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BENJAMIN BERTRAM, assistant professor of English,
presented a paper on Christopher Marlowe at the Shakespeare
Association of America meeting in New Orleans.
SCOTT W. BROWN, professor of psychology, presented
a research paper at the New England Sequencing and Timing
annual meeting at Yale University, in March. The paper, co-authored
with research assistant and USM graduate Stephanie M. Merchant,
was titled "Timing, Sequencing, and Temporal Processing Resources."
SUSAN CAMPBELL, executive director, Division of Advising
and Academic Resources, and adjunct associate professor of
adult education, is the recipient of this year's National
Academic Advising AssociationŐs Service to NACADA Award, in
recognition of her dedication to improving academic advising.
The award will be presented at the October NACADA National
Conference in Cincinnati.
RACHEL FROST, computer trainer, Muskie School of
Public Service, will present "Catching the E-Learning Wave:
Simple Solutions For Your E-Learning Strategy," at the Information
Technology Training Conference this June, in Newport, RI.
LARRY GLANTZ, project director of CHOICES, Muskie
School of Public Service, participated in the panel, Outcomes:
Measures, Data Sources, and Analytic Methods, during a national
conference on "Using State Data for Policy Research and Evaluation,"
held March 25 in Baltimore. He shared research approaches
and findings from his four-year CHOICES Medicaid Infrastructure
Project.
MICHAEL S. HAMILTON, associate professor of political
science, has been quoted in a Wired News article on "Using
Capitalism to Clean the Sky" at http://www.wired.com. Hamilton
also authored a guest editorial advocating for the creation
of a Maine Merit Scholarship in the Bangor Daily News titled
"Will There Ever be HOPE for Maine Students?"
BETH KILBRETH, associate research professor at the
Muskie School of Public Service, was a recent panelist at
the Harvard Forum on Health: The Uninsured, a series of conferences
put on by the Harvard School of Public Health and co-sponsored
by Health Affairs and the New America Foundation.
ROBERT KLOTZ, assistant professor of political science,
read from his new book, "The Politics of Internet Communication,"
at Longfellow Books in Portland this past April.
DAHLIA BRADSHAW LYNN, associate professor of public
policy and management, Muskie School of Public Service, was
elected chair of the Section on Personnel Administration and
Labor Relations for the American Society for Public Administration.
SUBHASH C. MEHTA, visiting professor of marketing,
was invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of
International Business and Entrepreneurship Development.
EVAN RICHERT, associate research professor and program
director for the Gulf of Maine Census for Marine Life, Muskie
School of Public Service, led a conference in Woods Hole,
Mass., last March where key scientists and policy advisors
from Canada and the U.S. focused on the Gulf of Maine Census
research findings to date.
MARTIN ROGOFF, professor of law, wrote a review for
the Columbia Journal of European Law titled "One, Two, Three,
Four, Five and Counting: A Sixth French Republic?" on books
by Paul Allies and Olivier Duhamel.
MARILYN RUSSELL, director, Child Care and Early Education
Career Development Center, Muskie School of Public Service,
provided design support to the 2004 Maine Children's Congress
held last March.
ROBERT RUSSELL, professor of music, conducted "Carmina
Burana" on March 20 at Portland's Merrill Auditorium with
the Choral Art Society, USM Chorale, Portland Ballet, and
members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. He also conducted
the Masterworks Festival Chorus, a 120-voice high school ensemble
comprising six area high school chamber choirs, in an April
performance of Haydn's "Missa Cellensis."
CHRIS SADY, coordinator of the Nutrition Network
Project, Muskie School of Public Service, traveled to West
Virginia to help create a state nutrition network there.
ROBERT SANFORD, associate professor of environmental
science and policy, reviewed "Drumbeat for Mother Earth: How
Persistent Organic Pollutants Threaten the Natural Environment
and the Future of Indigenous Peoples," and "Fire: A Brief
History" for the Anthropology Review Database (http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/showme.cgi?keycode=1725
and http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/showme.cgi?keycode=1740).
Sanford also recently co-authored reviews of "Master Plan
Review in Resort Development: The Case of Stratton Mountain,Vermont,"
published in the Pennsylvania Geographer (Vol. 41, No. 2,
pp. 3-24), and "Everybody's Included: Environmental Education
for Students with Disabilities," for the New England Journal
of Environmental Education (Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 3-9).
KRIS SAHONCHIK and PETER WATSON, director and
associate director of the National Child Welfare Resource
Center for Organizational Improvement, Muskie School of Public
Service, were asked by the federal government to participate
in a series of meetings in Washington, D.C. to discuss the
future of the U.S. Child and Family Services Review process.
DEBORAH TUERKHEIMER, associate professor of law, had
her article "Recognizing and Remedying the Harm of Battering:
A Call to Criminalize Domestic Violence," accepted for publication
by Northwestern's Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
(late summer or early fall, 2004).
DAVID VARDEMAN, interlibrary loan assistant, presented
his play, "Because it is Bitter and Because it is My Heart,"
at the Palm Springs International Play Festival in California
in March. The play was one of six chosen for presentation
out of 250 submissions.
MARTI ZANGHI, manager of the Youth Development Programs,
Muskie School of Public Service, presented a workshop at the
April National Independent Living-Transitional Living Conference,
in Washington D.C. on the 2003 publication, "Promising Practices:
How Foster Parents Can Support the Successful Transition of
Youth from Foster Care to Self-Sufficiency." He was also the
keynote speaker at the Oklahoma State Independent Living Conference
in Oklahoma City in April.
MEL ZARR, professor of law, was the keynote speaker at the
Law Day Celebration of "Winning Equality by Law: The 50th
Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education" at Portland's
Federal Courthouse in April.
DON ZILLMAN, Godfrey Professor of Law, co-authored three
chapters, including one with recent graduate Michael Bigos
('03), in an Oxford University Press book, "Energy Security:
Managing Risk in a Dynamic Legal and Regulatory Environment."
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