Campus Notes
University
Reporter 
College
of Nursing and Health Sciences Researcher
Examines Costs of Home-Based Alzheimer’s Care
Executive
Forum Brings Distinguished Business Leaders to UMass Boston
Provost
Finalists Selected for On-Campus Interviews
Campus
Enhancements Foster Sense of Community and Appeal
UMass
Boston Alumnus Competes at the Olympic Winter Games
Geographic
Information Technologies Professor and Students Provide Consulting to
Local Businesses
Flexible
and Dynamic: University Debuts New Home Page
Chancellor
Discusses University Plans with Dorchester Civic Associations
Best
Practices: “Stop Outs” Are Invited Back to Complete Their Studies
Winch’s
New Book Celebrates A Gentleman of Color
Honoring
Women’s History Month at UMass Boston
Administrators
Head Back to the Classroom
Campus
Notes
Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures
On January 29, Professor Paul Atwood of the William Joiner Center and the American Studies Program spoke at the Martin Institute at Stonehill College on “The Role of the Press in Advancing or Suppressing Our Understanding of the Current Crisis.”
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, assistant professor in the Graduate College of Education, presented “Listening to Latino Insured Patients in Massachusetts: Developing a Model of Barriers to Health Care Access and Quality” at the Hispanic Health Services Research Conference, held in Houston in February.
Ellen Bruce, associate director of the Gerontology Institute, was selected as one of 200 delegates to the 2002 National Summit on Retirement Savings, held from February 27 through March 1 in Washington, D.C.
Rich Delaney, director of the Urban Harbors Institute, attended a meeting of the Second Summit Preparatory Committee at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in January to assess ocean and coastal issues and develop recommendations for the upcoming 2002 United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development.
Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was the featured speaker at the January 25 meeting of Governor’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Issues. She spoke about the policy agenda and recommendations from the Mass Action for Women Audit.
Professor Philip Hart, director of the Trotter Institute, gave the keynote address at the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus Black History Month Luncheon on Tuesday, February 5. Hart was given proclamations by Governor Swift, Senate President Tom Birmingham, Speaker of the House Tom Finneran, State Auditor Joe DeNucci, and the Mass Black Legislative Caucus.
Professor Robert Hayden of the General Center presented a slide talk on William Monroe Trotter, “The National Civil Rights Activist from Sawyer Avenue,” at the Dorchester Historical Society on February 24.
In January, Nina Greenwald of the Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking led a workshop on the application of step-wise critical and creative thinking strategies to authentic case material for social service coordinators, forensic biologists, and chemists from the State Crime Lab.
Jacqueline Fawcett, professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, presented an invited lecture, “Using Nursing Conceptual Models and Theories to Guide Evidence-Based Nursing Practice,” at Hampton University School of Nursing on January 29.
Esther Kingston-Mann, history and American studies professor, gave the keynote address at the Rhode Island College Conference “Bridging Gaps: Toward a Multi-Voiced Academy” on January 15. Her topic was “Diversity and Academic Standards: Allies Rather than Adversaries.”
Mari Koerner of the Graduate College of Education co-presented “Mentoring Associate Deans for Success in a Diverse Social Context” and “Who Is the College of Education Dean Now and Who Should be in the Future?” at the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education meeting in February, held in New York City.
Kathleen Golden McAndrew, associate professor of nursing, was a guest speaker for the North of Boston Association of Occupational Health Nurses on March 12, discussing “Update on Substance Abuse in the Workplace: GHB, LSD, Special K, and More.”
Edith Shillue, director of the Directions for Student Potential Program, read from her forthcoming book Peace Comes Dropping Slow: Conversations in Northern Ireland at the Arlington Center for the Arts on February 28.
Assistant professor Ying Tan of the Biology Department was an invited speaker at the January Gordon Research Conference in Molecular Evolution held in Ventura, California. She presented research results entitled “Molecular Evolution of Color Vision in Primates.”
Publications
Community Partnerships, edited by Elsa Auerbach, associate professor of English and specialist in family literacy, has been published by the TESOL Press.
Sara Baron of the Instructional Technology Center and Healey Library has co-authored the article “Communicating with and Empowering International Students with a Library Skills Set,” which is published in the current issue of Reference Services Review.
The article “The Effects of Interference and Knowledge on Auditor’s Recall of Internal Control Strengths and Weaknesses” by James Bierstaker, College of Management associate professor of accounting and finance, will be published in a forthcoming issue of Managerial Auditing Journal.
MaryAnn Byrnes, assistant professor of the Graduate College of Education, was the academic editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views of Controversial Issues in Special Education, which was published in January by Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.
Professor John Conlon of the Communication and Theater Arts Department published, “Postmodern Shaw. A Review of Jean Reynold’s Pygmalion’s Wordplay,” about a new book on George Bernard Shaw, in ELT.
Avery Faigenbaum, assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education, published “Effects of Different Resistance Training Protocols on Upper Body Strength and Endurance Development in Children” in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
In March the Liberty Fund will republish Nathaniel Culverwell’s An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, edited by Robert Greene of the English Department and Hugh MacCallum. Originally published by the University of Toronto Press in 1971, this edition will be republished with a new foreword by Greene in one of the first two volumes of a projected sixty-volume series, Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics.
Jacqueline Haslett of the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education co-wrote “Measures That Were Taken for the Distribution of Physical Education and Sports Equipment During the Time of American Occupation,” a series of essays which were published in the Research Journal of Physical Education of Chukyo University.
Marc Prou, assistant professor in the Africana Studies Department, published “El Significado de la Muerte in el Vodú Haitiano” (The Significance of Death in Haitian Voodoo Rituals) in the most recent issue of Del Caribe.
Assistant professor Ying Tan of the Biology Department published “Opsin Gene and Photopigment Polymorphism in a Prosimiam Primate” in the January 2002 issue of Vision Research.
John Tobin, professor of English, contributed an essay “Texture as Well as Structure” to the new volume In The Company of Shakespeare, just published by Fairleigh Dickinson Press. The same volume contains “Shakespeare’s Dramatic Chambers,” by Vincent Petronella, professor emeritus of English.
Professor Lloyd Schwartz of the English Department wrote the foreword for Rare and Commonplace Flowers, a biography of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota De Macedo Soares by Carmen Oliviera. He also wrote the article “I Could Write a Book: Popular Song Lyrics of the 20th Century,” which is published in Parnassus.
Gerontology’s Nina Silverstein, associate professor, and doctoral students Lona Choi and Jay Bulot published “Older Learners on Campus” in Gerontology & Geriatrics Education.
Exhibits, Readings, Performances
Paintings by Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, visiting lecturer in the Art Department, are exhibited at Hartwick College in New York and as a part of two group exhibitions, “The Abstract Mind” at New England College in Henniker, NH, and “Works on Paper” at The Armory in New York City, throughout the months of March and April.
Elizabeth Marran, assistant professor of art, had two exhibits of her work featured: “Process on Paper,” at the OHT Gallery in Boston from January 4 through 26 and “Digital City” at the New England School of Art and Design from February 15 through March 13.
A documentary film for which Music Professor David Patterson scored the music, One Tough Biscotti, was shown by the Independent Feature Project in New York City.
Mary Oleskiewicz, assistant professor of music, traveled to Japan in January as a guest of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Her sponsor was Keio University, where she presented research and appeared as a specialist in the music of J.S. Bach during a symposium held by the Musicological Society of Japan.
Appointments and Honors
Ann Blum, assistant professor in the Hispanic Studies Department, has been awarded the 2001-2002 Endowed Faculty Career Development Fund Prize for her research on intersections of family and state in modern Mexico.
Jacqueline Fawcett, professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, received an adjunct appointment as the Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Nursing at the Hampton University School of Nursing for the spring semester 2002
Emily McDermott has been appointed interim dean of graduate studies, a position previously held by Ismael Ramírez-Soto. Ramírez-Soto continues to serve as dean of the College of Public and Community Service. The Provost’s Office will engage in a search for a dean of graduate studies.
Angeline Lopes has been appointed assistant dean for student development. An alumnus of UMass Boston with a master of arts degree, Lopes previously served as assistant dean for student services at Framingham State College.
College of Management Dean Philip Quaglieri presented the CM Dean’s Award for Distinguished Research to Accounting and Finance Chair Arindam Bandopadhyaya and Management Science and Information Systems Chair Jean-Pierre Kuilboer.
Sherry Rhyno, director of marketing for the enrollment marketing area, received a merit award for the UMass Boston Open House television spot for best single spot tv ad for a university or college at the 17th Annual Admissions Advertising Awards.
Edith Shillue, director of the Directions for Student Potential Program, has been nominated for inclusion in Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses for her essays “Easter,” published in The Massachusetts Review, and “The Fountain,” published in The New England Journal of Public Policy.
Grants and Research
Enrico A. Marcelli, assistant professor of economics, received a grant for $30,000 from the University of California’s California Program on Access to Care for his project “Health Insurance and Health Care Access among Undocumented Mexican and Other Latino Immigrants and their Children in California, 1994-2000.”
Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, received a UMass Boston Public Service Grant in the amount of $4,000 for the “Women’s Information Resources Online” project. This project will provide online access to the Center’s searchable database of information on issues of concern to women.
The Environmental Business and Technology Center, located in the College of Management, has received a $180,000 contract from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust Fund for a sponsored economic study, Massachusetts Renewable Energy Sector Economic Analysis and Business Development Needs Assessment. The team includes
David Levy, associate professor in the Department of Management, and David Terkla, professor of economics.
Marc Prou, director of the Center for African, Caribbean, and Community Development, received a three-year renewable contract within a larger CDC-Center for Community Health, Education, and Research - funded project to evaluate the process and outcomes in the implementation of the Leadership Capacity Building Project in the Haitian-American community of Massachusetts.
Professor Dan Simovici and Ph.D. students Dana Cristofor and Laurentiu Cristofor of the Computer Science Department received an award from the French Association for Artificial Intelligence for the best paper presented at the Extraction et Gestion des Connaisances 2002 Conference, held in Montpellier, France, in January.
Marriage
Candyce McCarthy, administrative assistant at the McCormack Institute, and Barry Carragher were married on Saturday, January 5, in Cohasset. They left the next day for a three-week wedding trip to India.
In the News
Alan Clayton-Matthews, public policy professor, was one of three local economists interviewed for the Winter 2002 issue of Commonwealth: Politics, Ideas and Civic Life in Massachusetts, offering recession forecasts for the state and nation.
The Malaysian newspaper The Star covered the work by Gerald Garrett, sociology professor, on therapeutic community drug rehabilitation programs of prisons and non-governmental organizations conducted during a recent two-week stay in Malaysia.