Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

Praytush Bharati, assistant professor of management science and information systems at the College of Management, presented "Critique of the 'Digital World' Myth: An Empirical Investigation" at the Third Critical Management Studies International Conference, held in Lancaster, England. His work was also included in the conference's proceedings.

Ann Blum, assistant professor of the Hispanic Studies Department/Latin American Studies Program, presented the paper "Cleaning for the Revolutionary Household: Public Welfare and Domestic Servants, Mexico City, 1900-1935" at the XI Meeting of Mexican, United States, and Canadian Historians of Mexico, held in October.

On September 25, Françoise Carré, research director of the Center for Social Policy, participated in a workplace-quality advisory panel at the U.S. General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C. Carré also introduced her study of alternative job brokering at a panel session featuring workforce development experts, held at the UMass President's office on October 28.

At the Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Elderly, held in Beijing, Professor Yung-Ping Chen delivered the speech "Retirement Income Security." Chen also was one of the keynote speakers at the plenary session "Different Approaches to Reforming Social Security."

In October, Professor Reyes Coll-Tellechea of the Hispanic Studies Department presented the paper "Todas Las Mujeres de Lázaro de Tormes" at the XIII International Conference of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica.

On October 7, Donna Haig Friedman, director of the Center for Social Policy, presented on the prevention of family homelessness at "A Symposium for Community Change" organized by the United Way of Mass Bay.

Ramon Borges Mendez of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy and Miren Uriarte of the Gastón Institute presented "Tales of Latinos in Three Small Cities: Latino Settlement and Incorporation in Lawrence and Holyoke, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island" at the Color Lines Conference: "Segregation and Integration in America's Present and Future," held at Harvard University.

Kathleen Golden McAndrew, executive director of University Health Services and associate adjunct professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, served as faculty during the Massachusetts State Police's Two-Week Drug Evaluation Classification Program Training.

Askold Melnyczuk, professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program, participated in a forum on editing for the Paris Review, which will appear in their 50th anniversary issue this fall.

Marc Prou, assistant professor of Africana Studies, organized and presided over the 15th Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association, held in October at Florida International University. Over 150 scholars and practitioners attended the three-day conference, where Prou also presented the paper "The Bernard Reform: Repairing the Tapestry of Haitian Education."

Professor Jennifer Radden of the Philosophy Department presented "Treatment Refusals" at the McLean Hospital Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education Grand Rounds on September 25.

Laurel Radwin, assistant professor in the Department of Nursing, presented "Talking Quality: Patients' Perspectives on Patient-Centered Care" at the Lahey Clinic on October 9.

Margaret Rhodes, associate professor of philosophy at the College of Public and Community Service, gave the talk "Social Justice: Swimming Against the Current" as the plenary speaker at a conference on ethics, sponsored by the National Association of Social Work in Massachusetts.

Professor Lorna Rivera of the College of Public and Community Service presented the workshop "Women's Literacy Power and Women-Centered Materials" at the 2003 Massachusetts Coalition for Adult Basic Education conference, held on October 22.

Marta Sierra, assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, delivered the paper "De Caníbales, Piratas y Polígrafas: Escritura, Obscenidad y Mutilación en Alejandra Pizarnik" at the XIII Conference of the International Association of Female Hispanic Literature. She also read the paper "Mundo Grúa: Las Paradojas del Cuerpo y la Máquina en la Sociedad Argentina de los Años Noventa," at the "Democracy in Latin America 30 Years After Chile's 9/11" conference.

On September 24, Mitchell Silver of the Department of Philosophy gave the lecture "The Uses of Ethical Theory in the Context of Dental Practice" to first-year students at Tufts School of Dentistry.

Nina Silverstein, professor of gerontology, presented "Improving Hospital Care for Patients with Dementia" at the 2003 Boston Alzheimer's Symposium, held at Babson College on October 24.

In September, Professor Esther Torrego of the Hispanic Studies Department gave the keynote address "Tense, Gerunds, and the Noun, Verb, Adjective Distinction" at the Western Conference on Linguistics, held at the University of Arizona.

On October 8, Miren Uriarte of the Mauricio Gastón Institute presented "The Growing Diversity of the Latino Population and its Implications for Service Delivery" at Mass General Hospital's Latino Heritage Celebration.

Professor Eben Weitzman of Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution and the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy presented the paper "Advancing the Scientific Basis of Qualitative Research" at the Workshop on the Scientific Foundations of Qualitative Research at the National Science Foundation, held in Arlington, VA.

In November, Professor Garrison Wilkes of the Biology Department was an invited speaker for the Conference on Biotechnology Crops in Centres of Origin, which was held in Mexico City. 

Publications

A coauthored article by James Bierstaker, assistant professor of economics and finance, "The Impact of the Adoption of a Business Risk Audit Approach on Internal Control Documentation and Testing Practices: A Longitudinal Investigation," will be published in International Auditing Journal.

The article "Cleaning for the Revolutionary Household: Public Welfare and Domestic Servants, Mexico City, 1900 - 1935" by Ann Blum, assistant professor of the Hispanic Studies Department/Latin American Studies Program, will appear in the Journal of Women's History.

Professor Reyes Coll-Tellechea of the Hispanic Studies Department published four articles in the Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature and the article "El Español en el Mundo" in Contextos Multiculturales: Journal of Pedagogic Research and Shared Teaching Experiences in Multicultural Contexts.

An article by Professor Alexander DesForges of the Modern Languages Department, "Building Shanghai, One Page at a Time: The Aesthetics of Installment Fiction at the Turn of the Century," was published in the Journal of Asian Studies.

Avery Faigenbaum, associate professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education, recently published the review "Youth Resistance Training" for the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Bill Hagar, associate professor of biology, published the article "Supermarket Proteases" in the October issue of The Science Teacher.
Professor Janet Kenney of the Theatre and Dance Department contributed an essay to the Perishable Theatre's 11th Annual Women's Playwriting Festival Anthology.

Donaldo Macedo, professor of Applied Linguistics, with colleagues Panayota Gounari and Bessie Dendrinos from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, co-authored The Hegemony of English, published by Paradigm Publishers.  The Hegemony of English exposes how the neoliberal ideology of globalization promotes dominating language policies. 

A paper by Professor Seth Minkoff of the Hispanic Studies Department, "Syntax and Epistemology in Guatemalan Children's Spanish: The Case of Non-Consciousness and Non-Coreference," will be published in Language Acquisition.

Lizabeth Roemer, associate professor of psychology, coauthored "Masculinity and Emotionality: An Investigation of Men's Primary and Secondary Emotional Responding" with clinical graduate students Matthew T. Tull and Kristalyn Salters and recent graduates Kim Gratz and Matthew Jakupcak, which will be published in the journal Sex Roles. Roemer and Tull also co-wrote "Alternative Explanations of Emotional Numbing in PTSD: The Role of Hyperarousal and Experential Avoidance" for the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavorial Assessment.

James Willis, assistant professor of sociology, coauthored the paper "Reforming to Preserve: Compstat and Strategic Problem Solving in American Policing," which was published recently in Criminology and Public Policy.

Exhibits, Readings, Performances, Shows

Professor Neil Casey of the Theatre and Dance Department is now appearing in When Pigs Fly at the Lyric Stage.

On October 2, Lloyd Schwartz, Frederick S. Troy Professor of English, gave a reading of his poems as keynote speaker for the 38th annual Conference on English in the Two-Year College. Schwartz also gave a poetry reading for PEN New England at the Hotel Marlowe on October 22.

Appointments and Honors

Connie S. Chan has been appointed interim dean of the College of Public and Community Service. Chan has served as co-director of the UMass Boston Institute for Asian American Studies since 1993.

J. Shoshanna Ehrlich of the College of Public and Community Service and Carol Hardy-Fanta of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy received the "Best Paper Award" for their paper "Grounded in the Reality of Their Lives" from the Women and Politics Section at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Professor Phyllis Freeman of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy was appointed co-editor of the Journal of Public Health Policy.

Professor Ana Madison of the Human Service Department has been elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Keith Motley, vice chancellor for student affairs, received the American Red Cross Clara Barton Honor Award for Meritorious Volunteer Service on October 21 for his significant contribution to the American Red Cross.

Professor Diane Paul of the Political Science Department and Ph.D. Program in Public Policy was appointed to serve as a member of the Ethical, Legal, and Scientific Implications of Human Genetics 1 Study Section for the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health for a three-year term ending June 2006.

Grants and Research

Paul Atwood of American Studies and the Joiner Center will lead a program of lectures/discussions in spring 2004 on "America in the 1960s" from a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.

Tatjana Meschede, public policy Ph.D. candidate, received a $25,000 doctoral dissertation research grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Miren Uriarte recently received funding from Oxfam America to collaborate with the Group for the Comprehensive Development of the Capital in La Habana, Cuba, in an evaluation of the 20 community transformation workshops in the City of Havana.

Miscellaneous

Consuela Greene and Michelle Kahan of the Center for Social Policy completed their report "Strong Families, Strong Communities: A Report on the Family Circle Report," documenting how residents in Dudley view their community.

In September, Brian Sokol and Michelle Hayes of the Center for Social Policy completed a paper on data integration and homeless information management systems for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Give Us Your Poor: Homelessness & the U.S., a public awareness and action project of the Center for Social Policy, held a benefit outdoor concert event at the Joshua Tree in Davis Square, Somerville, September 20.

In the News

Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor of public policy, was interviewed on Massachusetts unemployment rates for an October 18 article in the Boston Herald.

Tess Ewing, labor extension coordinator at the CPCS Labor Resource Center, was interviewed by Barry Nolan of CN8's Nightbeat on September 15 for a program on overtime and the Bush administration's attempts to change current overtime regulations.

Avery Faigenbaum, associate professor of exercise science and physical education, was quoted in the October 16 Boston Globe on the importance of preparing children for the rigors of sports with youth conditioning.

In September, Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, was interviewed on WHYN Newstalk 560's "Reporters Roundtable" on the New England Women's Political Summit and provided commentary for New England Cable News's News Night.

Esther Kingston-Mann, professor of history, was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor on October 14 on her philosophy of teaching students to think critically.

Kyle McInnis was featured in a major national and international video news release created by the American Heart Association (AHA) touting his study on walking for overweight people.

Sherry Penney, professor of leadership, and fellows from the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) were interviewed on WHDH-TV's "Urban Update" on October 12.

Stephen Silliman, assistant professor of anthropology, was quoted in New London, Connecticut's The Day regarding his collaborative archaeological field project with the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation.

Mayor Menino praised the Center for Social Policy's evaluation of the Technology Goes Home project in his weekly column on the web. The report was written by Michelle Kahan, Consuela Greene, and Jennifer Raymond.

The activities and forum discussions at UMass Boston's The New Majority Conference were featured in the Boston Globe on October 19.

A report prepared by the Urban Harbors Institute plotting the percentage of protected land along the Weir River Estuary was the focus of a Patriot Ledger story on October 10.

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