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EMMANUELLE CHAULET, arts events director, directed Pierre Corneille's "El Cid" at the Saint Lawrence Arts Center in Portland last June, and at the Theatre at Monmouth in August.

JANIS CHILDS, associate professor of nursing, presented her Laerdal Grant "Sim Man" study at 2004 Education Summit in Orlando, this September.

BONITA A. DALY, assistant professor of accounting, will have her article, "Color and Gender Based Differences in the Sources of Influence Attributed to the Choice of College Major," appear in Critical Perspectives on Accounting (Vol. 16, No. 1, January 2005, pp. 27-45).

EILEEN EAGAN, associate professor of history, had her book chapter, "Teaching Student Activism," appear in the new book "Taking Back The Academy!" (New York: Routledge, 2004).

CHARLIE FITTS, associate professor of geosciences, had his article, "Exact Solution for Two-Dimensional Flow to a Well in an Anisotropic Domain," published in the journal Ground Water. He also presented a paper, "Discrete Analytic Domains: A New AEM Formulation for Modeling Anisotropy and Heterogeneity," at the 2004 Fractured Rock Conference in Portland, sponsored by the USEPA and National Ground Water Association. The paper is about mathematical modeling research done during his spring 2004 sabbatical. Fitts also co-presented a conference session for students about career opportunities in the groundwater field.

PHYLLIS F. HEALY, associate professor of nursing, presented a paper on "The Life and Works of Mary Eugenie Hibbard" at the Central American Nurses Congress, in Panama City, Panama, last August.

MICHAEL HILLARD, professor of economics, published an article titled "Labor at 'Mother Warren': Paternalism, Welfarism, and Dissent at S.D. Warren 1854-1967" in the journal Labor History (Vol. 45, No. 1). His paper, "The Failure of Labor-Management Cooperation at Two Maine Paper Mills," was a winner of the "Best Papers" competition of the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA), and was presented on the best papers panel of the 2004 IRRA meetings held in San Diego last January. His 30-minute radio documentary, "Remembering Mother Warren," co-produced with JESSICA LOCKHART, lecturer in media studies and WMPG volunteer, and CLAIRE HOLMAN, ESL instructor and WMPG volunteer, aired statewide on Maine Public Radio on Labor Day, 2003, as well as nine other radio stations nationwide. The documentary was recently awarded the Maine Association of Broadcasters' First Place Award for Public Affairs Broadcasting.

LEWIS INCZE, senior research scientist, Bioscience Research Institute of Southern Maine, had the book he co-authored, "Atlantic Salmon in Maine," published in 2004 (Washington D.C.: National Research Council by the National Academies Press).

ERIC JAMES, financial specialist II (IPSI), Muskie School of Public Service, was invited to present "Financial Management & Grants Management" at a Financial Management Institute for the National Service Programs Conference sponsored by the Office of Leadership Development and Training at the Corporation for National Community Service, this September in Ft. Lauderdale.

ROSEMARY JOHNSON, associate professor of nursing, MARJORIE THOMAS LAWSON, associate professor of nursing, and JANE COOLIDGE, director of University Health Centers, presented "A Collaborative Partnership: Sharing Lessons Learned" at the 2004 Education Summit in Orlando this September.

DAVID JONES, associate professor of therapeutic recreation, presented a paper on "Parents Perspectives on Community Recreation Services for Their Children with Disabilities" at the Eighth World Leisure Conference in Brisbane, Australia, this September.

LINDA MEYER, associate professor of therapeutic recreation, presented an adaptive fishing clinic at Access '04 of Northern New England at the Whittemore Center at the University of New Hampshire in June 2004.

ELIZABETH PEAVEY, lecturer III in English, had her book, "Maine & Me: 10 Years of Down East Adventures," recently released by Down East Books.

EVE ALLEGRA RAIMON, associate professor of arts and humanities, Lewiston Auburn College, had her book, "The 'Tragic Mulatta' Revisited: Race and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction," recently published by Rutgers University Press.

ROBERT SANFORD, associate professor of environmental science and policy, had his book, "Site Plan and Development Review: A Guide for Northern New England," published by Putney Press this month. MARK LAPPING, professor of public policy and management, Muskie School of Public Service, wrote the forward.

NANCY RICHESON, assistant professor of therapeutic recreation, did a poster presentation at the 12th Annual National Alzheimer's Disease Association Conference in Philadelphia, July 2004.

SUSAN SEPPLES, associate professor of nursing, presented a paper on "Evidenced-Based Practice" at the Excellence in Cardiovascular Nursing Conference in Kalamazoo this September.

JUDY SPROSS, associate professor of nursing, presented "Adding Complementary Therapies to the Pain Management Toolbox" at the 10th Anniversary of the Maine Pain Initiative this September in Rockport.

BRIAN TOY, associate professor of sports medicine and director, Department of Sports Medicine, published "Incidence of Injury in a Women's Professional Football Team" in the Journal of Athletic Training in 2004, and gave a presentation on free communications at the National Athletic Trainers' Association 55th Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium in Baltimore last June.

DAVID WAGNER, professor of social work and sociology and bachelor's coordinator in social work, will have his book, "The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution," published in January by the Rowman-Littlefield Company. He will be presenting a paper, "Silent History: New England's Poorhouses and Poor Farms 1890-1967," at the New England Historical Association Conference in Rutland, Vermont. Earlier this year, Wagner was the keynote speaker in Iowa for a conference on Social Work and Social Justice, giving a talk titled "What's Social Justice Got To Do With It?" His article published in Newsday about the culture wars in American politics was syndicated nationwide.

SHELTON WALDREP, associate professor of English, had his book, "The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie," published in August by the University of Minnesota Press. His essay, "Economics and Performance: Wilde's Aesthetics of Self-Invention," appeared recently in "Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings and His World," (New York: AMS P). Waldrep has also been invited to contribute to "Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Oscar Wilde" (New York: MLA), and to "World Wide Mouse: The Walt Disney Company's Influence on Globalization."

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