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LIBBY BARRETT, coordinator of photography and design, was invited to show her painted floor cloths as part of the "Work of the Hand," show at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, October 10-19.

AL BEAN, director of athletics and recreation, was asked to serve as national chair of the NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Committee during the final year of his service to the committee.

MERLE D. GUAY, professor of mathematics and statistics, had his research paper, "An Introduction to Preconvexity Spaces," accepted for publication in the refereed journal, Acta Math. Hungar.

CHRISTY HAMMER, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented a paper, "Practicing Sociology of Education: Social Reproduction and Constructivism in the Lives of Inservice Teachers," at the 11th Annual International Conference on Thinking in Phoenix, on July 28, 2003. The paper will be published in the conference proceedings.

TERESA A. HUBLEY, research associate, IPSI, Muskie School, was selected to present the paper she co-authored, "Evaluating Maine's Lead Education Project," during the session on "Nutrition and Environmental Factors in Maternal and Child Health" at the 131st annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 15-19, in San Francisco.

ROBERT LEHMANN, assistant professor of music, conducted the All-State Festival Orchestras in California and Maine, and was a guest artist with the DaPonte Quartet in June. He was invited to conduct the St. John Chamber Orchestra in Stockton, California in January.

CARTER MANNY, associate professor of business law, presented a paper titled "Canning Spam: U.S. and European Legislative Restraints On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in Nashville on August 15, 2003. His article, "Privacy Protection for Health Information Transferred Between the European Union and the U.S.: A Comparison of Legal Frameworks," was published in Business Law Review (Vol. 36, pp. 107-130).

MICHAEL O'DONNELL, professor of education, and MARGO WOOD, associate provost and dean of graduate studies and professor of education, are authors of the third edition of "Becoming a Reader: A Developmental Approach to Reading Instruction" (Allyn & Bacon, 2004).

DAVID PIRANI, director of admission, has been selected to serve on The Princeton Review Higher Education Advisory Board.

THOMAS POWER, associate professor of theatre, will have a staged reading of his new play, "The Bridge" at the Theater Project in Brunswick at 7:30 p.m., Friday, November 7. His musical-drama, "Grannia", will be produced at The Mac Theater in Chicago in September of 2004.

NANCY RICHESON, assistant professor of therapeutic recreation, was awarded the American Therapeutic Recreation Association Member of the Year Award at the 2003 awards ceremony held during the annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Richeson is an active member of ATRA as well as her local chapter affiliate.

BARRY RODRIGUE, assistant professor of arts and humanities, Lewiston-Auburn College, and LAC student Marie Jones gave the inaugural presentation for Sagadahoc Preservation's Fall Lecture Series in Bath, on September 9, at which they discussed their research about ethnic and labor diversity of Bath, Maine, in 1850. Rodrigue was also promoted to the Level 1 list for Historical Archeologists in Maine by the State Historic Preservation Commission.

J. MARK SCEARCE, assistant professor of music, received three internal grants for copying his music and two commissions this summer: one for the Choral Arts Society of Portland to premiere at Christmas; the other a ballet for the Nashville Ballet and Chamber Orchestra, which premiered October 17. The Fry Street Quartet performed the Maine premiere of his work at the opening Faculty Concert Series in Corthell Hall October 3, and the Bangor Symphony performed the Maine premiere of another of his works during their season opening performance on September 21. In addition, he was just elected to the new Gen Ed Council.

LEONARD SHEDLETSKY, professor of communication, co-authored the forthcoming book "Human Communication on the Internet" (Allyn & Bacon, 2004).

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