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BRUCE ANDREWS, professor of business administration and director/senior research associate, Center for Business and Economic Research, BERT SMOLUK, associate professor of finance, and JOHN VOYER, co-director and chair of MBA faculty, and professor of business administration, prepared an article titled "A Methodology for Analyzing the Effects of Geographic Diversification for Financial Institutions" that was accepted for publication in the January issue of the American Business Review.

JOSEPH M. AUSTIN, dean of Student Life, attended the National Association of Student Affairs Personnel Administrators annual conference, and has been asked to be a member of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education Think Tank for Associate Vice Presidents of Student Affairs, which meets five times a year.

FREDA BERNOTAVICZ, director, Institute of Public Sector Innovation (IPSI) and adjunct associate professor of public policy and management, Muskie School, MARY HAWKINS, human resources specialist, Muskie School, and MARSHALL SOLOWAY, manager, computer technology, IPSI, Muskie School, didÊtwo presentations at the National StaffÊDevelopment and Training AssociationÊConference in Nashville, last November on "Agency/University Training Partnerships," and "Linking Individual and OrganizationalÊEffectiveness."

PENTHEA BURNS, coordinator II, child welfare projects, IPSI, Muskie School, and a youth from her program attended the APWA Conference in Nashville, TN., last November, where they presented on "Maine Leadership with Youth Involvement in Child Welfare Training and Organizational Development."

LOREN COLEMAN, adjunct associate professor, Core Curriculum, will have his book "Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America" published in March 2003 by Simon and Schuster. Putnam will be publishing Coleman's "The Field Guide to Lake Monsters and Sea Serpents" next November. In 2003, Coleman will be speaking at conferences in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Maine, and London, U.K. In 2004, Simon and Schuster will be publishing Coleman's investigation of the media, "The Copycat Effect."

WAYNE COWART, professor of linguistics, presented a paper, "Dialects in that-trace," at a conference on gradedness in linguistic phenomena organized by the University of Potsdam, Germany, last October.

CARMEN DORSEY, manager of public welfare and criminal justice, IPSI, Muskie School, and STACI GRASKY, coordinator of technology, IPSI, Muskie School, did a presentation at the National Staff Development and Training Association conference on "Recidivism Research and its Project Specifications."

KALI LIGHTFOOT, director, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), along with two OLLI members, Mickey Friedman and Claire Knox, gave a panel presentation called "Accidental Pioneers" at the Maine Women's Studies 17th annual consortium conference in October.

LOIS LUPICA, professor of law, has been elected to the executive committee of the American Board of Certification as chair of the Faculty Committee.

ANDREA THOMPSON McCALL, assistant dean of student life and university chaplain, attended the Campus Compact National Summit in Providence last November.

GIL MONT, coordinator, Residential Custodial Services, CARL HILL, assistant director, Facilities Services, Department of Residential Life, and DENISE MARCOUX NELSON, director, Department of Residential Life, attended a professional workshop in Nashville to review trends and information pertaining to facilities and maintenance.

JENNY NELSON, manager, Sullivan Recreation & Fitness Complex, is a Wilson-sponsored racquetball player, and has been elected to the board of the Maine Racquetball Association.

NOELLE NEUWIRTH, athletic Web master, wrote an article, "District and Club Web Sites: The Importance of Content and Management," that appeared in the September issue of The Lion.

WILLIAM STEELE, associate professor of theater, recently narrated two national corporate CDs for On Technology and J.H. Emerson through Thunder Sky Pictures in Boston. Both narrations were sanctioned by the Screen Actor's Guild. Steele's radio play, "The Shoot," which aired on Maine Public Radio this past April, won a national Crystal Award for Excellence audio award from the Communicator Awards in its Writer/Drama category for 2002.

DONALD ZILLMAN, Godfrey Professor of Law, was asked to serve as independent counsel to the Maine House of Representatives in the District 80 electoral dispute involving Stan Moody and Elaine Fuller.

MELINDA ZIMMER-RANKIN, clinical instructor, Lewiston-Auburn College, published an article in the American Journal of Palliative Care titled "TNEEL, A Review." She received one of the first American Association of Colleges of Nursing End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Award for her work done on end-of-life care with undergraduate nursing students. Zimmer-Rankin was accepted to speak at the 21st annual International Nursing Computer and Technology Conference in Orlando, April 2003.

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