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ROXIE BLACK HAMLIN, director and associate professor of occupational therapy, was appointed to an ad hoc committee on multiculturalism and diversity to the executive board of the American OT Association.

ROBERT S. CASWELL, executive director of media and community relations, received the President's Award from the Maine Public Relations Council, one of two top awards given to public relations professionals in Maine. In 1990, Caswell received the other top MPRC award, the Bernays award.

JOEL W. EASTMAN, professor of history, was one of eleven authors who contributed to "Bold Vision: The Development of the Parks of Portland, Maine," the first comprehensive historic and design record of park development in an urban community in Maine, published for Greater Portland Landmarks. Eastman contributed two chapters, an historic overview of the city and a history of recreation and sports.

JACK FARRAR, assistant director of advising and career services emeritus, has been cited by Governor King as one of Maine's top 100 volunteers for 1999. The Governor's Service Award cited Farrar for his work on behalf of a number of Gorham community organizations.

ROY A. GALLANT, director of the Southworth Planetarium, has had four books published by Marshall Cavendish, New York, as part of a 16-book history of science series. The first four books are "Earth's Place in Space," "Our Human Ancestors," Dance of the Continents," and "The Ever Changing Atom." Gallant delivered a paper titled, "Siberia's Popigai Impact Crater," before the Great Lakes Planetarium Association on October 22 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Gallant's paper described his eighth in a series of ongoing expeditions to Siberian meteorite impact sites.

ZIP KELLOGG, reference librarian, and MICHAEL MCDERMOTT, electronic research and information services librarian, spoke at the annual meeting of the North American Health Sciences Librarians' Conference in October in Portland, on evaluating the results of Internet searches. Kellogg also participated in a panel discussion of Internet issues at the annual meeting of the Maine Press Association held in September at Sugarloaf Mountain. In addition, Kellogg was the keynote speaker at a conference sponsored by "Maine Rivers," a new organization focusing on a variety of issues associated with rivers in Maine. He also spoke to the first and second graders at the Breakwater School in Portland about canoeing.

JOHN LABRIE, director of Summer/Winter Session and International Programming, was recently elected as nominations chair for the Association of Continuing Higher Education's Region I. He was also elected to the post of vice president for the Northeast Region of the North American Association of Summer Sessions.

MICHAEL B. LANG, professor of law, served as editor for the Tax Lawyer's 1999 Annual Report for the American Bar Association Section of Taxation.The report includes important developments in all areas of taxation during 1998. In May, Lang led a workshop for authors of the 2000 Annual Report at the Section of Taxation's 1999 spring meeting in Washington. Lang is the 1999-2000 chair of USM's Faculty Senate and an ex-officio member of USM's Board of Visitors.

MARJORIE THOMAS LAWSON, assistant professor of nursing, delivered a paper, "Role of Nurse Practitioners in the Delivery of Genetic Services: Evaluation of a Practice-Based Curriculum for Nurse Educators," as part of the 7th International Nurse Practitioner Conference held in Cardiff, Wales, U.K., last August. She presented a second paper, "A Practice-Based Genetics Curriculum for Nurse Educators: Evaluation of the Education and Training Program and Curriculum Field-Testing" at the International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG) held in San Francisco in September. This past summer she also was elected to the board of directors of the Maine Nurse Practitioner Association and is Co-Chair of the Program and Education Committee.

ERLENE LEWRY, Administrative Assistant I, Gorham Student Billing, was recently presented a plaque by representatives from the Maine State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation honoring her for the outstanding customer service she provides for USM students.

LOIS R. LUPICA, associate professor of law, had her article "Asset Securitization: The Unsecured Creditor's Perspective," that was published in the Texas Law Review, cited by University of Chicago Professor Randal Picker in testimony before the U. S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. Picker was testifying on behalf of the National Bankruptcy Conference in opposition to a proposed revision to the definition of "estate" in the Bankruptcy Code.

LEIGH G. MUNDHENK, co-director of the Center for Continuing Education, presented a workshop at the Maine Development Foundation Leadership Summit in Bethel in October, titled, "Facilitative Leadership."

IRWIN NOVAK, associate professor of geology, presented his paper titled, "Sealevel Change and Paleogeography in the Vicinity of Lesvos Island, Greece," in the poster session of the national meeting of the Geological Society of America held in Denver, Colorado.

ALISON RIESER, director of the Marine Law Institute, had her article, "Prescriptions for the Commons: Environmental Scholarship and the Fishing Quotas Debate," published in Volume 23 of the Harvard Environmental Law Review.

FRANCIS SCHWANAUER, professor of philosophy, presented his paper, "The Keeper of Schroedinger's Cats" at the Northern New England Philosophical Association's annual conference at St. Anselm College in Bedford, New Hampshire, October 22-23.

LEONARD SHEDLETSKY, professor of communication, has been named a seminar co-leader on the topic of "Intrapersonal Communication" at the Seminar Series at the National Communication Association's 1999 convention, to be held in Chicago this November.

KIM TURNER, assistant director of athletics, was a featured speaker at the Freeport Middle and High School's Career and Opportunity Day, Kim spoke on women in sports.

THOMAS M. WARD, professor of law, spoke to the Intellectual Property Financing Subsection of the American Bar Association (ABA) at the Association's Annual Meeting in Atlanta, on August 10. His topic was the draft of the Federal Intellectual Property Security Act, prepared by the American Bar Association's Task Force on Security Interests in Intellectual Property. In July, the Maine Secretary of State's Office named Ward to the Review Committee for Revised Article Nine. For the sixth consecutive year, Ward taught Commercial Law of Intellectual Property in the Intellectual Property Summer Institute at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire. Professor Ward's book titled, "Intellectual Property In Commerce," is scheduled for publication by West Group later this fall.

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