoted in the New York Times on January 4 on the candidate
for lieutenant governor, Patrick C. Guerriero.