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PARKER B. ALBEE JR., professor of history presented his paper, "Iwo Jima's Flags and Memory: Contest For Control," at the New England American Studies Association Conference in Boston last May.

ROBERT S. CASWELL, executive director of media and community relations, was the first recipient of the Long Standing Service Award of the Greater Portland Chambers of Commerce, presented at the chambers' annual meeting in September. Caswell received the newly created award in recognition of his "many years of communications and public relations leadership" in the community and for the Chambers of Commerce. Caswell served as chair of the chambers' communication committee for many years and continues as a committee member.

EILEEN EAGAN, associate professor of history, and PATRICIA FINN, administrative assistant I, were speakers at a local conference on the Irish in Portland last June that was sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council. Eagan, Finn, and POLLY KAUFMAN, adjunct lecturer in history, are principal trail leaders for The Portland Women's History Trail.

MAUREEN ELGERSMAN LEE, assistant professor of history and faculty scholar for the African-American Archives, arranged for the Bangor Public Library to host the African American Archives' photo exhibit during July and August. She gave a talk about the photo exhibit and the research project at the library last August, and is involved in on-going research on the Bangor project on Blacks in Bangor from the 1880s to the 1920s.

MUHAMMED A. EL-TAHA, professor of mathematics, received the 1999 Best Publication Award from the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS for the paper he co-authored, "Sample-Path Analysis of Queueing Systems."

LAWRENCE GOLAN, associate professor of music, was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship for 1999 at the Tanglewood Music Center. Golan is currently the artistic director and conductor of the Atlantic Chamber Orchestra, music director and conductor of the Portland Ballet Orchestra, and is the concertmaster of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. He was a 1999 recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher and Scholar Award.

DAVID D. GREGORY, professor of law, was appointed in July as a member of the Maine Criminal Justice Commission by Governor Angus King.

MICHAEL S. HAMILTON, associate professor of political science, environmental science and policy, is the co-author of a proposal recently funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development in the amount of $500,000 for the "Southeast Asia Environmental Initiative: Coal and Peat Fire Suppression [in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand]," extending for six months to March, 2000 a technical assistance project in which the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior, is providing training and demonstrations in suppression of coal seam and peat fires.

DAVID E. HARRIS, assistant professor of natural and applied sciences, BUMPER WHITE, assistant professor of clinical education, and R. BLAKE WHITAKER JR., assistant professor of natural and applied sciences, all of Lewiston-Auburn College, secured LAC's first post-doctoral fellowship under the National Science Foundation program, "Making Science Education Accessible to Nontraditional Students."

TARA HEALY, assistant professor of social work, delivered a paper, "Ethical Tensions: Decisional Capacity and Autonomy," as part of the symposium, "Les Enjeux Ithiques Des Practiques Auprhs Et Avec Les Personnes Bgees," sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Government of Quebec, at the Fourth Global Conference of the International Federation on Aging in Montreal, Canada last September.

H. CABANNE HOWARD, assistant pressor of law and public policy, presented a Continuing Legal Education Program at the Office of the Attorney General in Augusta, Maine on July 23. The program topic was recent decisions in Constitutional Law by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Participants of the program included government lawyers, members of the Attorney General's Office and members of District Attorney Offices.

DAVID B. JONES, assistant professor of therapeutic recreation, was an invited panelist at the New England Therapeutic Recreation Symposium held in Burlington, Vt. last April. The panel's discussion was titled "Therapeutic Recreation in the New Millennium: Looking Back, Examining the Present, Exploring the Future."

POLLY KAUFMAN, adjunct lecturer in history, has received a Fulbright award for the 1999-2000 academic year in Norway. She will be teaching American studies to Norwegian teachers.

MARK LAPPING, provost and vice president for academic affairs, delivered two papers over the summer, including one at the Northeast Agricultural Policy Forum in Burlington, Vt. His book, "The Contested Countryside: The Rural Urban Fringe in North America," was published by Ashgate Publishers, 1999.

DIANA E. LONG, professor of history, is the scholar for a major project of the Maine Humanities Council, "Literature and Medicine," that will bring monthly humanities workshops to all hospitals in Maine. A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed its extension throughout the state.

JULIEN S. MURPHY, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of philosophy, edited a recently published book, "Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre (Penn State Press, July, 1999).

TED REESE, wrestling coach, spoke on "Bodyweight Resistance Training" at the Maine State Strength and Conditioning Conference held at Bowdoin College in June.

CHARLOTTE ROSENTHAL, associate professor of Russian, published an article in Russian, "Russian Women Writers and Popular Literature of the Silver Age," in the book, "Ei ne dano prokladyvat' novye puti...? Iz istorii zhenskogo dvizheniia v Rossii," Vol. 2, that came out in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1998. She has also just completed a lengthy review article of the 2-volume reference work and anthology, "Russian Women Writers," that will appear in the Slavic and East European Journal in the spring or summer issue next year.

FRANCIS SCHWANAUER, professor of philosophy, was selected for inclusion in the Millennium Edition of Who's Who in the World, published by Marquis.

BRIAN TOY, associate professor of sports medicine and director, Department of Sports Medicine, had a book review on "Strength Training" published in the July 1999 issue of Athletic Therapy Today.

KATHLEEN J. WININGER, associate professor of philosophy, had her paper "Fictions and Spectacles: Neo Colonial Images of African Women" accepted for publication in a collection on Bessie Head's work (Mary Lederer and Leloba Molema, editors).

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