Campus Notes

PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES

Elsa Auerbach, professor of English, was the keynote speaker at the joint conference "Adult Education at the Crossroads: Community Voices and Social Change," sponsored by New Mexico Coalition for Literacy and New Mexico Adult Education Association.

Lawrence Blum, professor of philosophy, presented the paper "Virtue and Race" at a Philosophy Department Colloquium, held at Duke University in December.

Françoise Carré, research director of the Center for Social Policy, attended a conference, "Exposure and Dialogue," held in India in January. Academics reflected on labor issues following visits with self-employed women (tobacco workers, cigarette rollers, construction workers).

Carol Chandler-Rourke of the English Department spoke on "Programs for Refugee Elders" at the national refugee resettlement conference, held in Washington, D.C., and facilitated a panel on the "Health Needs of Refugees" at the statewide "Building Bridges" conference, held in Springfield, MA.

Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, addressed women who are elected municipal officials at the annual convention of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, held on January 16.

Linda Huang, assistant professor of biology, coauthored the testbank, a book of exam questions and answers available to instructors, for the textbook Essential Cell Biology.

Professor Pamela Jones of the Art Department delivered two papers on seventeenth-century art collectors at the Universita' di Roma La Sapienza and at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

Peter Kiang, professor of education and director of the Asian American Studies Program, moderated a panel on "Policing Youth Post 9/11" at the New Young Americans Conference, held at Suffolk Law School in January.

On December 9, Tammy Barlow McDonald, assistant professor of economics, and undergraduate research assistants Catherine Moroski and Lara Omar of the Environmental Studies Program presented their research "Improving Risk Communication for the Valuation of Environmental, Health, and Safety Risk Reductions" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis.

In February, Brian Thompson of the Modern Languages Department presented the paper "André Malraux, pélerin d'absolu" at a three-day international conference on the writer, held at the Université Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco.

In November, Felicia Wilczenski, associate professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology, along with graduate students Susan Coomey and Barbara Ball, presented the paper "Service-Learning in Graduate School: Building Communities and Careers" at the International Service Learning Research Conference.

In January, Julie Winch, professor of history, presented the paper "James Forten, William Lloyd Garrison, and 'The Spirit of the Times'" at an American Society of Church History conference.

Give Us Your Poor, the Center for Social Policy, and McCormack Graduate School for Policy Studies co-hosted the "Bring the Children Home: The Will to End Homelessness," featuring Marian Wright Edelman, which was held in New Hampshire on Martin Luther King Day.

PUBLICATIONS

Julia Brennan, assistant professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance, published the article "Evaluating the Tax Benefits of Deducting Stock Market Losses in IRAs" with a colleague in the Journal of Financial Service Professionals.

The article "Assessment of Young Children's Social-Emotional Development and Psychopathology: Recent Advances and Recommendations for Practice," co-authored by the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology's Alice Carter and N.O. Davis, was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Françoise Carré, research director of the Center for Social Policy, contributed the chapter "Nonstandard Work Arrangements in France and the United States: Institutional Contexts, Labor Market Conditions, and Patterns of Use" for Nonstandard Work in Developed Economies: Causes and Consequences.

Robert Crossley, professor and chair of the English Department, has written the critical afterword and compiled the bibliographies for the 25th anniversary edition of Octavia Butler's Kindred, published in the Black Women's Writers Series by Beacon Press.

Tim Hasci of the History Department published Children as Pawns: The Politics of Educational Reform with Harvard University Press.

Professor Pamela Jones of the Art Department published the article "Italian Devotional Paintings and Flemish Landscapes in the 'Quadrerie' of Cardinals Giustiniani, Borromeo, and Del Monte" in Storia dell'Arte.

Peter Kiang, professor of education and director of the Asian American Studies Program, published the chapter "Voicing Names and Naming Voices: Pedagogy and Persistence in an Asian American Studies Classroom" in Crossing the Curriculum: Multilingual Learners in College Classrooms, edited by Vivian Zamel and Ruth Speck.

"Criseyde's Prudence," a study of Chaucer's ideas about the future, has been published by Monica McAlpine, professor of English and director of the University Honors Program, in the annual volume Studies in the Age of Chaucer.

Cheryl Nixon, assistant professor of English, published the essay "The Surrogate Family Plot in the Annesley Case and Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman" in the last volume of the annual collection The Eighteenth Century Novel.

Susan Opotow, associate professor in the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution, coauthored the paper "Justice and Identity: Changing Perspectives on 'What is Fair,'" was published in Personality and Social Psychology Review.

The article "Developing Emerging Talent Now for Top Spots" by Sherry H. Penney, professor of leadership in the College of Management, was published in the January 2004 issue of Women's Business.

Lois Rudnick, professor of American Studies, wrote the introduction for a new edition of Alice Corbin's 1920 book of poetry Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico, published with the Museum of New Mexico Press.

The article "Diversity Research as Service Learning" by Karen Suyemoto, assistant professor of psychology, and Peter Kiang, professor of education and director of the Asian American Studies Program, was published in Academic Exchange Quarterly.

Clinical psychology graduate students Matthew T. Tull and Kristalyn Salters, program alumna Kim Gratz, and Lizabeth Roemer, associate professor of psychology, published the article "The Role of Experiential Avoidance in Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Somatization" in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Oxfam America recently released Cuba: La Política Social en la Encrucijada, the Spanish translation of Miren Uriarte's monograph on Cuban social policy responses to economic crisis in the 1990s. The journal Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice published "Holding to Basics and Investing for Growth: Cuban Education and the Economic Crisis of the 1990's" by Uriarte, who is a senior research associate at the Gastón Institute.

Xuchen Wang and Robert Chen of the Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sciences (ECOS) Department published the paper "Sources and Preservation of Organic Matter in Plum Island Salt Marsh Sediments: Long-Chain n-alkanes and Stable Carbon Isotope Compositions" in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

Xuchen Wang, Robert Chen, and Julie Callahan of the Environmental, Coastal, and Ocean Sciences Department coauthored the paper "Bacterial Roles in the Formation of High Molecular Weight Dissolved Organic Matter in Estuarine and Coastal Waters: Evidence from Lipids and Compound-Specific Isotopic Ratios," which was published in Limnology and Oceanography.

EXHIBITS, READINGS, PERFORMANCES, SHOWS

John Fulton, assistant professor in the English Department, read from his recent work at the Blacksmith Reading Series in Cambridge in December. His debut novel, More Than Enough, published in 2002 by Picador USA, was recently published in the UK by Random House, who also purchased the translation rights.

Lloyd Schwartz, the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English, led the "Poetry for Peace" event held on January 28 at the Hopedale Unitarian Parish.
APPOINTMENTS AND HONORS

Lester Goodchild, dean of the Graduate College of Education, was elected to the statewide Board of the Massachusetts Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Goodchild was selected from a group of representatives from the state's teacher education programs.

Philip Hart, retired UMass Boston faculty member, and his wife Tanya received the Martin Luther King, Jr., Brotherhood Award in recognition of their work in bringing together people across racial, class, religious and ethnic boundaries, including their lifelong involvement with the YMCA.

Linda Huang, assistant professor of biology, has been invited to join the Faculty of 1000 Biology, an online research tool published by BioMed Central that highlights the most interesting papers being published in the field of biology.

Dean Philip Quaglieri of the College of Management has awarded the 2003 Dean's Awards for Distinguished Research to Joan Tonn, associate professor in the Department of Management and Marketing, and James Bierstaker, associate professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance.

Anthony Petruzzi was appointed the director of writing assessment, responsible for the current writing proficiency requirement. Petruzzi received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut, and has taught composition at the University of Nebraska, Kearney (UNK), Bentley College, and Boston University.

Marietta Schwartz has been appointed the interim university director of undergraduate education. Schwartz has been active in collegiate governance, serving as faculty co-moderator of what was the College of Arts and Sciences Senate and recently as chair of College of Science and Mathematics Senate.

Changing Lives through Literature, a community program hosted by UMass Boston for ten years and taught by Taylor Stoehr, professor of English, has received the New England Board of Higher Education's Award of Excellence. The award will be given on February 27.

Peter Taylor, graduate program coordinator of the Critical and Creative Thinking Program, has been appointed the director of the Science, Technology, and Values Program.

GRANTS AND RESEARCH

The Gerontology Institute's Ellen A. Bruce, principal investigator, and Laura Henze Russell, project director, were awarded a planning grant from the Boston Foundation to build an Elder Self-Sufficiency Standard Project for Massachusetts. They will develop a reality-based cost-of-living measure for elder households in Massachusetts.

Joan Garity, associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, completed training in End-of-Life Care Issues by the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is one of 60 graduate nursing faculty nationwide to participate.

In December, Center for Social Policy researchers Michelle Kahan, Jennifer Raymond, and Consuela Greene completed their final evaluation report of the One Family Scholar project, sponsored by the One Family Campaign.

Kenneth C. Kleene, professor of biology, received a three-year, $381,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project "Control of mRNA Translation during Spermatogensis." The objective of this grant is to identify RNA sequence elements and protein factors that regulate the timing of translation of an mRNA encoding a cysteine-rich protein.

Nancy Lin, graduate student in the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, received an American Psychological Association (APA) Minority Fellowship for 2003 -- 2004.

Kristalyn Salters, graduate student in the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, a National Institutes of Mental Health Fellowship award.

Julie Winch, professor of history, was awarded a one-year fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities to work on a new book project: "The Heirs of Jacques Clamorgans, 1780-1930: An American Family's Encounter with 'Race.'"

In December, the Center for Social Policy received a $40,000 grant to provide technical assistance on the implementation of Homeless Management Information Systems across New England.

IN THE NEWS

In December, the Boston Globe, Boston Metro, and Washington Post reported on a study led by Lois Biener, senior research fellow at the Center for Survey Research, that found smokers were not deterred from going to bars, nightclubs, and restaurants by the smoking ban in Massachusetts.

Jim Campen, professor of economics, was quoted in the Patriot Ledger on January 6 on his report that black home buyers are more successful in getting mortgages in Randolph than any other suburban community around Boston.

A proposal for funding long-term care by Ying-Ping Chen, professor of gerontology and the Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar in Gerontology, was the subject of the "As We Age" column in the Charlotte Observer on January 6. Chen's funding model is also explained in the current Policy Brief, issued by the Center for Home Care Policy and Research.

Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor of public policy, was quoted on the recent economic burst created by technology spending by the Boston Herald on December 18 and the Boston Globe on December 20.

The appointment of Keith Motley to vice chancellor for student affairs was mentioned in the January 1 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education.

Lou DiNatale, director of the Center for State and Local Government, was quoted on the results of a University of Massachusetts poll measuring voter opinion on Massachusetts government, reform plans, Speaker Thomas Finneran, and the Romney administration in the Boston Globe on January 15.

Carol Ellenbacker, director of the graduate nursing program, was quoted on the impact of nursing shortages in home health care in the Boston Globe on December 25.

Tim Hasci, instructor in the History Department, published the review "Tales out of School" in the New York Times Book Review on January 4.

Spare Change News featured the article "HMIS --Tracking the Homeless: What It Is and What It Means," on the Center for Social Policy's Homeless Management Information System project and featured interviews with Nancy Sullivan and Julia Tripp.

Kyle McInnis, professor of exercise science, was quoted by the LA Times, WBZ Radio, Prevention Magazine, Web MD, and Women's Health on the benefits of moderate walking. McInnis has been quoted widely on his study presented, at the American Heart Association's annual conference in November.

On December 18, the Boston Globe quoted Miren Uriarte, senior research associate at the Gastón Institute, on the changing face of Latino Massachusetts.

The contributions of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies and its staff were featured in a Wayne Woodlief column in the Boston Herald on December 28.

On January 13, the Patriot Ledger profiled the College of Public and Community Service's new degree program: Community Media and Technology.

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