Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

Randy Albelda of the Public Policy Ph.D. Program and Economics Department addressed the “Globalization, The New Economy, and United States Minorities” conference at the City College of San Francisco held on October 25.

In October, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, associate professor in the Graduate College of Education, presented his paper “Health Care Access: Learning from Latinos and Their Families” at the American Family Therapy Academy Clinical-Research Conference held in Ontario.

Joan Becker, associate vice provost of academic support, served as a panelist for the seminar “Is TRIO…School Reform?” at the Council of Opportunity in Education conference held in Washington, D.C.

James Bierstaker, professor in the Accounting and Finance Department, presented a paper, “An Investigation of Narratives versus Questionnaires for Internal Control Evaluation with Implications for Decision Aid Effectiveness,” at the Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations conference, held on October 18 in Dallas.

Professor Connie Chan of the College of Public and Community Service and the Institute for Asian American Studies was a keynote speaker at the Fifth Annual Fenway Community Health Center’s Research Forum on “Sexual Minority Women of Color” held in Boston on October 4. She presented her research “Sexuality and Identity Among Asian American Women.”

Jacqueline Fawcett, professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, presented her coauthored paper “The Science of Unitary Human Beings: Analysis of Qualitative Research Approaches” at the Society of Rogerian Scholars conference, held in Richmond, VA on October 13.

Susan Haussler, associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, represented Boston-area colleagues in a paper presentation of their joint work, “Successful Collaboration: The Story of a Consortium of Healthcare Agencies and Academic Institutions Educating Preceptors” and did a poster presentation, “Finnish Students’ Evaluation of a Fulbright Professor,” at the National League for Nursing Education Summit 2002.

Deborah Hirsch, director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) in the Graduate College of Education, participated as a fellow at a symposium at the Salzburg Seminar, held in Austria from September 17 to 22. The Universities Project Symposium on Academic Career Patterns brought together senior colleagues from universities in Russia, Europe and North America to focus on challenges facing leaders in higher education.

William Holmes, faculty member of the College of Public and Community Service, will present the paper “Wrongful Conviction and Capital Punishment: The Legacy of Lynching” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in November.

Robert Johnson, Jr., associate professor and chair of the Africana Studies Department, presented the paper “From Lobengula to Louima: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Assaults in Two Centuries” at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association, which was held in Haiti, October 17 to 19. While there, he also led the panel “Reconstructing History: Legal Issue, Policies, and the Employment.”

In October, Professor Pamela Jones of the Art Department delivered the lecture “Seicento Viewers of Caravaggio’s ‘Madonna of Loreto’” at John Cabot University in Rome.

Peter Kiang, professor of education and director of the Asian American Studies Program, presented an invited paper, “Checking Southeast Asian American Realities in Pan-Asian American Agendas,” at the National Roundtable on Emerging Asian American Civil Rights Issues convened by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University in October.

Esther Kingston-Mann, professor of American studies and history, presented her research “The Romance of Privatization: Historical Case Studies from England, Russia, and Keny (with a ‘Chinese’ Variation)” at the Social Science History Association National Conference, held on October 25 in St. Louis.

Mari Koerner of the Graduate College of Education gave an interactive presentation, “Family Diversity: Adoptive Families and Schools,” with colleagues at the National Association of Multicultural Education Conference, which was held in Washington, D.C., from October 30 to November 3.

The paper “An Analysis of the Retention of First Time Freshmen at a Public University” by Kevin Murphy, public policy doctoral candidate and employee with the Office of Institutional Research, has been accepted for presentation at the North East Association for Institutional Research 29th Annual Conference, held in Maryland in November.

Margaret Musmon, dance director for the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and graduate program coordinator for the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education (ESPE), presented “The Role of Assessment in Dance Pedagogy” at the 16th World Congress on Dance Research held in Greece, from October 30 to November 3. The paper was co-authored with Ann Marie Gallo, an ESPE assistant professor.

Susan Opotow, associate professor in the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution, spoke on “Moral Exclusion and Injustice: Implications for Social Reconciliation” at the Muskie Archives at Bates College on October 24.

Marc Pomplun, assistant professor of computer science, coauthored “A Neurally-Inspired Model for Detecting and Localizing Motion Patterns in Image Sequences,” which was accepted as a paper for the 4th Workshop Dynamic Perception conference held at the University of Bochum, Germany.

Marc Prou, assistant professor of Africana studies, was the organizer and co-chair of the Haitian Studies Association’s 14th Annual conference, “Communicating: Images and Realities of Haiti,” of which the African Studies Department was a co-sponsor.

Laurel E. Radwin, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS), presented “The Development and Psychometric Testing of the Oncology Patients’ Perceptions of the Quality of Nursing Care Scale” at the Sigma Theta Tau International State of the Science Meetings, held in Washington, DC. CNHS’ Kristine Alster and Krista Rubin were co-investigators for the study.

On October 17, Patricia Reeve, director of the Labor Resource Center, presented her research “Industrial Disaster, Meaning Making, and Reform in Antebellum Massachusetts” at the 24th Annual North American Labor History Conference held in Michigan.

Professor Lorna Rivera of the College of Public and Community Service was a panelist at the “From Rhetoric to Reality: Education Reform and Language Minority Students” conference, held at Harvard University on October 5.

Liz Roemer, associate professor of psychology, has co-authored several articles which have been accepted for publication, including “Mindfulness: A Promising Intervention Strategy in Need of Further Study” in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice and “Integrating Acceptance and Mindfulness into Existing Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for GAD: A Case Study” in Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

Lois Rudnick, professor of American Studies, presented the paper “Low Modernism in the High Desert: Alice Corbin Henderson’s Red Earth” at the Western Literature Association Conference, held in Tucson, AZ in October.

Lloyd Schwartz, Troy Professor of English and Creative Writing, led the workshop “Reading One’s Own Work Aloud” at George Washington University on October 11.

Publications

Paul Atwood of the American Studies Program and the Joiner Center published a review of “UnFinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent,” a documentary about the influence of “Vietnam Veterans Against the War” on public attitudes in Massachusetts toward the war, in a recent issue of The Public Historian.

Sara Baron, director of the Instructional Technology Center and coordinator of library instruction at Healey Library, co-authored two articles in a special issue of Journal of Library Administration on information literacy: “The Politics of Pedagogy: Expectations and Reality for Information Literacy in Librarianship” and “Leading Information Literacy Programs: Immersion and Beyond.”

The article “Perceptions of Journals Publishing E-Commerce Research” by Pratyush Bharati, assistant professor in the College of Management (CM), was published in Communications of the ACM. The research was funded by a College of Management Faculty Scholarship Award and was co-authored by former CM faculty member Peter Tarasewich.

Ellen Bruce, director of the Gerontology Institute, published the fact sheet “Retirement Options for Massachusetts State Employees: Unfair Choices for Couples – Problems for Women” with the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy.

John Conlon, chair of the Theatre Arts Department, recently published a review of Claire Tylee’s Women, The First World War, and the Dramatic Imagination in the English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920.

Broadview Press has published a critical edition of Felicia Hemans’ 1832 poem The Siege of Valencia, co-edited by Associate Professor of English Elizabeth Fay.
Jacqueline Fawcett, professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, published “The Nurse Theorists: 21st Century Updates – Callista Roy” in Nursing Science Quarterly.

Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, published “Who’s in Charge? Appointments of Latinos to Policymaking Offices and Boards in Massachusetts,” a fact sheet in a series produced by the Mauricio Gastón Institute of Community Development and Public Policy.
Jean Humez, director of the Women’s Studies Program, recently collaborated with Gail Dines of Wheelock College on a second edition of their anthology Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text Reader, which was published by Sage Publications.

“Blind Angel,” an excerpt from a new novel in progress by Askold Melnyczuk, director of the Creative Writing Program, will be published as a chapbook by Pressed Wafer in November.

The essay “Simon Pearce: A Teaching Case,” co-written by Michael Novak of the Department of Management and Marketing, appeared in the October issue of International Business and Economics Research Journal.

The essay “Lonely Londoner: V. S. Naipaul and ‘The God of the City,’” written by Assistant Professor of English Gautam Premnath, appears in Imagined Londons, edited by Pamela Gilbert and published by the State University Press of New York.

Marc Prou, assistant professor of Africana Studies and director of the Creole Institute, has published a new text, Spoken Haitian Creole for Intermediate Learners, with EducaVision, Inc.

Jean Rhodes, assistant professor of psychology, has coauthored two articles: “Natural Mentors in the Lives of African-American Adolescent Mothers: Tracking Relationships Over Time” in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence and “The Influence of Teacher Support on Student Adjustment in the Middle School Years: A Latent Growth Curve Study” in Development and Psychopathology.

Candice Rowe of the English Department has had her essay “Sonoran Desert Blues” accepted for inclusion in the third edition of the Red Rock Reader, a composition text.

Short articles on poetry by Lloyd Schwartz, Troy Professor of English and Creative Writing, are featured on www.tompaine.com. The latest, “Life’s Work: Creativity,” was posted in September.

David Terkla, Professor of Economics, coauthored the book Start-up Factories: High Performance Management, Job Quality, and Regional Advantage, which has just been published by Oxford University Press and the W.E.Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Exhibits, Readings, Performances

In October, Askold Melnyczuk, director of the Creative Writing Program, celebrated his last issue of Agni, the literary journal he edited at Boston University, with a reading featuring Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Lloyd Schwartz, and others.

“A Gift of Peace,” composed by Professor David Patterson of the Music Department, has been featured in concerts by harpist Ruth Hunter on her tour in Pennsylvania.

Lloyd Schwartz, Troy Professor of English and Creative Writing, presented “Recognize That Theme? Classical Music in Contemporary Film Scores” at a panel discussion on film music held at the Boston Public Library on October 16.

Appointments and Honors

Kristine Alster, interim dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, has been elected to serve on the Nominating Committee of the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

Ann Breslauer of the Graduate Program in Applied Sociology received an Extra Mile Award from the Massachusetts Housing and Shelters Alliance in recognition of her volunteer work for the Lifelines HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education Program for the Homeless.

Patricia A. Halon has been appointed director of general medicine for University Health Services. She previously worked as a nurse practitioner and nursing supervisor, and has many years in critical care nursing.

Linda J. Jorgensen has been appointed director of health education and wellness programs for University Health Services. She most recently worked as coordinator for the P.R.I.D.E. Program and has had many years of experience in health education, with a specialty in substance abuse education.

Richard O’Bryant, research associate at the Trotter Institute, is the recipient of a 2002 Rising Scholars Award sponsored by the Kellogg Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good.

The appointments of Philip Quaglieri and Kristine Alster, interim deans of the College of Management and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences respectively, have been extended and they will serve the next two academic years, 2002 - 2003 and 2003 - 2004.

Laura Schrader-Johnson has been appointed as technical director for the Theatre and Dance Department. Her award-winning production of Interview recently won the Regional Community Theatre Festival Competition in New Hampshire.

Grants and Research

Jon Mitchell and Linnea Bardarson, faculty with the Music Department, traveled to the Czech Republic to record two Beethoven piano concertos with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra in October. The trip was partially funded by a UMass Boston Faculty Development Grant.

Marc Prou, assistant professor of the Africana Studies Department and co-director of the Center for African, Caribbean, and Community Development, received a $14,600 grant from the Department of Public Health and Haitian American Public Health Initiatives to continue a collaborative project with three community-based organizations focusing on youth leadership development.

Jennifer Radden, professor of philosophy, has received a three-year publication support grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (National Library of Medicine) for collaborative work with John Sadler of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center on the ethics of psychiatry.

The Trotter Institute received a grant by the Annie Casey Foundation to analyze the impact of lack of affordable housing in Boston on poor African-American/Black families. Regina Rodriguez-Mitchell, interim director, is the principal investigator and Malo André Hutson, senior research associate, is lead investigator.

Rachel Rubin of the American Studies Program received a research grant from the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences to complete a book chapter on the so-called Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.

Miscellaneous

A petition filed at the request of Jan Raymondi of the Biology Department for legislation to allow people raising or training service dogs to have the same rights as an individual with a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act was just signed into law by Acting Governor Jane Swift on October 1.

Lin Zahn, professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, coauthored the book Gerontological Nursing, which will be used in the Department of Education in China as one of the national textbooks.

The Ph.D. in Public Policy was chosen as the “Pick of the Week” by the Moving Ideas Network, www.movingideas.org, which wrote that the program “is on the verge of establishing itself as a national model for doctoral level policy education.”

In the News

An interview with Avery Faigenbaum, associate professor of exercise science and physical education, was featured in the Fall 2002 issue of TeenSpeak addressing teen use of performance enhancers.

Regina Rodriguez-Mitchell, interim director of the Trotter Institute, was quoated in a Boston Herald article on the widening income gap between whites, African-Americans, and Hispanics.

Primo Vannicelli, professor of political science, and Alice Phoenix, student major in international relations, appeared on Left Is Right, which aired on the Framingham-based cable TV on September 21. The segment was devoted to a critical discussion of the situation in Iraq and U.S. foreign policy.

Paul Watanabe, co-director of the Institute for Asian American Studies, was quoted in the Boston Globe on the Asian ‘registration gap’ in an October 16 article.

Excavation work by UMass Boston students and faculty through the Andrew Fisk Memorial Center for Archaeological Studies on a historic Marshfield house was covered in the Patriot Ledger on September 20 and October 7.

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