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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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