What We're Doing
ROXIE BLACK, associate professor and director, Occupational
Therapy Program, Lewiston-Auburn College, co-authored a book,
“Cultural Competency for Health Professionals” (2000,
The American Occupational Therapy Association). She gave a
refereed presentation, “An Examination of the New National
Standards for Cultural Competence,” at the 81st annual
Occupational Therapy Association Conference last April, in
Philadelphia. Also in April, she was invited to co-present
“Occupation and Well-Being,” at a conference for
the Refugee and Immigrant Mental Health Collaborative in Portland.
Black co-authored a chapter, “Where Passion Resides:
An Occupational Performance Analysis of Teaching,” in
the book, “The Spirit of Teaching,” by E. MICHAEL
BRADY, professor of education. Another co-authored chapter,
“Sustaining the Spirit of Teaching,” appeared in
the book “Clinician to Educator: What Experts Know in
Occupational Therapy.”
LAURIE CATON-LEMOS, lecturer and clinical instructor
of nursing, and GAYLE RUSSELL, lecturer and clinical
instructor of nursing, were selected to lead faculty/nurse
executive teams in the institute, “Leadership Initiative
for Nursing Education” held in USM’s Stone House
during August and funded by the Helene Fuld Health Trust.
Russell has also been accepted into the Helene Fuld Trust
funded summer Institute for Rural Community Health Nursing
held in Binghamton, N.Y. last June.
KAY DUTRAM, public health coordinator with the Institute
for Public Sector Innovation, The Muskie School, has been
selected as this year's recipient of the Maine Dietetic Association's
(MDA) Outstanding Dietitian of the Year Award. Dutram has
held several board positions and is a past president of the
MDA. She is currently Maine's delegate to the National American
Dietetic Association.
KATHLEEN A. EARLE, assistant research professor in
health policy and project director at the Institute for Child
and Family Policy, Muskie School, had her article, "Mental
Health Care for American Indians in Prison" published
in the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social
Work (Vol. 9, 2001). This article resulted from research funded
by a grant from the USM Faculty Senate. Earle has presented
the results of her research in American Indian child welfare
and mental health at five national conferences, four of these
invited presentations.
MATTHEW EDNEY, associate professor of American and
New England Studies and Osher Map Library scholar, and Osher
Map Library cartographic associate George Carhart, had their
article, “An Exercise in Map Genealogy: Guillaume Delisle’s
L’Amerique Septentrionale and Its Many Offspring,”
appear in Mercator’s World (July/August 2001).
JAMES FRIEDMAN, professor of law, gave a presentation,
"Concepts of Duty and War Crimes," to graduating
seniors at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, followed
by a lecture on "Israeli-Palestinian Politics" for
the Department of Social Sciences.
ROBYN HOLMAN, director of exhibitions, Lewiston-Auburn
College, received a $4,000 grant from the University of Maine
System in partnership with the Maine Humanities Council on
behalf of LAC’s Franco-American Heritage Collection for
an exhibition that will be held in November and December,
“l’Architecture vivante.” She also received
a grant from the Maine Historical Records Advisory Board enabling
the purchase of archival materials for storing photographs
and documents in the Franco-American Heritage Collection archives.
MICHEL LAHTI, Institute for Public Sector Innovation,
Muskie School, evaluation services manager and assistant research
faculty member, The Muskie School, attended the 27th annual
conference of the North American Council on Adoptable Children
in Charlotte, North Carolina, last August, where he presented
interim results on a longitudinal study of Maine families
adopting children with special needs.
LOIS R. LUPICA, associate professor of law, spoke
at the AALS Workshop in Bankruptcy in St. Louis, Missouri,
last May. She co-presented a program titled "Revised
Article 9's Impact in Bankruptcy." She wrote an article
for The American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review's Symposium
issue titled "Revised Article 9, Securitization Transactions
and the Bankruptcy Dynamic." She is currently a member
of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Certification
for Bankruptcy Lawyers for whom she helped draft certification
exam questions. In June, Lupica was the featured speaker at
the Pine Tree Legal Services Retreat, where she spoke on the
subject of effective negotiation.
LESLIE ROZEFF, co-director, Child Welfare Training
Institute (CWTI), The Muskie School, and BECKY HARVEY,
provider training coordinator, CWTI, were selected to present
a workshop, “Working with Children Who Present Sexual
Behavioral Problems: Overview of a Parenting Curriculum,”
at the 15th annual Foster Family Treatment Association conference
in Atlanta this past July.
ALISON RIESER, director, Marine Law Institute, and
professor of law, delivered a faculty colloquium at the W.S.
Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
titled "Endangered Seals and Sea Turtles: The Best Available
Science Mandate and Hawaii's Fisheries Litigation," last
March. In April, she presented a paper, "Train Wrecks
and Paradigm Shifts: Law, Science and the Ecosystem Approach
to Marine Fisheries," at the Stanford Law School's Environmental
Workshop.
MARTIN A. ROGOFF, Libra Professor of Law, will have
his review of the book “Note Affaire a tous (Everybody’s
Business)” titled, "Corruption, Democracy and the
Rule of Law," published in the Tulane European &
Civil Law Forum.
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