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FREDA BERNOTAVICZ, director, Institute for Public
Sector Innovation, Muskie School, presented "Models for Retention
and Recruitment" at the Innovation Out of Crisis: Overcoming
the Human Services Workforce Challenges conference in Boston
on April 25.
WILLIAM GAVIN, professor of philosophy, served as
the local arrangements chair for the the 29th annual convention
of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy,
hosted by USM on March 7-9.
MICHAEL S. HAMILTON, associate professor of political
science, was recognized with a listing in “Who's Who Among
America's Teachers” (seventh ed., 2002).
NATHAN D. HAMILTON, associate professor of archeology,
ROBERT M. SANFORD, assistant professor of environmental science
and policy, and NASIR M. SHIR, GIS lab operations manager,
presented a poster on “Environmental History, Public Archaeology
and Stewardship in Casco Bay, Southwestern Maine,” at the
67th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology
held in Denver on March 20-24. At the same meeting, GERALD
F. BIGELOW, assistant professor of geography and anthropology,
chaired a session on “The Archaeology of Coastal Adaptations,”
and presented a paper on “Researching Early European Fisheries
for Food and Trade, and the Challenge of Marine Territorial
Analysis.”
MARY HAWKINS, human resources specialist, Institute
for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School, gave the commencement
address at Mid-State College’s Auburn campus on May 11.
ERIC JAMES, financial specialist, Institute for Public
Sector Innovation, Muskie School, was elected treasurer of
UMPSA in April and will be assuming office in June for a two-year
term.
WIL KILROY, associate professor of theatre, appeared
in the Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen play, "China Doll"
at the national conference of the Association for Theatre
in Higher Education in Chicago last August. In October, he
directed and acted in "Tammy and Billy-Bob's Anniversary"
for Renegade Productions, and in December once again reprised
his role as Dr. Coppelius in “Coppelia” for the State Ballet
of Rhode Island. In January, Kilroy was elected as member-at-large
for the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival's
national committee and was workshop coordinator for the New
England KCACTF festival at Keene State College in New Hampshire,
and continues as a regional KCACTF respondent for theatre
productions. Kilroy taught a "Stage Combat" workshop for Thornton
Academy, a career seminar at Scarborough Middle School and
coordinated USM student leaders for workshops at Shaw School
in April.
RITA KISSEN, associate professor of teacher education,
led a symposium, “Getting Ready for Benjamin: Preparing Teachers
for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom,” at the American Educational
Research Association conference, held in New Orleans in April.
The symposium featured contributors from Kissen's edited anthology
of the same name, which will be published by Rowman and Littlefield
in Fall, 2002.
MICHEL LAHTI, manager of the Evaluation Unit, Institute
for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School, presented "Ideas
for a Competency Model for Evaluator/Researcher" at the fifth
annual National Human Services Training Evaluation Symposium,
University of California, Berkeley, May 22 - 24.
BARRY RODRIGUE, assistant professor of arts and humanities,
Lewiston-Auburn College, was appointed to the comitée scientifique
of the second International Grand Conference of the Année
Francophone Internationale, “Francophonie en Amérique: Quartre
siècles d'échange - Europe, Afrique, Amérique” (The French-Speaking
World of America: Four Centuries of Exchange - Europe, Africa,
and America). His co-authored book chapter, “Recherche sur
les Franco-Américains du Maine, 1970-2000,” appeared in “Les
parcours de l‚histoire” (Québec: Les Presses de l’Université
Laval, 2002, pp. 207-229). His translation (French to English)
of Serge Courville’s “The Colonial Dream: Empire, Québec and
Colonial Discourse in the Nineteenth Century” appears in “Place,
Culture, and Identity” (Québec: Les Presses de l’Université
Laval, 2001, pp. 289-310).
KENT RYDEN, associate professor of American and New
England Studies, was a featured keynote speaker at this year's
O. C. Tanner Symposium, In Search of a Common Language: Environmental
Writing and Education, at Utah State University, which was
held on April 18-20. His talk was titled "Reading Beyond the
Edge of the Page: Regional Landscape as Environmental Text."
LEONARD J. SHEDLETSKY, professor of communication,
co-authored a chapter, “Intrapersonal Communication, Interpersonal
Communication, and Computer-Mediated Communication: A Synergetic
Collaboration,” which appears in “Communication and Collaboration
in the Online Classroom: Examples and Applications” (Anker
Publishing, 2002, www.ankerpub.com/books/comeaux.html).
WILLIAM H. SLAVICK, retired professor of English,
presented the feature paper, “Synge in Roberts’ Kentucky,”
and another paper on the University of Chicago Poetry Society
at the fourth Elizabeth Madox Society Conference at St. Catharine
College, Kentucky, on April 22. He published “The Maine Social
Justice Scene: A Glimpse,” in the first number of the Justice
Studies Association newsletter, Justitia.
BERT SMOLUK, assistant professor of finance, BRUCE
ANDREWS, professor of business administration, and JOHN VOYER,
professor of business administration, had their article, “A
Methodology for Analyzing the Effects of Geographic Diversification
for Financial Institutions,” accepted for publication in the
January 2003 edition of the American Business Review.
RUTHANNE SPENCE, coordinator of the Intensive Case
Management Project, Institute for Public Sector Innovation,
Muskie School, successfully defended her dissertation "Raise
Their Voices: Maine Legislative Women Making Meaning of Feminism"
on April 11 and she was awarded her doctorate in social sciences
by the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in May.
R. BRUCE THOMPSON, assistant professor of psychology,
was awarded a research grant from Harvard University to fund
a set of studies on socioeconomic status (SES) differences
in preschoolers' communicative development in problem-solving
contexts. The grant, underwritten by the W. T. Grant Foundation
will investigate how high and low SES children may be socialized
to use help-seeking and collaborative language prior to entering
formal education.
DAVID WAGNER, professor of social work, has signed
a book contract with the Council of Social Work Education
to cowrite a new edition of "Social Work Professionalization
and Activism: Comparing the l960s, l980s, and the 21st Century."
JEFFREY A. WALKER, assistant professor of biological
sciences, "Performance Limits of Propulsion and Correlates
with Fin Shape and Motion" was published in the February issue
of the Journal of Experimental Biology (v. 205, pp. 177-187).
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