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Grain & Chaff
Leading role
Psychology professor James M. Royer was elected
president of Division 15, educational psychology, at the recent
American Psychological Association convention in Chicago. His
one-year term begins in September 2003.
DiNardi recognized
Salvatore R. DiNardi, professor and chair of Environmental
Health Sciences, received two awards from the American Industrial
Hygiene Association during the American Industrial Hygiene Conference
and Exposition held at the San Diego Convention Center during
the first week of June.
The first award acknowledged DiNardi's distinguished
service to the Exposure Assessment Committee. DiNardi teaches
a popular and highly rated professional development course, "Industrial
Hygiene Calculation Methods," which reaches the maximum capacity
of 50 learners each time it is offered. DiNardi also presents
the course in a distance-learning format.
The Publication Committee presented the second award
in recognition of DiNardi's leadership as the editor of the popular
and world-renowned industrial hygiene reference book, "The
Occupational Environment, its Evaluation and Control." The
reference book has outsold all other books published by the AIHA
Press since it was first published in 1997. DiNardi received an
award for each of the last three years as the editor
of the best-selling book offered by the AIHA Press. AIHA Press
also created a special award last year to acknowledge the special
status for his book. This year the AIHA Press created another
special award to recognize DiNardi's contribution to its success.
Headliners
After a slew of national stories about his research
on emergency care mitigating murder rates, Sociology professor
Anthony Harris attained the Holy Grail of press notice Aug. 25
with a half-page article in the New York Times. ... Communication
professor Sut Jhally made the same edition, commenting on the
marketing of openly gay professional wrestlers. Jhally is currently
producing a documentary film called "Wrestling With Manhood."
... Epidemiologist Elizabeth Bertone's study of second-hand smoking's
effects on cats was covered in the Jerusalem Post and the Boston
Globe.
Packing them in
Faced with bumper crops of students, several universities
in the region are facing housing crunches. The University of New
Hampshire is spending about $350,000 to convert around 80 lounges
into student rooms to accommodate an incoming class of 2,700.
UNH is scheduled to open a new 320-student residence hall in November.
... The University of Connecticut has assigned 42 students to
a nearby hotel and also placed other students in converted lounges
and triples. ... Quinnipiac University is opening a new 379-bed
dormitory and bought a private home to convert into student housing.
The school has purchased 25 homes in recent years to address student
housing demands. ... Meanwhile, MIT is assigning first-year students
to residence halls for the first time in the school's 137-year
history. The shift to foster a more "normal" first-year
experience comes five years after a freshman died from drinking
too much just weeks after moving into a fraternity house. MIT's
construction of two residence halls and the development of a housing
program are being overseen by dean for student life Larry Benedict,
former associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs here in the
1980s. Benedict earned his B.A. in History at UMass Amherst in
1967 and later went on to complete an M.Ed. and Ed.D. through
the School of Education. He was hired by MIT two years ago.
College bowl
A deal giving the University of Rhode Island's newly
unionized graduate employees stipend increases, free health insurance
and free parking was approved last week by the state's Board of
Governors for Higher Education. Under the one-year pact, the 600
teaching and research assistants will receive stipend increases
of 3.5 percent. URI will pay about two-thirds of the costs, estimated
at $500,000, with the remainder expected to come from outside
grants.
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