Campus Notes

Presentations, Conferences, and Lectures

Lois Biener, senior research fellow at the Center for Survey Research, presented the study “Town and Individual Predictors for Support of Tobacco Excise Taxes” at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.

Lawrence Blum, professor of philosophy, was the Mitch Snyder Lecturer at the First Church of Cambridge, where he spoke on “Racial Discrimination and Racial Inequality.”

Chris Bobel, assistant professor of the Women’s Studies Program, presented “Making Something So Personal, Political: An Analysis of Menstrual Activism” at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Association.

On February 18, Diana Burgin, professor of Russian, gave the talk “Upscale, Downscale: Tsvetaeva’s Music of the Stairs” at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Milton Butts Jr. of the Sociology Department presided over a paper session, where he presented “Notions of Success: An Ethnographic Reflection on the Adjustment of Youth Who Are on Society’s Fringe” at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society.

In March, Francoise Carré, research director at the Center for Social Policy, presented two lectures for conferences held in Paris: “The Temporary Staffing Industry in the United States: Institutional Context, Patterns of Use and Workforces” and “Non-Standard Employment Arrangements in France and the United States.”

School psychology graduate students Susan Coomey, Barbara Ball, Orla Higgins, Wesley Sims, and Luis Duque, working with Associate Professor Felicia Wilczenski, presented two studies, “Promising Practices in Using Cyber-Communication in School Psychology” and “Service Learning as a Vehicle in Educating School Psychologists,” at the National Association of School Psychologists annual meeting.

Lal Chugh of the College of Management presented the paper “Pre and Post Demutualization Performance of Life Insurance Companies” at the Eastern Finance Association Annual Meetings.

Alex DesForges, assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages, presented the paper “The Cinematic Mode in Shanghai, 1890 – 1937” at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held on March 4.

Jeff Dukes, professor of biology, gave the keynote address at the “Species at Risk 2004” conference, held in Victoria, Canada, on March 5.

Susan Eisenberg, lecturer in the College of Public and Community Service, spoke on women in the U.S. construction industry at a “Women into Construction” conference, held at the University of Westminster, London.

Corinne Etienne, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics, and Pratima Prasad, professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages, conducted a professional development workshop for school teachers of French at UMass Boston on March 6.

Patricia Gallagher, a senior research fellow at the Center for Survey Research, was an invited speaker at 8th Annual Conference on Health Survey Research Methods.

Professors Anne Jones and Julie Brennan of the College of Management attended the Accounting New Faculty Consortium in February. Participants were selected through a national competitive process.

William Kiernan, director of the Institute for Community Inclusion, moderated the session “Responding to the Needs of All Job Seekers: A Universal Strategy” at the National Association of Workforce Board’s annual forum.

Mari Koerner of the Curriculum and Instruction Program presented “Using the Community as a Resource for Teacher Education: Integrating Alternative Voices” with Najwa Abdul-Tawwab and Lee Teitel; “Beyond the Teacher Test: The Massachusetts Coalition’s Use of Broadscale Survey Data to Extend Evaluation of Urban Teacher Preparation Programs” with colleagues; and the panel presentation “Doing Dewey: The Practices of Deliberative Democracy for Improving Teacher Quality and Student Achievement” at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

Arthur Goldsmith, professor of management, presented the paper “Plebiscites and the Public Purse: U.S. Experience with Direct Democracy” for the Expert Group Meeting on Participation of Civil Society in Fiscal Policy, held at the United Nations Headquarters.

Virginia Smith Harvey, associate professor and chair of the Department of Counseling and School Psychology, spoke at the National Association of School Psychologists’ conference and conducted the workshops “Administrative and Clinical Supervision,” “Improving Study Skills,” and “Surviving and Thriving as a School Psychologist.”

Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education, was the keynote speaker at the 29th Annual Conference of the California Association for Bilingual Education.

Margaret McAllister, associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and nurse practitioner for University Health Services, presented the keynote address “Current Practice for the Nurse Practitioner” at the Nurse Practitioner Retreat Day Dana–Farber Institute, held on March 3.

Marc Prou, assistant professor in the Africana Studies Department, spoke on “The Origin and Evolution of the Haitian Creole Language” at Suffolk University on March 23.

In February, gerontology faculty and Ph.D. students made presentations at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, including Nina Silverstein, Jenai Murtha, Kelly Fitzgerald, Marian Spencer, and Bei Wu.

Nancy Stieber, associate professor and chair of the Art Department, recently presented the lecture “‘Old Amsterdam Was Worth A-Lookin’ At’: The Beautiful City and its Beautiful History” at Wesleyan University and presented a paper at the symposium “Rethinking Architectural Historiography,” held at the Middle Eastern Technical University in Turkey.

M.H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi, assistant professor of sociology, presented the paper “Rethinking Sociology: Self, Knowledge, Practice, and Dialectics in Transitions to Quantum Social Science” at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society.

Andrés Torres, director of the Gastón Institute, presented “Latino Futures in a Changing Policy Environment” for the annual José Martí Freedom and Struggle in the Americas Lecture, held at the College of the Holy Cross on February 19.

Udaya Wagle of the Public Policy Program presented the paper “Poverty in Kathmandu: What Do Subjective and Objective Economic Welfare Concepts Suggest?” at the 30th Annual Eastern Economic Association Conference.

Institute for Community Inclusion researchers Doris Hammer and Gabriella Rado presented a poster session at the National Association for the Dually Diagnosed International Conference.

Ajume Wingo, assistant professor of philosophy and senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School of Public Policy’s Center for Democracy and Developments, presented the paper “The Promises and Perils of Civil Society in Africa” at a February conference held at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Harold Wolozin, professor of economics, presented two papers: “Thorstein Veblen and Human Emotions: An Unfulfilled Prescience” at the annual meeting of the Association For Institutional Thought, and “Emotions in Economic Discourse: A Psychoanalytic Approach” at the Behavioral Economics Conference.

Ying Tan, assistant professor of biology, gave the talk “Molecular Evolution of Color Vision in Primates” at the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: Natural Variation and Quantitative Genetics in Model Organisms.

Publications

Arindam Bandopadhyaya, professor of finance, published the coauthored article “Determinants of Market Assessed Sovereign Risk: Economic Fundamentals or Market Risk Appetite?” in the Journal of International Money and Finance.

Center for Survey Research’s Lois Biener and Alison Albers published two cowritten articles: “Young Adults: Vulnerable New Targets of Tobacco Advertising” and “Effect of Local Restaurant Smoking Regulations on Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure Among Youths,” with colleagues, in AJPH (the American Journal of Public Health).

James Bierstaker, associate professor of accounting and finance, cowrote two articles: “Highlights of Current Audit Approaches” and “Have You Seen These Instructional Resources (Internal Audit)” in the spring issue of The Auditor’s Report.

Jay R. Dee, assistant professor in the Graduate College of Education, published the article “Reconciling Differences: Conflict Management Strategies of Catholic College and University Presidents” in Higher Education.

Jeff Dukes, professor of biology, published the cowritten article “Overyielding Among Plant Functional Groups in a Long-Term Experiment” in Ecology Letters.

A poetry chapbook entitled Susan Eisenberg Greatest Hits 1982 –2004 by Susan Eisenberg, lecturer in the College of Public and Community Service, was published by Pudding House Publications. Eisenberg also contributed the chapter “Still Waiting After All These Years: Women in the U.S. Construction Industry” for Women in Construction.

Virginia Smith Harvey, associate professor and chair of the Department of Counseling and School Psychology, has published three articles: “Using Computer-Related Technology for Assessment Activities: Ethical Professional Practice Issues for School Psychologists” in Computers in Human Behavior; “Ethical Issues with Computer Related Technology” in School Psychology Review; and “Generating Effective Reports” in Contemporary Psychology.

Melissa Herman, assistant professor of sociology, published the article “Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification in Multi-Racial Adolescents” in Child Development.

Charles Knight, emeritus professor of English, published his book The Literature of Satire with Cambridge University Press.

Stuart Licht, professor and chair of the Chemistry Department, co-wrote the cover article “Rechargeable Fe(III/VI) Super-Iron Cathodes” in the journal Chemical Communications.

Exploring Literacy, a new book by Eleanor Kutz, professor of English, has been published by Pearson Longman.

Professor Joyce Peseroff of the English Department has had her fourth volume of poems, tentatively titled Eastern Mountain Time, accepted by Carnegie Mellon Press.

The College of Management’s Kiran Verma published the co-authored paper “Is the Cheapest Drug Always the Best Alternative?” in Primary Psychiatry.
Robert Weiner, faculty chair of the International Relations track in the MSPA program, has published “Romanian Bilateral Relations with Russia and Hungary: 1989 – 2003” in Romania Since 1989: Politics, Economics, and Society.

James Willis, assistant professor of sociology, is the first author on a research monograph, “Compstat and Organizational Change in the Lowell Police Department: Challenges and Opportunities,” published by the Police Foundation.

A paper by Harold Wolozin, professor of economics, “The Human Mind, Institutions and Economic Behavior,” was published in the April issue of the Journal of Economic Issues.

Sally Wright of the College of Management has published three coauthored articles: “Are Financial Auditors Overconfident in Their Ability to Assess Risk Associated with Enterprise Resource Planning Systems?” in Journal of Information Systems; “Auditor Negotiations: An Examination of the Efficacy of Intervention Methods” in The Accounting Review; and “Potential Ramifications of Continuous Reporting and Continuous Assurance on Investor Behavior” in Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting.

Exhibits, Readings, Performances, Recordings

Clarinetist Chester Brezniak, faculty member in the Music Department, had his CD Clarinet Now released by Centaur Records.

In February, Askold Melnyczuk, director of the Creative Writing Program, participated in an evening honoring George Starbuck held at Harvard University.
Jon Mitchell and Linnea Bardarson of the Department of Music have just had their CD Beethoven: Piano Concerto Movement in D, K. Anh 7, and Piano Concerto in D, Op. 61, released by Centaur Records.

David Patterson, professor of music, composed and played the music for “Money Goes ’Round and ’Round,” a Wellesley Community Television program hosted by Babson College’s John Edmund.

Grants and Research

In conjunction with the Center for Social Policy, Phyllis Freeman, senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, released “Emergency Preparedness: A Manual for Homeless Service Providers.”

James Willis, assistant professor of sociology, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend to support his work on convict transportation.

The Center for Social Policy received a University Public Service Endowment Grant to enhance the involvement of low-income constituents in the center’s research activities.

The Center for Social Policy completed a two-year, $1.8 million grant project for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, through which they provide technical assistance, training, and documentation for communities implementing homeless management and information systems.

Appointments and Honors

The College of Management has named Edward Albertian Executive-in-Residence. In that role he will work with faculty, staff and students on projects related to the areas of strategy, leadership, operations and marketing management, and information systems.

Arindam Bandopadhyaya, professor of finance, was appointed director of research of the recently formed Financial Services Forum in the College of Management.

Professor Carroy U. Ferguson at the College of Public and Community Service has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of the Association for Humanistic Psychology’s bimonthly magazine AHP Perspective.

Donna Kuizenga has been appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

Kuizenga, a professor of romance languages, most recently served as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont.
Howard University’s Division of Nursing has recognized Laurel Radwin of the Adult Gerontological Nursing Program as an “Emerging Star in Health Disparities Research” for her work on quality of nursing care received by diverse populations.

Miscellaneous

On February 17, McCormack Graduate School’s Dean Edmund Beard and researchers Erica White and Michael McPhee hosted five visitors from the Republic of Azerbaijan studying think tanks and political analysis.

On January 27, Ellen Hume, director of the Center for Media and Society, and Michael McPhee, researcher at the McCormack Graduate School, met with six journalists from the Republic of Georgia participating in the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Program.

The Emerging Disabilities Project at the Institute for Community Inclusion hosted a policy summit in Washington, D.C., to discuss disabilities from an environmental, political, and social perspective.

In the News

Research by Jeff Dukes, professor of biology, on CO2 fertilization was reported by the BBC, San Francisco Chronicle, and WBZ-AM on February 16.

In February, Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, provided commentary on the presidential election on WBZ Channel 4 News and New England Cable News. She was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor on the appointment of women to top spots in San Francisco. She was also quoted in Scholastic News on March 1.

A review of Harriet Tubman: Her Life and Her Life Stories by Jean Humez, director of the Women’s Studies Program, was published in the New York Review of Books on March 11.

John McGah and the Center for Social Policy’s Give Us Your Poor Community Action Forum on Homelessness in Greater Boston was featured in Spare News on March 4.

A review of Reenchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West by Askold Melnyczuk, director of the Creative Writing Program, was published in the Boston Sunday Globe on February 29.

In February, Marc Prou, assistant professor of Africana studies, was interviewed on the political crisis in Haiti by CNN World News, BBC News, the Bay State Banner, the Haitian Times, Journal Do Brazil, and El Mercurio. He was also interviewed on WHDH-TV’s “Urban Update” on March 7.

Lorna Rivera, assistant professor in the College of Public and Community Service, discussed women’s literacy and how adult literacy education is a vehicle for social change on WRBB Radio on February 29.

Debra Wein of the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education was interviewed for a segment on nutrition for WLVI-TV 56 on March 2.

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