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INDIA L. BROYLES, associate professor of education, and KENNETH P. NYE, assistant professor of educational leadership, presented their paper, "Making the Transition from School Administration to Academia" at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Montreal, Canada, last April.

ARDIS CAMERON, director and associate professor of American and New England Studies, was invited to give the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture for Women's History Month at the Lowell National Park in February.

ROSEMARY J. CLEARY, assistant professor of social and behavioral sciences, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented a paper, "Tradition, Soul and Culture in the Work of Thomas Moore," at the American Psychological Association for the Division of Humanistic Psychology in Boston in August.

SUSAN F. FEINER, associate professor of economics and women's studies, has been appointed by the executive committee of the Greater Portland Council of Governments to the Board of Directors of the Southern Maine Economic Development District.

TERRY B. FOSTER, director of Center for Extended Academic Programs, represented Senior College at the Elderhostel Institute Network conference last June in Washington, D.C.

ROY A. GALLANT, director of the Southworth Planetarium, delivered a paper, "The Tsarev Meteorite Shower of 1922," before the Mid Atlantic Planetarium Society in Lancaster, Penn., last May. Gallant spent two weeks in July north of the Arctic Circle investigating the Popigai impact site in northern Siberia.

TARA HEALY, assistant professor of social work, authored the chapter, "A Struggle for Language: Patterns of Self-Disclosure in Lesbian Couples," in "Lesbians & Lesbian Families" (Joan Laird, ed., March 1999). She also presented a paper titled "Factors Influencing Social Workers' Support of Autonomy for Elders Experiencing Cognitive Impairment" at the 45th annual meeting of the American Society on Aging last March.

JAN L. HITCHCOCK, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented a paper, "Risk Perception and Gender," at the second biennial international meeting of the Risk Assessment and Policy Association last March.

WILLEM KLOOSTER, assistant professor of history, is the 1999 co-winner in its division of the Leab Exhibition Catalogue Awards for his "The Dutch in the Americas, 1600-1800."

ELAINE MAKAS, adjunct associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented two papers: "Major Minority Research Issues" and "An Update on the MIDS as It Approaches Sweet Sixteen," at the annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies in Washington D.C. last May.

CARTER MANNY, associate professor of business law, presented a paper titled, "European Privacy v. American Liberty: The Controversy Surrounding the Data Protection Directive of the European Union" at the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Regional Business Law Association in Boston last April. In August, Manny presented a paper, "Improved Privacy for Transatlantic Information Transfers: American Efforts to Comply with the European Union’s Data Protection Directive" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in St. Louis. The paper has been accepted for publication in the conference proceedings.

WILLIAM T. McCULLOUGH, associate professor of therapeutic recreation, gave a presentation titled, "Animal Assisted Therapy in Long Term Care Environments" at the April meeting of the Southern Maine Activity Coordinators Association.

SALLIE NEALAND, assistant professor of nursing, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented a paper, "How Nursing Students Reflect & Learn From Service Learning," last June at the Rural Service Learning Conference at St. Joseph’s College.

RICHARD L. PATTENAUDE, president, was a panelist at a recent leadership development conference in Biloxi, Miss. hosted by the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. The conference title was "The Role of University Research in Innovation and Economic Development: Partnerships among Industry, Academia & State Government."

STEPHEN J. ROMANOFF, associate professor of interdisciplinary studies and director of Russell Scholars, co-presented a paper, "Reaching Across America: Building a Virtual Learning Community," at the annual conference of the Washington Center for "Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education: Transforming Campuses Through Learning Communities," in Seattle last May.

ROBERT M. SANFORD, assistant professor of environmental science and policy, received the United States Environmental Protection Agency 1999 Environmental Educator Award for his environmental education outreach program to promote Project WET (Water Education for Teachers).

ROBERT SCHAIBLE, associate professor of arts and humanities, Lewiston-Auburn College, served as a consultant on integrating science and arts/humanities into the education curriculum at Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, during a two-week workshop (May 24- June 4) funded by the National Science Foundation. On June 17-21, he attended the national conference "In Praise of Education," held in Seattle, and gave a paper titled, "Teacher as Authority: An Obstacle to Democratic Education." In July he attended, as vice-president for conferences, the annual council meeting of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, in Portsmouth, N.H. From July 31-August 7, he attended the Institute's 46th annual Star Island Conference on "Sexuality and Human Nature: A Scientific, Religious, and Moral Exploration," at which he led a seminar on "The Poetry of Human Sexuality."

JURIS UBANS, professor of art, presented a lecture at a University of New England exhibit of his father's paintings last April. Ubans' artwork was part of the May exhibit, "Six Artists Fishing at Spencer Pond," at the Robert Clements Gallery, Portland, which moved on to the Schmidt-Bingham Gallery in New York City in June and July. Ubans opened a solo exhibition of his work at the Ivonna Veiherte Gallery in Riga, Latvia in June.

BUMPER WHITE, assistant professor of clinical education, TEAMS Program, Lewiston-Auburn College, attended the conference "In Praise of Education: A National Conference Celebrating Educational Renewal" at the Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle in June, where he presented a paper titled "Designing a New Professional Development School Program." He also attended the fifth annual Professional Development Schools Conference, "Diversity in Professional Development Schools-- Challenges and Opportunities" at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., last March, where he presented "Designing a Professional Development Program for the Non-Traditional Student."

JIE ZHAO, assistant professor of history, presented her paper, "Scholars in the Marketplace: Temptations and Misgivings," at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) last March.

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