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ROXIE M. BLACK, associate professor and director of occupational
therapy, presented "Cultural Competence: Listening to Student
Voices" at the American Occupational Therapy annual conference
in Miami Beach on May 3. She also presented "Cultural Competence for Ethical Practice" at the World Federation of Occupational Therapy Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, on June
27.
ROSE CLEARY, assistant professor of social and behavioral sciences, Lewiston-Auburn College, co-authored a paper titled “(De) Sexing the Family: Theorizing the Social Science of Lesbian Families” that has been accepted for publication by Feminist Theory.
KIMBERLY J. COOK, associate professor of criminology, taught a seminar with CHRISTOPHER D. POWELL, assistant professor of criminology, on restorative justice for practitioners and mediators in Kristiansand, Norway in February. Cook and Powell also presented a lecture at the Norwegian Ministry of Justice in Oslo, Norway, titled "Emotionality, Rationality, and Restorative Justice.” In March they presented a paper, "Unfinished Business: Aboriginal Reconciliation and Restorative Justice in Australia," at the Australian Studies Association of North America annual conference held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Their paper, "Christianity and Punitive Mentalities: A Qualitative Study,” was accepted for publication in the journal Crime, Law, and Social Change. In March Cook presented a guest lecture, sponsored by the Sociology Club at Tennessee Technological University, titled "Divided Passions? Abortion and the Death Penalty in the United States."
TERESA HUBLEY, project specialist, Institute for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School, co-wrote an article titled “Creating and Utilizing A Public/Private Partnership for Health Education in Maine,” that will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Philadelphia this coming November, where it will be part of the panel "The Power in Partnerships: Using Partnership Approaches for Effective Public Health Education.”
JACK HUNT, adjunct lecturer of political science, has been appointed to the Fee Arbitration Commission by the Maine Board of Bar Overseers.
MAUREEN ELGERSMAN LEE, assistant professor of history and faculty scholar for USM African-American Archives, has been selected to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities six-week seminar titled "Motherhood and the Nation-State in Western Societies: Modern Times,” held at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University.
KALI LIGHTFOOT, director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), discussed the role and importance of lifelong learning for wellness at the Portland Senior Summit: A Fresh Look at Aging in May. Lightfoot and E. MICHAEL BRADY, professor of adult education and senior research fellow at OLLI, presented "The Age of Discovery" at the Rural Geriatric Consortium June conference, Caring Families and Communities: Innovations in Rural Geriatric Practice, in Bar Harbor, Maine.
RICHARD J. MAIMAN, professor of political science, had the book he co-authored, “Divorce Lawyers At Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice,” win the C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book published in the law and courts field during 2001.
WILLIAM MAXWELL, training specialist, Public Welfare Unit, Institute for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School, earned his master’s degree in Educational Leadership from USM.
MADELEINE WINTERFALCON, administrative assistant, American and New England Studies, has been chosen by the NEA to join the NEA National Diversity Training Cadre and attended a training session at the NEA offices in Washington D.C. in July.
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