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DONNA CASSIDY, chair and professor of American and
New England Studies and professor of art, gave the keynote
address, "Yankee Queer: Marsden Hartley's Maine Folk and Regional/Sexual
Identities," at the Bates College Museum of Art Olin Arts
Center November symposium, "Marsden Hartley: Image and Identity."
She was also part of a panel discussion at the same event.
LORRAYNE A. CARROLL, associate professor of English,
and JOSEPH E. MEDLEY, associate professor of economics,
are working with Portland Adult Education on a New Books,
New Readers program (NBNR) for adult ESL classes. Carroll
has been involved with NBNR since its inception, about nine
years ago, and does most of her work in the Bolduc Correctional
Facility in Warren. Maine Humanities Council asked Carroll
to pilot this NBNR program for ESL students two years ago.
RAY CHEN, assistant professor of art, had a ceramic
sculpture, "Mother and Child," in the "Creations in Clay:
Contemporary New England Ceramics" exhibit in the Currier
Museum of Art, Manchester, N.H., July 2-September 6. A photo
of the sculpture appears in the October/November 2004 issue
of American Craft. He also served as a juror for the Stretch
Gallery & Studios "Funk-Tion-National Ceramics Exhibition/Competition
in Pineville, N.C. Chen, RICHARD LETHEM, lecturer in
art, NANCY SALMON, lecturer in theatre, and RICHARD
WILSON, lecturer in art, are all newly juried members
of the Maine Artist Access of the Maine Arts Commission, placing
them in the directory used by individuals and organizations
seeking to hire artists for residencies, workshops and commissions.
ORLANDO DELOGU, professor of law, presented a lecture
titled "Land Use, Sprawl and the Future of Coastal Maine"
as part of the Wiggins Lecture Series at the College of the
Atlantic.
BONITA DALY, assistant professor of business, will
have a co-authored article, "The Influence of Nationality
and Gender on Ethical Sensitivity: An Application of the Issue-Contingent
Model," in the Journal of Business Ethics.
JAMES FRIEDMAN, professor of law, was invited to give
a lecture at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois,
on "The Detention and Interrogation of Terrorist Suspects:
Legal and Ethical Issues."
CHRISTINE GALBRAITH, associate professor of law, was
invited to present "Striking a More Appropriate Balance: A
Web site Owner's Right to Exclude and the Public's Interest
in Obtaining Information" at a Works-in-Progress Colloquium
at Boston University Law School in September.
RITA HEIMES, director, Technology Law Center, served
as a panelist at a conference on Regulating Knowledge: Costs,
Risks and Models of Innovation, held at the European Parliament
in Brussels, Belgium, on November 9-10. Heimes' panel focused
on the impact of information technology patents on small and
medium-sized enterprises.
REBECCA GOODALE, lecturer in art, had an exhibit,
"Threatened and Endangered: Artist's Books," at Bowdoin College's
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, September 1-December 15. She
spoke at the library about her work on Thursday, October 21.
SAMANTHA LANGLEY-TURNBAUGH, associate professor and
chair, Environmental Science and Policy Program, will have
two co-authored papers appear in the Journal of Natural Resources
and Life Sciences Education (Volume 33, 2004): "Accommodating
Students with Disabilities in Soil Science Activities" (co-authored
with USM student Kate Murphy) and "Use of Whole Field Research
to Change Farm Management Practices."
LOIS LUPICA, professor of law, had her article, "Professional
Responsibility Redesigned: Sparking a Dialogue between Students
and the Bar," accepted for publication in The Journal of the
Legal Profession published by the University of Alabama Law
School. Lupica was a speaker at the National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges annual meeting in Nashville last October.
Her panel, on which she was both a speaker and moderator,
focused on "New Developments under Revised Article 9." Lupica
also presented "(Mis)Matched Expectations?: The Professor-Student
Relationship at USM" at a USM program.
JEFFREY MAINE, professor of law, was invited to be
a panelist at the eighth annual Maine Tax Forum in late October.
His panel addressed "Significant Court Cases in Federal and
State Tax Law."
DAVID PIERSON, assistant professor of media studies,
served as moderator for the Anti-War, Anti-Authoritarian War
Film Comedies and Parodies Panel and presented a paper, "It's
Not Every Day That You Get A Chance to Kill An Officer: Anti-Authoritarianism
and Generic Transformation in 1967-70 Combat War Films," at
Film & History's War in Film, Television and History Conference
in Dallas this November.
DEIDRE SMITH, associate professor of law, served on
a panel at the United States District Court Conference, held
in late October in Rockport, Me., on the demise of the civil
jury trial.
SUBHASH MEHTA, professor of marketing, had his co-authored
article, "Technology and its CRM Implications in the Shipping
Industry," published in International Journal of Technology
Management.
THOMAS WARD, professor of law, presented "Guarding
Against Double-Debtor Problems When Financing Technology Transfers"
at the annual meeting of the ABA's Commercial Finance Committee
in Philadelphia. The 2004 edition of Ward's treatise "Intellectual
Property in Commerce" was published in October.
JOHN R. WRIGHT, dean, College of Applied Science and
Technology, was awarded a Distinguished Service Citation from
Epislon Pi Tau, the International Honor Society for Professions
in Technology. The citation was presented to Wright at the
ribbon cutting of the Advanced Technology Wing of the John
Mitchell Center by JOHN MITCHELL, professor emeritus
of industrial arts.
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