Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

Sara Baron, director of the Instructional Technology Center and coordinator of library instruction at Healey Library, presented “Plagiarism: the Plague of the Internet Age” at the Cape Cod and Islands Library Association’s Spring Conference. Her research on librarian instruction also was presented in the closing plenary panel at the 31st Annual Workshop on Instruction in Library Use held on May 15 in Canada.

The College of Management’s Pratyush Bharati and former faculty member Abdy Chaudhury presented “Assimilation of Internet Based Technologies in Small and Medium Sized Manufacturers” at the 2002 IRMA International Conference in Seattle.

Maryellen Brett, director of career services and alumni relations for the College of Management, presented her developed material from CM’s “Job Strategies Class” at the Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers in June.

Cathy Burack, associate director of NERCHE in the Graduate College of Education, presented “Before We Get Engaged, Shouldn’t We Date: A Look at Faculty Scholarship and Community Work” at the Transformation in Higher Education Conference held at the University of Missouri Kansas City in May.

Karen Callaghan of the Political Science Department is presenting conference papers on issue framing at the Symposium on Terrorism, the Media and Public Life at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology in Berlin over the summer. She also will be chairing a panel on framing political issues at the American Political Science Association Meeting in Boston.

Francis Caro, director of the Gerontology Institute, will chair a leadership conference on long-term care research, held in Washington, D.C., on June 17.
Alexander Des Forges, assistant professor of Chinese, presented “Wild Chickens and the Problems of Desire: 1909- 1924” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting on April 6.

Avery Faigenbaum, assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education, presented “Youth Fitness: Where Do We Go From Here?” at the annual health and fitness meetings of the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Strength and Conditioning Association in April.

Marilyn Frankenstein of the College of Community and Public Service organized a three-hour mini-course and gave a lecture on the “The Arts and Ethnomathematics” at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference on April 23.

Arthur A. Goldsmith of the College of Management published the article “Business Associations and Better Governance in Africa in Public Administration and Development.

Professor James Green of the College of Community and Public Service’s Labor Resource Center organized and moderated a discussion of workers’ rights with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and sixty members of the Labor and Working Class History Association (of which Green is vice president) in Washington, D.C. on April 12.

Marie Kennedy, associate dean of the College of Public and Community Service and professor of community planning, was an invited speaker on May 14 at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil where she discussed transformative community planning. In her trip to South America as an advisory board member of Grassroots International, she visited several rural development projects.

Esther Kingston-Mann, history and American studies professor, is the keynote speaker at the “Intercultural Teacher Education” international symposium to be held at Stockholm University in June.

Joan Liem, professor of psychology, and Edna Pressler, staff psychologist with the University Health Services Counseling Center, presented a workshop on “Addressing Relationship Concerns in Individual Psychotherapy: An Assimilative Integration” at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, held on May 4.

Michael Novak of the Department of Management and Marketing will be presenting the paper “Simon Pearce: A Teaching Case” at the European Applied Business Research Conference, held in Germany in June.

Professors Margaret Musmon of the Division of Communication and Theatre Arts and Ann Marie Gallo of the Department Exercise of Science and Physical Education presented the paper “Developing a New Critical Evaluation System” at the National Dance Association and American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Convention in San Diego.

Susan Opotow, associate professor in the CPCS Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution, presented a keynote lecture at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago in May for the “Conservation Psychology: Understanding Relationships with Nature and Promoting Action” Conference.

Professor Marc Prou of the Africana Studies Department presented “How is the Haitian American Community Faring in the U.S. Educational System?” at the plenary session on public and higher education of the National Conference of the National Coalition on Haitian Rights in April.

Professor Jennifer Radden of the Philosophy Department spoke at the workshop “Dimensions of Melancholia: Let Philosophy Help” at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, held in Philadelphia on May 22.

Professor Lois Rudnick of the American Studies Program presented the paper “The Syphilis Papers: Sex, Psychoanalysis, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Early Modern America” at the British American Studies Association Meeting held at Oxford University in April.

Peter Schilling of the Undergraduate Admissions Office will chair a two-day workshop, “Foundations of International Education: Foreign Education Credentials Analysis Workshop,” to be held at Northeastern University in July.

Lloyd Schwartz of the English Department gave a pre-concert lecture on poetry and music for the April 19 FleetBoston Celebrity Series event that featured former poet laureate Robert Pinsky and the Takacs String Quartet.

Professor Dan Simovici of the Department of Computer Science chaired the International Symposium for Multiple-Valued Logic, which was hosted by UMass Boston for the third time, this May.

Kathleen Teehan, vice chancellor for enrollment management, and Jennifer Brown, director of institutional research, were presenters at the 2002 AIR/CASE Research Colloquium held in New Orleans. Their presentation, “Shaping Stakeholder Opinions About an ‘Urban’ University,” responded to the conference focus on public opinion and higher education.

Deborah Whaley, professor of American studies, delivered the paper “From Affirmative Action to Affirmative Acts: A Cultural Analysis and Performative Prescription for the 21st Century” at the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists Sixty-Seventh Annual Conference in March 2002.

Lisa Williams, Patrick Tran, and Adrienne Vigilante, assistant directors in the Undergraduate Admissions Office, attended the New England Transfer Association Conference, held in Newport from April 22 to 24.

Publications

Dick Cluster of Academic Support and the Honors Program has translated several new works of Cuban fiction which will soon be published: Frigid Tales by Pedro de Jesus; an excerpt from Leonardo Padura Fuentes’ Masks which was recently published in Cuba: A Traveler’s Literary Companion; and Looking at Cuba by Rafael Hernández.

Professor John Conlon of the Theatre Arts and Communications Division, published an extensive study of poet, critic, and dramatist T. S. Eliot in Great American Writers: Twentieth Century, which was edited by R. Baird Shuman and published by Marshall Cavendish Corporation.

Joel Fowler, interim assistant director of collection development and technical services, with UMass Amherst librarians co-authored “Building a Digital Library in Support of Distance Learning,” which was delivered at the Tenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference, held in April.

An article by Lawrence Franko, professor of finance, “Global Corporate Competition in the 1990s: American Renewal, Japanese Resilience, and European Crosscurrents,” was the cover article in the May-June issue of Business Horizons, The Journal of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Laurel Radwin, assistant professor, and Kristine Alster, associate professor in the Department of Adult and Gerontological Nursing, published the article “Individualized Nursing Care: An Empirically Generated Definition,” in the March 2002 issue of International Nursing Review.

Udaya Wagle of the College of Public and Community Service and the Public Policy Program published an article, “Rethinking Poverty: Definition and Measurement,” in the 2002 March issue of International Social Science Journal.

Exhibits, Readings, Performances

Jon Mitchell guest conducted the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra of Houghton, MI, on April 28 and 29 as the first half of a podium exchange with their conductor Jeffery Bell-Hanson.

“Isle of Hope,” composed by David Patterson, professor of music, was performed at St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the annual Ellis Island Medals of Honor celebration in New York City in May.

Appointments and Honors

Kristine Alster has been appointed interim dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and will begin her term on June 16, following the retirement of Dean Brenda Cherry. Alster has taught in the College of Nursing since 1983.
Kamal Bawa was elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his pioneering work on population biology of tropical trees and conservation biology.

On May 1, the New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented Richard Delaney, director of the Urban Harbors Institute, with an Environmental Merit Award for his work with the Gulf of Maine Council. He was nominated by Congressman Tom Allen.

David Hunt of the History Department and A.P. Simonds of the Political Science Department both received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Monica McAlpine, professor of the English Department and director of the Honors Program, was named the 2002 recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award.

Donna Maguire, a master’s student in the Family Nursing Program, received recognition for her graduate student poster at Eastern Nursing Research’s annual meeting held at Penn State.

Management and Marketing’s Peter McClure and Raymond Liu received a Highly Commended Award as part of the Literati Awards for Excellence from the British Group Emerald for their paper “Recognizing Cross Cultural Differences In Consumer Complaint Behavior and Intentions: An Empirical Examination,” which was published in The Journal of Consumer Marketing.

Mary Oleskiewicz, assistant professor of music, received a Healey Endowment Grant to fund research and travel to Sweden and Germany. Her work will culminate in a contracted critical edition of unpublished sonatas by German composer Johann Joachim Quantz.

John Papageorgiou, professor in the Management Science and Information Systems Department, has been approved for candidacy on the Fulbright Senior Specialists Roster.

Professor Mike Rex of the Biology Department was named the 2002 recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholarship Award.

Jain Ruvidich-Higgins, director of the Office for Service Learning and Community Outreach, was appointed to serve on the Region One Commonwealth of Massachusetts Charitable Campaign Employees Campaign Committee.

Judith Smith of the American Studies Program has been appointed a Charles Warren Fellow and will participate in a seminar on film history at Harvard University. Her project is titled “Black and White in Color: Hollywood Film Representations of Racial Citizenship, 1949-1963.”

Students Kim Trauceniek, Janine Armstrong, Charlotte Burger, Jonathan Cole, and Bonnie McManus were named Knapp Scholars for 2002 by the Political Science Department.

Alan Vogel, a lecturer in the College of Management’s Accounting and Finance Department, has been selected for inclusion in the seventh edition of Who’s Who Among American Teachers 2002.

Grants and Research

Silvia Dorado, assistant professor of management and marketing at the College of Management, and Dwight Giles of the Graduate College of Education have received a faculty scholarship support grant for their work on “Conveners of Service Learning Partnerships.”

Professor Mike Rex of the Biology Department received a biological oceanography grant of $175,109 from the National Science Foundation.
James Willis, an assistant professor of sociology, was awarded a faculty scholarship support grant for the policing project “Compstat and Organizational Change in a Comparative Perspective.”

The Environmental Business and Technology Center, located in the College of Management, has received a $180,000 contract from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust (MRET) Fund for the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Sector Economic Analysis and Business Development Needs Assessment.

Dissertations

Daphne Koinis Mitchell, Laura Wagner-Moore, and Kim Gratz, all of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program successfully defended their dissertations in March and April.

Laurie Ross, Denise Dodds, Doreen Stern-Gordon, Ph.D. candidates in the Public Policy Program, successfully defended their dissertations.

Birth

Public Safety Officer Susan Lee and Program Specialist Rich Lee had a son, Robert William, on April 2.

In the News

In addition to the broadcast on ATT3, the 2002 Gubernatorial Forum on Issues of Concern to Women was featured in Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Associated Press stories and aired on New England Cable News.
Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was quoted in the May 23 Boston Globe on Shannon O’Brien’s candidacy for governor and in the May 24 Boston Herald on the employment needs of recent immigrants.

Professor Phil Hart, director of the Trotter Institute, was interviewed for May 19 article in the Lansing State Journal on Michigan State University’s pioneering role in recruiting black athletes.

Bill Overton, research assistant in the Trotter Institute, and his book The Media: Shaping the Image of a People were featured in the “Focus” section of the Boston Sunday Globe on April 7.

Public Safety Officer John Quinn was featured in the Melrose Free Press for his heroic actions in helping senior citizens evacuate an apartment fire on April 12

Wichian Rojanawon, senior program developer at the Gerontology Institute, was featured in the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine on April 12 for his adult education classes on cooking.

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