Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

Elsa Auerbach, associate professor of English, was a featured presenter at the “Literacy, Language, and Bilingualism” research seminar, held in Edinburgh, Scotland on January 24. While in Scotland, she was also the keynote speaker at the “Launch of the City of Edinburgh's CLAN (City Literacy and Numeracy)” initiative, and gave two speeches for literacy educators, community activists, adult education administrators, and policy makers.

In January, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, associate professor in the Graduate College of Education, presented his research “A Conversation About Collaborative Strategies in the Case of Violence in the Family” for the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Loma Linda University and “Collaborative and Intercultural Therapy in the Case of Trauma and Abuse” at the Family Therapy School at Barcelona's Sant Pau and Crew Hospital in Spain.

Lawrence Blum, professor of philosophy, gave a talk on “Racism and King's Legacy” at the Newton Country Day School on Martin Luther King Day. In February, he presented “Virtue and Race” at the University of Michigan and “Will They Talk? A Race Theorist's Reflections on Teaching a Racially Mixed High School Class on Racism” at New York University.

At the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, Caroline Brown, assistant professor of English, presented her paper “Of Blues and the Erotic: Corregidora as New World Song” at the “Navigating the Black Cultural Legacy” session.

On January 28, Mary Jo Connelly, research associate at the Labor Resource Center, presented to the Massachusetts AFL-CIO's State of the Union conference on “Economic Development Subsidies and Tax Breaks: Why Massachusetts Needs to Enact Disclosure Legislation.”

In January, Richard Delaney, Steve Bliven, and Dan Hellin of the Urban Harbors Institute (UHI) facilitated a series of public focus groups addressing the issue of public access to the waterfront in New Jersey. These meetings are part of UHI's ongoing, comprehensive evaluation of the New Jersey Coastal Management Program.

Professor Jim Green of the Labor Resource Center was the keynote speaker at a conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Salt of the Earth, a film about a Latino miners' strike. The conference was held on February 28 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and included union activists who had starred in the film, Dolores Huerta, Linda Chavez Thompson, and Peter Coyote.

On February 25, Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy, moderated the forum “Confronting the Homeless Crisis: Providing Permanent Housing for Families Who Are Homeless,” sponsored by the Citizens' Housing and Planning Association.

Peter Kiang, professor in the Graduate College of Education and director of the Asian American Studies Program, presented “Building New Faculties for Diverse Communities” at the Association of American Colleges and Universities 89th Annual Meeting, held in Seattle.

Betsy Klimasmith, assistant professor of English, spoke on “Bachelor Rooms, Boarding Houses, and Backyards” at a session on the 150th anniversary of Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association.

Diana Newman of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences represented the National Association of Catholic Nurses at “The World Day of the Sick,” sponsored by the Catholic Health Association, and held in Washington, D.C., on February 10 and 11.

Professor David Patterson of the Performing Arts Department lectured on his recent vocal and orchestral compositions at the University of the Americas in Cholula, Mexico.

Professor Jennifer Radden of the Philosophy Department participated as an invited respondent at the 2003 Tanner Lectures at Princeton University on “Towards Humanism in Psychiatry” in February.

Laurel E. Radwin, assistant professor of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, presented “The Development and Psychometric Testing of the Oncology Patients' Perceptions of the Quality of Nursing Care Scale” at the American Cancer Society/Oncology Nursing Society's 7th National Conference on Cancer Nursing Research, held in San Diego in February. CNHS' Kristine Alster and Krista Rubin are coauthors of the paper.

Primo Vanicelli, associate professor of political science, was invited to speak on the diplomacy panel at the “Overcoming Cultural Barriers in International Negotiation” conference sponsored by Harvard Negotiation Law Review, held on February 28.

Jack Wiggin of the Urban Harbors Institute presented the findings from the institute's study and ongoing work “Green Ports: Environmental Management and Technology at US Ports” at the US EPA-sponsored conference “Emerging Technologies, Tools, and Techniques to Manage Our Coasts in the 21st Century,” held in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on January 29.

As part of the station's 20th-anniversary celebration, WUMB Radio broadcast live from the North American Folk Alliance, held February 6 and 7 in Nashville.

Publications

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, associate professor in the Graduate College of Education, published “Letter Writing in Relational Therapies” in the Journal of Systemic Therapies.

A paper by Praytush Bharati, assistant professor of management science and information systems in the College of Management, “People and Information Matter: Task Support Satisfaction from the Other Side,” was published in the winter volume of The Journal of Computer Information Systems.

Yung-Ping (Bing) Chen, holder of the Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar's Chair in Gerontology, was the guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, which addresses social security reform worldwide. Also, Chen's article, “Funding Long-Term Care: Applications of the Trade-Off Principle in Both Public and Private Sectors,” was published in the Journal of Aging and Health.

Jacqueline Fawcett, professor of nursing, coauthored the articles “Questions Commonly Asked About Research” in Nursing Science Quarterly; “The Roy Adaptation Model: A Program of Nursing Research” in Japanese Journal of Nursing; and “Effects of Two Types of Social Support and Education on Adaptation to Early Stage Breast Cancer” in Research in Nursing and Health.
The College of Nursing and Health Science's Jacqueline Fawcett and Cynthia Aber coauthored the chapter “Pregnancy and Birth,” which was published in the 2003 International Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family.

Professor Robert Johnson Jr.'s book Race, Law, and Public Policy: Cases and Materials on Law and the Public Policy of Race was recently published by Black Classic Press. Johnson is the chair and associate professor of Africana Studies.

Kyle McInnis, associate professor of exercise science and physical education, published his first book Lifestyle Obesity Management, written with coauthors for Blackwell Publishing.

Laurie Milliken, assistant professor of exercise science and physical education, coauthored “Effects of Exercise Training on Bone Remodeling, Insulin-Like Growth Factors, and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women With and Without Hormone Replacement Theory,” which was published in Calcified Tissue International.

Grady Moates, chief engineer at WUMB Radio, published an article, “Tower Light Alarm Circuits,” in the February issue of Broadcast Electronics Radio Magazine.

“Expectant at Seneca Falls,” an article by Sherry Penney of the Center for Collaborative Leadership and coauthor Jim Livingston, appears in the March issue of New York History. The article discusses the experiences of Martha Coffin Wright, one of the five original organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

John Tobin, professor of English, has published an essay on “Sources and Cruces” in the collection In Arden: Editing Shakespeare.

An article by Laurel E. Radwin, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, “Refining the Quality Health Outcomes Model: Differentiating between Client Trait and State Characteristics,” was reviewed in the December 2002 issue of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality's Research Activities.

Nina Silverstein, associate professor of gerontology, coauthored the article “Dementia and Wandering Behaviour in Long-Term Care Facilities,” which is published in Geriatrics and Aging.

Exhibits, Readings, Performances, Shows

Liz Marran of the Art Department will exhibit her prints in a solo exhibition at the OHT Gallery on Thayer Street in Boston in April.

The UMass Boston Theatre production of The Vagina Monologues, which was performed at the McCormack Theatre on February 14 and 15, raised $2,100 for Rosie's Place, a shelter for battered women in Boston.

Appointments and Honors

Carol L. Cardozo, research associate and information specialist with the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, has been selected to serve on a panel of judges for the John F. Kennedy Library's Profile in Courage Essay Contest.
Karen Charles, alumna of the Program for Women in Politics and Public Policy class of '97, received a Wonder Woman award at the January 25th annual conference of the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus for her contributions as a community activist and board member.

Emily Mann of Financial Aid Services is the recipient of the American College Personnels Association's Commission for Professional Preparation 2003 Gerald Saddlemire Master Research Award. The award was based on her paper “Latino College Students' Experiences at a Predominantly White Institution,” which she wrote while she earned her master's degree at the University of Rhode Island.

Enrico Marcelli, assistant professor of economics, accepted a fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health as one of the 18 nationally-selected Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health and Society Scholars. The fellowship begins September 2003.

Kathleen Golden McAndrew, executive director of University Health Services and adjunct associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, was elected vice president of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses. Her term runs until April 2004.

Marc Prou, assistant professor of Africana Studies, received a grant award of $13,500 from the Center for Community Health, Education, and Research (CCHER) to conduct a program evaluation of a Center for Disease Control–funded initiative addressing capacity-building in the Haitian community.

The Distance Learning Video Production Center, a unit within the Instructional Technology Center and the Division of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education, received the national “Award of Distinction” in the Communicator 2002 Video Competition for its work on the production “A Report from Gavin Middle School on Teen Violence.”

Grants and Research

Janet Kenney of the Theatre Arts Department received a $3,000 new play commission from the Emory Theater in Atlanta, GA for her one-act play The Mark of the Lord.

The Center for Social Policy received a $91,000 grant from the law firm of Ellis & Rapacki to carry out a programmatic audit and evaluation of assistance and food nutrition projects in Massachusetts.

The Center for Social Policy released its latest report, “Characteristics of Homeless Individuals Accessing Massachusetts Emergency Shelters 1999–2001,” in February. The center collected the information through its Connection, Service, and Partnership through Technology (CSPTech) Project, which works with approximately 80 homeless service provider agencies and over 250 homeless assistance programs across the state.

Miscellaneous

The McCormack Institute held a one-day forum on public policy development for a delegation of Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) leaders from the Republic of Georgia on February 6. Michael MacPhee of the McCormack Institute moderated the forum and university colleagues Donna Haig-Friedman, Richard Delaney, Darren Kew, Lou DiNatale, and Carol Hardy-Fanta served as panelists.

Obituary

Mary T. O'Brien, professor of nursing, passed away on January 28. Dr. O'Brien joined the university in 1988 as assistant professor of nursing and served as associate dean for four years. She held her baccalaureate and master's degrees in nursing from Boston College and a PhD in Nursing from New York University. She won professional recognition and was respected for her high standards, fine teaching, and fairness.

In the News

Sandy Blanchette, assistant director for the McCormack Institute, and panelists for the National Issues Forum “Racial and Ethnic Tensions: What Should We Do?” event were featured in interviews on WBZ-AM, WBUR-FM, and BET TV on February 12 and 13.

Chris Bobel, assistant professor of women's studies, was the featured guest on the Canadian radio program “First Person, Plural,” where she discussed her book The Paradox of Natural Mothering. It was broadcast on Canada's W CFVU.

Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor of public policy, discussed the economic forecast for Massachusetts on WBUR's “All Things Considered” on January 29 and WBZ-TV's “The John Henning Show” on February 2.

Xiaogang Deng, associate professor of sociology, was interviewed by Radio Free Asia on the death penalty and its impact on crime rates in China on January 9.
Tess Ewing, labor extension coordinator at the Labor Resource Center, recently interviewed College of Public and Community Service alumni Suzanne Allmendinger, director of community outreach, and Charlotte Lumpkins for the weekly program “Women Speak” on Cambridge Community Access Cable. Ewing hosts the program monthly and focuses on issues of women in the workplace.

In January, Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was featured in a television panel on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade on New England Cable News and quoted by the Sun Chronicle on the impact of budget cuts in local aid to cities and towns.

Avery Faigenbaum, associate professor of exercise science and physical education, was interviewed by the Boston Globe for a January 29 article, “Fighting for a Fitter Child,” and in a January 1 article about children's obesity levels for The Mayo News.

Martin Quitt, professor of history, debated in favor of Black reparations on “The Clarence Morris Show” on WBTS (890 AM) on January 11 and on “The Chuck Morse Show” on WROL (950 AM) on January 22.

Sarah Oktay of the Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sciences Department (ECOS) was interviewed by WBUR for their programs “Here and Now” and “Life on Earth” in January and February on work done by ECOS researchers identifying the geochemical fingerprint of the World Trade Center catastrophe in New York Harbor. Their research was also cited in the January 28 New York Times.

On February 1, Lorna Rivera, assistant professor in the College of Public and Community Service, was interviewed for WBZ-TV's program “Centro” on issues related to Hispanics, who now make up the largest minority group in the United States.

Mitchell Silver of the Philosophy Department was a guest on WBCN's “Boston Sunday Review” to discuss the Israeli elections and how a possible war with Iraq might affect the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

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