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BENJAMIN BERTRAM, assistant professor of English,
received a contract from the University of Delaware Press
for his book, "The Time is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's
England."
ROXIE BLACK, director and associate professor, Master
of Occupational Therapy Program, and LISA L. CLARK,
clinical instructor and field work coordinator, recently presented
"Evidence Based Practice in Occupational Therapy"at the Maine
Occupational Therapy Educators' Alliance annual conference
on September 26, in Bangor.
KIMBERLY COOK, associate professor of criminology,
co-authored "Unfinished Business: Aboriginal Reconciliation
and Restorative Justice in Australia" which appeared in Contemporary
Justice Review (Vol. 6, pp. 279-291); and "Christianity and
Punitive Mentalities: A Qualitative Study" which appeared
in Crime, Law & Social Change (Vol. 39, pp. 69-89). She also
co-authored "White Privilege, Color Blindness and Services
to Battered Women" which will appear in Violence Against Women,
and "Exploring Feminist Opposition to the Death Penalty for
Crimes of Violence Against Women" which will appear in the
Stanford Law and Policy Review.
NATHAN HAMILTON, associate professor of archaeology,
was invited to give a slide presentation and lecture titled
"The Prehistory of the Upper Androscoggin River: View from
the Rumford Falls" in the Rumford Public Library on October
16.
WIL KILROY, associate professor of theatre, worked
on several scenes in the film "Empire Falls," and recently
was interviewed about that work on Maine radio station WHOM.
He also appeared as a police officer for the new series, "The
Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire." Last August at the
national conference for the Association of Theatre in Higher
Education in New York City, he presented on a panel on "Staging
Mental Illness," utilizing material from his USM production
of "The Boys Next Door." At the same conference, he was an
actor playing in "Romance, Romance," a new play by Norman
Bert. He is in cable commercials running for "Release HD"
and "Vivarex," and is the TV spokesperson for the Maine Tax
Amnesty Program. He was recently cast as an Irish priest in
"The Wake of Matty O'Malley" in Boston, which is presented
by Dillstar Productions. Kilroy continues as a member of the
national executive committee for the Kennedy Center's American
College Theatre Festival.
LEIGH GRONICH MUNDHENK, assistant professor of leadership
and organizational studies, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented
"A Strategy for Maximizing Internships: Implementing the Career
Development Pre-internship Seminar" at the annual meeting
of the National Association for Experiential Education in
October.
EVE RAIMON, associate professor of arts and humanities,
was invited to be a panelist at the conference "Harriet Wilson:
Women, Race, Poverty and Class, in 19th-Century New England"
taking place in May 2004 in Milford, New Hampshire.
ROBERT RUSSELL, professor of music, led the USM Chamber
Singers in an a capella choral prelude at the Washington National
Cathedral, Washington D.C. on October 12. He led the USM Concert
Band, Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra, Choral Art Society
Masterworks Chorus, Choral Art Singers, and a 200-voice Beethoven
Festival Chorus in concert at Merrill Auditorium in Portland
on October 18.
JUDITH SHEPARD-KEGL, professor of linguistics, was
invited to speak on "Language Emergence in a Language-Ready
Brain" at the 78th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society
of America to be held in Boston in January 2004.
LAIMA SRUOGINIS, lecturer in English, was awarded
a 2004 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature
for her book, "The Earth Remains: An Anthology of Contemporary
Lithuanian Writing" ( Columbia University Press).
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