Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

The College of Public and Community Services' Luis Aponte-Pares, Joan Arches, and Suzanne Allmendinger presented the workshop "Do You Believe in Marriage: Can Campus, Community, and Corporate Partners Live Happily Ever After?" at the New England Regional Campus Compact Conference.

In March, philosophy professor Lawrence Blum delivered a paper "What Do Accounts of Racism Do?," at a conference held at Baruch College (CUNY) and gave the keynote lecture, "How to Talk, and Not to Talk, About Racism," at the Spring Conference of the Middle Atlantic States Philosophy of Education Society, held at Columbia University.

Milton Butts Jr., of the Sociology Department, presented "The Desire to Be Treated Fairly: An Ethnographic Account of Incarcerated Youth" at the Eastern Sociological Society Conference, held in Philadelphia.

Mary Jo Connelly, research associate at the Labor Resource Center, spoke on "Building a Broad-Based Movement" at the People's Roundtable for a Fair and Healthy Vermont Economy, held on March 1 in the Vermont State House.

In February, Jay R. Dee, assistant professor in the Graduate College of Education, presented two papers at the annual meeting of the Eastern Educational Research Association: "Conflict Management and Departmental Leadership: New Strategies for Chairs," and "Organizational Commitment among Urban University Faculty" with Cheryl J. Daly, doctoral student in the higher education administration program.

Alex Des Forges, assistant professor of the Department of Modern Languages, served as discussant at the Gender Studies Workshop held at Harvard University on February 28.

Diane Dujon, director of experiential learning at CPCS's The Competency Connection, spoke on a panel about activism around work and family issues at the annual symposium for the Council on Contemporary Families, held at Fordham University in April.

Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy, presented a colloquium at the University of London's Goldsmith College on March 18.

Dwight Giles Jr., professor of Higher Education Administration and senior associate of NERCHE, was a keynote speaker at the Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, held at the University of Southern Mississippi on February 21.

Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was a guest speaker at the Annual Crispus Attucks Day Celebration at Faneuil Hall on March 5. Her topic was "Democracy without Representation Is Not Democracy: Equal Rights for Women and Communities of Color in Boston."

Peter Kiang, professor of education and director of the Intercollegiate Asian American Studies Program, delivered two invited keynote addresses in March: "Pedagogies of Life and Death: Teaching, Learning, and Transformation with Immigrant/Refugee Students" for the Connecticut State Department of Education and "Balancing Contexts and Commitments When Elephants Fight and Lions Become Historians" for the 34th Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies.

In March, Marie Kennedy, associate dean of the College of Public and Community Service and professor of community planning, gave a slidelecture "Brazil: Dancing to a Different Samba," at Salem State College. She was also a speaker and discussant at the Ford Foundatio--sponsored conference, "Alternative Models of Community-Based Planning and Development," which was held in Rochester, New York.

Nelson P. Lande of the Philosophy Department presented the paper "Trotsky's Brilliant Flame and Broken Reed" at the Fifth Biannual Radical Philosophy Conference, held at Brown University.

On February 26, Chantal Lefebvre and Steve Bliven of the Urban Harbors Institute (UHI) facilitated a public focus group addressing the issue of the boundary of the state Coastal Management Program in New Jersey. This meeting is part of UHI's on-going, comprehensive evaluation of the New Jersey program.
Professor Donaldo Macedo of Applied Linguistics was the keynote speaker at the National Council of Teachers of English Midwinter Conference and the International Colloquium of Educational and Curriculum Policies. He also has given invited lectures at the Claremont Graduate School and California State University.

Enrico Marcelli, assistant professor of economics and public policy, will present the paper, "Immigrant Voting in Home-Country Elections: Potential Consequences of Extending the Franchise to Expatriate Mexicans" at the University of California Berkeley and "Immigrant Integration and Border Policing in the United States and the New Europe: Lessons from Research on Unauthorized Mexicans in California" at the US Embassy in Brussels.

Kathleen Golden McAndrew of University Health Services and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences gave a presentation to faculty at the New Hampshire and Massachusetts Annual Drug Evaluation and Classification Program (DECP), held in New Hampshire.

Professor Siamak Movahedi and Miriam Riss of the Sociology Department presented the paper "Social Psychological Correlates of Demand for Violent Action in Light of the September 11 Tragedy" at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, held in Philadelphia.

Students and researchers from the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research and the Department of Anthropology presented preliminary interdisciplinary analysis on the Sylvester Manor site in a symposium at the Society for Historical Archaeology conference, including Professor Stephen A. Mrozowski, Eric L. Proebsting, Katherine Lee Priddy, Anne P. Hancock, Katherine Howlett, Dennis Piechota, Sarah R. Sportman, and Heather Trigg.

Music professor David Patterson presented a paper on his experience teaching a music course for umassonline at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the College Music Society at Bowdoin College.

Gautam Premnath, assistant professor of English, read the paper "A Right to Be There: Amitav Ghosh's Argument with Nationalism" at the South Asia Forum, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 13.

Rachel Rubin of the American Studies Program gave a lecture, "Country Music's Gone to Town: Urbanization, Class Consciousness, and Country Music," at the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown University in March.

In February, Lloyd Schwartz, creative writing program co-director, participated in a series of anti-war poetry readings and was guest reader in a new-music concert reading six poems by Elizabeth Bishop at Harvard University.

On March 13, Nina M. Silverstein, associate professor of gerontology, with gerontology graduate students May Jawad, Jenai Murtha, and Donna Sullivan, and Gerontology certificate alumna Sue Gnospelius, presented their research "What Gerontology Alumni Do: 21 Years of Advocating, Volunteering, Employment, Education and Caregiving" at the National Councils on Aging/American Society on Aging Joint Conference in Chicago.

In February, Miren Uriarte of the College of Public and Community Service presented her work "Cuban Social Policies at a Crossroads" at CUNY's Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University, both in New York City. She also led a panel on Latino Access to Higher Education at The New England Latino Leadership Conference held at Brown University on February 25.

John Warner, chair of the Chemistry Department, participated in the First Annual Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry in Tokyo on March 16, where he gave the keynote address, "Green Chemistry and Science Education for Everyone," and three UMass Boston students Jennifer Raudys, Michele Turner, and Amy Cannon, gave presentations.

Meng Zhou, associate professor in the Department of Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences, and Yiwu Zhu, research associate, were invited to the Norwegian College of Fisher Sciences at the University of Tromso to advise graduate students and participate in the annual meeting of BASECOEX (Barents Sea Capelin and Herring Coexistence or Exclusion).

Publications

James Bierstaker of the Accounting and Finance Department published the article "Auditor Recall and Evaluation of Internal Control Information: Does Task-Specific Knowledge Mitigate Part-List Interference?" in Managerial Auditing Journal.

Lawrence Blum, professor of philosophy, published "The Holocaust in American Life as a Moral Text" in the collection Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust and contributed an entry on "Personal Relationships" in Blackwell's Companion to Applied Ethics.

Susan Eisenberg, lecturer in the College of Public and Community Service, published the poem "'Parties Must Be Appropriately Dressed'" in Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage. She also published the poems "Heads" and "Double Exposure" in the Spring/Summer issue of Alaska Quarterly Review.

Nan Zhang Hampton, associate professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology, published an article titled "Teaching a Vocational Assessment Course Online: Design and Implementation" in the Journal of Rehabilitation Education.

Jeremy Hatch of the Biology Department contributed the chapter on the arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) for The Birds of North America: Life Histories of the 21st Century.

Robert Johnson Jr.'s book Two Plays of Initiation:"Stop and Frisk" and "The Train Ride" was recently published by London's Nsibidi Africana Publishers. Johnson is chair of the Africana Studies Department.

Andrea Lawless, information specialist in financial aid services, has published a new book of poetry Emotionally Naked, which is available from www.1stbooks.com. The examines living with depression.
Chomsky on MisEducation, a book edited by Donaldo Macedo of Applied Linguistics in collaboration with Noam Chomsky, was translated and published by Editorial Critica in Barcelona, Spain. A Greek translation of this same book was also published by Kastaniotis Publishers, Athens, Greece.

Kyle McInnis and Avery Faigenbaum, associate professors in the Exercise Science and Physical Education Department, co-authored two chapters in the widely used textbook Health Fitness Instructor's Handbook.
A CD by music professor Mary Oleskiewicz, "Joseph Joachim Quantz Flute Sonatas," was recently published and released by NAXOS.

An article featuring Sherry Penney of the Center for Collaborative Leadership speaking on inclusive leadership appears in the March issue of the Mary Baker Eddy Library magazine.

Michelle Eva Portman, a graduate student studying environmental policy in the Public Policy Ph.D. program at UMass Boston, has written and illustrated a new book, Compost, By Gosh! , that has been published by Flower Press.

The College of Nursing and Health Science's Laurel E. Radwin, assistant professor, and Kristine Alster, associate professor, along with Krista Rubin, published "Development and Testing of the Oncology Patients' Perceptions of the Quality of Nursing Care Scale" in the March issue of Oncology Nursing Forum.

Professor Lorna Rivera of the College of Public and Community Service published the article "Analyzing Public Policy: Bilingual Education Reform" in The Change Agent: Adult Education for Social Justice.

Exhibits, Readings, Performances, Shows

Under the direction of Professor Margaret Musmon, five UMass Boston dance minors will be presenting four dance pieces at the Eastern Regional American College Dance Festival at Plymouth State College in March.

Appointments and Honors

Albert P. Cardarelli, senior fellow at the McCormack Institute of Public Affairs, was recently appointed by the Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety to serve on a state-wide task force to examine racial and gender disparities in traffic stops by law enforcement officials throughout the state.

Francoise Carre has been appointed research director for the Center for Social Policy. Carre earned her doctorate in urban studies and planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was the research director at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.

Jacqueline Fawcett, professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, was appointed as an associate at the Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership and as an associate clinical scientist at the Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Teresa Jardon, associate director of financial aid services, was recently awarded the College Board Student Loan Fellowship. The award was presented at The College Board New England Regional Meeting.

Judy Keyes has been appointed the new director of Financial Aid Services. Prior to joining the staff at UMass Boston, Ms. Keyes was the director of Financial Aid at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

Margaret McAllister, lecturer in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, has been appointed to the editorial review board of the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the Medscape Topics in Advanced Practice Nursing eJournal.

Thomas O'Grady, professor of English and director of Irish Studies, has been named editor of the Bulletin of the Eire Society of Boston, published by an organization founded in 1937 to promote study of the arts, sciences, literature, language, culture, and history of Ireland and Irish America.

James Willis, assistant professor of sociology, received the Sussman Award from Yale University's Sociology Department for the best dissertation submitted to the university in the last few years.

A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten by Julie Winch, professor of history, has received "honorable mention" in biography by the Assocatioon of American Publishers's "Outstanding Professional and Scholarly Titles of 2002."

Grants and Research

Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, is a co-principal investigator on a research study that has received a $550,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. The project, "Gender and Multicultural Leadership: The Future of Governance," will include a national survey of elected officials.

Erika Kates, research director for the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, received a $4,600 UMass Public Service Grant to support women's participation in the upcoming New England Women's Political Summit, scheduled for October 26 through 27 at the John F. Kennedy Library.

David Landon, a senior scientist in the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, and Stephen Mrozowski, the Center's director and associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, received a $193,713 grant from the National Science Foundation to support a three-year summer research experience for undergraduates, "Archaeobiology at Sylvester Manor." They also received $21,852 from the Trust for Public Lands for an archaeological survey in Grafton, Massachusetts, which will search for sites of 17th-century "Praying Indian" communities.

Stephen Silliman, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, received a Joseph P. Healey Endowment Grant for his upcoming research project on the Eastern Pequot Reservation in Connecticut. The project will be conducted in part through an archaeological field school involving UMass Boston students and Eastern Pequot tribal interns.

Dissertations

Lisa M. Abdallah, a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, presented a defense of her dissertation "Evercare Nurse Practitioner Practice Activities: Similarities and Differences Across Five Sites."

Margaret Hart, a Ph.D. candidate in Gerontology, presented a defense of her dissertation "Factors Predicting the Types of Assistance Used for Specific Activities of Daily Living by Community Dwelling Elderly," on April 3.

Obituary

Matthew J. Picket, a 1993 graduate of the College of Management, died in the nightclub fire in Rhode Island on February 20.

Correction

In the April University Reporter, Albania should have been identified as a Balkan state, not Baltic state. The Reporter regrets the error.

In the News

Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was quoted in news articles in the Patriot Ledger and the Springfield Union News and appeared on New England Cable News's Firing Line on March 7.

Richard Horsley, distinguished professor of liberal arts and the study of religion, traveled to Morocco in March to film interviews for three different documentary films for the BBC.

Lloyd Schwartz, creative writing co-director, gave a poetry reading and talk on his experiences as a writer in a "Words and Music" interview for WMFO-FM. A review of his book Cairo Traffic appeared in the January 2003 Poetry magazine.

Jennifer Raymond, research associate with the Center for Social Policy, was interviewed on March 7 for a Boston Neighborhood Network show on same-sex marriage legislation and Supreme Court activities.

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