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GREG BAZINET, director, Educational Staff Development and Services, Applied Science External Programs, co-presented a program, “Chain Reaction,” at the annual meeting of the Association for Career and Technical Education in Orlando last December. The presentation focused on development and implementation of articulation agreements between two-year and four-year institutions.

FREDA BERNOTAVICZ, director, Institute for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School, and AMY LOCKE, former USM student and employee, recently had their article “Hiring Child Welfare Caseworkers: Using a Competency-Based Approach” published in the spring 2000 edition of Public Personnel Management (Vol. 29, No.1).

GEORGE CAFFENTZIS, associate professor of philosophy and honors, recently published “The End of Work or the Renaissance of Slavery? A Critique of Rifkin and Negri,” in the December 1999 issue of Common Sense: Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists (No. 24, pp. 20-38); “Über die Ursachen von ‘ The Querist,’” in “Vademecum zu einem irischen klassiker de politischen ökonomie” (Dusseldorf: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen ein Unternehmen, 1999, pp. 27-94); and he co-edited the book “A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities” (Trenton, N.J., Africa World Press, 2000). His recent academic presentations include “Slavery in the 21st Century U.S.: Definitions and Realities,” at the 6th Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference: Civil Liberties in the New Millennium, held in October, 1999, at the New School University, New York; “Constitutional Conventions and Common Property,” “NATO’s Hidden Agenda in the NATO-Yugoslavian War,” and “ The Death Penalty and Globalization,” at the Socialist Scholars Conference, held in April, 2000, in the Borough of Manhattan Community College; he presented the co-authored paper, “ Reflections on Quantum Information Theory,” at Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference held last April in Tucson; and “Marx, Turing, Machines and the Labor of Thought,” was presented at the Maine Philosophical Institute last April at Bowdoin College.

POLLY CAMPBELL, project coordinator, Institute for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School of Public Service, delivered “Enhancing Relationship among Providers: Impacting the Lives of Abused Women and Children,” at the 10th International Nursing Conference, Ending Violence Against Women: Setting the Agenda for the Next Millennium, sponsored by Interprofessional Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, The University of British Columbia, on June 3, in Vancouver, B.C.

BRUCE FITHIAN, professor of music, performed in Bach’s “St. John Passion” and a lute song recital in Cambridge. During the year 2000 he also has been singing in the Boston Emmanuel Music Bach Cantata series.

MICHAEL S. HAMILTON, associate professor of political science, is author of an article in Land and Water titled, “Quenching the Fires: Coal and Peat Fire Suppression in Southeast Asia.” Hamilton has accepted an invitation to serve as advisor to the project director of a three-year technical assistance project sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, concerning “ Governance, Decentralization and Sustainable Development in Indonesia.” He is the author of an invited e-mail newsletter article, “Not Burning Down the House: An Update,” that appears in BOS-USA News Update (May 2000), published by the Balikpapan Orangutan Society-USA, and on their homepage at www.orangutan.com/coalfiresuppression.shtml. He arranged for the transfer of three surplus natural light microscopes from the USM Biology Department to the Balikpapan Orangutan Survival Foundation for veterinary lab use at the Orangutan Reintroduction Center in the rain forest Sungai Wain Nature Preserve in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

BETTE KATSEKAS, assistant professor of counselor education, presented a pre-conference national learning institute for the American Counseling Association annual conference in Washington, D.C. on “Ethical Decision Making in the Counseling Process.” An on- line course and video on “Ethical Decision Making in the Counseling Relationship” offered nationally for continuing education in ethics for practicing counselor and related professionals throughout the country was produced through the American Counseling Association for release this past May.

JUDY SHEPARD-KEGL, associated professor of linguistics, has been invited to give topical lectures at the February 2001 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

MARJORIE THOMAS LAWSON, assistant professor of nursing, presented a paper titled "A Practice-Based Genetics Curriculum for Advanced Practice Nurse Educators," at the 26th annual National Conference for the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, in Washington, D.C., last April. She recently co-authored a manuscript, "A Practice-Based Genetics Curriculum for Nurse Educators: An Innovative Approach to Integrating Human Genetics into Nursing Curricula," that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Nursing Education. This spring she was appointed to the Continuing Education & Review Process Committee for the Maine State Nurses Association.

MICHEL LAHTI, evaluation services manager, Institute for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School, delivered a presentation on “ Conducting Mental Health Assessments in School Based Settings– Use of School Record Data” at the annual National Assembly on School Based Health Care Conference held in Detroit, Michigan, last June. He also presented two workshops on the use of program logic models for program planning and evaluation at the 25th National Institute on Human Services in Rural Areas being held at the University of Maine at Presque Isle last July.

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.

FRANCIS SCHWANAUER, professor of philosophy, presented a paper, “ Reflections on Quantum Information Theory,” co-authored by George Caffentzis, at the conference, “Towards a Science of Consciousness,” held last April at the University of Arizona at Tucson. The abstract of the paper will be published in the Journal of Consciousness.

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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