University Reporter University Publications and Campus Newsletters

University of Massachusetts Boston ScholarWorks at UMass Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter University Publications and Campus Newsletters

4-1-2003 University Reporter - Vol. 07, No. 07.2 (Special Edition) - April 2003 University of Massachusetts Boston

Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/university_reporter Part of the Higher Education Administration Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons

Recommended Citation University of Massachusetts Boston, "University Reporter - Vol. 07, No. 07.2 (Special Edition) - April 2003" (2003). 1996-2009, University Reporter. Paper 126. http://scholarworks.umb.edu/university_reporter/126

This University Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications and Campus Newsletters at ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1996-2009, University Reporter by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE UNIVERSITY

UMASS® Under coach Laura Schuler, or er BOSTON the UMass Boston women's hockey team is on the rise.

Volume 7, Number 4 April 2003

TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CE NTER Upswing in Activity UMass Boston at Nantucket Field Selected As Potential Station Regional IT Site Plans are in place for Following a visit to area expanded course offerings schools and a forum for edu and a semester-long resident cation shareholders at UMass student program at the Boston, National Science Nantucket Field Station, a val Foundation officers have given ued UMass Boston resource the university a favorable for students and researchers review in its bid to become a that encompasses study facili center for Boston's community ties, office space, and a hous colleges and K-12 districts ing unit. Turn to page 3. helping to meet the demand for information technology workers. Turn to page 2. WORLD AFFAIRS UMass Boston Chancellor Jo Ann Gora during a recent interview w ith WBZ-TV's Dan Rea '70. RESEARCH Grad Interprets U.S. Politics for a Using Satellite UMass Boston's Record of Worldwide Audience Images to Preserve German author and com the Environment Service: Been There, Still Doing mentator Robert von Rimscha UMass Boston biology draws on his experiences in professor Kamaljit Bawa uses the United States and as a images provided by satellites That, and Ready to Do _More UMass Boston student as he to study defore station and Contributing to the ongoing tribution to economic develop For the past 17 years, the attempts to explain the other forms of environmental discussion about the purpose ment. Whether helping to spawn Urban Harbors Institute has American political landscape degradation in the tropics, and future of Massachusetts' new businesses or providing played a critical role in the cleanup and EuropeanlU.S. relations to hoping to collect data that can public institutions of higher incubator space for start-ups, of Boston Harbor. The analysis of observers on both sides of the be used to improve conserva learning, Chancellor Jo Ann these efforts are consistent with the Massachusetts economy by Atlantic. Turn to page 5. tion policies and develop alter Cora recently made the follow our role as a research institution Alan Clayton-Matthews has been native uses for land. Turn to ing remarks about the university in the state's most economically at the forefront of discussions page 4. she heads: diverse and powerful city. from Beacon Hill to Capitol Hill. RESEARCH UMass Boston, by virtue of Let me provide some exam The groundbreaking work of Lois the strengths of its faculty and ples. Just two weeks ago we met Biener at the Center for Survey Study Shows Lack of Culture-Specific SPORTS its mandate to award advanced with the National Science Research has been critically degrees and pursue research at Foundation as finalists for a $3 important to the Massachusetts Services Women's Hockey Is a high level, is a significant million grant that will make Department of Public Health in UMass Boston researchers a Winner at UMass research institution. We are a UMass Boston a regional tech assessing the impact of its anti Connie Chan and Lin Zhan Boston doctoral degree- granting insti nology center connecting the tobacco programs. examine how limited availabil tution, and the research initia university, community colleges, A research university, by def ity of bicultural and bilingual Looking to establish tives of our faculty and staff and K- 12 schools. Last year our inition, serves its region in a resources poses difficulties for another great Boston sports have an important and positive Environmental and Business range of areas. UMass Boston elderly Asian American women tradition and capitalize on impact on the City and the Technology Center helped educates undergraduates, grants seeking health and social ser hockey'S growing popularity Commonwealth. Through the Woburn-based ElectroChem, doctoral degrees, partners with vices. Turn to page 2. among women, UMass Boston work of our "think tanks"-our Inc., formulate a strategy that local businesses, and embraces has announced that its 25 research centers and insti resulted in an $8 million invest as one of the six pillars of our women's hockey club will be tutes-and that of our five col ment to commercialize a fuel cell mission-regional economic WHAT IS IT? raised to varsity team status leges, we have been a driving it has developed. In 2002, our development. We are teachers and compete in the Eastern force behind some of the most Small Business Development and trainers; analysts and advo College Athletic Conference. historic public policy discussions Center helped the owners of fire cates. We educate aspiring teach Turn to page 7. and decisions made in the state. ravaged Fuentes Market in ers and future CEOs; we support We provide professional Roxbury prepare a business plan public policy makers and private development and workforce that helped them obtain business owners. CULTURE training through our Division of $750,000 in financing from These are the jobs UMass Continuing, Corporate, and Citizens Bank. Boston does well and will continue De Kooning Work Distance Learning; through sev But our mandate doesn't end to do well. The Commonwealth on Display eral centers in our College of there. deserves nothing less. Answer? See page 6. Management; and in concert "Reclining Figure," a with the industry advisory sculpture by the Dutch boards that serve several of our Enrollment Management Non-Profit Organization abstract expressionist Willem colleges. Employers in Greater UMass Boston U. S. Postage de Kooning, is on loan to the Boston want the best and bright 100 Morrissey Boulevard PAID university from the de est employees for their busi Boston, MA 02125-3393 Boston, MA Kooning estate. Turn to Permit No. 52094 nesses, and we meet this page 6. need-as is shown most clearly by the fact that more than three quarters of our graduates li ve and work in Massachusetts. www.umb.edu We also make a major con- PAGE 2 THE UNIVERSITY REPORTER News SPECIAL EDITION April 2003

BUSINESS Nat ional Science Foundation Taps UMass CCD E Goes to China Boston As Possible Regional Technology Site The Division of Corporate, Continuing and Distance In February, a team from the the Boston Area Advanced tern that will attract students to collaborating to create the best Education (CCDE) has National Science Foundation Technology Connections (BATEC) IT careers, promote lifelong learning environment for our applied to become an educa (NSF) visited area schools and Partnership, would establish a learning of IT skills, and support region's students. Businesses will tion provider in China and has attended a forum for education regional center in Boston to help the workforce needs of the benefit from a better-trained several mltlatJves planned shareholders held at UMass meet the projected demand for region's IT companies. workforce and an education sys for this summer. A partner Boston. Following the visit, NSF information technology (IT) "This project represents a tem that is more responsive to ship with Tsinghua University officers gave UMass Boston workers regionally and nation unique opportunity to expand changing technical needs." will bring ·CCDE's Project a favorable review in the wide. Since early 2000, UMass and connect the information and "Creating a regional tech Management certificate to university's bid to become a tech Boston has partnered with communication technologies in nology center is a terrific oppor China and provide U.S. busi nology center for area commu Bunker Hill, Middlesex, and Boston-area public institutions," tunity for us to further our ness executives with a five-day nity colleges and K-12 districts. Roxbury Community Colleges, explains Deborah Boisvert of mission of outreach and educa program on doing business An announcement from the TechBoston, the Metropolitan the Division of Corporate, tion through an innovative there. UMass Boston will granting agency may be made by School to Career Partnership, Continuing and Distance technology partnership," said provide ten professors from the end of June. and ten secondary schools to Education. "Faculty at partner Chancellor Gora during the Beijing University of Technology The initiative, known as plan a regional IT education sys- institutions are excited about forum. with English-language instruc tion, and government officials from LiaoNing Province with human resources management UMass Boston Study Identifies Critical Lapses in training. Services for Elderly Asian American Women K-12 EDUCATION Owing to limited availability do provide specific service bicultural and bilingual medical services would be a welcome of bicultural and bilingual ser reported that they offer health care. resource-not only for Asian New ESL Program vices, elderly Asian American care services, social services, Chan and Zhan found the Americans but for service Meets Challenge of women miss out on significant home care, and education ser greatest need among Asian providers and state agencies. "English-Only" Law health and social serVices, vices to Asian Americans, as well American elderly women for according to researchers at as supplemental services to the ob/gyn services, including breast This summer the Division UMass Boston's Institute for elder population, such as trans cancer screenmg, mammograms, • of Corporate, Continuing Asian American Studies in a portation and bilingual staff or and Pap smears. Asian American and Distance Education's report titled "A Survey of Health translation. elderly women also lack resources (CCDE's) ESL program will Services and Identification of However, Asian American for osteoporosis risk screening, offer a new institute, Professional Needs for Elderly Asian agencies report that the need for domestic violence prevention, Communication for Educators. American Women in the Greater bilingual, bicultural services out depression screening and treat Developed with Boston Public Boston Area." The report's strips by far their capacity to ment, nutrition counseling, edu Schools, it will help authors-Connie Chan, c?di provide them. Eve~ where ser ca ti ~n services, and community Massachusetts K-12 bilingual rector of the Institute for Asian vices are available to a main support programs. teachers and paraprofessionals American Studies, and Lin stream elder population, Chan The authors call for a col develop and implement Zhan, associate professor of and Zhan write, Asian American laboration between Asian Sheltered English Instruction adult gerontological nursing elderly often do not avail them American service providers and methodology, and to work say the problem is especially selves of them because of lan mainstream agencies. The report Connie Chan, codirect or of with English-only texts acute in Massachusetts, where, guage and cultural barriers. states that a guide listing avail the Institute for Asian recently adopted by the public according to the 2000 U.S. The authors found that up to able bilingual and bicultural American Studies schools. The program strives Census, the number of elderly 80 percent of Asian American to meet the challenge posed by Asian Americans has more than elders live alone. Social pro a new law that stipulates class doubled since 1990. grams, community outreach, room instruction "be over Canvassing more than a and home visitors are in high National Issues Forum whelmingly in English." hundred health care providers in demand. Chan and Zhan also the Boston area, Chan and Zhan identified a pressing need for Releases Racial and found that seventy do not pro more affordable housing, con GRADUATE vide special services to Asian gregate housing, and nursing Ethnic Tensions Report STUDIES American elders. These agencies facilities. A deficiency in medical reported that they have very few, care services, including mental at UMass Boston Gerontology if any, Asian American elders in health, for Asian American The John W. McCormack Pierce College's New England Department Now their clientele. The agencies that elderly emphasizes the need for Institute of Public Affairs and Center for Civic Life-attended Offers a Master's the University of Massachusetts the February 13 gathering. Degree Boston were chosen by the Representing Doble Research, Kettering Foundation as a site Inc., the pre parers of the report, The graying of America to release the National Issues were John Doble and Liza demands increased attention Forum (NIF) Report on the Kahn. "The personal stories to the issues of elder services, Issues 2002 series "Racial and related in the various forums social diversity, and public pol Ethnic Tensions: What Should made it apparent that two real icy. In addition to its widely We Do?" The event took place ities exist, one for whites and respected undergraduate and on February 13 in the one for blacks," said Doble. doctoral programs, UMass Chancellor's Conference Room. Many in attendance stated that Boston's Department of NIF, a nonpartisan network access to quality education Gerontology now offers the of educational and community is the most effective remedy Master of Science degree in organizations, sponsors forums for economic and political Gerontology. By allowing you as a way for citizens to become inequities. to build on your current skills better-informed decision mak The 2002 UMass Boston while acquiring new ones, the ers. Last year, UMass Boston forum was one of only three program paves the way to a hosted one of many forums held that were taped for the PBS pro role as a researcher, planner, or nationwide on racial and ethnic gram A Public Voice, which policy maker in the private or tensions. The moderators of aired nationally in June. public sector. Or it may qual each forum submitted results of Following the report release, A ify you for further study at the their sessions that were com Public Voice was shown in its doctoral level. The program is piled in a national report. entirety. The show featured accepting applications through Two moderators from last comments from many UMass August 1, 2003. year's event-Doug Challenger Boston participants in the Lin Zhan, associ ate professor of adult gerontological nurs ing and Joni Doherty from Franklin forum. April 2003 SPECIAL EDITION Education THE UNIVERSITY REPORTER PAGE 3

National Science Foundation Grant GRADUATE PROGRAMS AND Brings Together Big Fish for Regional TRACKS Adapting Curriculum Frameworks (Cert) Oceanographic Center American Studies (MA) New England is home to (NER-COSEE), one of seven lead an effort to reform large, groups of educators, and devel Applied linguistics (MA) major organizations and scien such new centers across the general education courses In OpIng workshops that bring Applied Physics (MS) Applied Sociology (MA) tists devoted to ocean research. nation. COSEE's mandate is to oceanography; Curtis Olsen will educators and researchers Biology (MS) UMass Boston's Environmental, ensure that the public is better act as a liaison to the UMass together. Researchers will be Biotechnology and Biomedical Coastal, and Ocean Sciences able to understand the signifi Intercampus Graduate School of provided with the means and Science (Cert, MS) and Urban Harbors Institute cance of topics such as global Marine Sciences and Technology; opportunity to effectively com Chemistry (MS, BS/MS) researchers are among them. warming, sea level rise, fisheries Robert Brown will act to link municate their work and results Clinical Psychology (PhD) Boston is also home to the New depletion, coastal pollution, and Boston with New Bedford's net to a broad audience of educa Community Media and England Aquarium, a major other public policy issues that work of ocean educators; tors and journalists. Educators Technology (Cert) center of ocean research and concern the Earth's overwhelm Robert Stevenson will develop and journalists will benefit, in Computer Science (MS, PhD) public education. And about ingly dominant habitat-oceans. interactive programs where turn, from access to cutting Counseling/Marriage and Family Therapy (MEd, MEdlCAGS, an hour south of Boston at Leading the University of schoolchildren will carry out edge research. CAGS) Cape Cod, there is the Woods Massachusetts team will be research on climate change and "The work of the COSEE Counseling/Mental Health (MEd, Hole Oceanographic Institution UMass Boston's Dr. Robert InvaSive species; and Rick network as a whole will pro MEd/CAGS, CAGS) (WHOI). Chen, an active coastal ocean Atkins and Karen O'Connor of mote better understanding of Counseling/Rehabilitation (MEd, MEd/CAGS, CAGS) Thanks to a $2.5 million researcher, who will oversee the Center for Teaching and the key role that the ocean plays Counseling/School Guidance National Science Foundation education efforts In K-12 Learning will offer professional in global environmental cycles (MEd, MEd/CAGS, CAGS) (NSF) grant, these three major schools, citizen science projects, development in ocean sciences and processes," said James Critical and Creative Thinking organizations will join forces to and undergraduate education, for middle-school teachers. Yoder, director of NSF's (Cert, MA) increase the public's knowledge as well as develop content for a The goal of the center is to Division of Ocean Sciences. Database Technology (Cert) of oceans and how they affect Master's of Education degree develop a cohesive community Carolyn Levi of the New Dispute Resolution (Cert, MA) the atmosphere, land, and program with an emphasis in with access to the resources England Aquarium will direct Education/Higher Education Administration (EdD) human activities. Together, they environmental and ocean sci needed to educate its audiences. the center, working closely with EducationlLeadership in Urban will form the New England ences. Members of the team Other key features of the cen Chen, aquarium colleague Billy Schools (EdD) Regional Center for Ocean have their own charge for the ter's strategy include network Spizter, and WHOl's Deborah Educational Administration Science Education Excellence project: Dan Brabander will ing and training among broad Smith. (MEd, CAGS) Educational Technology (Cert) English (MA) Environmental Sciences (MS) Nantucket Field Station Is Expanding Its Horizons Environmental Sciences! Environmental Biology (PhD) Long a valued UMass Woods Hole Oceanographic ment, history, and literature of wish to pursue topics in depth. Environmental Boston resource with much to Institute. Nantucket. "There are so many resources Sciences!Environmental, offer students and scientists, the UMass Boston has run sev According to Malisa Roberts, for research on Nantucket," Coastal, and Ocean Sciences (PhD) N~ntucke tJ~ld Station .nas eral summer programs _based din:ctor of credit programs for Roberts notes. "The program - EmiironmentarScienceS7Green recently seen an increase in entirely or in part at the Field UMass Boston's Division of will encourage students to do Chemistry (PhD) activity, culminating in plans for Station, including programs in Corporate, Continuing, and their own research, with term Environmental Sciences! a semester-long resident student marine biology, oceanography Distance Education, the pro papers recapping their experi Molecular, Cellular, and Organismal Biology (PhD) program beginning in fall 2003. and coastal ecology, theater gram is ideal for students who ences on the island." Forensic Services (Cert) Founded in the mid-1960s arts, and oil painting. In addi Gerontology (MA, PhD) from gifts of property by the tion, this summer will see History (MA) Nina Hazen Foundation and the undergraduate courses in field Center for World Languages and Culture History/Historical Archaeology late Katherine Coe Folger, the ornithology, geographic infor (MA) Field Station consists of four mation systems, and hydrogeol Receives $1 Million Grant to Provide HistorylTeaching (MA) buildings occupying a 107-acre ogy, and an honors course on ESL Technology Training for Teachers Human Services (MS) site that has been described predatory snails, as well as an Instructional Design (MEd) as "a biologist's paradise." institute, Literacy and Culture, The U.S. Department of feeling of belonging. Eventually, Instructional Technology (Cert) Facilities include a residence, sponsored by the graduate pro Education's Office of English the language labs in Cambridge MBA Program (MBA) classroom, laboratory, work gram in Applied Linguistics. Language Acquisition has schools will be linked to many Nursing (PhD) shop, and office space. A hous This fall another initiative at awarded UMass Boston's other schools worldwide, creat Nursing and Management (MS/MBA) ing unit in Nantucket town-the the Station-the Semester on Center for World Languages ing a medium for exchange of Nursing/Clinical Nurse Specialist Gouin Village-accommodates Nantucket-will be unveiled. and Culture a $1,050,000 grant ideas and experiences. (MS) more than 20 students. Aimed at sophomore under to implement an English as a According to Donaldo Nursing/Family Nurse The Field Station has served graduates, the program consists Second Language (ESL) teacher Macedo, director of the Applied Practitioner (Advanced Cert) for years as a center for scien of four three-credit courses training project in collaboration Linguistics graduate program Nursing/Gerontological-Adult Nurse Practitioner (Advanced tific research, with investigators two in the natural sciences, two with Cambridge public schools. and principal investigator of the Cert) coming from UMass Boston and in the humanities-team-taught The project will provide grant, evidence has shown that NursinglNurse Administrator other universities, and from by UMass Boston faculty. The opportunities for teachers to be ESL students who have access (MS) such institutions as the US program's curriculum is directly certified in ESL and become to technology learn English NursinglNurse Educator (MS) Geological Survey and the related to the natural environ- expert in use of instructional more easily than do those who NursinglNurse Practitioner (MS) technology. It will begin by are taught traditionally. "Not Nursing: RN-to-MS Program (MS) preparing 30 Cambridge public only will the grant enable teach Orientation and Mobility, Expanded Curriculum (Cert) school teachers, with a five-year ers to develop technical skills Orientation and Mobility, goal of training 150 teachers. in addressing the needs of limited Curriculum (Cert) The grant also allots funds for non-English speakers, but it Public Affairs (MS) 30 scholarships over a five-year will help narrow the digital Public Affairs! International period for minority language divide between immigrants and Relations (MS) students or their teachers. traditional students," he says. Public Policy (PhD) Through a variety of com Macedo predicts that with School Psychology (MEd/CAGS, CAGS) puter programs at UMass ongoing support from the uni Special Education (MEd) Boston and Cambridge public versity, the grant will help the Teacher Education (MEd) schools, as well as expanded use Applied Linguistics program Teaching Writing in the Schools of the Internet and online teach to become a leader not only in (Cert) ing through UMass Online, the language teaching but also in Women in Politics and Public program will train people to be the use of classroom tech Policy (Cert) "master teachers" of language. nology. This high-quality For more information, attend the Fall Open House, It is expected that technology UMass Boston program is sure call 617-287-6000 or visit will create a bond among stu to remain a trendsetter in online. dents of different cultures and addressing the many needs Nantucket Field Station is a 107-acre research facility with provide non-native speakers a encountered by learners of residence, classroom, laboratory, workshop, and office space. www.umb.edu PAGE 4 THE UNIVERSITY REPORTER Research and Scholarship SPECIAL EDITION April 2003

Scientists Identify "Geochemical UMass Boston's RESEARCH 25 Institutes UMass Boston Fingerprint" of World Trade Center and Centers Scholar Provides for Research Insight on Religion Catastrophe in NY Harbor and International Researchers . from the horizon. " The evidence included significant health threat, and Adult literacy Resource Institute Politics Environmental, Coastal, and visual, chemical, and geological its discovery helps validate Andrew Fiske Memorial Center "Why do they hate us so?" Ocean Sciences (ECOS) Department signatures indicative of WTC the work of other ECOS for Archaeological Research asked many Americans follow have been working with the building material. In other researchers who have discov Center for Collaborative ing the September 11, 2001, Department of Energy's words, both during and after ered sewage-derived contami Leadership Environmental Measurements the explosions, material rained nants in other urban estuaries, attacks. Richard Horsley, Center for Cultural and Distinguished Professor of Laboratory and the U.S. down on the Hudson, was such as Boston Harbor. Environmental History Geological Survey to investigate washed into the Hudson, or To learn more about the Liberal Arts and the Study of Center for Democracy and Religion at UMass Boston, whether ash and debris from the redispersed into the air or water preservation over time and Development (McCormack attempts to shed light on this World Trade Center (WTC) col during cleanup activities and extent of the WTC "geochemi Institute) question in his new book, Jesus lapse can be identified in New eventually found its way to cal fingerprint," ECOS scien Center for Immigrant and and Empire: The Kingdom of York Harbor sediments. The these sediments. tists are collecting cores in a Refugee Community Leadership and Empowerment God and the New World study, which was funded by a In addition, the short-lived wider area throughout New Disorder. Published by Fortress small grant for exploratory radioisotope 1311 was unex York Harbor and taking deeper Center for Social Development and Education Press, the work signifies a research through the National pectedly found in the surface cores in the same harbor slips. major advance in Jesus studies Science Foundation's Chemical sediments of both cores, most This may provide new informa Center for Social Policy (McCormack Institute) and presents a critique of Oceanography Program, was likely introduced into the tion for assessing the potential oppression that also sheds light published in the international Hudson River through treated environmental and human Center for State and Local Policy (McCormack Institute) on post-9/11 politics ·in the scientific newspaper EOS. sewage wastewater containing health impact of the World United States. ECOS researchers Sarah organic by-products from area Trade Center catastrophe, and Center for Survey Research Oktay, Dan Brabander, Curtis hospitals, and is unrelated to for corroborating sediment and Center for Women in Politics & Researchers Identify Olsen, and graduate student the collapse of the World Trade contaminant transport models Public Policy (McCormack Joseph Smith, collected 30-40- Center buildings. The 1311 developed for the lower Hudson Institute) Economic Flaws in centimeter-deep sediment (river found does not represent a River estuary. Environmental Business State Transportation mud) cores in the Hudson River Technology Center near the WTC site. These cores Planning Gerontology Institute There may be many ways were sliced into one-centimeter thick intervals, which were Institute for Asian American in Massachusetts to "get there Studies from here," but three UMass examined for chemical, radio isotopical, geological, and tex Institute for Community Boston researchers think eco Inclusion nomic development is running tural components. The results from the sediment sections were Institute for Learning and into roadblocks. "Massachusetts Teaching: does not have a centralized compared to ash and debris col lected near "Ground Zero" a • The Adult Institute for Learning transportation planning sys and Instruction week after the attack. The tem," explains economics pro • Boston Writing Project researchers found a "geochem fessor David Terkla, "and it has • English Language Learners ical fingerprint" incriminating significant impact on economic • GEAR UP (Gaining Early development. " WTC substances as a source of Awareness and Readiness for Terkla and McCormack a fraction of the sediment found Undergraduate Programs) Institute PhD students Phil at the 1-3-centimeter-depths, • Harbor Explorations: Granberry and Steve Quimby which is known as the "event ECOS researchers collect sediment cores in New York City. • The Massachusetts Studies Project recently completed a report, com • Project ALERTA missioned by the Massachusetts • Talented and Gifted (TAG) Hispanic Program Business Roundtable, titled "Transportation Planning and Biology Professor Evaluates Deforestation John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs Development in Massachusetts: and Species Richness Using Satellite Imagery Recommended Changes for the Labor Resource Center New Millennium." The study In biology professor proportions, and greenhouse surface. He uses satellite Massachusetts Field Center for found that Massachusetts has Kamaljit Bawa's area of gases are altering the climate." Imagery to delineate species Teaching and Learning one of the most fragmented research, it is sometimes diffi These trends point to both a richness in the Biligiri Ran Mauricio Gaston Institute for transportation decision-making cult to see the forest for the serious decline in the earth's gaswamy hills of India. The Latino Community Development processes of 17 states surveyed. trees-literally. Bawa studies health and a lack of information images he has collected offer and Public Policy deforestation and other forms that has hindered conservation evidence of a positive correla New England Resource Center UMass Boston of environmental degradation in attempts. "Biodiversity assess tion between known indicators for Higher Education the tropics, gathering data that ment is critical for conservation of species richness and the Small Business Development Researcher Studies Center Racial Disparities in can be used to improve conser planning, but there are few Normalized Difference Vegetation vation policies and develop methods that can be used in Index (NDVI), which is a Urban Harbors Institute Mortgage Lending alternative uses for land. large areas without time-con measure of an area's biomass as William Monroe Trotter Institute Race continues to playa role The stakes couldn't be suming ground surveys," says seen from space. for the Study of Black Culture in mortgage lending practices in higher-it is research in the via Bawa. That result is not surprising, William Joiner Center for the Boston, according to a new bility of the planet. "One out of Responding to that need, because there is a well-estab Study of War and Social report by the Massachusetts eight plant species is threat Bawa has begun remote sensing lished relationship between the Consequences Community and Banking ened," Bawa points out. of forests from one of the most NDVI and an ecosystem's pro Council (MCBC) , "Changing "Forests are disappearing, soil remote locations imaginable ductivity. The real genius of .. . . Patterns IV: Mortgage Lending erosIOn IS assumlllg massive many miles above the earth's Bawa's project is that it uses Science, the premier science to Traditionally Underserved existing technology in a new publication in the United States. Borrowers and Neighborhoods way. "Remote-sensing imagery Professor Bawa is quick to in Greater Boston, 1990-2001." has enhanced our ability to mention the limitations of his Prepared by UMass Boston eco monitor biodiversity losses at approach. "Satellite imagery nomics professor Jim Campen, the landscape level," he says, must be followed by work on the study shows that in 2001 "but it has not been used to the ground to confirm the African-Americans, Latinos, and identify species richness." trends and to document the bio Asian-Americans were denied So this study boldly goes diversity," he says. mortgages at significantly higher where no other has gone-and It's an object lesson in rates than were whit~ applicants. consequently it is getting recog methodology: Although viewing MCBC also hopes to raise nition. It has won financial from a distance can provide per awareness about predatory lend backing from a number of spective, there is no substitute ing and the the costs and risks of organizations, and it was high for the up-close observations of refinance loans. lighted in the "Editor's Choice" scientists whose feet are planted section of a recent issue of on terra firma. Professor Kamaljit Bawa April 2003 SPECIAL EDITION Headliners THE UNIVERSITY REPORTER PAGE 5

UMass Boston Philosophy Professor Recommended Reading Examines How Character and Gender AWARDS Recent publications by UMass UMass Boston Alum Boston faculty: Affect Psychiatric Treatment and Ethics Wins Marshall Peace Comes Dropping Slow: Scholarship Conversations in Northern A person suffering from the handbook of professional ethics For the first time in the uni Ireland flu may turn to the same health for psychiatry residents. versity's history, an alumnus of by Edith Shillue (Academic care system as does a person Radden and Sadler are look UMass Boston has been Support Services) suffering from depression. ing at ways to emphasize the awarded the preStigiOUS UMass Press, 2002 Unfortunately, however, their importance of character in psy Marshall Scholarship. Mark Stand by Me: The Risks and differing needs are not always chiatry using virtue theory. Says D'Agostino '02, one of 40 stu Rewards of Mentoring accounted for in current defini Radden, "Instead of focusing on dents nationwide to receive this Today's Youth tions of medical ethics. "There the duties and rights of the cli honor, is the first Marshall by Jean Rhodes (Psychology) is a set of moral and ethical nician, we look at what a virtu scholar in the university system Harvard University Press, problems distinctive to, or at ous person would do as a in 17 years. 2002 least magnified by, mental measure of right or wrong." For Financed by the British health settings," explains example, a clinician's actions government, the Marshall Two Plays of Initiation: "Stop UMass Boston's Jennifer can be defined as ethical if they and Frisk " and "The Train Scholarships provide an oppor Radden. maintain trust, respect confi Ride" tunity for American students dentiality, and do not exploit a by Robert Johnson Jr. Radden, professor of philos Professor Jennifer Radden who have demonstrated aca (Africana Studies) ophy, received a grant from the patient's vulnerability. demic excellence to study at the Nsibidi Africana Publishers, National Library of Medicine at Radden also plans to exam For the last year, Radden British university of their 2003 the National Institutes of ine how gender affects psychi has worked on a task force for choice. The scholarships are Health to conduct a study of atric diagnosis and treatment. "I the American Psychiatric Asso worth about $60,000 each. Copy the Master and Stealing character and gender in psychi believe there has been a double ciation, rewriting its ethics His Secrets: Talent and atric ethics. Working with clini standard on what mental health guidelines for psychiatrists. A Training in Japanese Painting cian John Sadler of the means," she says. She points out self-described "philosopher of History Professor's Coedited by Victoria Weston Psychiatry Department at the that assertive and rational psychiatry," she teaches under (Art) Essay Wins NEA University of Texas's South behavior may be interpreted as graduate classes in "Sanity and University of Hawaii Press, Award 2003 western Medical Center in a sign of good psychiatric health Madness" and "Mental Health Dallas, she is developing a in men but not in women. Law and Public Policy." At the National Education Association's annual conven New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, tion in Washington, D.C., in Practice, and Research: A This UMass Boston Grad Helps Explain February, UMass Boston his Critical View of Youth tory professor Woodruff Mentoring Smith's essay "Democracy, Edited by Jean Rhodes America to the World Higher Education, and the (Psychology) Few Europeans have as Michael Dukakis during Germany and elsewhere around Public Sphere" was honored Jossey-Bass, 2002 thorough an understanding of Dukakis's 1988 bid for the pres the world. In addition, he fre with an "Excellence in the American politics as UMass idency. Von Rimscha's experi- quently appears on TV news Academy" award. Smith E riching ES Q..L_P.f 4Jzgogy~_ l1 Boston alum Robert -von ences as a UMass 13oston outlets like CNN, PBS, and the argues that public colleges and Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Rimscha. The current Berlin student left a lasting impression BBC. universities have shaped and • Inquiry bureau chief for the German on his thinking about the ethnic A strong advocate of close democratized the United Coedited by Vivian Zamel capital's preeminent daily paper, and regional dimensions of the transatlantic ties, von Rimscha States' public sphere by offer (English) Der Tagesspiegel, and the United States, he says. is a much-sought-after com ing knowledge and skills Lawrence Erlbaum Press, paper's U.S. correspondent and A centrist by U.S. standards mentator when America needs required for active participa 2002 Washington bureau chief from and a hawk by European, Von explaining in Europe, especially tion in the "conversations that 1996 to 2000, von Rimscha has Rimscha has nevertheless man since 9/11. His book Flexible lie at the public sphere's Lifestyle Obesity Management emerged as a respected voice in aged to give people on each con Society, an essay on America's heart." Smith charges these by Kyle Mclnnis (Exercise world affairs and European/U.S. tinent a better appreciation of ability to use its diversity as a institutions with recognizing Science and Physical that their primary responsibil Education) et al. relations. the other's political culture. He source of strength, is required Blackwell Publishing, 2003 The German national's ini lectures widely, making regular reading in many German col ity is to prepare all members of tial exposure to the United appearances for such organiza leges. their communities to take part Romantic Medievalism: States had a decidedly Mass tions as the Congress-Bundestag Next month, von Rimscha in the public sphere by engag History and the Romantic achusetts flavor. As a master's Exchange, the Aspen-Institute, will receive one of Germany's ing in public discourse. Literary Ideal by Elizabeth degree student in American the Hanseatic Institute, the most coveted journalism prizes, Fay (English) civilization at UMass Boston, Carnegie Endowment, and sev the Arthur F. Burns Award for St. Martin's Press, 2002 von Ramscha worked in the eral of Washington's leading Transatlantic Commentary. It is Biography by UMass office of Lt. Governor Evelyn think tanks. He has authored a fitting tribute to a man who Consumption and the Making Boston Scholar of Respectability, 1600-1800 Murphy. The post allowed eleven books on international has done much to inspire trust Receives Prize him to acquaint Europeans politics, and he writes for a and understanding in the com by Woodruff Smith (History) Julie Winch, professor of with Massachusetts governor number of newspapers III munity of nations. Routledge Press, 2002 history, has received the Wesley-Logan Prize in African Dementia and Wandering Behavior: Concern for the Diaspora History for her book Lost Elder UMass Boston Success Stories A Gentleman of Color: The by Nina Silverstein Years after Daemian Dussault in the lab of the Chemistry for Academic Excellence. Life of James Forten from (Gerontology Institute) with '03 began his college career, he Department's Dr. Leverett While at UMass Boston, the American Historical Terri Salmons Tobin still did not have a degree. Zompa. Ivana was a tutor in the Association (AHA) and the Springer, 2002 Instead, his life and career had Next fall Dussault will enter Mathematics Department and a Association for the Study of lost direction and he held an MIT's PhD program in organic math teacher in the Upward Afro-American Life and Asian Americans: Vulnerable History. The AHA described Populations, Model unfulfilling job. chemistry, the recipient of a full Bound program. She also partici her work as a "beautifully Interventions, and Clarifying In the fall of 2000, Dussault fellowship. Says Dussault, "The pated in a variety of projects written biography [that] Agendas came to UMass Boston to resume best years of my life started at sponsored by the Biology Depart Edited by Lin Zhan (Nursing) his studies, majoring in chemistry. UMass Boston and will continue ment, worked as a summer intern details Forten's rise as an and coauthored by UMass By the time he finished his under because of what I have learned for Genzyme Corp., and assisted important businessman, fierce Boston's Peter Kiang, Shirley graduate work, he had earned not here." the McCormack Institute in its opponent of slavery, champion Tang, Karen Suyemoto, only a B.S. degree but a summa Ivana Djuretic '03 left efforts to promote judicial reform of education, and African Nanzhang Hampton, Andrew cum laude grade point average, a Montenegro, her home country, and democracy in Montenegro. American community leader" Leong, and Connie Chan Helies Scholarship, and the and came to the United States in This fall, Djuretic will enter and one that "brings to light Jones and Bartlett, 2002 American Chemical Society 1998. She took courses in UMass Harvard Medical School's doc right and often surprising facets of race, class, and cul Race, Law, and Public Policy: Polymer Education Committee Boston's English as a Second toral program in immunology on ture in early America." Cases and Materials on Law Award for Outstanding Perfor Language program and majored a full fellowship. She was also and the Public Policy of Race mance in Organic Chemistry. In in biochemistry, achieving a 4.0 accepted into medical school pro by Robert Johnson Jr. addition, he had gained valuable GPA. She is a recipient of the uni grams at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, (Africana Studies) expenence from his work versity's Litton-Brann Scholarship Yale, Duke, and Columbia. www.umb.edu Black Classic Press, 2003 PAGE 6 THE UNIVERSITY REPORTER Cultural Events SPECIAL EDITION April 2003

At WUMB-FM, Cutting-Edge LINEUP AT WUMB Performing Arts Calendar Member's Concerts Programming That Respects Tradition 416 Rachel Bissex, Louise Last February WUMB century have made it more diffi The series is being carried as Spring 2003 Taylor, Patti Casey announcers Marilyn Rea Beyer, cult for many grandmothers to a Mother's Day tribute by nearly Members Concert MUSIC DIVISION Local Performers Dick Pleasants, and Dave have close relationships with two dozen radio stations around 5/3 7:30 PM 4127 Annie Gallup & Jack Hardy Palmater made country music's their grandchildren. This is one the country. UNIVERSITY JAZZ BAND Members Concert capital their home away from of many issues addressed in a Snowden Auditorium, National Performers home when they broadcast two-part, two-hour radio series ***** Wheatley Hall 6/9 Mary Gauthier Members Donation Concert National Performer live from the 15th Annual called "Grandmother's Hands," Brian Quinn, WUMB pro International Folk Alliance the first nationally syndicated gram director, admits to being sn 7:00 PM On-Air Interviews UNIVERSITY CHORUS AND Conference at the Nashville documentary produced by surprised by the buzz over the CHAMBER SINGERS and Performances Convention Center. WUMB. station's new morning offering, United First Parish "We've done remote broad Narrated by Barbara Neely, "Guest Mix," which airs Fridays Unitarian (Church of the MAY Presidents) 5/1 Lorraine Bennett casting before, but never from distinguished author and host at 9:00. Quinn's concept of a Quincy Center, MA Hammond Live at Noon such a significant location," says of the award-winning public program that would pair morn Donation National SingerlSongwriter Pat Monteith, the station's gen affairs program Commonwealth ing host Dick Pleasants with 5/1 Mark Humphries In Studio 5/10 8 PM National SingerlSongwriter eral manager. "We were the only Journal, "Grandmother's Hands" guest artists became a reality last THE UNIVERSITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 512 Kate Wallace Live at Noon station broadcasting from the brings together people of various November. 10th Anniversary Concert National Performer convention, so it was a great ages, nationalities, and religions Featuring the likes of Rory The Center for the Arts 512 Sarah Elizabeth Campbell opportunity to show people from to talk about what it means to Block, Catie Curtis, Bill Mor in Natick In Studio all over North America the qual be and to have a grandmoth er. risey, and the Pushstars, "Guest Natick, MA National SingerlSongwriter Admission $12, 512 Amy FairchildGuest Mix ity of our station and our dedi Part one looks at the role of Mix" has caught the attention of $10 in advance through the National SingerlSongwriter cation to the music community." grandmothers around the world listeners. Each show highlights Center for the Arts 5/5 Scott Marrs Live at Noon The conference, which this and through time. Part two songs chosen by the guest National Performer 5/12 7:30 PM year drew about 3,000 people, focuses on grandmothering in songs that have influenced them, VOICE DIVISION RECITAL 5/6 Bob Bradshaw seeks to preserve traditional folk modern America, exploring how songs they wish they had written, Students of Marilyn Live at Noon Bulli, Suzanne Ehly, National SingerlSongwriter music and dance while enriching divorce, geographic separation, and songs they are listening to and David Giessow sn Kevin So Live at Noon dialogue about the place of folk and other factors complicate now. Says Pleasants, "The idea Snowden Auditorium, Local Performer music in our culture. grandmother-grandchild relation was to get a look at what the Wheatley Hall SIB Kate Taylor Live at Noon Free National SingerlSongwriter ships. Numerous experts com musicians are made of musically. 5/18 2 PM 5/9 Scott Alarik Guest Mix ***** ment on general trends 111 We wanted to hear what influ FACULTY RECITAL Boston Globe Writer, Folk Social changes during the last grandmotherhood. enced them." Performer Mary Oleskiewicz, baroque 5/15 Terry Kitchen In Studio flute Local Performer ARTS ON THE POINT With David Schulenberg, 5/16 The Kennedys harpsichord Guest Mix The Shirley-Eustis House National/International Act Arts on the Point Features Roxbury, MA 5122 Borris McCutcheon What Is It? Free Live at Noon a New Masterpiece: It's a fantasy coffin, also Local SingerlSongwriter De Kooning's "Reclining Figure" known as an afterlife vehicle, 5/23 Brian O'Donovan crafted by Kane Kwei and Paa THEATRE ARTS AND DANCE Guest Mix DIVISION Host, Celtic Sojourn, ever, and didn't have a solo Joe and on loan from Ernie 415,6,12, 13,23,24,25,26,27 WGBH Radio exhibition until 1948, which Wolfe's West Los Angeles 2PM 5127 MaryAnne Rossoni received one positive review, gallery. You're a Good Man Charlie Live at Noon Brown Local SingerlSongwriter written by former UMass 5129 Lorraine Jordan & Gill Boston art historian Renee Arb. sn, 8, 9,10 Hunter Live at Noon After nearly two decades of 8PM Twelfth Night National Act WGBH Radio struggle, the show proved to be JUNE a turning point in his career. 5116,17 6/2 Fairport Convention 8PM Live at Noon International Soon thereafter de Kooning Dance Concert Act emerged, with Jackson Pollock, All Theatre performances in the 6/9 Equation Live at Noon as a leader of the group that McCormack Theatre International Act De Kooning's sculpture became known as the Abstract General Admission $10 6/10 Debra Cowan Live at Noon "Reclining Figure" combines StudentslSeniors $5 Local SingerlSongwriter Expressionists. abstraction and figuration. 6/12 The Kennedys "Reclining Figure," one of Live at Noon National Act "Reclining Figure" is a the first sculptures de Kooning Current information is 6/13 James Tally Live at Noon monumental bronze sculpture ever made, is on loan to the uni National available at Now Playing on Singer/Songwriter by Willem de Kooning, one of versity from the de Kooning the UMass Boston website. 6/17 Carl Cacho Live at Noon the 20th century's most impor estate. Conceived and executed Local SingerlSongwriter tant artists. Born in 1904 in in 1969 as a small, hand-size 6/19 Diane Taraz Live at Noon Rotterdam, Holland, de model, it is one of only three Meticulously detailed and Wolfe, "It's the look that's Local SingerlSongwriter Kooning studied 111 local works that the artist enlarged modeled after objects of signifi important, not the comfort of 6/20 Sean Staples & The Resophonics Live at Noon schools and attended the and cast. Its mate, "Standing cance to the deceased, fantasy the ride." National Act Rotterdam Academy of Art. In Figure," is displayed in front of coffins are an important aspect The bass sculpture is cur 6125 Caraugh Brown 1926, at age 22, he immigrated the West Wing of the Museum of the burial ritual practiced by rently on display in the second Live at Noon Local SingerlSongwriter to the United States to pursue of Fine Arts Boston. the Ga and other coastal com floor stairwell of the Science 6125 Helene & Alan Korolenko his career as an artist, working Like many of de Kooning's munities of Ghana, West Africa. Building. In Studio odd jobs before settling in New paintings, "Reclining Figure" Each sculpture reflects the sta Coordinators, New York the following year. vacillates between abstraction tus, occupation, tastes, or desires Bedford Folk Festival 6/26 Erik Balkey Live at Noon In his West 42nd Street stu and figuration. From one point of the departed. Deceptively sim National Performer dio, he devoted himself exclu of view, it appears to be a tangle ple, afterlife vehicles can cost 6/27 Peter Mayer Live at Noon sively to figurative and abstract of lines and shapes; from African families as much as a National Performer images, which were depicted another, a contorted figure; year's income ($400 US) , JULY with loose lines or layers of from yet another, a lumbering, depending on design, materials, 7n Little Johnnie England In Studio gestural brush strokes. Im prehistoric beast. Its multiple and amount of advance notice International Act passioned by the physical act of personae evoke comparisons given the artist. 7/14 Caroline Aiken making art and the immediacy with sculptures by modern mas In Ghana, one sees fantasy Live at Noon of the resulting forms, he never ters, such as Rodin and Matisse, coffins only in a coffin maker's National Act believed a work was finished. as well as with classical art, shop or briefly during a funeral, Listen to WUMB "There is no plot in painting," such as the famous "Dying prior to interment. They vary _r Live on Your Computer he once declared. "It IS an Gaul" of the third century B.C. considerably in size and in the Is this a holiday ornament? Go to: www.wumb.orgl occurrence by which I discover The piece is located on the amount of room they afford the A precision-guided weapon? listen%20Iivelsetup.html. [content]. " Plaza level behind the Quinn deceased whose lives they cele Or neither? Find out in the www.umb.edu He sold few paintings, how- Administration Building. brate. But according to Mr. next edition. -. April 2003 SPECIAL EDITION Extracurricular THE UNIVERSITY REPORTER PAGE 7

UMass Boston Spring Athletic Hockey Fans Take Note: LOCAL ECONOMY Schedule Forum on Workforce UMass Boston Women Development APRIL The twentieth Forum for the 21st Century, "The Future MenfTennis vs. Johnson Skate to Win & Wales University 3pm of Workforce Development In a sports town like Boston, great Boston hockey. medal. She also holds Team in Massachusetts," brought 2 Men/Baseball vs. Eastern the chill of winter brings with it "Laura Schuler comes on Canada's single-game record for Nazarene College 3pm together the worlds of business, the thrill of ice hockey, and board at UMass Boston with goals in World Championship labor, education, government, 2 Women/Softball vs. Salem although Canada has its own outstanding credentials," says competition. and community organizations. State College 3:30pm claim to the game, some of Charlie Titus, the university's "You don't get much better Martha Kanter, president of De 3 MenfTennis vs. hockey's best players are local director of Athletics. "She has than having an Olympian Anza College, opened the forum Suffolk University 3pm Bruins legends. Men like Bobby been well known in interna coaching you," says team mem by discussing California's model 5 Men/Baseball vs. Orr, Ray Bourque, and Terry tional hockey circles for more ber Audrey Arnold. She started approach to economic and Eastern Connecticut O'Reilly have long inspired than a decade, having been playing hockey in high school workforce development. State University (2) noon Boston-area boys to take to the selected in 1990 as Team and recognizes a distinct chal Other panelists were 5 MenfTennis vs. ice. Now more than ever, their Canada's youngest player, at age lenge in playing at this new Massachusetts AFL-CIO presi Rhode Island College lpm sisters are joining them. 19, to compete in the inaugural level, coached by Schuler. dent Robert Haynes; Janice Signaling the success of the World Championships." Teammate Katie Reardon, who Bourque of the Massachusetts 5 Women/Softball vs. UMass Dartmouth (2) lpm girls' and women's hockey In her 11 years with Team grew up in a family full of Biotechnology Council; Darnell trend, UMass Boston has Canada, Schuler earned seven hockey players, agrees. "It's Williams of the Urban League 6 Beacon Fitness Center announced the elevation of its gold medals and two silvers in really exciting to be on the of Eastern Massachusetts; and First Annual Beacon team." Dash Fun Run lOam women's hockey club to a var international competition. The Stephen Tocco of the sity team competing in the highlight of her playing career Katelyn Averill, the Beacons' Massachusetts Board of Higher 8 Women/Softball vs. Eastern College Athletic came in 1998 when she was captain, is a transfer student Education. Lasell College 3:30pm Conference (ECAC) East. With named to play for Canada's who has found benefits in her "Two-thirds of the 10 Men/Lacrosse vs. an Olympic silver medal winner Olympic entry in Nagano, move to UMass Boston beyond Massachusetts workforce was Salem State College 3pm as their coach, the team is ready Japan, where she helped the the opportunity to play hockey. educated in public education 11 Women/Softball vs. to follow in the tradition of squad bring home a silver "I came here to play hockey and that's where the rubber meets Newbury College (2) 3pm attend school, and I love it. The the road," said Tocco, summa 12 MenfTennis vs. classes are different. The profes rizing the forum's theme. Western Connecticut sors are great, and being State University lpm involved in a sport means you get to know more people on 12 Women/Softball vs. LEADERSHIP GRANT Rhode Island College (2) lpm campus." These student-athletes are UMass Boston Center 1S Men/Lacrosse vs. enthusiastic about their team UMass Dartmouth 3pm Receives AT&T involvement, and they smile Foundation Grant 15 Women/Softball vs. _ _ ~swe~ l }' in their team phot2 - lJniver-stty-ef Sel:ltheffl·~--- --tJMass BosfOfiYCenfer for graph, but make no mistake Maine (2) 3:30pm Collaborative Leadership has these women play real hockey. received a grant of $20,000 ,. 17 Men/Lacrosse vs. Says Coach Schuler, "I encour from the AT&T Foundation to Clark University 3pm age my girls to play rough. help advance its efforts in 17 Women/Softball vs. That's the kind of player I was Greater Boston. The center is Emmanuel College 4:30pm too, a very rough, physical charged with developing a player, and I like that part of the 18 Men/Baseball vs. diverse pool of leaders in Daniel Webster College 3pm game-it's exciting for the fans Boston and with refining the UMass Boston's women now face off against teams in the too." 19 Men/Baseball vs. ECAC East. collaborative leadership model. Keene State College (2) noon "Our program fosters leaders 19 Men/Lacrosse vs. who are visionary, service Plymouth State College lpm "Beyond Our Backyard" Community oriented, and inclusive," said 22 Men/Baseball vs. Sherry Penney, the center's Anna Maria College 3pm director. The 40 selected fel Service Event Encourages Students lows are divided into teams 24 Men/Lacrosse vs. Salve Regina University 3pm that will produce and imple to Match Passions with Purpose ment an action plan for 26 Men/Baseball vs. Boston-area issues. Western Connecticut "Match your passions with Gora, "and in the university's role Ross feels that participating State University (2) noon your purpose," said Jain in the community." in the community gives many stu 26 Men/Lacrosse vs. Ruvidich-Higgins, director of the The town meeting-style event dents a chance to use the skills COASTAL STUDY Keene State College lpm Office of Service Learning and also featured panelists-both stu they've learned. Ruvidich 26 Women/Softball vs. Plymouth Community Outreach, to an dents and faculty-speaking on Higgins agrees: "It's finding a Oceanography Program State College (2) 1pm audience of students, faculty, and the importance of combining way for students to connect what to Launch in June 28 Women/Softball vs. Johnson community partners at the classwork with community out they're doing in the classroom If spending a week at sea "Beyond our Backyard: A reach in areas such as youth & Wales University 3:30pm with the community." and getting college credit for Community Orientation at development, the environment, John Huth, a student in the 29 MenfTennis vs. it-appeals to you, check out UMass Boston" event. Held on and homelessness. Newbury College 3pm College of Public and Commu "Exploring the .Coastal February 19, the initiative was "Getting yourself out into nity Service, feels that community Environment," which runs June part of the annual nationwide the community can build connec involvement offers something 1-27. The program-two weeks MAY Raise Your Voice Student Action tions that you never knew more. "It's a great experience for on Nantucket Island, a week Campaign. existed," said Rob Beattie, 31 Commencement them and for me," he says of his aboard the schooner Emestina, Bayside Expo Center lOam Sponsored by the Pew associate director of the work as a tutor at the Home for and a week at UMass Boston Charitable Trusts and by Campus Environmental Studies Program. Little Wanderers, one of many introduces concepts related to Compact, a partnership of college His case in point is Leah Ross, a community partnerships that JUNE maritime history, nautical sci and university presidents that senior who received a grant from were represented on the panel. ence, oceanography, and coastal 17 17th Annual Golf Classic promotes the role of higher edu the National Science Foundation Also represented were The zone management. Participants Franklin Park Golf Course 8am cation in communities, the cam for Project Playsafe, which Food Project, Columbia Point can earn six credits from the paign seeks to get students will allow her to test the soil Community Partnership, the Pine Earth & Geographic Sciences For latest information on all involved in community service of 135 Massachusetts play Street Inn, the Boys and Girls Department-and collect memories the UMass Boston teams, visit and politics. "We believe in the grounds for dangerous heavy Club, Big Brother Association, to last a lifetime. Contact Kathy www.athletics.umb.edu/clarkl importance of humanitarian metals such as lead and JumpStart, and the Neponset FitzPatrick at 617.287.7913 or events.htm. action," said Chancellor Jo Ann arsemc. River Group. [email protected]. www.umb.edu PAGE 8 THE UNIVERSITY REPORTER Calendar SPECIAL EDITION April 2003

May 2003

THURSDAY 1 Teaching With Media Expo '03: Technology You Can Use 10:30 - 11 :30 a.m ., Wheatley, 3rd floor, 153 FD SVC. The Shula Sommers Memorial Lecture: "Core Affect and Emotion," with James Russell of the Boston College Department of Psychology 3:30-5pm, Provost's Conference Room (8th Floor, Healey Library) UMASS® Web-Based Learning Speaker Series: Developing Your Course with Web Usability and Accessibility BOSTON in Mind 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Healey Library, 11th floor, Library Staff Lounge Enrollment Management University of Massachusetts Boston Institute for Asian American Studies Research Symposium: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth 100 Morrissey Boulevard in Cambridge After 9/11 Boston, MA 02125-3393 Noon - 2 p.m ., Wheatley, 4th floor, Student Lounge 617.287.6020 FRIDAY 2 NEBARS Forum Email: [email protected] 9:00-2:00, Ch ancellor's Conference Room, Quinn Hall, t hird floor, invitation only Biology Department Seminar: "lWins and Mushrooms: Unraveling the Secrets of the Goeldi's The University Reporter Special Edition is published by the Office of Monkey" Enrollment Management It is free 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., Science Building, 1st floor, room 006 to the public SATURDAY 3 War on Terrorism or Assault on Human Rights? Civil Liberties, Homeland Security UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON and Democracy in the Post 9/11 World 9 a.m. - 7 p.m., McCormack, 3rd Floor, Ryan Lounge MONDAY 5 Celebration of Joan Tonn's book Mary P. Follett: Creating Democracy, Transforming Management 4:00-6:00, Dean 's Conference Room, McCormack Hall, 5th f loor, RSVP [email protected] Course registration begins Christopher Hedges, author of "War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning" 2:30 - 4 p.m., Healey Library, 8th floor, Provost's Conference Room Gerontology Speaker Series: "Making It Through the Maze: Obtaining Research and Training Support from the National Institutes of Health" 1 p.m., Wheatley, 4th floor, room 147 (Dean 's Conference Room) TUESDAY 6 Where Do I Go From Here? Career Advancement in Human Services 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., UMass Boston's Institute for Community Inclusion, Hogan Center, Holy Cross, Worcester DO SOMETHING SPECIAL WEDNESDAY 7 Distinguished Executive Award Luncheon: Robert Pozen, Chief, Commerce and Labor, THIS SUMMER! Commonwealth of Massachusetts, "Managing the State's Budget Crisis" Our special summer programs will take 12:00-2:00, Maison Robert, Boston, MA, tickets required you to extraordinary places, both on ECOS Seminar: New England Regional Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence Project the map and in the mind. Consider a 2:30 - 3:45, Science Bu ilding, 1st f loor, room 006 summer learning adventure by enrolling in one of our residential Queer Student Group Movie Night programs in archaeology, marine 5 - 7 p.m., Wheatley, 4th floor, 125 biology, or oceanography. Or immerse yourself in the unique and THURSDAY 8 Graduate Student Assembly Meeting 4 - 5:15 p.m ., Wheatley, 4th floor, Student Lounge fascinating reality of another coun try's politics, history, culture, lan FR IDAY 9 Biology Department Seminar: "Niche Conservatism and guage, or archaeological treasures Evolution: Implications for the Conservation of Biodiversity" through travel-to-Iearn programs in 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., Science Building, 1st f loor, room 006 Belize, Cuba, Ireland, and Mexico. Student Luncheon with Chancellor Gora For more Information, please 1-2 p.m. Share your background and discuss your experiences at UMass Boston call 617.2B7.7913 or visit www.conted.umb.edulinterna TUESDAY 13 Gaston Institute Speakers Series: "Workforce Development in Boston: Recent Transitions" tional. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Wheatley Building, 4th floor, Student Lounge

WEDNESDAY 14 Spring 2003 classes end FR IDAY 16 Division of Corporate, Continuing, & Distance Education: "No Child Left Behind and Reauthorization HOW TO GET TO of Perkins IV" (technical education sem inar at the Milford Radisson) UMASS BOSTON Division of Corporate, Continuing, & Distance Education: Registration deadline for first summer UMass Boston is located on Columbia session classes Point in Boston, close to route 1-93 . College of Public and Community Service Award Ceremony and Reception From the South: Route 3/1-93 7 - 9 p.m., McCormack, 3rd floor, Ryan Lounge (Southeast Expressway) to Dorchester. Take Exit 14 to Morrissey Boulevard. MON - FR I 19-23 Spring 2003 final exams Follow signs to University of TUESDAY 20 Division of Corporate, Continuing, & Distance Education: Continuous ImprovementlLean Massachusetts. Manufacturing program (until June 24) From t he North: Route 1-93 or Route HL-10-025 1-95 south to Boston and onto Southeast Expressway (Route 3/1-93). Maximizing Job Development: Marketing Materials That Open Employer Doors Take Exit 15, follow sig ns to University 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., UMass Boston's Institute for Community Inclusion, Hogan Center, Holy Cross, Worcester of Massachusetts. From the West : Massachusetts & TUESDAY 27 Division of Corporate, Continuing, Distance Education: first summer session classes begin Turnpike (Route 1-90) to "Expressway Division of Corporate, Continuing, & Distance Education: Nantucket Light: Oil Painting (at the South" (Route 3/1-93), southbound to Nantucket Field Station, until June 11) Exit 15. Fol low signs to University of Massachusetts. SATURDAY 31 Commencement Public Transportation: MBTA Rapid Transit, Red Line (any train) to JFKlUMASS Station . At station take June 2003 free shuttle bus to UMass Boston. Buses marked UMass Boston run : SUNDAY 1 Division of Corporate, Continuing, & Distance Education: Spanish Language and Culture in MONDAY - THURSDAY Cuernavaca Mexico (Study Abroad Program, until July 7) 6:40am - 9:34pm every 3-6 min; 9:30pm - 11:3 0pm every 12 min TU ESDAY 3 Division of Corporate, Continuing, & Distance Education: Archaeological Field School on Shelter FRIDAY Island, NY (until June 28) 6:40am - 6:40pm every 3-6 min; 6:40pm - 10: 18pm every 12 min THU RS DAY 12 Division of Corporate, Continuing, & Distance Education: Field School in Prehistoric Archaeology in SATURDAY Belize (Study Abroad Program, until July 6) 7:30am - 8 am every 10 min; MONDAY 16 Division of Corporate, Continuing, & Distance Education: Marine Biology on Nantucket Island (at the 8 am - 5:45pm every 20 min via JFK Nantucket Field Station, until August 6) Library; 5:45pm - 6:42pm every 10 min SUNDAY Division of Corporate, Continuing, & Distance Education: An Insider's Approach to Estate and Gift 8am - 6pm every 20 min via JFK Tax (seminar at Cordage Park Center) Library; 6pm - 8:30pm every 12 min