Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

Randy Albelda, director of the Public Policy Ph.D. Program and professor of economics, was a featured speaker and discussed “Women, Work, and Wages” at the YWCA Boston Public Forum Series.

Yung-Ping Chen, holder of the Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar’s Chair in Gerontology, made presentations titled “Social Security Improvements for Women, Seniors, and Working Americans” and “Broken and Unsustainable: The Cost Crisis of Long-Term Care for Baby Boomers” at congressional hearings in April.

Elizabeth Dunn, outreach counselor for Project REACH, completed the New England Educational Opportunity Association’s yearlong Leadership Institute. She was part of a presentation by the 2001 institute participants focused on dimensions of leadership.

In March, Avery Faigenbaum, assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education, presented a series of lectures on strength and power development for young athletes at Sacred Heart University in Puerto Rico.

Irving Gershenberg, professor emeritus of economics, delivered the paper “The Managerial Imperative In Transition Economies: Poland” at the 2002 International Applied Business Research Conference held in Mexico on March 15.

Alberto Giordano of the Department of Earth and Geographic Sciences presented a paper titled “A Narrative of a Massachusetts Waterfront. Or, The Case for (Multimedia) GIS in Historical Geography” and chaired the session on “Multimedia and GIS” at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, held in Los Angeles from March 19 through 23.

Joel Grossman, coordinator of the Health Promotion Program of University Health Services, presented a seminar, “Here and Now: The Joys of Mindfulness and Common Sense,” on March 13 at Brandeis University.

Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was a featured speaker at the YMCA of Greater Boston’s public forum on women’s economic empowerment. Hardy-Fanta discussed the economic and social contributions of women’s unpaid work.

Stephanie Hartwell and James Willis, assistant professors in the Department of Sociology, both had reviews published in the March 2002 edition of Contemporary Sociology.

Professor Peter Kiang, professor in the Graduate College of Education and director of the Asian American Studies Program, delivered the keynote address, “Trauma and Healing in Asian American Studies: Connecting Southeast Asian Refugees and Asian American Vietnam Veterans,” for Wesleyan University’s Asian Awareness Month in April.

In April, Assistant Professor of English Lovalerie King spoke at a panel on George Moses Horton’s Animal Poems at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Mari E. Koerner of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction presented the symposium “What Makes a ‘Good’ Student Teaching Placement? Learning Lessons from a Multi-year/Multi-site Set of Research Studies” at the American Educational Research Association, held April 2 through 5.

Liliana Mickle was the keynote speaker at the Alliance for Young Families “Young Families Moving Forward Awards” held on May 8.

Professor Siamak Movahedi of the Sociology Department presented a paper on dreams at the 22nd annual spring meeting of the American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis, held in New York City on April 12.

Susan Opotow, associate professor in the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution, presented the Fifth Annual Uriel Foa Memorial Lecture, “The Psychology of Injustice,” at Temple University on April 5.

Alexia Pollack, assistant professor of biology, presented a seminar, “Pharmacology of Sensitization in a Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease” for the Neuroscience and Behavior Program at the UMass Amherst on April 11.

Professor Marc Prou of the Africana Studies Department presented “How is the Haitian American Community Faring in the US Educational System?” at the National Conference of NCHR  held in Miami on April 12 through 14.

Jennifer Radden of the Philosophy Department appeared at the Boston University Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science: Between Philosophy and Psychiatry speaking on “Persecutory Paranoid Delusion: A Philosophical Evaluation of Subjectivity and Propositional Content.”

Rachel Rubin of the American Studies Program was an invited speaker at the “Langston Hughes and His World: A Centennial Celebration” conference, which was held at Yale University. Her paper, “The Darker Brother and the Cracker Boy: Langston Hughes and Don West,” was part of a panel discussion on Hughes and radical politics.

Nina Silverstein, associate professor of gerontology, presented “Maximizing Safety for Persons with Dementia: Strategies to Prevent Wandering and Getting Lost” at a meeting of the American Society on Aging held on April 5 in Denver.

Publications

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, assistant professor in the Graduate College of Education, published “Latino Child Sexual Abuse Survivors in the United States: Relational Assessment and Intervention” in Revista Psykhe.

Lilia I. Bartolome published the chapter “Creating an Equal Playing Field: Teachers as Advocates, Cultural Border Crossers, and Cultural Brokers” in Z. F. Beykont’s The Power of Culture: Teaching Across Language Differences.

Jacqueline Fawcett, professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, recently published “The Nurse Theorists: 21st Century Updates – Madeline W. Leininger” in Nursing Science Quarterly.

Elizabeth Fay, associate professor of English, has published Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal with St. Martin’s Press.

Jody Hall of the Curriculum and Instruction Department in the Graduate College of Education published “From Susan Isaacs to Lillian Weber and Deborah Meier: A Progressive Legacy in England and the United States” in Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders During the Progressive Era, edited by Alan Sadovnik and Susan Semel.

Fire Logic, a novel by lecturer in English Laurie Marks, was published recently by Tor Books.

Sherry Penney, professor of leadership in the College of Management, published an article with a colleague, John Erickson, in the March/April issue of Trusteeship entitled “An Accreditation Team Tightens Up.”

Nina Silverstein of the Gerontology Institute and Terri Salmons Tobin, an almuna of the Gerontology Ph.D. Program, co-wrote Dementia and Wandering Behavior: Concern for the Lost Elder, which was recently published by Springer Publishing Co.

Shirley Tang of American Studies and Asian American Studies completed Community Development as Public Health/Public Health as Community Development: A Report on HIV/AIDS Needs Assessment in Lowell, MA, published by the Massachusetts Asian AIDS Prevention Project.

Exhibits, Readings, Performances

Jon Mitchell of the Music Department was the guest conductor of the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra in Houghton, Michigan, on April 27 and 28.

The Communication and Theatre Arts Division’s mainstage production The Poor House, by Professor Emeritus Louis E. Roberts, directed by Professor Diane Almeida, opened on April 26 at UMass Boston.

Appointments and Honors

Rockhurst University, Kansas City, presented English Professor Robert Crossley with the 2002 St. Thomas More Academy of Scholars Award in recognition of his career-long scholarly research. Crossley received his B.A. in English and Classics from Rockhurst in 1967.

Professor William Hagar of the Biology Department has been selected as a Fulbright scholar. He will spend spring semester of 2003 in New Brunswick, Canada, studying acid rain and environmental decay.

Professor Philip Hart, director of the Trotter Institute, will be a guest of the Lindbergh Family on May 21 at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum on the 75th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis.

Peter Ittig, associate professor of management science and information systems, has been appointed a feature editor at Decision Line, a publication of the Decision Science Institute.

Adaline Mirabal, director of the Urban Scholars Program, completed her tenure as president of the New England Educational Opportunity Association. She presented Joan Becker, associate vice provost for academic support services, with the President’s Award on April 9.

Theresa Mortimer, vice provost for academic support services, was awarded the Walter S. Bittner Citation for Outstanding Service at the University Continuing Education Association’s Annual Conference in Toronto on April 19.

Laurel E. Radwin, assistant professor in the Department of Adult and Gerontological Nursing, has been appointed as a reviewer for Research in Nursing & Health.

Lloyd Schwartz of the English Department was invited by Harvard University’s Signet Society to be “the Poet” at its annual awards dinner to honor Andre Bishop, founder of the Playwright’s Horizon in New York, on April 27.

Gary Siperstein, director of the Center for Social Development and Education, was recently elected vice-president of the Division of Research for the Council of Exceptional Children. In 2003, Siperstein will assume the presidency.

John Warner, professor of chemistry, was elected “Distinguished Chemist of the Year” by the New England Institute of Chemists (NEIC). NEIC is an organization devoted to increasing the appreciation and awareness of chemistry teachers. The award was presented to Warner on April 25 at Boston College.

Grants and Research

The Center for Social Policy was recently awarded a highly competitive grant of $35,000 from the Boston Foundation through its New Economy Initiative which focuses on nonprofit capacity building.

The Center for Social Policy was also awarded a $20,000 grant from the Gund Foundation to fund a summer program at UMass Boston that will build connections between the “Give Us Your Poor Documentary” film project led by John McGah and faculty in the Graduate College of Education.

The Department of Hispanic Studies, in partnership with the Boston Public Schools and the Spanish Resource Center at UMass Boston, has been awarded a grant of $30,000 by the Massachusetts Department of Education to develop a content institute to assist secondary teachers of Spanish in developing teaching materials.

In the News

Peter Janson of the Music Department was featured in the Taunton Daily Gazette on March 21 in a review of his latest recording, Sometimes From Here.

Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor on Jane Swift’s dropping out of the Governor’s race on March 21. She was also interviewed that week on Radio Business 1060 and quoted in the Springfield Union News.

The English Department’s Askold Melnyczuk, who will take over as director of the university’s Creative Writing Program in Septemberr, was the subject of a Boston Globe story on April 14 celebrating his work in creating and editing the international literary journal Agni.

John Warner and the Green Chemistry Program at UMass Boston were featured in the April 22 issue of Chemical & Engineering News.

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