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ORLANDO DELOGU, professor of law, will be a keynote speaker at the October 9 conference, "Private Property and the Public Good: Achieving a Balance for Utah," sponsored in part by the Utah Department of Natural Resources and the Utah State Bar. Delogu also was one of 16 invited to participate in a colloquium, "Liberty and the City" in Victoria, British Columbia, held in September.
MUHAMMAD EL-TAHA, professor of mathematics, presented a paper
titled "Joint Probability Distribution of Multiple Selective Trunk Reservation Systems" at the sixth World Multiconference on Systemic, Cybernetics and Informatics held July 14-18 in Orlando, Fla. The paper, co-authored with a graduate student, will appear in the conference proceedings. His paper, "A Sample-Path Condition for the Asymptotic Uniform Distribution of Clearing Processes," was accepted for publication during 2002 by the
journal Optimization. Another paper, "Allocation of Service Time in a Two-server System" was accepted for publication this year in Computers and Operations Research. El-Taha had two co-authored papers accepted for publication in the journal Wastes Management and Research, titled "An Optimization Model for Regional Integrated Solid Waste Management I: Model Formulation" and "An Optimization Model for Regional Integrated Solid Waste Management II: Model Application and Sensitivity Analysis."
WILLIAM GAYTON, professor of psychology co-authored a chapter,
"The Problem of Children and Fire: An Historical Perspective," which appears in "Handbook on Firesetting in Children and Youth"
(Academic Press, 2002).
MICHAEL S. HAMILTON, associate professor of political science, and ROB SANFORD, associate professor of environmental science and policy, conducted a U.S. State Department sponsored course on "Environmental Impact Assessment for Managers," for Indonesian government officials visiting Maine last August.
EDWARD "ZIP" KELLOGG, reference librarian, spoke at the annual meeting of the Maine Library Association on "A Look Inside the World's Largest Library, the Library of Congress." He also spoke on "Visiting Maine's Many Waterfalls" to the Penobscot Valley Chapter of the Maine Audubon Society; "Maine's Biggest Trees and the Big Tree Register" to the Pine Tree State Arboretum; and "Canoeing the Lesser Know Streams of Maine" to the Appalachian Mountain Club.
COLLEEN KHOURY, dean and professor of law, and BETH SHORR, vice president for University Advancement, were presented Deborah Morton Awards at a ceremony on September 26 at the University of New England's Westbrook College Campus.
DIANA LONG, professor of history, was the invited speaker at the centenary celebration of Iota Sigma Pi, the first women's chemistry society. Her paper was titled, "'What the Evans Women Knew': Laboratory Life and Professional Organization at the University of California, Berkeley, 1900-1940."
LOIS LUPICA, professor of law, was invited to present her paper, "Revised Article 9 and the Competing Visions of Business Bankruptcy," at the Florida State University Law School in Tallahassee. Her article, "Revised Article 9, The Proposed Bankruptcy Code Amendments and Securitizing Debtors and Their Creditors," which she presented last year, was published in the most recent edition of the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law. She was awarded one of five National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Fellowships to attend their annual meeting later this year. The Maine Law Review (Symposium Edition, Vol. 53, No. 2) also contained articles by Lupica.
ALISON RIESER, professor of law, had the second edition of her casebook, "Coastal and Ocean Law: Cases and Materials," published by West Group this summer.
BARRY RODRIGUE, assistant professor of arts and humanities, Lewiston-Auburn College, provided research for Serge Courville's book "Immigration, Colonisation et Propagande: Du rêve américain au rêve colonial" (Ste Foy: Éditions MultiMondes, 2002).
FRANCIS SCHWANAUER, professor of philosophy, will present "Information (Qua Inference) is a Matter of Inertia and Gravitation (Addressing a Stalemate of the 20th Century)" at The Northern New England Philosophical Association annual conference at Plymouth State College on October 25. He gave a presentation at a poster session at the conference, "Toward a Science of Consciousness," held in Tuscon, Az. last April. In August, he presented "On the Nature of Real Currency," at the Realia and Institute for Advance Philosophic Research annual summer conference on Wealth and Society. He appears in "Who's Who in America, 2002" and "Who's Who in the World, 2002." Schwanauer serves on the editorial review board of Realia.
LEONARD J. SHEDLETSKY, professor of communication, co-authored "Using Electronic Discussion to Teach Communication Courses," which appeared in "Communication Education" (Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 325-331, July 2002).
HARRY SKY, senior consultant to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Maine Senior College Network, was named Outstanding Older Worker—2002 for Maine.
JENNIFER WRIGGINS, professor of law, had her article, "Interspousal Tort Immunity and Insurance 'Family Member Exclusions': Shared Assumptions, Relational and Liberal Feminist Challenges," appear in the Wisconsin Women's Law Journal (Vol. 17, No. 1, spring 2002).
NANCY WANDERER, director of legal writing and research programs and instructor of law, had her article "Writing Better Opinions: Communicating with Candor, Clarity and Style," appear in the Maine Law Review (Vol. 54, No.1).
THOMAS WARD, professor of law, had his paper, "The Perfection and Priority Rules for Security Interests in Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks: The Current Structural Dissonance and Proposed Legislative Cures," appear in The Maine Law Review (Symposium Edition, Vol. 53, No. 2).
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