Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

Professor Ana Aparicio of the Anthropology Department delivered the paper "Redefining the Nation Through Diaspora: Rooting and Routing Dominican American Politics" at the Social Science Research Council Roundtable held in the Dominican Republic.

Ann Blum, assistant professor of the Hispanic Studies Department/Latin American Studies Program, presented the paper "Medicine and Motherhood:  Infant Feeding in Mexican Public Welfare, 1898 --1910" at the 76th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Lawrence Blum, professor of philosophy, gave the keynote lecture "How to Talk, and Not to Talk, About Racism," at the annual meeting of the Institute on Pedagogy, held at Montclair State University in April.

Connie Chan, professor at CPCS and codirector of the Institute for Asian American Studies, presented the keynote address at the Partners in Transportation Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration, held at the State Transportation Building on May 7.

John Ciccarelli, assistant to the chancellor for economic development, and Richard Delaney, director of the Urban Harbors Institute, developed a presentation on UMass Boston's role in the Boston Harbor cleanup and environmental research as part of a Engines of Economic Growth Study presentation on April 30 to the Massachusetts Legislature.

Members of the Center for Survey Research made presentations at the 58th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, held in Nashville in May: Mary Ellen Colten, Douglas Currivan, Floyd Fowler, Patricia Gallagher, Matthew Jans, Anthony Roman, and Timothy Stablein.

Douglas Currivan of the Center of Survey Research presented "Improving Our Understanding of Respondent Orientations Toward RDD Surveys" at the International Field Directors and Technologies Conference, held in Nashville in May.

Jay R. Dee, assistant professor in the Graduate College of Education, and Cheryl J. Daly, doctoral student in the higher education administration program, presented "Greener Pastures: Faculty Turnover Intent in Urban Public Universities" at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

In March, several faculty members of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Karen Dick, Laurel Radwin, Martha Griffin, and Joanne Dalton, presented posters to the Eastern Research Society.

The College of Nursing and Health Sciences's Jacqueline Fawcett, professor, and Diana Newman, associate professor, presented the paper "The Roy Adaptation Model: Identification and Categorization of Programs of Research" at the Fourth Conference of the Roy Adaptation Association held in Maine. Fawcett also presented with Cynthia Aber, associate professor, "Integrating Teaching, Practice, and Research in an Undergraduate Maternity Nursing Course."

Dale H. Freeman, assistant archivist in the UMass Archives, presented the lecture "Melancholy Catastrophe of 1801: The Story of Jason Fairbanks and Elizabeth Fales" at the Medway Historical Society on April 15.

In early May, Professor Phyllis Freeman of the College of Public and Community Service participated in the global gathering of authors for the "Disease Control Priorities Project" in Rio, Brazil.

Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy, presented "Parenting in Public" at a statewide conference on child homelessness, held at Clark University on May 8.

Harlyn Halvorson, ECOS adjunct professor and director of the Policy Center for Marine Biosciences and Technology, presented the keynote lecture "The Contributions of Marine Biotechnology to Scientific Research" for the "A Meeting of Minds: A Select German/American Scientific Exchange in Stem Cell, Antibiotic Resistance, and Food Safety Research" conference held at the Massachusetts Institute Technology.

Joan Garity of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences presented the paper "Alzheimer Family Caregivers Coping After Nursing Home Placement" at the 11th annual meeting of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.

Mari Koerner from the Graduate College of Education was the discussant for the panel "Teacher Retention: Factors in Shaping a Professional Life" at the American Educational Research Association, held in Chicago in April.

Arthur MacEwan, professor of economics, was the keynote speaker at the "Expanding Access: The Future of Development Education" conference held at Bristol Community College on June 6. Carol DeSouza, ADA Compliance Officer, Human Resources, was a panelist and strategist at the conference.

Under the direction of Professor Margaret Musmon, dance students Ruth Shiman-Hackett and Michael Grealey presented their work at the Ninth Annual Massachusetts Undergraduate Conference, held in Boston on April 25. Theatre Department students Rocky Graziano, Amanda Kelly, Elissa Jordan, and Marta Johnson also made presentations at the conference.

Dorothy Nelson, lecturer in the English Department, presented the paper "Writing the Unknown: Critical Research Writing for Undergraduates" at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York.

Mary Oleskiewicz, assistant professor of music, presented her paper about the recently rediscovered flute concerto of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach to the biennial Bach Colloquium, held at Harvard University on May 3 through 4.

Sherry Penney, professor of leadership at the College of Management, spoke on the "Evolving Nature of the Board of Directors" as a lead speaker at the New England Meeting of the National Association of Corporate Directors on June 10.

Gautam Premnath, assistant professor of English, spoke on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh at a conference on Transnational Identities in Literature hosted by the North Carolina Center for South Asian Studies in Durham, North Carolina.

Laurel Radwin, assistant professor of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, presented "Talking Quality -- Patients" Perspectives and Patient-Centered Care" at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Nursing Research Grand Rounds on April 10.

Jennifer Raymond and Consuela Greene of the Center for Social Policy (CSP) were the presenters at the "Cultivating Hope, Harvesting Action: A Regional Conference on Rural Poverty and Social Change" conference, sponsored by the Franklin Community Action Corporation on May 7. Raymond also presented with CSP colleague Michelle Hayes at a conference on homelessness held in Los Angeles.

Professor Lorna Rivera of the College of Public and Community Service was the chair of a panel session on 'school Transitions: Perceptions of School Sorting and Pathways to College" at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference.

Five members of the English Department participated in the April symposium on Literature, Communications, and Democracy held at the University of Massachusetts Lowell: Professor Taylor Stoehr, Assistant Professor Caroline Brown, Assistant Professor Gautam Premnath, Poet in Residence Joyce Peseroff, and Lecturer Carol Center.

Professor Michael E. Stone, of CPCS, the Public Policy Ph.D. Program, and the McCormack Institute, has presented two invited lectures as part of his Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy and has completed a major research paper, 'shelter Poverty: A Realistic Housing Affordability Standard for the U.K.," as part of his Fellowship project.

Professor Lauren Sullivan of the Anthropology Department presented the paper "The Middle Preclassic to Late Preclassic Transition at Colha: Excavations at the Main Plaza" at the Society for American Archaeology 68th Annual Meeting.

Recent ECOS doctoral graduate Ruey Jing Tang and Professor Emeritus J.J. Cooney presented the paper "Tributylin-Sensitive and Resistant Biofilm-Forming Bacteria Isolated from Boston Harbor, MA" at the Society of Industrial Microbiology annual meeting in Philadelphia.

In April, Shirley Tang, assistant professor of Asian American Studies and American Studies, presented the paper "The Role of the Buddhist Temple in Cambodian American Community Development in Lynn, Massachusetts" at the New England American Studies Association annual meeting. She was also an invited keynote speaker to commemorate Asian Awareness Month at Wellesley College.

David Terkla of the Economics and Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Departments, and David Levy of the Marketing and Management Department, presented the lecture "The Renewable Energy Industry in New England, with a focus on Massachusetts: Current Status and Future Prospects" for the New England Study Group.

Professor Alan Waters of the Anthropology Department presented the paper "The Convergence of Rasta and Reggae" at the conference on Contemporary Currents in Carribbean Religion, held at the Harvard Divinity School on April 12.

In March, Lin Zhan, associate professor of family and community nursing, gave the presentations "Improving Health of Elderly Asian Americans" and "Coping after 9-11: Conceptual Analysis of Barriers That Older Asian Americans Experience" at Tufts University.

Publications

The Center for Survey Research's Lois Biener and Alison Albers published the article "Young Adults: Vulnerable New Targets of Tobacco Marketing" in the American Journal of Public Health.

Pratyush Bharati, assistant professor at the College of Management, published the chapter "Assimilation of Internet Based Technologies in Small and Medium Sized Manufacturers" with a colleague in the book Managing E-Commerce and M-Commerce Computing Technologies.

College of Management's James Bierstaker published the paper "Recent Changes in Internal Auditors" Use of Technology," co-written with Priscilla Burnaby and Susan Haas, in Internal Auditing.

Connie Chan, professor at CPCS and co-director of the Institute for Asian American Studies, published the chapter "Psychological Issues of Asian Americans" in the book Teaching Gender and Multicultural Awareness: Resources for the Psychology Classroom, which was published by the American Psychological Association.

Ying-Ping Chen, the Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar and chair of the Gerontology Department, was a participant in The Pfizer Journal's issue on "How Families Matter in Health. Challenges of the Evolving 21st Century Family."

Jay R. Dee, assistant professor in the Graduate College of Education, published the article 'structural Antecedents and Psychological Correlates of Teacher Empowerment" in May's Journal of Educational Administration.

The College of Nursing and Health Science's Jacqueline Fawcett, professor, and Cynthia Aber, associate professor, published their article "Teaching, Practice, and Research: An Integrative Approach Benefiting Students and Faculty" in the Journal of Professional Nursing.

Floyd Fowler of the Center for Survey Research co-authored the article "Why Is Prostate Cancer Screening So Common When the Evidence is So Uncertain? A System without Negative Feedback" in American Journal of Medicine.

An abridged version of Taking History to Heart, a UMass Press book written by Professor James Green of the College of Public and Community Service, has been translated in Japanese and will be published in Tokyo this fall.

Stephanie Hartwell, associate professor of sociology, published the article "Deviance Over the Life Course: The Case of Homeless Substance Abusers" in Substance Use and Misuse.

An essay by Lovalerie King, assistant professor of English, reviewing Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone appears in the CLA Journal.

Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution professors David Matz and Susan Opotow, and graduate students Mette Kreutzmann and Gretchen Wagner coauthored "Consensus-Finding Processes in Society and Genetically Modified Organisms," as a background paper for the April Regional Policy Dialogue on Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Food Security in Southern Africa.

Sathasivam Mathiyalakan of the Management Sciences and Information Systems Department published the article "An Investigation of Changes in Attitude over Time of GDSS Groups under Unanimity and Majority Decision Rules" in European Journal of Operations Research.

The article "Hints for Wives" by Sherry H. Penney, holder of the Sherry H. Penney Endowed Professorship of Leadership, and coauthor Jim Livingston will be published in the summer issue of the Journal of Women's History.

The College of Nursing and Health Sciences's Laurel Radwin and Jacqueline Fawcett published "A Conceptual Model Based Program of Nursing Research: Retrospective and Prospective Applications" in Research Activities.

Karlene Schwartz of the Biology Department published the article "Foiling the Spread of Invasive Aquatic Plants in Squam Lakes, New Hampshire" in Conservation Perspectives. She also published "Tropical Nature Preservation," a review of the book Making Parks Work, in Bio Science.

An edition and commentary on the fifteenth-century poetic romance Sir Gowther has been published by Professor of English Mary Shaner as part of the new book Medieval Literature for Children, published by Routledge Press.

Lin Zhan, associate professor of community and family nursing, published "Alzheimer's Care Giving: Perspectives from Chinese American Family Caregivers" in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing.

Exhibits, Readings, Performances, Shows

On June 6 and 7, Uptown Players and the James Bradford Ames Fellowship Program presented a staged reading of Patience of Nantucket, written by Professor Robert Johnson, Jr., and directed by Jim Nettles at African Meeting House on Nantucket.

Music professor Mary Oleskiewicz presented the first modern performance of Johann Joachim Quantz's long-lost flute quartets, together with works of Emanuel and Friedemann Bach at the Boston Early Music Festival, on June 12 at the 1st and 2nd Church in Boston.

In June, Professor Laura Schrader of the Theatre and Dance Department directed A Streetcar Named Desire at The Footlight club in Jamaica Plain and reprised her directorial role of "Interview" at the National Community Theatre Festival held in Connecticut.

Appointments and Honors

Lisa M. Abdallah, coordinator of the Nursing Learning Resource Center in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, was the recipient of the Best Student Poster Presentation Award at the Massachusetts Gerontological Society's spring meeting held on May 13.

Brennan Adams, Robert Calden, Maria Khallouf, Christopher Logue, Walter Martinez, Rita Sebastian, Natasha Borisov, Minh Loung, and Shpetim Gashi were named Knapp Scholars for 2003 by the Political Science Department.

College of Management's James Bierstaker has been named associate editor of The Auditor's Report, beginning in September 2003.

Karen Dick, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, has been selected as a fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She also received the Pearl Rosendahl Award for "Excellence in Nursing Education" from Theta Alpha Chapter of Sigma Theta Thau, the international nursing honor society.

ECOS professor emeritus Joseph Cooney has been appointed to a third five-year term as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology.

James Green, professor at the College of Public and Community Service, has been awarded a short-term fellowship at the Newberry Library in Chicago to support his research for a new book on the Haymarket affair of 1886.

Jack Myers "70 , who earned a degree in English literature at UMass Boston, was named the poet laureate of Texas for 2003.

Margaret McCallister of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences was reelected to the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Kevin B. Murphy, research analyst with the Office of Institutional Research and Policy Studies and Public Policy Ph.D. candidate, has been selected as a fellow at the Data Policy Institute to study National Center for Educational Statistics and National Science Foundation educational databases.

Diana Newman, associate professor of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, was reelected as secretary to the Nursing Education Alumni Association at the Teachers College Columbia for 2003--2005.

The English Department's undergraduate student Darrell Penta and graduate students Lisa Kim and Kevin Morrisette shared first prize in the Academy of American Poets Award, judged by former poet laureate Robert Pinsky.

Jessica Smith, a graduating senior with a concentration in Latin American Studies, was awarded the Susan S. Schneider Memorial Prize on April 22. The prize was established in honor of a former faculty member who was a member of the History Department and long-time director of the Latin American Studies Program.

Harmony Sneddon, an undergraduate English major and WUMB special projects coordinator, earned the Marcia Keach Award, a poetry prize for graduating seniors.

Robert Weiner, professor in the Political Science Department, has been reappointed as a center associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University for a new three-year term from July 2003 through June 2006.

Lecturer in English Rebecca Warner, whose recent poems have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Minnesote Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Puerto del Sol, has been awarded the Stadler Fellowship in creative writing at Bucknell University.

The Distance Learning Video Production Center, a unit within the Instructional Technology Center and the Division of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education, recently won the national "Award of Excellence" for video production in the 2003 Videographer Awards Competition for its work on the production "First Tuesday."

Grants and Research

Professor Kamal Bawa of the Biology Department has been awarded a $30,000 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to hold a workshop on Research Priorities in Tropical Biology in Aberdeen, Scotland. This is Bawa's third grant from NSF and fifth from external sources in less than a year.

Esther Kingston-Mann of the History and American Studies Department, and Rajini Srikanth of the English Department received a Ford Foundation "Opportunity Grant" to foster and codirect the projected creation of a New England Center for Inclusive Teaching (NECIT). NECIT fellows Caroline Brown of the English Department and Jay Dee of the Graduate College of Education will prepare a campus needs assessment that focuses on issues of inclusive teaching, learning, and curriculum change.

Tatjana Meschede, Ph.D. candidate in public policy, received the Craig Bollinger Research Grant for doctoral students, sponsored by the Graduate Student Assembly.

Jennifer Raymond of the Public Policy Ph.D. program has been awarded a scholarship to participate in the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences workshop in July, "Accessibility in Space & Time: A GIS Approach,"held in Columbus, Ohio.

Professor Lorna Rivera of the College of Public and Community Service was awarded a $50,000 postdoctoral research fellowship from the National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation. She will be working on her book about the multiplier effects of adult literacy education for low-income women of color.

Shirley Tang, assistant professor of Asian American Studies and American Studies, has been awarded $4,500 by the Institute for Asian American Studies to conduct an interdisciplinary study on community cultural development.

Miscellaneous

The Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership played a significant role in helping Fuji Film USA Inc. decide to expand its facility at Hanscom Air Force Base. Governor Romney applauded this deal in a recent speech before Boston's Greater Chamber of Commerce.

The Clinical Psychology Program received a record number of applicants this year for their Ph.D. program and accepted a highly competitive and diverse entering class of graduate students.

In the News

Jane Adams, professor of psychology, was quoted in the April 27 Boston Sunday Globe on the number of babies born with birth defects to women who use the drug Accutane to treat acne.

Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor of public policy, was quoted in the Boston Globe on April 24 and April 26 on proposed spending cuts and jobless rates in Massachusetts.

Lou DiNatale, senior fellow at the McCormack Institute and director of the UMass Poll, was interviewed on WBUR-FM regarding the governor's budget plan and proposed reorganization of state government on April 30.

Kyle McInnis of the College of Nursing and Health Science is quoted in the June issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, on walking for activity and health.

On April 27, Stephanie Hartwell, associate professor of sociology and director of the graduate forensic services program, was quoted in the Boston Sunday Globe on the popularity of computer forensics courses.

A client of the Small Business Development Center, Red Galoshes, was featured in the Boston Business Journal on April. Margaret Somer was quoted in the piece, talking about the SBDC's work with the three-year-old e-commerce company.

Richard Yarde, distinguished African-American painter and former member of the Art Department, was featured on WGBH's Greater Boston Arts program on May 14. The segment includes commentary by Carol Scollans, a part-time faculty member in the department.

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