Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

Randy Albelda of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy spoke on "The Cost of Paid Family and Medical Leave Programs in Massachusetts," research she conducted with colleagues Alan Clayton-Matthews and Tiffany Manuel, at an Economics Department Faculty Seminar.

In November, Ana Aparicio, professor of anthropology, presented the paper "Amending the Definition of the Contemporary Immigrant Political Actor: Rooting/Routing Dominican American Organizing in New York" as part of the panel "Becoming New York's ‘New Majority': Latino/a Immigrants in a Global City" at a meeting of the American Studies Association, held in New Orleans.

On December 7, Paul Atwood of the Joiner Center and American Studies Program gave the keynote address "The Looming Misadventure in the Persian Gulf" at the annual awards dinner for the Concerned Citizens for Political Action. He spoke on the need for political activists to think and speak clearly on the consequences of possible war with Iraq.

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, associate professor in the Graduate College of Education, gave the keynote address "Las Terapias Colaborativas Como Prácticas Interculturales y Poscoloniales [Collaborative Therapy as an Intercultural and Postcolonial Practice]" and led a workshop at the Congreso Psicoterapia Familiar y de Pareja: Continuidad y Cambio, held in Puebla, Mexico.

In November, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, associate professor in the Graduate College of Education, and Carole Upshur, currently working at UMass Medical School, presented "How Do Insured Latinos Overcome Barriers to Health Care Access and Quality? Developing a Model Based on Qualitative Findings" at the American Public Health Association 111th Annual Meeting, held in Philadelphia.

Carol Chandler, lecturer in the English Department, presented the keynote address "Community Building 24/7" at the Center for Immigrant and Refugee Leadership and Empowerment Conference.

The College of Nursing and Health Sciences' Jane Cloutterbuck and Lin Zhan presented the paper "Toward Understanding of Dementia Caregiving in African American, Latino, and Chinese families" at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, held in Boston on November 14.

Joanne Dalton, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, presented "Evaluation of a Diabetes Disease Management Home Care Program" at the 7th Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory Conference, held in Atlanta on November 3.

In November, Jay R. Dee, assistant professor in the Department of Leadership in Education, presented the paper "Turnover Intent in an Urban Community College: Strategies for Faculty Retention" at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference, held in Sacramento, CA.

Anthropology professors Amy den Ouden and Tim Sieber were participants at the November meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Den Ouden presented the paper "‘Race,' Reservations, and ‘Recognition': A Genealogy of Racial Discourse on Indianness in Southern New England." Sieber was a discussant for the panel "Debating Europe: Questioning Culture, Place and History in the New Century."

In November, Karen Dick, professor of nursing, presented a poster on her research "An Exploration of Nurse Practitioner Care to Homebound Elders" and the paper "How Elderly Home Care Patients Describe Excellent Nursing Care," coauthored by Dick and colleagues Kristine Alster and Laurel Radwin, at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America held in Boston.

Joan Garity, professor of nursing, presented the paper "Coping with the Burden of Post-Nursing Home Placement of an Alzheimer's Family Member" at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America held in Boston.

Erika Kates, research director for the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, gave a talk to women scholars, students, workers, and activists at the China Women's News in Beijing. She discussed U.S. policies on public assistance with a special focus on Massachusetts politics.

Professor Catherine Lynde of the Economics Department and Public Policy Program presented the panel "Costs of Inadequate Hospital Nursing Staff" at the forum "Nursing Employment Practices and Quality of Care," held at UMass Boston on October 29. The forum was co-sponsored by the Public Policy Ph.D. Program and the Office of Urban Family Health in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

On January 4, Jon Mitchell of the Music Department participated in a New Music Project panel at the Conductors Guild convention in New York City, discussing Jeffrey Jacob's "In Memoriam."

Kevin B. Murphy, research analyst in the Office of Institutional Research and Policy Studies, presented the paper "An Analysis of the Retention of First Time Full Time Freshmen at a Public Urban University" at the North East Association for Institutional Research 29th Annual Conference, held in Annapolis, Maryland.

On December 16, Jennifer Radden of the Philosophy Department gave the 2002 R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture "Choosing to Refuse: Patients' Rights and Psychotropic Medication." The lecture was sponsored by the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law.

In December, Professor Dan Simovici of the Computer Science Department presented a paper at the International Conference on Data Mining, held in Maebashi, Japan, and gave an invited talk at Tohoku University.

Shirley Tang, assistant professor of Asian American Studies and American Studies, gave a paper on "The ‘Other' Third Wave, or ‘Riding Wind, Breaking Waves': Women of Color Activism and Cultural Work" at the annual conference of the National American Studies Association Conference, held in Houston, Texas. She also was the invited speaker for the 23rd anniversary dinner held by the Cambodian Community of Massachusetts.

Deborah Whaley, assistant professor of American studies, delivered the paper "Get Up, Get-Get Get Down, 9/11 Ain't A Joke in Your Town: Patriotism and Contestation in Black Expressive Culture" at the American Studies Association Meeting, held in Houston on November 15.

James Willis, assistant professor of sociology, presented the paper "Compstat and Organizational Change: Challenges and Opportunities" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, held in Chicago.

Lin Zhan, professor of nursing, delivered the keynote address "A New Health Care for the 21st Century" to Chinese hospital and healthcare executives at China's first Healthcare and Hospital Summit, held in Beijing on November 26.
In November, Meng Zhou and Curtis Olsen of the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department gave presentations for the 4th International Symposium on Yellow Sea Environment and Wetland Conservation Strategy, held in Qingdao, China. Olsen presented "Integrating Natural and Social Sciences in Education and Research" and Zhou and student Mingshun Jiang presented "Numerical Modeling of the Circulation and Water Quality in Boston Harbor Related to the Relocation of Sewage Outfall."

Publications

The College of Nursing and Health Sciences' Jane Cloutterbuck and Deborah Mahoney published the article "African American Family Caregivers: The Duality of Respect" in Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice.

Joanne Dalton, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, published the article "Development and Testing of the Theory of Collaborative Decision-Making in Nursing Practice for Triads" in the Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Jacqueline Fawcett, professor of nursing, published two co-authored articles: "Les Sciences Infirmières: Un Structure Épistémologiqu" in Les Soins Infirmiers: Vers de Nouvelles Perspectives and "Effects of Two Types of Social Support and Education on Adaptation on Early Stage Breast Cancer" in Research in Nursing and Health.

Joan Garity, professor of nursing, co-authored "The Impact of an Advisory Board on a Parish Nurse Program," which was published in the Journal of Nursing Administration.

Peter Kiang, professor of education and director of the Asian American Studies program, published "Transnational Linkages in Asian American Studies as Sources and Strategies for Teaching and Curriculum Change" in the book The Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequality, Resilience, and Success.

Cheryl Nixon, assistant professor of English, published "‘Stop a Moment at this Preface': The Gendered Paratexts of Fielding, Barker, and Haywood" in the current issue of Journal of Narrative Theory.

Thomas O'Grady, professor of English, has an essay entitled "Exile" in the fall 2002 issue of Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. He also has four poems included in the new anthology Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada and his poem "Artery" included in The Agni 30th Anniversary Anthology.

Susan Opotow, associate professor in the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution of the College of Public and Community Service, published the chapter "Psychology of Impunity and Injustice: Implications for Social Reconciliation" in the book Post-Conflict Justice in the International and Comparative Criminal Law Services.

William Robinson, associate provost and professor of the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department, and doctoral student Timothy Ward co-authored "Apparent Toxicity Resulting from the Sequestering of Nutrient Trace Metals during Standard Selenastrum capicornutum Toxicity Tests" in Aquatic Toxicology.

Lloyd Schwartz, the Frederik S. Troy Professor of English, has a 39-word sestina coming out in Carl Phillip's issue of Ploughshares.

Anthropology Professor Stephen Silliman recently had two articles published: "Agency, Practical Politics, and the Archaeology of Culture Contact" in Journal of Social Archaeology and "Theoretical Perspectives on Labor and Colonialism: Reconsidering the California Missions" in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Victoria Weston, assistant professor of art, co-edited Copy the Master and Stealing His Secrets: Talent and Training in Japanese Painting, which was published by the University of Hawaii Press. Weston was the author and co-author of two chapters.

Lin Zhan, professor of nursing, published an edited book, Asian Americans: Vulnerable Populations, Model Interventions, and Clarifying Agendas, on December 11 with Jones and Bartlett Publishers. UMass Boston authors of the book include Peter Kiang of the Graduate College of Education and Asian American Studies Program, Shirley Tang of the American Studies Program, Karen Suyemoto of the Psychology Department, Nanzhang Hampton of the Graduate College of Education, and CPCS's Andrew Leong and Connie Chan.

Exhibits, Readings, Performances

CPCS lecturer Kelly Matthews gave a short story reading on October 24 at Chester College in Chester, New Hampshire, where she also served as writer-in-residence during the week of November 11.

Appointments and Honors

Arthur Goldsmith, professor of management and marketing, was named a distinguished first-prize winner of the 2002 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize with his co-authors for the research journal Government-Nonprofit Relations in Comparative Perspective.

Barbara Graceffa, assistant director of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy, has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Boston affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Her three-year term begins in January.

Erika Kates was recently appointed research director for the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy. She is a former director of the Welfare Education Training Access Coalition at the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University and her research has focused on low-income women's access to substantive education and training.

Kevin B. Murphy, research analyst in the Office of Institutional Research and Policy Studies, has been elected to a two-year term as a member-at-large of the steering committee of the North East Association for Institutional Research.
Angeline Lopes, formerly assistant dean, has been appointed interim Dean of Student Affairs.

Mark Preble '85 was appointed director of Employee and Labor Relations in the Department of Human Resources. Preble will be working with university management, unions, and employees on employee and labor relations matters. Among his qualifications, Preble has eight year's experience with the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission and teaches labor relations courses as an adjunct at the Massachusetts School of Law.

Jean E. Rhodes, associate professor of psychology, has been elected by her peers as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) for 2003. APA Fellows are selected for their exceptional and outstanding contributions to the research, teaching or practice of psychology.

Patricia Sullivan, graduate student in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, received an award for her case study on Anemia and HIV at the 15th Annual Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Conference, held in San Francisco in November.

Grants and Research

Meng Zhou, associate professor in the Department of Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences, received $206,000 from the National Science Foundation to study topographically induced mesoscale eddies and iron enrichment in the Southern Ocean. She also was awarded $75,000 to study the variability of the ecosystem structure in northern Norwegian coastal regions for the Norwegian Research Council.

The Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department's Meng Zhou and Robert F. Chen received $413,000 from the National Science Foundation to study the dispersion processes and biochemical responses within the Hudson River freshwater plume.

Dissertations

Tatjana Meschede, Ph.D. candidate in the Public Policy Program, defended her dissertation, "Bridges and Barriers to Housing for Homeless Street Dwellers: The Effects of Health and Substance Abuse Services on Housing Attainment," on December 18.

Miscellaneous

Professor John Conlon of the Theater and Arts Department recently served as a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) respondent to Rhode Island College's production of Hamlet.

Askold Melnyczuk, director of the Creative Writing Program, taught at the Bennington Writing Seminars in January.

In the News

Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy, was quoted in a Boston Globe article on December 10 on the growing number of children impacted by the increase in homelessness in Massachusetts.

John McGah, senior research associate at the Center for Social Policy, was referenced in the Belmont Citizen-Herald for his role as facilitator at a forum on homelessness at the Beth El Temple in Belmont. The panel included a clip from the documentary film "Give Us Your Poor."

Reviews by Thomas O'Grady, professor of English, of Bernard MacLaverty's new novel, The Anatomy School, and Billy Collins's new book of poems Nine Horses were recently in The Boston Globe.

Jennifer Raymond, research associate at the Center for Social Policy (CSP), was interviewed by "Girl TV," which airs on Boston Neighborhood Network. Raymond spoke about CSP's work on poverty issues, the One Family Campaign signature drive, and advice to girls and young people interested in pursuing a career in public policy.

Shirley Tang, assistant professor of Asian American Studies and American Studies, was cited in an article in the Lynn Journal on December 11 on the subject of Cambodian American intergenerational dynamics.

Kathy Teehan, vice chancellor for enrollment management, was quoted in a December 3 Boston Herald article on the policy of race-based admissions for college.

Two UMass Boston students, Peter Wal and David Gai, who were refugees from Sudan, were featured in the Boston Sunday Globe on December 1. UMass Boston faculty Susan Bookbinder, Polly Welsh, and Vivian Zamel were also quoted.