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BRUCE ANDREWS, director and professor, Center
for Business and Economic Research, and CHARLES S.
COLGAN, professor of public policy and management,
Muskie School, and associate director, Center for Business
and Economic Research, submitted an article, "Beyond the Unemployment
Rate: Workforce Profiles for Economic Development" to the
Economic Development Quarterly. Andrews, JOHN B. JENSEN,
associate professor of business administration, BERT
SMOLUK, assistant professor of finance, and former
student Irene Yegorova, were among the co-authors of the article,
"A Successful Neural Network-Based Methodology for Predicting
Small Business Loan Default," that appeared in the fourth
quarter 2001 issue of The Credit and Financial Management
Review. A version of the same work was presented at the Northeast
Decision Sciences Institute National Conference in April of
2002. Andrews and Yegorova won the Best Paper award for their
paper "Training Distribution Strategies for Optimizing Network
Classification Models" presented at the Information Resources
Management Association International Conference in May 2002.
E. MICHAEL BRADY, professor of adult education
and senior research fellow, Osher Lifeline Learning Institute,
and KALI LIGHTFOOT, director, Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute, presented "The Age of Discovery"
a workshop on older learners at the Maine Adult Education
Association on October 25 at the Sheraton Hotel in South Portland.
DAVID CAREY JR., assistant professor of history, had his article, "Technological and Gendered Pathways to Women's Empowerment and Community Development" published in the "Gender and Technology" issue of TechTrends (November/December 2002, Vol. 46, No. 6) .
ANDREW F. COBURN, professor and director,
Institute for Health Policy, Muskie School, had his paper,
"Rural Long Term Care: What do We Need to Know to Improve
Policy and Programs?" appear in the Journal of Rural Health
(Vol. 18, pp. 256-269). Coburn, ROBERT KEITH,
research analyst, Institute for Health Policy, and ELISE
BOLDA, associate professor, Muskie School, had their
paper, "The Impact of Rural Residence on Multiple Hospitalizations
in Nursing Facility Residents," appear in Gerontologist (Vol.
44, No. 5, pp. 661-666). Coburn and ERIKA ZILLER,
research associate, Institute for Health Policy, were among
the co-authors of the article "Patterns of Health Insurance
Coverage Among Rural and Urban Children," that appeared in
Medical Care Research Review (Vol. 59., No. 3, pp. 272-292).
JOSEPH A. CONFORTI, professor of American and New England studies, won the annual book award of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association for his book "Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century." The book was reviewed in the Association's fall newsletter.
PIERRE M. FIORINI, assistant professor of computer science, presented and published a paper titled "An Analytic Approach to Assess the Preformability of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems" at the International Society for Computers and Their Applications conference held September 19-21, in Louisville, Kentucky.
DAVID HARTLEY, associate professor, Muskie School, co-authored an article, "Behavioral Health: Setting the Rural Health Research Agenda," published in the Journal of Rural Health (Vol. 18, pp. 242-255). Hartley reviewed the article "Use, Quality and Outcomes of Care for Mental Health: The Rural Perspective," in Medical Care Research and Review (Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 266-271).
ELIZABETH WISNER HAZARD, adjunct professor of history, has been accepted as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the East, Manila, Philippines, where she will research "Crafting a Usable Past in the Philippines: An Analysis of History Textbooks in the 20th Century."
CAROLYN C. HUGHES, head of acquisitions and serials services, USM Libraries, received the Southern Maine Library District's (SMLD) 2002 Certificate Of Appreciation at the District's spring council meeting last May in recognition of her "outstanding service for the citizens and members of the Southern Maine Library District with special thanks for continued dedication to the library community." Hughes has been a member of the SMLD public relations committee since 1987. She has been active in the Maine Library Association (MLA), and served on its executive board and co-chaired MLA's public relations committee.
DAVID B. JONES, associate professor of therapeutic recreation, serves on the board of the National Therapeutic Recreation Society, and received a Presidential Citation Award for outstanding service to the field of therapeutic recreation at the National Recreation and Park Association Annual Congress in Tampa, Fla. At the Congress he presented "Internship Screening and Evaluation Tool Development." Last spring Jones was awarded the Outstanding Service Award in Therapeutic Recreation by the Maine Recreation and Park Association.
AMY LITTELL, manager, Employee Assistance Program, was elected secretary of the Maine Chapter of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association.
CARTER H. MANNY, associate professor of business law, was invited to attend a European Commission conference on September 30 and October 1 in Brussels, that reviewed the current status of European data protection law. The Commission requested a copy of his article, "European and American Privacy: Commerce, Rights and Justice," which was recently accepted for publication in a European journal, The Computer Law and Security Report. Another article, "Privacy Protection for Personal Financial Data Transferred from Europe to the U.S.," has been published in Business Law Review (Spring 2002, Vol. 35, pp. 67 – 82).
ELIZABETH A. MORIN, director, Department
of Conferences, and SHERRY A. PHILLIPS, conference
specialist, were asked to speak at the Association for Collegiate
Conference and Event Directors International's regional meeting
at Yale University in November, on the topic, "Partnerships:
How To Keep Your Conference Operation Busy Year Round."
SUSAN PAYNE, professor, Muskie School, co-authored an article, "The Relationship of Post-Discharge Home Care Use to Medicaid Utilization and Expenditures," that appeared in Health Services Research (Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 683-710). She also was one of the co-authors of the article, "Does More 'Appropriateness' Explain Higher Rates of Cardiac Procedures Among Patients Hospitalized with Coronary Heart Disease?" that appeared in Medical Care (Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 500-509).
DAVID PIERSON, assistant professor of media studies, presented a paper, "Turner Network Television's Made-for-TV Western Films and the Social Construction of Authenticity," at The American West(s) in Film, TV and History conference held November 7-10 in Kansas City, Missouri. At the Popular Culture Association's 32nd annual conference held in Toronto last March, Pierson presented a paper, "Hey, They're Just Like Us: Representations of the Animal World in the Discovery Channel's Nature Programming."
RUTH O. RALPH, senior research associate,
Muskie School, DAVID LAMBERT, assistant research
professor of health policy and management, Muskie School,
and KATHRYN A. KIDDER, research analyst in
the Muskie School, have authored a paper "The Recovery Perspective
and Evidence-Based Practice for People with Serious Mental
Illness" which is published on the following Web site: http://bhrm.org/guidelines/mhguidelines.htm.
Ralph wrote an article "The Dynamics of Disclosure: Its Impact
on Recovery and Rehabilitation" that appears in the fall issue
of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.
R. BRUCE THOMPSON, assistant professor of psychology, presented a paper, "Age and Gender Effects in Preschoolers' Collaborative Speech" to the 2002 joint meeting of the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders and the International Congress for the Study of Child Language that was held in Madison, Wisconsin. Thompson and Stacie Arsenault, a senior psychology major, presented a conference paper, "The Effects of Preschoolers' Verbal and Non-verbal Help-seeking Communication on Teachers' Evaluation of Problem-Solving," to the New England Psychological Association annual conference.
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