Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

James Bierstaker of the Accounting and Finance Department presented the coauthored paper "An Investigation of Narratives and Questionnaires for Internal Control Evaluation" at the Auditing Mid-Year Conference held in California on January 18.

Dan Brabander, director of the undergraduate Environmental Studies Program and assistant professor in the ECOS Department, presented "Geochemical Fingerprinting of the World Trade Center Attack in New York Harbor Sediments" at the Fall 2002 American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.

Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, presented an analysis of the status of women in Massachusetts' municipal offices at the luncheon of the Women in Elected Municipal Officials organization, held on January 10.

In January and February, Center for Social Policy staff members Michelle Hayes, John McGah, Brian Sokol, Julia Tripp, and Donna Haig Friedman presented workshops with homeless service funders, providers, and consumers across New England, including New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode Island.

Avery Faigenbaum, associate professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education, gave the keynote address "Youth Fitness: Where Do We Go from Here?" at the Nutrition and Fitness Symposium held at the National University of Ireland Galway in January.

Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy, was invited to read from her book Parenting in Public: Family Shelter and Public Assistance at the annual December meeting of Homes for Families and at a Casa Myrna Vazquez staff workshop in January.

Marie Kennedy, associate dean of the College of Public and Community Service, was the keynote speaker and led a workshop on participatory research at the Cornell University Service Learning/Community Outreach Faculty Development Conference, held on January 17.

CPCS's Marie Kennedy, associate dean, and Lorna Rivera, assistant professor, along with UMass Lowell professor Chris Tilly, facilitated a three-day workshop in participatory planning with the Cuban Union of Writers, Artists, and Cultural Workers held in Cuba.

Sumner Rotman, director of the Center for Technical Education in the Division of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education, presented the paper "An Innovative Vocational-Technical Education Program" at the Association of Career and Technical Educators conference, held in Las Vegas.

In January, Nina Silverstein, associate professor of gerontology, presented her research paper "Why Families and Professionals Should be Concerned about Dementia and Wandering Behavior" at the Boston Alzheimer's Community Partnership. She also presented "Senior Centers and Safe Driving: A Place to Consider for Programs, Counseling, and Information on Vehicle Modifications" at the Transportation Research Board's 82nd Annual Meeting.

Julie Winch, professor of history, was invited to give a paper at the "Forgotten Patriots" seminar organized by the Daughters of the American Revolution, held in Washington, D.C., on January 11. In December, she gave a presentation on James Forten's links with the Peters family of Philadelphia at the Belmont Mansion in Philadelphia. Winch is the author of A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten.

Publications

Dan Brabander, director of the undergraduate Environmental Studies Program and assistant professor in the ECOS Department, coauthored "Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladeshi Aquifers," which was published in Science.

The Environmental, Ocean, and Coastal Sciences Department's Dan Brabander, Sarah Oktay, Curtis Olsen, and Joe Smith have coauthored the paper "Geochemical Fingerprint of the World Trade Center Attack as Recorded in New York Harbor Sediments," which was published in EOS.

Avery Faigenbaum, associate professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education, published the article "One or Two? For Kids, Too, How Often You Train Can Affect Success" in the January issue of www.purepowermag.com.

Jacqueline Fawcett, professor of nursing, published the article "The Nurse Theorists: 21st Century Updates – Martha Rogers" in Nursing Science Quarterly. She also coauthored Women's Health During and After Pregnancy, which was published by Springer Publishing Company.

Carroy U. Ferguson, professor in the College of Public and Community Service, wrote the article "The Conscious Use of ‘The Mirror Effect': Co-Creating a Utopian World," which appears in the forthcoming book Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a Better World.

Stephanie Hartwell, associate professor of sociology, published the article "Short-Term Outcomes for Offenders with Mental Illness Released from Incarceration" in the April 2003 issue of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Donna Haig Friedman, Tatjana Meschede, and Michelle Hayes of the Center for Social Policy have authored the article "Surviving Against the Odds: Families' Journeys Off of Welfare and Out of Homelessness," which will be published in the forthcoming issue of Cityscape.

Peter Kiang, professor in the Graduate College of Education and program director of Asian American Studies, published two chapters: "Pedagogies of PTSD: Circles of Healing with Refugees and Veterans in Asian American Studies," and "Race-Related Stressors and Psychological Trauma: Contributions of Asian American Vietnam Veterans" (co-authored with Chalsa M. Loo), in Asian Americans: Vulnerable Populations, Model Interventions, Clarifying Agendas, a new book edited by Lin Zhan, associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and the Asian American Studies Program.

The solo Baroque flute CD Quantz Flute Sonatas by Mary Oleskiewicz, assistant professor of music, was released in Europe in January 2003 on the Naxos label. The North American release is scheduled for February.

Mark Pawlak, director of Academic Support Programs, has had an essay published detailing his experiences as an editor for more than 20 years of the literary magazine Hanging Loose. The essay appears under the "Editors on Editing" link in the current issue of Gulfstreaming, the on-line literary journal of the Florida International University's Creative Writing Program.

Rachel Rubin, assistant professor of American Studies, has written a chapter, "A Jewish New World in Jacob Glatshteyn's ‘Sheeny Mike,'" for the book Race and the Modernist Artist, which is being published by Oxford University Press.
Professor Lin Zhan of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences published the article "Caring for Elders with Dementia: Chinese American Experience" in the Journal of Macau Nursing.

Appointments and Honors

Claire Golomb, who recently retired from the psychology faculty, is the recipient of the prestigious Arnheim Award from Division 10 (The Psychology of Arts) of the American Psychological Association. She will receive the award and deliver a major address at the 111th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in August of 2003.

Stephanie Hartwell, associate professor of sociology, became an approved candidate for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster, and will be matched with requests from overseas academic institutions for Fulbright Senior Specialists.

Burton Holmes, former director of Enrollment and Continuing Education Marketing, has been named assistant dean of Corporate, Continuing and Distance Education.

Margaret McAllister, associate clinical professor and coordinator of the Family Nursing Practitioner Program, has been selected as a Department of Health and Human Services Primary Health Care Policy Fellow. McAllister is a family nurse practitioner for University Health Services at UMass Boston.

Jemilee Montanez was appointed administrative assistant in the Chancellor's Office. She previously held administrative positions at H.R. Hatch Insurance Agency and Woburn Medical Associates.

Grants and Research

Alexia Pollack, assistant professor of biology, received an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) of $134,542 from the National Institute of Health for her project "Molecular Basis of D1 and D2 Priming."

The Center for Social Policy received two new grant awards in December and January: The center received $45,000 from the Fireman Foundation for program evaluation services and a $16,728 grant from the MA Executive Office of Health and Human Services for an evaluation of a federally funded youth policy initiative.

Miscellaneous

The album "Saving Daylight Time," featuring the poems of TenBroeck Davison '82 and Professor Lloyd Schwartz set to music by Professor David Patterson, has been made available online through the joint effort of Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM), New World Records and New York University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon and Robert Sterling Clark Foundations.

Primo Vanicelli, program director for the International Relations Program, participated in the "Foriegn Languages Careers: Using Your Bilingual Skills in a Professional Setting" session at the Higher Education and Career Forum, held at the College and Career Resource Center of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School on January 29.

Nina Silverstein, associate professor of gerontology, coordinated a two-way interactive videoconference for Council on Aging Directors on January 10. Featured speaker was Kiran Verma, associate professor of accounting and finance, who spoke on "Budgeting and Control." The conference connected about 40 COA directors attending UMass Boston and UMass Dartmouth locations.

The College of Management and the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) hosted a pretest of the uniform exam for Certified Public Accountants, scheduled to transition from its current form as a paper-and-pencil exam to a computerized exam this spring, at UMass Boston on January 16 and January 17 using the new format and structure. More than 50 people from a variety of schools and CPA firms participated in the pretest, the only one scheduled for Boston.

In the News

Julia Tripp of the Center for Social Policy was featured in the November –December 2002 issue of Spare Change News for her activism on behalf of the homeless.

The editorial "A UMass Education," on the growth and future of UMass Boston, appeared in The Boston Globe on January 13.

An article profiling the Women in Politics and Public Policy Program at the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy and quoting Carol Hardy-Fanta, director, appeared in The Patriot Ledger on December 31.

On December 29, Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was quoted in the Boston Herald on Governor Swift's tenure and appeared as a panelist for a WBZ-TV "Year in Review" program. She recently interviewed with Chronicles on Hispanics in Higher Education, Metrowest News, and Milford Daily News.

An article profiling UMass Boston's urban mission and vision for the future was published in The Boston Globe on December 29.

An article profiling Mark D'Agostino '02, honors program alumnus, who was the first at UMass Boston to win a Marshall Scholarship, appeared in The Boston Globe on December 25.