Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

Chris Bobel, assistant professor of women's studies, presented the paper "Our Revolution Has Style: Menstrual Activists ‘Doing Feminism' in the Third Wave" at the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research's Biannual Meeting.

Robert Bowen, professor in the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department, and Harlyn Halvorson, director of the Policy Center for Marine Biosciences and Technology, organized and conducted an international workshop, "Marine Based Public Health Risks," held in Italy.

Yung-Ping Chen, professor of gerontology and Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar in gerontology, delivered a distinguished lecture, "Retirement Security in an Aging Population: A New Challenge" at the North Carolina Conference on Aging.

Peter Kiang, professor of education and director of the Asian American Studies Program, participated as a panelist in the session "Recasting the Color Line: APAs and the Racial Divide" at the Color Lines Conference sponsored by the Harvard Civil Rights Project.

In October, Professor Margaret Pappalardo-Musmon, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre Internationale de la Dance (CID), served on a panel and delivered a presentation at the CID annual conference, held in Greece.

Laurel E. Radwin, assistant professor in the Department of Nursing, presented the poster "Do Cancer Patients' Characteristics Make a Difference in Their Perceptions of the Quality of Patient-Centered Nursing Care?" at the Academy for Health Sciences Research and Health Policy Annual Research Meeting, held in Nashville.

In September, Lorna Rivera, professor in the College of Public and Community Service, was the keynote speaker for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Forum "School Dropouts: Implications for Public Health" and presented the workshop "Resources and Curriculum for Women in Adult Basic Education" at Bristol Community College.

Stephen Silliman, assistant professor of anthropology, presented the paper "Contact or Colonialism? Interpreting Indigenous People in North American Historical Archaeology" at the 5th World Archaeological Congress.

Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi, assistant professor of sociology, presented the papers "Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim: Contested Utopistics of Self and Society in World-Historical Context" at the World History Association Conference and "Neither Idealist, Nor Materialist: The Dialectical Method" at the American Sociological Association conference.

Publications

James Bierstaker, assistant professor of accounting and finance, published his coauthored article "Recent Changes in Internal Auditors' Use of Technology" in the July/August issue of Internal Auditing.

Professor Fiora A. Bassanese of the Department of Modern Languages has published the essay "Gender Stereotyping in Avati's Il testimone dello sposo" for a collection of film studies titled Incontri con il cinema italiano, published by Sciascia Press.

Robert Bowen of the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department coauthored two journal articles with former students: "Socio-Economic Indicators and Integrated Coastal Management," published in Ocean and Coastal Management, and "Bringing Horses to Water: Overcoming Bad Relationships in the Pre-Negotiating Stage of Consensus Building," in Negotiation Journal.

Alice Carter, professor of psychology, coauthored the article "Language Delay in a Community Cohort of Young Children," which was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Spencer DiScala, professor of history, recently published his book Twentieth Century Europe: Politics, Society, and Culture with McGraw-Hill.

A new and expanded second edition of The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World by Claire Golomb, professor emeritus of psychology, has been published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Claire Golomb, professor emeritus of psychology, authored "Sculpture: Representational Development in a Three-Dimensional Medium" in Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education and "Individual Differences and Cultural Diversity in the Art Form of Children Talented in the Visual Arts" in In The Eyes of the Beholder: Cultural and Disciplinary Perspectives on Giftedness.

Professors Marie Kennedy and Lorna Rivera of the College of Public and Community Service published the article "Looking at Participatory Planning in Cuba ... Through an Art Deco Window" in Progressive Planning.

David Matz, professor and director of the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution, published an essay in the Journal of Israel-Palestine Studies.
Songs by David Patterson, professor of music, have been selected to appear in the Recorded Anthology of American Music, published by New World Records and New York University.

Research by Laurel E. Radwin, assistant professor in the Department of Nursing, has been featured in the Boston Oncology Nurses' Society Bulletin.
Karen Suyemoto, assistant professor of psychology and Asian American studies, and Peter Kiang, professor of education and director of the Asian American Studies Program, coauthored "Diversity Research as Service Learning" for Academic Exchange Quarterly.

Rachel Rubin, professor of American studies, published "The Voice of the Cracker: Don West Reinvents the Appalachian" in Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States.

Mitchell Silver of the Department of Philosophy published "Humanism and Idolatry" in a festschrift for Sherwin Wine, A Life of Courage.

Appointments and Honors

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, associate professor in the Graduate College of Education, received a Fulbright Scholar grant to do research at the Universidad Autonomat Barcelona in the spring of 2004. He will study health care access for immigrants in Cataluna and compare these findings with those of Latino immigrants in Massachusetts.

Robert Bowen of the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department recently received an appointment to the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Environmental Agency of the United Kingdom for his international work on developing indicators for human and ocean dynamics at the global level.

Yung-Ping Chen, professor of gerontology and Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar in gerontology, was appointed to the expert panel on "Developing a National Blueprint for the Appropriate Use of Reverse Mortgages to Finance Long-Term Care," a  project of the National Council on the Aging.

Jane Cloutterbuck, associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. She also serves as a member of the association's education committee.

Joseph Cooney, professor Emeritus of the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department, has been reappointed as an adjunct professor at the National University of Ireland in Galway.

Elizabeth Fay, associate professor of English, is a nominee for the Modern Language Association's 2003 Prize for Distinguished Scholarly Editions for her co-edited volume The Siege of Valencia by the Romantic writer Felicia Hemans.

Claire Golomb, professor emerita of the Department of Psychology, was the recipient of the Arnheim Award for major contributions of research in Representational Development from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association.

Diane Paul, professor of political science, was invited to serve as a member of the Ethical, Legal, and Scientific Implications of Human Genetics 1 Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, at the National Institutes of Health for a three-year term ending June 2006.

In October, Vivian Zamel, professor of English and director of the University English as a Second Language program, was honored for her career's research and scholarship in the field by MATSOL (the Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages) at its annual Freedom to Learn dinner.

Grants and Research

Alice Carter, professor of psychology, received a $24,000 grant from the National Association for Autism Research for her research examining mothers experiences parenting young children with autism in order to develop more effective early intervention programs.

Yung-Ping Chen, professor of gerontology and Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar in gerontology, has been awarded a $75,000 grant from AARP to study phased retirement.

Adán Colón-Carmona, professor of biology, was awarded a National Science Foundation grant of $340,000 for three years to support his project researching how plants can be utilized to remove petroleum pollution.

Nina Silverstein, associate professor of gerontology, has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Charles H. Farnsworth Trust to test a method of increasing awareness and encouraging utilization of vehicle modification among elders.

Peter Taylor, professor of critical and creative thinking, has received a National Science Foundation grant for research on "Genes, Gestation, and Life Experiences: A Critical Comparison of Concepts and Methods Used in Analyses of Biosocial Development."

The Asian American Studies Program was awarded $5,500 by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) to lead a campus dialogue project on service learning and ethnic studies in conjunction with the National Dialogue Project of the Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement.

eter Kiang submitted the successful proposal on behalf of a project team that includes Rajini Srikanth of the English Department and Asian Studies Program, Shirley Tang of American Studies and Asian American Studies, and Dwight Giles of the Graduate College of Education.

Dissertations

Jennifer Leigh, Pat Song, Vinai Norasakkunkit, and Matthew Jakupcak of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology successfully defended their master's theses in June, July, and August.

Miscellaneous

Michelle Kahan, Tatjana Meschede, and Consuela Greene of the Center for Social Policy completed their annual evaluation report of "Technology Goes Home," a project that provides low-income families with computer equipment, training, and support.

The Urban Harbors Institute worked alongside the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management as a co-sponsor and organizer of COASTSWEEP, the Massachusetts Annual Statewide Beach cleanup, which celebrated its kick-off on September 20 in Barnstable, MA. Pauline Westhaver of UHI coordinates COASTSWEEP.

Randall Wilson, research consultant for the Center for Social Policy, completed an evaluation of the Massachusetts Youth Department Collaboration project, which seeks to improve youth services at the state and local levels.

The Gerontology Institute was the sponsoring community organization of the New England Family Caregiving Town Hall Meeting, held on September 20 at the John F. Kennedy Library.

Obituary

Wesley N. Tiffney, Jr., first director of the Nantucket Field Station, passed away on September 5. Tiffney first joined UMass Boston, Department of Biology in 1967 and worked on Nantucket for the university since 1969.

In the News

The New York Times quoted Vincent Canato, assistant professor of history, on successful mayors in New York City.

The Boston Globe quoted Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor of public policy, on estimated job loss in Massachusetts in an August 16 article.

Harry Gelman of the Physics Department was quoted on the historic proximity of Mars to Earth in the Boston Herald on August 24.

Boston magazine identified playwright John Picardo, UMass Boston graduate, as one of Boston's "most sizzling talents" for his ten-play series: a portrait of Italian-American life, one play for every decade of the 20th century.

A book review of James Carroll's Secret Father written by Shaun O'Connell, professor of English, appeared in the Boston Globe on September 14.

An article on the appointment of Sarah Oktay to managing director for the Nantucket Field Station was published September 4 in Nantucket's Inquirer and Mirror.

Edward Hirsch dedicated his column in the Washington Post's "Bookword" to three poems selected from Six Vietnamese Poets, edited by Nguyen Ba Chung and Kevin Bowen of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.

The UMass Board of Trustees' approval of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies received media coverage in the Boston Herald, Boston Sunday Globe, Patriot Ledger, Milton Times, and Telegram and Gazette.

The Courageous Sailing program at UMass Boston was featured in the Boston Herald, Dorchester Reporter, and Milton Times.

The Center for Collaborative Leadership's Emerging Leadership program was highlighted on WCVB TV's "City Line" on September 7.

Previews of the Boston Folk Festival appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, the Patriot Ledger, and the Improper Bostonian.

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