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ERIKA ANDERSON, assistant professor of communication, recently co-authored a paper, "Communication, Social Support, and Emotional Quality of Life in the Twelve-Step Sobriety Maintenance Process: Three Studies," which received the Top Paper Award at the International Communication Association. The paper will be presented at the ICA conference in May.

SCOTT W. BROWN, professor of psychology, presented a paper at the New England Sequencing and Timing thirteenth annual meeting at Yale University on March 15. The paper, co-authored by USM alumna Stephanie M. Merchant, was titled "Attentional Resources in Timing and Sequencing."

EILEEN EAGAN, associate professor of history, will be on a panel discussing art and labor at the April 4 meeting of the Southern Maine Labor Council at SALT Gallery, Portland.

SUSAN F. FEINER, associate professor of economics and women's studies, is the co-author of the book "Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and the Economy" to be published by the University of Michigan Press this fall. Her essay "The Political Economy of the Divine" was published in "Self Deception and Exchange" (Kluwer Academic Press, 2003). While on sabbatical in South Australia, she was a visiting research scholar at The Hawke Institute, where she convened and directed the first graduate seminar on feminist economics in Australia. She was also an invited speaker at La Trobe University in Melbourne, and The University of Queensland in Brisbane.

STEPHEN POLLOCK, professor of geosciences, NATHAN HAMILTON, associate professor of geography and anthropology, and two students, Frank Lynham and Cindy Henry, co-authored the paper, "Petrology of Pre-Columbian Pottery from the Cadet and Desmarreau Sites, Haiti." Henry presented the paper at the joint meeting of the Geological Society of America Northeastern Section and the Atlantic Geoscience Society, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia in March.

LORAINE LOWELL, circulation assistant, university libraries, and PHYLLIS vonHERRLICH, Muskie School of Public Service, co-authored the paper, "Personal Economies: Living on the Edge with Nothing Left to Give," with Janine Bonk, University of Maine, Farmington. Lowell, vonHerrlich, and Jane Crouch, University of Maine, were invited to present the paper at the National Education Association Higher Education Conference held in Washington D.C. in February. The paper can be seen on the Web at http://www.acsum.org.

ROSE MARASCO, professor of art, will have a solo exhibition of color photographs and cibachromes, "Circles," at The Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York City, from March 27-May 10.

MAUREEN PERRY, reference librarian, university libraries, reviewed "The Persuasion Handbook" in the January 2003 issue of Choice.

KATHRYN QUINN-SANCHEZ, assistant professor of Spanish, presented the paper, "Subverting Cultural Oppression: The House on Mango Street," at the New England Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Hartford in October. Also in October, she presented "Balancing Self and Community" at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at Furman University, Greenville, S.C. In March, she presented a paper titled "Latina Femininists in the Ivory Tower," at the New England Modern Language Association's Conference.

ROBERT SANFORD, associate professor of environmental science and policy, was a keynote speaker at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission training program, "Community Open Space Planning," held in South Berwick in March.

MARGO WOOD, associate provost and dean of graduate studies, contributed an article, "Teaching of Language Arts," to the second edition of the "Encyclopedia of Education," (MacMillan, November 2002).

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