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PARKER ALBEE, professor of history, was part of a panel at the 25th annual Maine Authors Series in Camden, last September. He was invited to speak on his recently published book, “Letters From Sea: Joanna and Lincoln Colcord's Seafaring Childhood, 1882-1901,” which received the Captain W.J. Lewis Parker Award in May. Albee was interviewed in September for the forthcoming A&E production, “Flags over Iwo Jima,” which is utilizing his co- authored book “Shadow of Suribachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima.”

ROXIE M. BLACK, director, Occupational Therapy Program, and associate professor, Lewiston-Auburn College, and LISA L. CLARK, clinical instructor and field work coordinator, Occupational Therapy Program, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented “Dialogues in Occupation II: From Theory to Practice” at the fall practice symposium of the Maine Occupational Therapy Association, on October 6, in Portland.

POLLY CAMPBELL, coordinator for cross-disciplinary projects, Institute for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School, co-delivered a presentation on "Optimizing a Holistic Approach to Services for Battered Women: The Collaborative Maine Experience," at the first National Conference on Health Care and Domestic Violence, sponsored by the Family Violence Prevention Fund, in San Francisco, in October.

DAVID P. CLUCHEY, associate dean and professor of law, and JUDY R. POTTER, professor of law, participated in three days of meetings in St. Petersburg, Russia last May, on the development of a Russian/American Clinical Legal Education Consortium. Cluchey moderated the meetings, and Potter represented the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic. Potter has been working with the Law Department of Pomor University to establish and upgrade their legal aid clinic. Her presentation at the conference was about the methods used by the Law School in training and guiding its clinical students.

ANDREW F. COBURN, associate dean, Muskie School, and principal investigator and director, Maine Rural Health Research Center, has been selected to receive the 2000 Distinguished Research Award by the National Rural Health Association.

JOHN DUFF, associate research professor of law and co-director of the Marine Law Institute, was elected to the board of directors of The Coastal Society. He was also appointed to the editorial board of Ocean Development and International Law. Duff’s recently written article, relating to deep water oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico maritime boundary, was published in “Ocean Yearbook 14” (University of Chicago Press), this summer. Another article, "The Coastal Zone Management Act: Reverse Preemption or Contractual Federalism?" will appear in the Ocean and Coastal Law Journal (Vol. 6, Issue 1). Duff will present an article on Uniform Oil Tanker Vessel Laws at the January 2001 meeting of the American Association of Law Schools in San Francisco.

KATHLEEN EARLE, assistant research professor, Institute for Child and Family Policy, Muskie School, published a review in the September-October issue of Families in Society (Vol. 81, No. 5, pp. 543-544), of the book “Counseling with Native American Indians and Alaska Natives” by Roger Herring.

VALERIE HART, associate professor of nursing, presented a paper, "The Nursing Program at the University of Maine 1939-1956: A Study of Leadership Behaviors and Organizational Structure" at the Royal College of Nursing, Nursing History for the Millennium Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland last July.

H. CABANNE HOWARD, assistant professor of law and public policy, spoke on the fundamentals of the 1st Amendment at the Maine Civil Liberties Union 1st Amendment Conference last March. In July, he co-presented a program on the 1999-2000 term of the Supreme Court for the Attorney General’s office in Augusta.

COLLEEN KHOURY, dean and professor of law, received a Women of Achievement 2000 award from the Portland YWCA last May. Khoury is a member of the board of directors of the Portland Symphony and was recently elected to their executive committee.

MICHAEL B. LANG, professor of law, provided an “Update on Ethics 2000" and was a panelist in a discussion on “Standards of Acceptable Practice in Rendering Tax Opinions,” at the spring 2000 meeting of the American Bar Association’s Section on Taxation, Committee on Standards of Tax Practice. Lang’s co-authored article, “No HOPE (Credits) for Louisiana Coffers,” was recently published by both State Tax Notes and Tax Notes.

MICHEL LAHTI, assistant research faculty professor, Muskie School, presented a paper on "The Use of Child Social Indicators in the Policy Making Process" at the annual research conference of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management in Seattle, on November 3. Lahti will present a paper on the research design and initial baseline evaluation results of a longitudinal study on post-adoptive services at the national conference on Post-Adoption Services sponsored by the Casey Family Services organization in Washington D.C. on December 4, 2000.

MARGO WOOD, associate provost for graduate studies and research and professor of literacy education, presented an institute, “Project Story Boost: Adoption and Adaptation of an Early Literacy Intervention,” at the New England Reading Association conference in Portland, October 6. Wood is a member of Maine's Early Literacy Work Group, which received NERA's annual literacy award for the state of Maine.

RUTH O. RALPH, research associate II, Muskie School, made presentations on “Recovery in Mental Health: Definitions, Models, and Measurements” at the National Association of Case Managers in Kansas City; at the Arizona Stakeholders Conference in Phoenix; and the American Public Health Association annual conference in Boston. She has received a grant to develop a measurement of individual recovery from the Center for the Study of Public Issues in Mental Health.

ALISON RIESER, director, Marine Law Institute, and professor of law, taught a three-week summer school course in international and comparative fisheries law as part of Tulane Law School’s international summer program on Spetses Island, Greece. This spring she briefed the Maine Commissioner of Marine Resources, and members of the State Planning Office and Attorney General's Office, on the law of intertidal property rights and its impact on the burgeoning rockweed harvest in the state. For the 2000-2001 academic year, she is the George M. Johnson Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii Law School, Honolulu.

MARTIN A. ROGOFF, professor of law, recently published an article, “The European Union, Germany and the Lander: New Patterns of Political Relations in Europe,” in the Columbia Journal of European Law. Last winter he taught a short course in American constitutional law at the Faculte de Driot et des Sciences Economique of the Universite de Maine in Le Mans, France. In May he attended the annual meeting of the French Society of International Law in Paris.

THOMAS M. WARD, professor of law, will soon have his book, “Intellectual Property in Commerce” published by West Group.

JENNIFER WRIGGINS, professor of law, spoke at the seminar, “What is Marriage For? Same-Gender Couples, Law and Society,” last April in Portland. She attended a conference, “Rational Actors or Rational Fools, The Impact of Psychology on Product Liability,” at Roger Williams Law School in Rhode Island last April. Wriggins, and COLLEEN KHOURY, dean, School of Law, attended a conference for invited scholars and judges on “Women, Justice and Authority” at Yale Law School in Connecticut. Wriggins published two articles: “Fashionable Genetic Explanations in the Courtroom: Litigating Personal Injuries Based on Genetic Risk” in The Journal of Biolaw & Business (Vol. 3, No. 3), and “Marriage Law and Family Law: Autonomy, Interdependence and Couples of the Same Gender” in the Boston College Law Review (Vol. 41).

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