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What We're Doing
DONALD F. ANSPACH, associate professor of sociology,
served as an honorary faculty member at the National Drug
Court Institute operational workshop held October 14-16, in
Dallas, Texas. Anspach is assisting numerous jurisdictions
in creating and implementing adult drug courts.
GEORGE S. CARHART, Osher Map Library cartographic
associate, and MATTHEW H. EDNEY, associate professor
of American and New England studies and Osher Map Library
scholar, had the second part of their article, "An Exercise
in Map Genealogy: Guillaume Delisle's L'Amerique Septentrionale
and Its Many Offspring," published in the September/October
issue of Mercator's World.
NANCE GOLDSTEIN, associate professor of economics,
is continuing her research on online labor market intermediaries
and their impact on career development, employability and
pay in financial services at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study at Harvard. Her report for the National Science Foundation,
"IT at Work: What We Know about the Impacts of IT-Mediated
Remote Working on Employment and Work in the US," will
be published in the coming year. She presented her paper,
"Knowledge Strategies and Managing in Turbulence: Is
Online Training Just What Management Needs?" at the 2001
Academy of Management Conference.
SAT GUPTA, director, Graduate Program in Statistics,
and professor of mathematics, edited a special volume of the
Journal of Combinatorics, Information and System Sciences,
(Vol. 25, 2000). His paper "Time Domain Regression of
a Fractionally Differenced ARIMA Model" appears as a
book chapter in "Recent Developments in Operations Research"
(Chapter 14, pp. 123-127, 2001).
MICHEL LAHTI, manager of the Institute for Public
Sector's Evaluation Team, and adjunct faculty with the Muskie
School of Public Service, is the author of a chapter, "Performance-Based
Contracting," in the children's mental health book, "Developing
Outcome Strategies in Children's Mental Health."
CARTER MANNY, associate professor of business law,
who was on sabbatical studying European information privacy
law during 2000-2001, gave a speech titled "The Data
Protection Safe Harbor: Convergence and Compromise,"
to the faculty of law at the University of Namur in Belgium
on November 8. He presented the following papers earlier this
year: "Uncertain Anchorage: The U.S. Privacy Safe Harbor
for Transfers of Personal Data from Europe," was presented
at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Academy
of Legal Studies in Business held in Norfolk, Va., last March;
"Privacy Controls on Transborder Flows of Personal Data
from Europe" was presented at the annual meeting of the
North Atlantic Regional Business Law Association held in Boston,
last April; and "Online Privacy, International Data Transfers
and European Law," and "European and American Privacy:
Commerce, Rights and Justice," were presented at the
annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business
in Albuquerque, N.M. last August.
IRWIN D. NOVAK, associate professor of geology, presented
his paper, "Identifying Former Centers of Volcanic Activity
on Lesvos Island, Greece," at the 113th annual meeting
of the Geological Society of America held in Boston this November.
DOUGLAS D. OFIARA, assistant professor of public
policy and management and visiting scholar, Institute of Marine
and Coastal Sciences, co-authored the book "Economic
Losses from Marine Pollution: A Handbook for Assessment"
(Island Press: Covelo, Calif., 2001). Ofiara has also published
the article "Assessment of Economic Losses from Marine
Pollution: An Introduction to Economic Principles and Methods"
that appeared in the Marine Pollution Bulletin, (Vol. 42,
No. 9, pps. 709-725). He co-wrote the article "Suitability
of Decision-Theoretic Models to Public Policy Issues Concerning
the Provision of Shoreline Stabilization and Hazard Management"
that appeared in Coastal Management (Vol. 29, No. 4, pps.
271-294).
JUDIE ALESSI O'MALLEY, staff associate, Media and
Community Relations, was recently elected to a three-year
term on the Gorham School Committee.
ABRAHAM J. PECK, adjunct professor of history and
special assistant to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
for religious studies, had a chapter, "Taking Leave of
the Wrong Identities or An Inability to Mourn: Post-Holocaust
Germans and Jews," appear in the book, "Second Generation
Voices: Reflections By Children of Holocaust Survivors and
Perpetrators" (Syracuse University Press, 2001). His
review of the book, "The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military
Chaplains and American History" appeared in American
Jewish History (Vol. 88, No. 2). Reviews of "The Holocaust
in American Life" and "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections
on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" appeared in
Gesher (No. 142). He presented a lecture, "How to Handle
Family Histories as Part of the Holocaust: The Wagner-Peck
Case," at the conference, "Music Suppressed by the
Third Reich," held at the University of Virginia last
March. In April, Peck was a commentator on "Displaced
Persons Life in Post-War Germany: Normalization" at the
Remarque Institute, New York University, conference, "Birth
of a Refugee Nation: Displaced Persons in Post-War Europe,
1945-1951." He gave lectures on "American Jewish
Identity in the New Millennium," at Temple Beth Israel,
in Waterville, and "The Legacy of Holocaust Survival,"
at The Lusia Hornstein Memorial Holocaust Lecture in Cincinnati,
Ohio, last April. In May, Peck spoke on "As Jewish Maine
Goes, So Goes American Jewry: Perspectives on the American
Jewish Experience," at the Maine Historical Society.
He was named to the board of the Portland Jewish Community
Alliance in May. Last June, The Maine Humanities Council awarded
Peck a planning grant for the project, "The Children
of Abraham Down East: The Impact of Islam on Jews, Christians
and Community in Maine."
RUTH O. RALPH, senior research associate II, Health
Policy Institute, Muskie School of Public Service, presented
"Mental Health Services in the Recovery Context"
at the British Ministries of Health conference on "Mental
Health Recovery" in Birmingham, U.K. last October. Ralph
was accompanied by KATHRYN KIDDER, research analyst I, Muskie
School of Public Service.
ROBERT SANFORD, assistant professor of environmental
science and policy, is co-author of "Practicing Archaeology:
A Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology"
(Altamira Press, 2001).
ROBERT M. SCHAIBLE, associate professor of arts and
humanities, Lewiston-Auburn College, delivered the keynote
address, "From Poems to Protons to Politics: The Troubles
and Treasures of Interdisciplinarity," at Drury University's
fourth annual conference on Interdisciplinary Research and
Teaching held last March. In July, he attended the annual
council meeting of the Institute of Religion in an Age of
Science held in Durham, N.H. Also in July, he attended Human
Meaning in a Technological Culture, the 48th annual Star Island
Conference of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science,
at which he directed a seminar on "The Meaning of Human
in the Poetry of Stephen Dunn."
LEONARD J. SHEDLETSKY, professor of communication,
continues as managing editor (since November of 1999) of The
National Communication Association's online publication, "Communication
Teacher Resources Online," http://www.natcom.org/ctronline/index.htm.
His article, "The Online Double Bind: Mixed Messages
About Online Teaching and Scholarship," was published
in "The Maine Scholar" (Vol.13, 2000). He co-authored
a paper, "Teaching Online Courses with Electronic Discussion,"
and co-wrote another paper with two USM students, Tim Ouillette
and Tim Monfort, "Introducing Senior Citizens to the
Internet and Successful Mentoring," that were presented
last April at the Eastern Communication Association panel
on "Instructional Practices" held in Portland. Shedletsky
reviewed book manuscripts dealing with computer-mediated communication
for Sage and for Allyn & Bacon. He is working on a book
chapter, "Intrapersonal Communication, Interpersonal
Communication, and Computer-Mediated Communication: A Synergetic
Collaboration," that will appear in "Collaborative
Endeavors with Interactive Technologies" (Anker Publishing),
and has co-authored papers that were presented at the National
Communication Association in November 2000. "Technology
in the Intrapersonal Classroom," was presented to the
panel of "Radicalizing Our Instruction: The Use of Technology
in the Communication Classroom," and "What I Wish
My Administrators Knew About Online Teaching: Accountability
Gone Amuck," was presented to the panel on "Accountability
in Distance Education: Issues and Perspectives."
RICHARD STEINMAN, professor emeritus of social work,
had an essay, in the form of a letter, detailing the pre-1989
history of lesbian-gay organizations in Central Europe, published
in the spring edition of the journal, Lesbian Gay Review.
STEPHEN L. WESSLER, director, Center for the Prevention
of Hate Violence, was awarded a Distinguished Achievement
Award for 2001 for Excellence in Educational Publishing in
the feature article category, by the Association of Educational
Publishers, for an article titled, "Sticks and Stones,"
published in the December 2000 issue of Educational Leadership.
W. BUMPER WHITE, assistant professor of clinical
education, Lewiston-Auburn College, co-wrote with PAUL
CARON, assistant professor of education, JAN L. HITCHCOCK,
associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, LAC,
and adjunct associate professor of public policy and management,
Muskie School, and MARY ANNE MOISAN, assistant professor
of occupational therapy, LAC, "Reflections on the Spirit(s)
of Teaching Past," a publication of the "Spirit
of Teaching" conference held at USM last spring. At the
33rd annual National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics
conference held last April in Orlando, White presented "Preparing
Pre-service Elementary Teachers for Higher Competency in Mathematics
and Science through the LAC:TEAMS PDS Program." In June,
White was a co-presenter of "Questions and Answers for
Young PDS Partnership Teams," and led a panel discussion
with LAC:TEAMS PDS partners, "Using Technology in a Professional
Development School Partnership," at the second annual
Virtual PDS Conference held at Rhode Island College. White
received a $24,000 grant last December from the Betterment
Foundation supporting "Seed Money for Program-related
Investment in Support of Establishing a Comprehensive, Long-range
Endowed Fellowship for Students in the LAC:TEAMS Program."
The article he wrote with KAREN DUTT-DONER, assistant
professor of teacher education, "TEAMS Making the Ideal
Real," appeared in the Fall 2000 Kappa Delta Pi Record
(Vol. 36, No.3). Last December, White presented the paper,
"Meeting the Critical Challenges of Professional Development
School Partnerships," at the 32nd National Staff Development
Council conference in Atlanta.
MARGO WOOD, professor of education and associate
provost for graduate studies and research, had her article
"Project Story Boost: Read-Alouds for Students at Risk"
published in the September issue of The Reading Teacher, a
journal of the International Reading Association. She is also
the author of an article, "Teaching Language Arts,"
that will appear in the 2001 edition of the "Encyclopedia
of Education," (Second Edition, MacMillan).
FENGGANG (ANDY) YANG, assistant professor of sociology,
had the article he co-authored, "Religion and Ethnicity
Among New Immigrants: The Impact of Majority/Minority Status
in Home and Host Countries," appear in the Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion (Vol. 40, No. 3, pps. 367-378).
"PRC Immigrants in the United States: A Demographic Profile
and An Assessment of Their Integration in the Chinese American
Community," was published in "The Chinese Triangle
of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses,"
(Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 223-238). "A Brief Analysis
of The Social History and Current Status of Chinese Religions
in the United States" appeared in the Chinese language
"Pluralist China and Christianity" (CCIC, Scarborough,
Ontario, 2001, pp. 111-121). "Confucianism and Daoism
in North America," written in Chinese, appeared in the
bimonthly Religions in China (No.26, March, 2001, pps. 52-53)
"The Religious Factor in the U.S. Presidential Election
in 2000" written in Chinese, appeared Religions in China
(No. 26, May 2001, pps. 37-40). Yang also gave the lecture,
"This World Is Not My Home: Religions and Cultures of
Chinese Immigrants," at the Asian Pacific American Studies
Program, in The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
last September. Yang gave the presentation "Transformations
of New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications,"
as part of the Brown-Bag Series sponsored by Life Cycle Institute,
at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C.
DONALD ZILLMAN, Godfrey Professor of Law, has been
named interim president for the 2001 academic year of the
University of Maine at Fort Kent. A revision to his book,
"Maine Tort Law," and a book on the "International
Response to the Kyoto Protocols on Global Warming" are
due for publication soon. This July, Zillman spoke to Maine
Attorneys General on recent Supreme Court civil rights cases.
He continues to work on the introduction for the book "The
Law of Participation in Energy and Natural Resource Projects."
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