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RICHARD BARRINGER, research professor of public policy
and management, Muskie School, chaired the first Blaine House
Conference on Maine's Natural Resource-Based Industries convened
by Governor John Baldacci.
FREDA BERNATOVICZ, director, Institute for Public
Sector Innovation (IPSI), Muskie School, gave a presentation
titled "Staffing a High Performance Training Unit" at the
National Conference of the National Staff Development and
Training Association in Anaheim, Calif. COLLEEN KELLEY,
training specialist, IPSI, PATRICIA MOSHER, co-director,
Child Welfare Training Institute, IPSI, and GRETCHEN ROBBINS,
manager, Staff Training, IPSI, also attended the conference.
BENJAMIN BERTRAM, assistant professor of English,
contributed his essay, "The Spectrality of the Sixties," to
a collection of essays titled "Historicizing Theory" (SUNY
Press).
BONNY BROWN-DENICO, lecturer in physical education,
is the national chair of the National Field Hockey Coaches
Association Division III North South Senior All-Star Game
Selection Committee. The Senior All Star Game was played in
Annville, Penn., and USM seniors Jessie Superchi and Deedra
Boudreau played in the game.
LISA L. CLARK, instructor and field work coordinator,
Master of Occupational Therapy Program, Lewison-Auburn College,
and ROXIE M. BLACK, director and associate professor,
Occupational Therapy Program, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented
at the annual Fall Practice Symposium of the Maine Occupational
Therapy Association on November 21, in Portland. Their talk
was titled "Applying the New Occupational Therapy Proactive
Framework to Practice."
CARMEN DORSEY, director, Criminal Justice Projects,
Muskie School, and GEORGE SHALER, coordinator, Evaluation,
IPSI, Muskie School, co-presented a school suspension/expulsion
project at the Justice Research Statistics Association annual
conference in California.
KIM T. GRANT, assistant professor of art, presented
a paper "L'Esprit Nouveau: Modernist Style and the Marketing
of Inspiration" at the fifth annual meeting of the Modernist
Studies Association in Birmingham, England, September 2003.
She has received a contract for her book "Surrealism and the
Visual Arts" from Cambridge University Press.
MARY HAWKINS, HR coordinator, IPSI, Muskie School,
was a member of the "Best Human Resource Practices" panel
and a presenter on "Performance Management" at the Blaine
House Conference on Volunteerism on October 16.
TERESA HUBLEY, research associate, IPSI, Muskie School,
co-presented a paper titled "Evaluating Maine's Lead Education
Project" at the American Public Health Association's annual
meeting.
MARY KELLEY, project specialist, Center for Learning,
Muskie School, showcased the Community Inclusion Technical
Assistance Project at the 11th annual National Case Management
Conference, "A Gathering for Growth." She also co-presented
on the Maine Motivational Interviewing Project (2001-2003).
MARK B. LAPPING, professor of public policy and management
and director of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy and Management,
Muskie School, learned recently that the American Planning
Association listed the book he co-authored, "The Small Town
Planning Handbook," as sixth on its list of 25 bestsellers.
FRANCIS C. McGRATH, professor of English, presented
a paper on "Unionist Parades in Northern Ireland" at a special
session on "Festivals: Ethnic, Aesthetic and Social Practices"
at the Modern Language Association annual convention held
in San Diego in December.
HAIG H. NAJARIAN, professor of biology, co-chaired
the "Life Cycles and Epidemiology" session of the 2003 annual
meeting of The American Society of Parasitologists held in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, last August.
THOMAS A. NEWTON, professor and chair of chemistry,
and USM graduate student in applied immunology and molecular
biology, Beth Ann Hill, had two related articles published
in the January issue of the Journal of Chemical Education:
"Using Conductivity Devices in Nonaqueous Solutions I: Demonstrating
the SN1 Mechanism," and "Using Conductivity Devices in Nonaqueous
Solutions II: Demonstrating the SN2 Mechanism."
DOUGLAS OFIARA, assistant professor of public policy
and management and visiting scholar in the Institute of Marine
and Coastal Sciences, was recently appointed to serve on a
working group regarding water quality issues for reauthorization
of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary over the 2004
period. Ofiara, DAHLIA BRADSHAW LYNN, associate professor,
public policy and management, and USM doctoral student Sharon
Timberlake, contributed 16 of the 396 entries to the "Encyclopedia
of Public Administration & Public Policy," (Facts on File
in 2004). The entries were on the subjects of the civil service
system, comparable worth, externalities, featherbedding, federal
reserve board, Federal Reserve System, fiscal policy, human
relations, Keynesianism, leadership, natural resource damage
assessments, reductions in force, senior executive service,
social capital, supply-side economics, and Theory Y.
EVAN RICHERT, associate professor, Muskie School,
will be a special advisor for the consulting team led by the
national transportation planning company HNTB in preparing
a strategic plan for the Route One corridor from Brunswick
to Prospect.
THOMAS PARCHMAN, associate professor of music, is
a member of the University of Maine Fogler Library Committee.
BARRY RODRIGUE, assistant professor of arts and humanities,
Lewiston-Auburn College, co-authored and co-editied a regional
history of south-central QuÚbec titled "Histoire rÚgionale
de Beauce-Etchemin-Amiante" (QuÚbec: Institut national de
la recherche scientifique, 2003). Rodrigue was also appointed
to the "Conseil de la vie franÙaise en AmÚrique (based in
QuÚbec) as conseiller adjoint à la recherche et au dÚveloppement.
MARILYN RUSSELL, research associate, Institute for
Child and Family Policy, Muskie School, presented for the
panel "Career Development and Licensing: Working Together
to Strengthen Early Learning Environments," at the 12th annual
National Licensing Seminar held in Portland, Maine.
CHRIS SADY, coordinator, Nutrition Network Project,
IPSI, Muskie School, presented at the annual Education Conference
on the American Association of Food Stamp Directors in Nevada.
JUDY SHEPARD-KEGL, professor of linguistics, will
present "Language Emergence in a Language-Ready Brain," on
January 10 at the 78th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society
of America held in Boston.
VALERIE STANFILL, visiting clinical professor, School
of Law, and acting director, Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic,
has been appointed to a four-year term on the Grievance Commission
of the Maine Board of Bar Overseers beginning January 1.
JUDY TUPPER, program manager, MaineNET, Muskie School,
presented a workshop on the MaineNET project at the sixth
International Conference on Care Management in Philadelphia.
She also presented "Improved Prescribing for the Elderly"
with MaineNET medical director Lisa Letourneau, M.D., at Redington-Fairview
General Hospital in Skowhegan.
KRISTIN WINSTON, fieldwork coordinator, Master of
Occupational Therapy Program, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented
a seminar, "Pediatric Feeding Follow-up in Occupational Therapy,"
at the annual fall Practice Symposium of the Maine Occupational
Therapy Association, held November 21, 2003, in Portland.
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