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Schedule of Academic Symposia
Thursday, February 6, 2003
Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center Lower Concourse
To mark the inauguration of Chancellor John V. Lombardi,
the academic community is planning a series of events showcasing
the array of teaching, research, and learning activities on campus.
Other events are being planned in the colleges and schools and
at various other venues across campus. Please join us for a wonderful
day of celebration on the flagship campus of our state university.
There will be ten-minute breaks between sessions.
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RESEARCH
Public Health and Health Sciences
Patty S. Freedson, Professor, Exercise Science
The W.E.L.L. Plan: With Exercise, Live Longer
TEACHING
Humanities and Fine Arts
Margo Culley, Professor, English
Playing with History: Professing English
Stephen Nissenbaum, Professor, History
Playing with English: Professing History
LEARNING
Natural Resources and the Environment
Mariana Diaz, Graduate Student, Food Science
Opportunities in Education and Learning
Kristin Forloney, Undergraduate Student, Microbiology
Heavy Metal Resistance in Bacteria
Jason Goral, Undergraduate Student, Resource Economics
How the University Has Changed Me as a Person
Caryn Anderson, Graduate Student, Entomology
New Crops: Solving Pest Problems for Growers of Asian
Greens — Reaching out to Massachusetts’ New Asian
Farmers
Sam Cushman, Graduate Student, Natural Resources Conservation
Hierarchical Analysis of Species Environment Relationships
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| 10:15 |
RESEARCH
Humanities and Fine Arts
John Kingston, Associate Professor, Linguistics
Margaret Speas, Professor, Linguistics
Rex Wallace, Professor, Classics
Alice Nash, Assistant Professor, History
Robert Rothstein, Professor, Comparative Literature and
Slavic Studies
Phillip Bricker, Professor, Philosophy
Stephen Harris, Assistant Professor, English
Looking at Language
TEACHING
Natural Resources and the Environment
Steven Goodwin, Professor, Microbiology
Albey Reiner, Professor, Microbiology
Biology and Cancer
LEARNING
Public Health and Health Sciences
Maria Urso, Graduate Student, Exercise Science
Kathryn Baron, Undergraduate Student, Nutrition Megan Sherburne,
Undergraduate Student, Nutrition
Tiffany Charko, Graduate Student, Communication Disorders
Meeting Public Health Needs Through Research and Clinical
Practice
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| 11:15 |
RESEARCH
Natural Resources and the Environment
Derek Lovley, Distinguished Professor, Microbiology
Harnessing Microbial Electronics for Energy Generation
and Environmental Restoration
Barbara Osborne, Professor, Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Life and Death in Lymphocytes
TEACHING
Public Health and Health Sciences
Stella Volpe, Associate Professor, Nutrition
Barry Braun, Assistant Professor, Exercise Science
Nutrition and Exercise for Optimal Health
LEARNING
Humanities and Fine Arts
Forum Sponsored by the College’s Student Advisory
Board
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| 12:00 |
RESEARCH
Education
Ximena Zúñiga, Assistant Professor, Student
Development and Pupil Personnel Services
Theresa Austin, Associate Professor, Teacher Education
and Curriculum Studies
Joseph Berger, Associate Professor, Educational Research,
Policy and Administration
Current Research on Equity and Educational Policy and
Practice
TEACHING
Nursing
Donna Zucker, Assistant Professor
Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Technology
Jeanine Young-Mason, Distinguished Professor
Teaching Compassion in Health Care
Jean Swinney, Assistant Professor
Teaching Community Based Nursing
LEARNING
Management
Yasin Amlani, Graduate Student, Management
Intellectual Capital: Is it All in the Mind?
Ashish Khullar, Graduate Student, Hotel, Restaurant and
Travel Administration
Negative Word-of-Mouth Communication Via the Internet:
Diffusion of a PowerPoint Complaint
Doug White, Undergraduate Student, Finance and Operations
Management
Adventures in Ghana
Christina Calvaneso, Undergraduate Student, Finance and
Operations Management
Scholarship Through Service
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| 12:30 |
Lunch Break |
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| 1:00 |
RESEARCH
Management
Charles D. Schewe, Professor, Marketing
Age Really Counts: Marketing to Shared Experience
TEACHING
Education
Kathy Davis, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education and
Curriculum Studies
Teaching Teachers: The Use of Technology in the Science
Classroom
LEARNING
Nursing
Kate Angilly, Graduate Student
Parenting Experiences of HIV-AIDS Women
Patricia Brukenthal, Graduate Student
Somatic Awareness, Uncertainty, and Care-Seeking in Acute
Heart Failure
Jan-Louise Cooper Leonard, Graduate Student
Professional Nursing and the History of the Newborn’s
and Mother’s Health Protection Act of 1996
Corrine Jurgens, Graduate Student
Factors Affecting Multidisciplinary Assessment of Patients
with Fibromyalgia
Karen Plotkin, Graduate Student
Uncovering the Adolescent’s Voice: The Meaning of
the Experience of Endometriosis
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| 1:45 |
RESEARCH
Nursing
Cynthia Jacelon, Assistant Professor
Dignity and Older Adults
Jeanne Marie Stacciarini, Assistant Professor
Depressed Puerto Rican Women: A Novel Intervention
Leda McKenry, Associate Professor
Developing Cultural Competencies in Nursing: The Sekondi
Care Study
TEACHING
Management
Charles C. Manz, Nirenberg Professor of Leadership, Management
Teaching Students to Teach Themselves
Glenn M. Wong, Professor, Sport Studies
The Impact of Law on Sports
LEARNING
Education
Maria Botelho, Graduate Student, Teacher Education and Curriculum
Studies
Reading Class: Disrupting Power in Children’s Literature
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| 2:30 |
RESEARCH
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Lynn Margulis, Distinguished University Professor, Geosciences
James Walker, Professor, Biology
Cosmic Evolution at UMass
TEACHING
Engineering
Wayne Burleson, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Educational Innovations in Electrical and Computer Engineering
LEARNING
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Michaela Doran, Anthropology
Sean Ritchie, Economics
Emily Wegner, Sociology
Allison Rogers, Psychology
Undergraduate Student Panel: Research in the Social and
Behavioral Sciences
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| 3:15 |
RESEARCH
Engineering
Donald Fisher, Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Engineering, Cars, and Compassion
TEACHING
Social and Behavioral Sciences
David Arnold, Associate Professor, Psychology
Risk and Resilience: Promoting Success in Poor Inner-city
Children
LEARNING
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Stephanie Carter, Undergraduate Student, Biology
Lindsay Wilson, Undergraduate Student, Biology
Brent Heeringa, Graduate Student, Computer Science
Bill Hesse, Graduate Student, Computer Science
Panel on Graduate and Undergraduate Student Research
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| 4:00 |
RESEARCH
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Jay Demerath, Professor, Sociology
Tip-Toeing Across India’s Religious ‘Mind-field’:
A Report on Returning from Delhi
TEACHING
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Jose Mestre, Professor, Physics
Transforming Science Teaching Based On How People Learn
LEARNING
Engineering
Lauren Hurd, Undergraduate Student, Chemical Engineering
David Butler, Graduate Student, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Nicole Nichols, Undergraduate Student, Mechanical and Industrial
Engineering
Carolyn Overlock, Undergraduate Student, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Rafael Santana, Undergraduate Student, Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Diversity in Engineering
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