ROXIE BLACK, director and associate professor, MARY ANNE MOISAN, assistant professor, LISA CLARK, instructor, and CHRIS HUBBARD, level I field work coordinator/adjunct faculty - all members of the Occupational Therapy Program, Lewiston Auburn College - were co-presenters at the workshop, "Dialogues in Occupation," at the annual Practice Symposium of the Maine Occupational Therapy Association in Augusta last March.
DOMENICA CIPOLLONE, director, International Programs, served as a panelist at the annual conference of National Student Exchange in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last March. Her presentation was part of a session titled "International Students in the National Student Exchange: A Discussion on Non-immigrant International Student Participation in the NSE."
ROY A. GALLANT, director, Southworth Planetarium, was offered a contract from McGraw-Hill's adult trade division to publish a collection of his accounts of his expeditions to Siberian meteorite impact sites, to be published in 2002. The book will include Gallant's eighth and ninth expeditions, planned for this summer, to Estonia and Siberia.
DIANE HALEY, evaluation specialist I, Muskie School, gave a presentation on psychiatric hospital to school transitions at "Building on Family Strengths," at the National Conference on Research and Services in Support of Children and their Families, in Portland, Oregon, last April.
DAVID HARTLEY, director of rural health and assistant research professor of health, policy, and management, spoke on "Who's Job? Addressing Professional Shortages," in the Capitol Area Rural Health Roundtable forum on Public Policy and Mental Health Services in Rural America, held at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. on February 10.
TARA C. HEALY, assistant professor of social work, received the Harriet M. Bartlett Award for Social Work in Health Settings for her paper, "Community-Dwelling Cognitively Impaired Frail Elders: An Analysis of Social Workers' Decisions Concerning Support for Autonomy" last March. Also in March, she presented a paper, "The Challenge of Everyday Evaluation of Decisional Capacity in Home Health Care" at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society on Aging.
JOHN R. HEATH, professor of computer science, had a paper, "High-Speed Storage Area Networks Using a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Interconnect," published in the March issue of the journal, IEEE Network.
PHILIP JAGOLINZER, professor of accounting, had his paper, "The Current Status of Upper-Level Managerial Accounting Courses: Results of a Nationwide Survey" accepted for publication in this winter's edition of The Journal of Accounting and Finance Research (Vol. 7, No. 4). His book, "Cost Accounting: An Introduction to Cost Management Systems" was published by South-Western College Publishing Co. In April, Jagolinzer was inducted in the Hall of Fame of the Northeast Region of the American Accounting Association. His articles, "What Topics Are They Teaching?" was published in Management Accounting, and "The Current Status of Upper-Level Managerial Accounting Courses: Results of a Nationwide Survey" was published in the Journal of Accounting and Finance Research.
JUDITH L. JOHNSON, director, Testing and Assessment Center, and STEPHEN J. ROMANOFF, director, Russell Scholars Program, and associate professor, interdisciplinary studies, recently had their manuscript, "Higher Education Residential Learning Communities: What are the Implications for Student Success?" published in the September issue of the College Student Journal, (Vol. 33, No. 3). Johnson's paper, "Distance Education and Technology: What Are the Choices for Higher Education?" was published in the January, 2000 issue of the Journal of Educational Computing Research (Vol. 21, No. 2). Johnson presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research (AERA) Conference last April in New Orleans titled, "Four Approaches to Student Retention in Higher Education." She will present a research study at the Association for Institutional Research Annual Forum (AIR) titled, "Distance Learning: How Effective and Who Succeeds? An Investigation of Student Learning Styles, Achievement, and Satisfaction," this May in Cincinnati.
POLLY KAUFMAN, adjunct professor of history, has been awarded, by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, a Fulbright senior scholar grant to teach American Studies at the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Education in Oslo, Norway. COLLEEN A. KHOURY, dean and professor of law, spoke at the November 19, 1999, naturalization ceremony for new citizens at the invitation of Judge Brock Hornby and the U.S. District Court.
WIL KILROY, associate professor of theatre, rejoined the State Ballet of Rhode Island as Dr. Coppelius in "Coppelia" this past December. Last fall, he created "Tammy and Billy-Bob's Anniversary," which performed via Renegade Productions. In January, he produced the regional American College Theatre Festival at UNH. In February, he was a judge for the Kennedy Center's Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship competition at the University of North Carolina, and in March, judged for the Maine Drama Festival in Portland.
MICHAEL LAHTI, coordinator, School-Based MH Centers, Muskie School, delivered a presentation on research of post-legalization services for families adopting children with special needs at the sixth national child welfare conference, Celebrating Leadership & Innovation in Child Welfare Services sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services in Arlington, Va., last March.
MICHAEL LANG, professor of law, is chair of the Ethics 2000 Task Force charged with preparing comments on behalf of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation on the ABA's Ethics 2000 Commission's proposed changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. In January, he presented an interim report for the Task Force to the Tax Section's Committee on Standards of Tax Practice at the Section's midyear meeting in San Diego. Lang co-authored an article, "Circular 230 Revisions: 'Faned' Indifference to Solicitation," published by Tax Notes last September. He will become the program planning chair for the Tax Teaching Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation this summer, and will assume the chair of the Committee in 2002.
JOHN LaBRIE, director, Summer/Winter Session and International Programming, has been elected the Northeastern regional vice president for the North American Association of Summer Sessions. MARK LAPPING, provost and vice president for academic affairs, published the chapter on "The Rural Dimension of Multiculturalism" in the book, "Urban Planning and a Multicultural Society" (Praeger Publishers, 2000); and presented the papers, "Planning in Kansas City: The Challenge Ahead," at the University of Missouri at Kansas City; and "Factory Farms: The Threat to Vermont's Agriculture," at Vermont Sierra Club Forum on Large Farms. He had book reviews published in several journals.
ROBERT B. LOUDEN, professor of philosophy, served as commentator on a panel, "The Enlightenment Project: Foucault Revisited," presented at the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference at the University of New Hampshire in December. He was session chair for the colloquium on "Value," and commentator on "Fact/Value Distinctions and MacIntyre's Eudaimonism" at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division conference in Boston last December. His new book, "Kant's Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings," was published in December by Oxford University Press.
LOIS R. LUPICA, associate professor of law, had her article, "Transition Losses in the Electric Power Market: A Challenge to the Premises Underlying the Arguments for Compensation" accepted for publication in the Rutgers Law Review and expects it to appear in Book 3, Vol. 52, April, 2000. Last December, she presented a program to the Maine Attorney General's Office on "The No-Contact Rule and Government Lawyers."
STANLEY M. MAX, associate editor of Maine Business Indicators and lecturer in mathematics, reviewed chapters 1 through 5 of the forthcoming book, "Intermediate Algebra" (3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2000).
IRWIN NOVAK, associate professor of geology, has been appointed by Governor Angus King to a five-year term on the Board of Certification for Geologists and Soil Scientists. Novak was co-author, with geology major Ed Luetje, of a paper presented at the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America meeting held in March in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The paper was entitled: "Pebble and Cobble Morphology on Crescent Beach, Cape Elizabeth, Maine."
GEORGE R. PATTERSHALL JR., electrician coordinator, was recently selected as the 1999 Outstanding Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year for the 265th Combat Communications Squadron, South Portland Air National Guard Station in South Portland. He was also selected as the 1999 Outstanding Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year for the 253rd Combat Communications Group, Otis, ANG Base, Mass.. He currently serves as the Readiness Noncommisioned Officer.
SUSAN E. PICINICH, associate professor of theatre, taught a workshop session that demonstrated computer application in costume design, make-up techniques, and pattern-making, at the American College Theatre Festival in Durham, N.H. last February. In March, she participated in the national conference of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) in Denver, entering her costume renderings and photographs of USM's 1999 production of "Grannia" in the Design Expo 2000 event at the conference. As a member of the USITT Costume Commission, she also exhibited slides and described the puppets, and how she and her students constructed the puppets from the spring 1998 USM play, "The Danube." Also at the conference, she participated in a full-day professional development workshop in which she was trained in two software programs in the areas of costume design and theatrical make-up.
ALISON RIESER, professor of law, and director of Marine Law Institute, co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of the State of Maine in "Wyer v. Board of Environmental Protection." She participated in a Washington, D.C. workshop to develop federal guidelines for establishing a network of marine protected areas in U.S. waters, to be considered by the President's Council on Environmental Quality. In February, Rieser submitted written testimony to the Joint Standing Committee on Taxation regarding a bill proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Maine Legislature to provide for the assessment of real property used for commercial fishing at the current use. She also served on a panel discussing legislative reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens federal fisheries law at the National Association of Environmental Law Societies' "Sea Change" March meeting at Stanford Law School.
BETTY ROBINSON, dean, Lewiston-Auburn College, recently attended the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, where she served as discussant on the session, "The Impact of New Technology on the Higher Education Environment."
ROB SANFORD, assistant professor of environmental science and policy, is the author of "Land Use Planning & Environmental Impact Assessment," and "The St. Lawrence Seaway," in the Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues (Volumes I and II, Salem Press, 2000). His review of Emily B. Russell's "People and the Land Through Time: Linking Ecology and History" appeared in Anthropology Review Database, September 20, 1999.
THOMAS M. WARD, professor of law, was named co-reporter on a study undertaken for the United States Patent and Trademark Office to assess and define the technical, economic, and legal requirements associated with an integrated federal registry for the recording of security interests in intellectual property. The project is funded by the Patent and Trademark Office and the Franklin Pierce Law Center. He introduced the proposed Federal Intellectual Property Security Act as part of a joint program, "The Legislative Horizon for Commercial and Intellectual Property Lawyers," at the March ABA section meetings in Columbus.
RICHARD WEST, associate professor of communication and associate dean, College of Arts and Sciences, was selected as chair of the National Communication Association's Lifetime Teaching Achievement Award Committee. He has also agreed to serve as an associate editor for three journals: Qualitative Research Reports, Communication Quarterly, and Communication Education, for the years 2000-2003.
KATHLEEN J. WININGER, associate professor of philosophy, had her paper "Following African Identity in Bessie Head: An Exile's Philosophical Journey" accepted for publication in the International Women in Higher Education Proceedings.
JENNIFER WRIGGINS, professor of law, had her article, "Family Law and Marriage Law: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Couples of the Same Gender," accepted for publication in the "Boston College Law Review." Her article on "Rape, Racism and the Law," originally published in 1983 in the "Harvard Women's Law Journal" was excerpted in a new casebook, "Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Multiracial America" (West, 1999). Wriggins was quoted and her article, "Genetics, IQ, Determinism, and Torts: The Example of Discovery in Lead Exposure Litigation," (Boston University Law Review) was cited in an article, "Should the Medical and Genetic Records of Relatives be Available to Defense Attorneys?" that appeared in Lawyers Weekly USA, December 13, 1999.