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COTT W. BROWN, professor of psychology, presented a paper, co-authored by USM graduate and research assistant Elizabeth D. Bennett, titled “The Role of Practice and Automaticity in Temporal and Nontemporal Dual-Task Performance,” at the Eighth International Workshop on Rhythm Perception and Production, held at Losehill Hall, Castleton, England, last August. Brown also chaired a paper session at the conference on “Rhythm Production.”

NANCE GOLDSTEIN, associate professor of economics, was awarded a Fellowship at Radcliffe Public Policy Center at Harvard for 2000-01, where her research will examine the impacts of the Internet on work and employment. She will be part of the research team for a project that examines the work experience of women computer scientists working in IT for an NSF grant that she helped prepare. Last June, the report she wrote for the Women’s Development Institute on achieving fair pay for women workers in Maine was released at a roundtable discussion on pay equity held at USM.

MARY ANNE MOISAN, assistant professor of occupational therapy, presented the paper, “Understanding Self-Regulation and Behavior of Your Child,” at the Advocates for Children’s Parenting Matters Conference in Auburn, last April. Also in April, she presented the paper, “Equine-Facilitated Mental Health and Occupational Therapy,” at the American Occupational Therapy Association national conference in Seattle.

STANLEY M. MAX, managing editor, Maine Business Indicators, Center for Business and Economic Research, and lecturer in mathematics, reviewed the book “Elementary and Intermediate Algebra, 1st Ed.” (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).

EVE RAIMON, assistant professor of arts and humanities, Lewiston-Auburn College, and JAN HITCHCOCK, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, are the authors of “‘Civic Character’ Engaged: Adult Learners and Service Learning,” published last May in a collection on Service Learning and Women’s Studies issued by the American Association of Higher Education. Raimon had her paper, “Numbering by Colors: Antislavery Fiction and the ‘New’ Census of 1850” accepted for the October 2000 American Studies Association Conference in Detroit. Raimon and ARDIS CAMERON, director, American and New England Studies, hosted “Unmasking Ethnic New Englands,” the annual conference of the New England American Studies Association last April on USM’s Portland campus.

LEONARD SHEDLETSKY, Professor of communication, was notified that his article, "A Lot of Teachers Who Can, Don't," will be reprinted in “Selections from the Speech Communication Teacher,” 1996-1999, McGraw-Hill. He organized the panel, Publishing On-Line, and presented his paper, "Co-editing a New On-Line Publication: Communication Teacher Resources On-Line" at the National Communication Association, November, 1999, Chicago. He organized the panel, The Internet and Pedagogy, and presented "Teaching an Intrapersonal Communication Course Collaboratively," with J. Aitken, University of Missouri, at the National Communication Association, 1999, Chicago. Shedletsky organized and presented (along with colleagues from the universities of Northern Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri) a short course, “Teaching Communication Courses with the World Wide Web: Cognitive Technology,” at the National Communication Association, Chicago, 1999. Shedletsky has been named managing editor of “Communication Teacher Resources Online” (CTROnline), a new publication of the National Communication Association (see at: http://www.natcom.org/). Shedletsky's research, "Cognitive Style, Family Handedness, and Degree of Laterality Account for Inconsistent Sex Differences in Direction of Gaze," which appeared in “Replication Research in the Social Sciences,” Sage, 1991, was discussed as an exemplar of replication research in “Investigating Communication: An Introduction to Research Methods,” (second edition), Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

JOHN VOYER, professor of business administration, had his paper "Building Learning Organizations in Engineering Cultures: A Case Study" published in the July 2000 issue of the Journal of Management in Engineering.

CHARLES WELTY, professor of computer science, presented his NSF grant titled "An Undergraduate Graphical User Interface Course" (NSF DUE-9950236) as part of the NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Showcase at the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference held in Austin, last March.

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