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E. MICHAEL BRADY, professor of adult education and
senior research fellow at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,
and HARRY Z. SKY, senior consultant at the Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute, had their article stemming from a research
study they conducted on the benefits of journal writing by
adults published in the fall 2003 edition of The Older Learner,
a journal of the American Society on Aging. Brady recently
published two articles in Educational Gerontology: An International
Journal: "Journal Writing Among Older Learners" (Vol. 29,
No. 2), and "Peer Teaching in Lifelong Learning Institutes"
(Vol. 29, No. 10). He also facilitated two workshops at the
Maine Adult Education Association Conference in October.
SUSAN F. FEINER, associate professor of economics
and women's studies, and LEE GOLDSBERRY, associate
professor of education, presented "Beyond Indoctrination:
General Education That Develops Responsible, Engaged, and
Critical Citizens" at the annual meetings of The Association
for General and Liberal Studies held in Charlotte, N. C. Feiner's
paper, "The Sin of Indifference," was accepted for publication
in a special issue of Semeia: An Experimental Journal for
Bible Criticism. Feiner conducted workshops titled "Marxism
Across the Curriculum," and presented a paper titled "Feminist
Marxist Criteria for Evaluating Economic Performance," at
the conference Marxism and the World State held at UMass Amherst.
Feiner was also invited to speak during the two-day UMaine
System Conference on diversity.
ZIP KELLOGG, reference librarian, spoke about Maine
rivers/watersheds at the annual meeting of the Sebasticook
River Watershed Association. He also spoke about finding information
and improving internet search strategies at the Hulbert Outdoor
Center in Fairlee, Vermont.
WIL KILROY, associate professor of theatre, will be
performing the part of Dr. Coppelius in the ballet "Coppelia"
by The State Ballet of Rhode Island in December, at Rhode
Island College in Providence.
MARK LAPPING, professor of public policy and management,
and LYDIA SAVAGE, associate professor of geography,
published a chapter titled "Sprawl and its Discontents: The
Rural Dimension" in the book "Sprawl: Culture, Theory and
Politics" (2003, Rowman & Littlefield).
SHARON LOCKE, research associate professor, and
LIBBY COHEN, professor emeritus, College of Education
and Human Development, are two co-authors of the paper "The
Earth System Science Ideabook: An Online Resource for Universal
Design and Access in the Geosciences" presented by Locke at
the 115th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America,
held in Seattle. At the same meeting, Cohen presented "Universal
Design of a Field-Based Summer Institute for High school Students
with Disabilities and Their Teachers," co-authored with Locke
and NANCY LIGHTBODY, project director, Biotechnology
Works!
LOIS LUPICA, professor of law, has been invited by
the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association
to serve as vice-chair and co-reporter of the Task Force on
Chapter 11.
WALDECK E. MAINVILLE JR., professor of mathematics,
presented one of the Centennial Sessions, "The Turn of the
Century" at the recent Association of Teachers of Mathematics
in New England's Centennial Celebration in Manchester, NH.
IRWIN NOVAC, associate professor of geology, co-authored
the paper, "Viewing an Intra-Plate Region by Integrating Landsat
5-TM Images with Digital Data Into an Object Oriented Geographical
Information System," that he presented at the 115th annual
meeting of the Geological Society of America held November
2-5 in Seattle.
DAVID PIERSON, assistant professor of media studies,
presented a paper, "The Discursive Role of Network Television
Promotionals," at the 26th annual Northeast Popular Culture/American
Culture Association Conference on November 1, at Worcester
State College in Worcester, Mass.Ê
JOHN VOYER, professor of business administration,
recently made two presentations, "A System Dynamics Model
of Bank Geographic Diversification" at the International Conference
of the System Dynamics Society in New York City and "Business
Strategy and Real Options in the Context of Large Engineering
Projects" at the American Society for Competitiveness Conference
in Washington, DC, which was also accepted to be printed in
the Journal of Global Competitiveness. Voyer, BERT J. SMOLUK,
assistant professor of finance, and BRUCE H. ANDREWS,
professor of business administration and director/senior research
associate, Center for Business and Economic Research, had
the paper they wrote, "The Effect of Cultural Rigidity on
Bank Geographic Diversification," accepted for publication
in the International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change
Management.
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