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THE UNIVERSITY orter News and information 'about the University ofMassachusetts Boston Volume 5, Number 5 January 2001 Fulbrights Will Take Professors to China and Vietnam by Jeffrey Mitchell "I tell people I've never been Chu specializes in American west of Honolulu," says Jonathan legal history and will offer a gradu­ Chu of the History Department. ate course in it this spring. "I look But soon he'll be heading far be­ at social and economic outcomes yond his native Hawaii to teach as and try to track back to the way in a Fulbright scholar at Changchun which the law has affected those University in northeastern China, outcomes," he says. His hosts-to­ the country of his forebears. An­ be are highly interested in Ameri­ other UMass Boston faculty mem­ can legal institutions. "As the Chi­ ber is undertaking a similar jour­ nese move toward a market ney. Charles Shively of the Ameri­ economy," he says, one of their can Studies Program will join a problems is "trying to keep con­ small group of Fulbright winners trol without keeping the same level in Vietnam, where he will be based of control. They recognize that at the College of Humanities and you have to decentralize decision­ Social Sciences in Hanoi. Both making for market economies to Fulbright winners Charles Shiveley, American studies professor, and Jonathan Chu, history professor. Chu and Shively will teach for a work, but they desperately want to (photos by Harry Brett) semester at their home institutions avoid the disaster of the Soviet and travel farther afield as lectur­ Union." A critical model for them ers. They are among some 800 is the United States, whose legal scholars and professionals who system is "really a kind of informal will be sent abroad this year by the economic mechanism." Through U.S. government's Fulbright Pro­ lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits, gram to teach or conduct research. for example, Americans often continued on page 6 Biography and the Web: Visiting Fellow Starts Clinton Bio by Leigh DuPuy Nigel Hamilton returns to Kennedy,Jr.," explained Hamilton. tional families, feminism, and UMass Boston with a new project, "He sees himself in the Kennedy multiculturalism. " to write a full-length biography on mold." Hamilton is no stranger to For Hamilton, Clinton's great Bill Clinton using the Internet as the Kennedy phenomenon, having struggle, Monica-gate, reflects a a research tool. Hamilton, who is completed his biography JFK: larger crisis of modern civiliza­ the director of the British Institute Reckless Youth while he was a tion. He notes, "This was a cul­ of Biography and a professor of McCormack Institute visiting fel­ tural struggle, with cultural impli­ biography at De Monfort Univer­ low from 1988 to 1994. cations similar to those prohibi­ sity in Great Britain, will embark Hamilton approaches his biog­ tion had in the 1920s. We have on his new project while a visiting raphies by first examining the mythologized our presidents for fellow at the McCormack Institute riddle or puzzle of an individual. generations. Accepting the idea of Public Affairs. In addition to being interested in that presidents are only human is Hamilton estimates it will take Clinton as a person, Hamilton also a milestone for us." him four years to research and has been fascinated by how To record his progress and in­ write Bill Clinton: An American Clinton's life mirrors the age from volve others in the project, Journey, a comprehensive biogra­ World War II to the present day. Hamilton has created an interac­ phy that will span from 1946 to the "Clinton reflects the heritage and tive website. Located at present day. "I first became inter­ experience of social and cultural www.mccormack .umb.edu, the ested in Clinton in 1991 because changes that include Vietnam, race site is designed to be an expand­ McCormack Institute visiting fellow Nigel Hamilton and research assistant Katie Griffin. (photo by Harry Brett) of his references to John F. relations, the baby boom, dysfunc- ing multimedia center, including continued on page 3 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Finalists Announced for Fulbright Winners .... .. .................. .. .. 1. 6 Commonwealth Journal. ...... .... ... ... 4 New Chancellorl Clinton Biography ... .... ..... ..... .. ....... 1. 3 Spotlights ......... ... ........ .. 5 UMass Boston First ... ..... ... .. ..... ... .. ... ... ... 2 Chancellor Candidates ...................... ... ... 6 Search Committee reports to UMass Salem Harringtons ...... .... ..... ..... .. ... 3 Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas ...... .. 6 President William Bulger and Grace Fey, MBA Accreditation ............. .... .......... ..... 3 Campus Notes... .. .. .................. ...... ..7 Board of Trustees, the four finalists for CM Silver Anniversary .................. ........ 4 Calendar .. .. .... .. ... ... .. .. .. ..... ... .... ..... ... 8 Chancellorship. See story on page 6. UMASS® English MA Internships .. .. .. ..... .... ... .. ......4 BOSTON Milestones. Memories, and Mirth at the JFK Library by Anne-Marie Kent Nearly 300 people g_athered at the campus during difficult eco­ Chukwuka Okafor, UMass alum­ Celebrating the $50 million Clara Estow, chair of the Faculty theJFK library on November 30 nomic times, then serving as in-' nus and 1999 JFK award recipient; fund raising milestone, the event Council, stole the show with her for "Milestones, Memories, and terim University of Massachusetts and ~oston Mayor Thomas also included a new IA video pre­ "Top Ten" list of "Ways Chancel­ Mirth," the Institutional Advance­ president, and, more recently, over­ Menino, who praised Penney's sentation and brief talks by Gor­ lor Pelmey's life is about to get ment (IA) event celebrating the seeing UMass Boston as it co­ ability to make UMass Boston "in­ don Abbott, Jr. '90, a member of much better in January." successful early completion of the hosted the U.S. presidential de­ tegrally part of what is going on in the UMass Boston First Campaign Dubbed "Cabaret UMass Bos­ $50 million UMass Boston First bate. the city," through community re­ Cabinet, and Patricia C. Flaherty ton" by Michael Luck, vice chan­ campaign and honoring outgoing Others recounting memories of lations and outreach. '8 1, chair of the UMass Founda­ cellor for institutional advance­ UMass Boston Chancellor, Sherry Penney's tenure included Grace K. Chancellor Penney thanked tion at Boston Board of Directors. ment, the evening ended with H. Penney. Fey, chair of the University of Mas­ everyone present, underscored her Although UMass Boston poet dancing to Broadway tunes per­ University of Massachusetts sachusetts Board of Trustees; Paul commitment to education, and laureate Duncan Nelson and formed by noted cabaret per­ President William M. Bulger G. Kirk, Jr., chairman of the Board said, "I am very proud of the insti­ famed comedian Jimmy Tingle former Bobby Wetherbee. commended Penney for leading of the JFK Library Foundation; tution I was honored to lead." provided their shares of the mirth, Left: Chancellor Sherry H. Penney and Michael Luck, vice chancellor for institutional advancement, at the celebration. Left: Boston Mayor Thomas Menino addresses the audience at the JFK librmy. Below: UMass Boston's poet laureate Duncan Nelson performs. Below: John Burlingame and his wife Genevieve, a member of the UMass Foundation Board at Boston, with Chancellor Penney and her husband Dr. James Livingston. Institutional Advancement's Christina Dunn and David Mackenzie, vice Cynthia Williams. chancellor for adminstration and finance, and Grace K Key, chair of the University ofMassachusetts Board of Trustees. Photos by Harry Brett. The University Reporter University Col1UTIunications Annemarie Lewis Kerwin Stoff Writers: Tbe U11ivI'1'Sity Repo1te1' is published Third Floor Editor Kim Burke monthly during the academic year except Quinn Administration Bldg. 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