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ROXIE M. BLACK associate professor and director of
the Master of Occupational Therapy Program at the Lewiston-Auburn
College, recently published an article in the American Journal
of Occupational Therapy titled "Occupational Therapy's Dance
with Diversity."
E. MICHAEL BRADY, professor of adult education and
senior research fellow, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
(OLLI), KALI LIGHTFOOT, director of OLLI, and Wallace
Nutting, president of the OLLI Board of Directors,
were panelists discussing the growth of OLLI and its expansion
to 14 Senior Colleges throughout Maine, at the The Elder Hostel
Institute Network conference Institutes for Learning in Retirement,
held in Salem, Mass. in March. OLLI founder, Rabbi Harry Z.
Sky gave the luncheon address at the conference.
SUSAN N. DONAR, project specialist, Institute for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School, recently completed the mentor portion of the University of Phoenix Online Facilitator Training. She is now a regular online facilitator in the Master's of Adult Learning with an E-Learning Emphasis program at the University of Phoenix where she is currently facilitating two classes: Adult Learning and Critical Issues in Education. She began teaching the curriculum development course for Southern New Hampshire University's Master's in Business Education program online, which she has developed as a distance education course. Donar has been asked by the University of Maine at Machias Alumni Association to deliver the keynote address at the annual precommencement dinner for the graduates and their parents on May 10.
KIM-MARIE MARTIN, coordinator of Advising Services, co-presented "Ethics
in Advising" with BETH HIGGINS, director of Advising,
at the National Academic Advising Association's regional conference
in Saratoga, N.Y. in March.
F. C. McGRATH, interim dean, College of Arts and Sciences, delivered a paper titled "The Irish Subaltern Settler: Frank McGuinness and Post Colonial Theory" at the American
Conference for Irish Studies southern regional meeting in Young
Harris, Ga.
SUSAN E. PICINICH, associate professor of theater and associate
dean, College of Arts and Sciences, was selected by jury to
make a poster presentation on how theater students learned three methods of costume pattern construction at the annual convention of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology held this February in New Orleans, La.
NANCY RICHESON, assistant professor of recreation therapy, and WILLIAM
McCULLOUGH, associate professor of therapeutic recreation,
recently completed a research project titled, "The Effects
of Animal-Assisted Therapy on the Subjective Well-Being of
Older Adults," which was carried out at three long-term care
facilities in the greater Portland area. Richeson will complete
a second research project titled "The Effects of Animal-Assisted
Therapy on the Agitated Behaviors of Older Adults with Dementia"
at Sentry Hill in York, Me. and Sherrill House, in Boston,
Mass.
J. MARK SCEARCE, assistant professor of music, has been selected as one of twelve guest composers for the University of Missouri-Columbia Festival of New Music which will take place on April 5-6. Scearce's "String Quartet 1°" will be featured in performance by the Esterhazy Quartet. His newly-commissioned work, "XL," was performed in a September concert opening the new concert hall of the North Carolina Symphony. His work "Endymion's Sleep" on the Warner Bros. label, was heard on National Public Radio in response to the tragedies of September 11 and was conducted by the composer with the Quincy (Ill.) Symphony in November. And his work "American Triptych" was released this year on the new double CD on Capstone Records by the musical group Mallarme. Scearce is also the new classical music writer for The Phoenix.
LEONARD J. SHEDLETSKY, professor of communication, co-authored, "Administrative Strategies for Successful Adoption of Computer Technology," which was published as the lead article in the May 2001 issue of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration (Vol. 30, No.2, pp. 39-49).
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