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E. MICHAEL BRADY, professor of adult education and senior research fellow, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, presented research on peer teaching at Lifelong Learning Institutes at the April national meeting of the National Council on Aging/American Society on Aging in San Francisco. The research was published in the winter edition of Educational Gerontology: An International Journal. Steven R. Holt, graduate assistant at the Institute, and Betty Welt, a member of the Institute's research advisory group and member of Coastal Senior College were co-authors.

ORLANDO DELOGU, professor of law, will have his essay "The Maine Environment" appear in "Changing Maine: 1960-2010" (edited by RICHARD E. BARRINGER, research professor of public policy and management, Muskie School of Public Service, Tilbury House Publishers, June 2004).

MUHAMMAD EL-TAHA, professor of mathematics and chair of mathematics and statistics, had his co-authored paper "Dynamic Two-Leg Airline Seat Inventory Control with Overbooking, Cancellations, and No-Shows" accepted for publication by the Journal of Revenue & Pricing Management.

CHRISTINE GALBRAITH, associate professor of law, was selected as a conference fellow for the March conference sponsored by Michigan State University-DCL College of Law on "Intellectual Property, Sustainable Development and Endangered Species: Understanding the Dynamics of the Information Ecosystem." Galbraith also spoke last month to the Maine State Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section on "The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Its Impact on the Public Domain."

ANGELA CAPUTO GRISWOLD, legal writing fellow, gave a presentation on "Teaching Effectively with Presentation Technology" to the New England Legal Writing Consortium Teaching and Technology Conference at Harvard Law School last December.

KALI LIGHTFOOT, director, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), presented "Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes -- Making Liberal Arts Accessible" at a April 14 pre-conference workshop at the University Continuing Education Association National Conference in San Antonio. She also presented a panel on "Innovations at Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes," and spoke on the University of Southern Maine OLLI's ground-breaking service learning program at the April national meeting of the National Council on Aging/American Society on Aging in San Francisco.

JEFFREY MAINE, professor of law, was a panelist at a March symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas. His topic was "Taxing Domain Names." In February, Maine spoke to the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association on "Taxation of Intellectual Property: Transaction and Litigation Issues."

SUBHASH C. MEHTA, visiting professor of marketing, published a co-authored paper, "The Power of Interfacing Departments in Shaping B2B Customer Satisfaction" in The Marketing Management Journal (Fall 2003, Vol.13, Issue 2, pp. 61-70). He also presented a co-authored paper, "Geo-Demographic Data: A Global Perspective of GIS," at the International Academy of Business Disciplines, Eleventh International Conference in San Antonio last March. The paper is included in "Business Research Year Book, Global Business Perspectives" (Vol. XI, 2004, pp. 684-688).

ALISON RIESER, professor of law, helped organize a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Seattle last February on "Tough Decisions: Dealing with Uncertainty in Managing Marine Fisheries." Her talk was titled "Science is Not the Problem, but 'The Best Available Science' is Not Enough."

NANCY WANDERER, director, Legal Writing and Research Program and instructor of law, edited "Uniform Maine Citations" (March 2004, Maine Law Review.)

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