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LPS PhD Candidate Ron Marlow was promoted to Development Cabinet Director, for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's admimistration.
Prior to accepting the position of Director of the Development Cabinet in the Patrick administration, Marlow served as the Chief Operating Officer at Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the corporation. Prior to joining the staff of Dorchester Bay EDC, Mr. Marlow served as Chief of Staff to state Senator Dianne Wilkerson. Mr. Marlow has also served as Vice President of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations; Director of Community Services at the Boston Housing Authority; and, Chief of Staff at the Boston Housing Authority (1999-2000) Mr. Marlow has been very active in the Boston community. He has served on the Boards of Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., the Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation, the Private Industry Council, Project RIGHT, and the Board of Quincy/Geneva Housing Corporation. He has been recognized by many organizations for his outstanding accomplishments; in February 2000, The Boston Herald recognized Mr. Marlow as a �future Black history maker.� As Development Cabinet Director, Marlow will be responsible for coordinating policy development and implementation across the following areas: Labor and Workforce Development, Housing and Economic Development, Energy and Environmental Affairs, and Transportation and Construction.LPS Alum Morris Jenkins was promoted to associate professor with tenure at the University of Toledo.
Dr. Morris Jenkins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice. Dr. Jenkins received his B.A. from Claflin College, his J.D. from Stetson University College of Law, and his Ph.D. from Northeastern University. He is and has been involved in and with many community-based organizations. Dr. Jenkins has taught and trained students at every level, including elementary school and law and graduate students. Dr. Jenkins has trained thousands of young people and adults in law-related education (LRE), conflict resolution, and mediation. In addition, he has provided multicultural/diversity training to many police departments, probation departments, and corrections staff across the nation. Dr. Jenkins has taught a number of graduate courses in law and education, mediation and classroom management for teachers, administrators, and corrections personnel. His publishing and research interests include, civic education as a means to violence prevention in communities, restorative justice, gangs, and juvenile justice policy. He has testified at a number of state legislative hearings on the topics of restorative justice, the constitutionality of highway safety initiatives, and gangs. Dr. Jenkins is and has been involved on various academic committees and community boards. Dr. Jenkins is still active in the community and is currently involved with programs that deal with homelessness, juvenile crime, and race relations.
�Joan Fitzgerald (LPS and CURP) and Andy Sum (Center for Labor Market Studies and Economics) published an article, "What Can Worker Training Do?" in a special section of the American Prospect magazine published for the Council on Foundations meeting in Seattle, Washington, in May.
LPS Ph.D. candidate Mayte Rivera's research on mortgage foreclosures in the Latino community is featured in a video and article in the Christian Science Monitor--here's the link.
Article of Victor Castro and a powerpoint story with the Christian Science MonitorLPS alumnus Steven L. Antonakes Massachusetts Commissioner of Banks, received a "Neighborhood Works American Government Service Award" at a ceremony in Washington D.C. for his leadership in combating foreclosures in the Commonwealth.
LPS Ph.D. candidate Tim Mann has recently done interviews with CBS Radio and WPHT radio, both in Philadelphia on his dissertation research. His research examines the law, policy and administrative impacts of requiring criminal background checks as part of the college admission process. His research has also been mentioned in the Philadelphia Inquirer (3/26/2007) in an article entitled "A different kind of admissions process" and he was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal.
LPS student Tim Mann will be giving his Research Seminar entitled "An Exploratory Study on the Feasibility of Criminal Background Checks in College Admissions" on Monday, March 26th at 5:40 in 154 Ryder Hall
LPS student Catherine A Gildae presented a paper at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Philadelphia. Entitled "Marriage, Family, Ritual & Practice: Designing research to understand lesbian-headed families and the availability of marriage"
LPS Ph.D. candidate Ana Ilha Presented at the 9th Metropolis Conference in Toronto, Canada In the workshop on Human Trafficking Presentation title: "Working without status in USA: Case Studies in Trafficking in Agricultural and Garment Sectors" March 3, 2007
LPS Ph.D. student Ryan Clement was recently awarded the NU Student Civic Engagement Grant in Jan 2007 from the Office of Community Service here at Northeastern for her community initiative entitled "Youth Educational Success!". The grant serves as a funding opportunity to help promote greater campus-wide awareness of issues affecting our communities by assisting students who wish to contribute in positive and meaningful ways.
Youth Educational Success! is an initiative aimed at helping The Steppingstone Foundation to ensure the continued success of its tuition-free educational programs for Boston area scholars by donating educational supply kits for children enrolled in The Steppingstone Academy. The educational supplies would consist of items such as backpacks, notebooks, pens, pencils, school books, sporting equipment, and art supplies. These items will be donated to the Foundation to help outfit academic and extra-curricular activities organized by the Academy for its currently enrolled students.
The Steppingstone FoundationLPS Student Christine Shaw was nominated as AIAA Educator of the year for the New England chapter. AIAA is the American Institute of aeronautics and Astronautics.
LPS Student Christine Shaw was nominated as AIAA Educator of the year for the New England chapter. AIAA is the American Institute of aeronautics and Astronautics.
LPS Alum Tim Howard (2005) has recently completed his term as Visiting Scholar in Health Law and Instructor in Constitutional Law, Judicial Process, Civil Liberties and Media & Politics at Boston University. Tim received some of the highest teaching ratings and positive student evaluations ever received in his department. Appearing on national media outlets such as ABC News, AP, the New York Times, and the Atlanta Constitution, Tim addressed Law, Policy & Society subjects ranging from John Roberts nomination to the Supreme Court, legal actions to remove soft drinks from schools, to the historic re-election of Boston Mayor Tom Mennino. Tim advanced his scholarly Law, Policy & Society publications by presented two papers on Cause Lawy ers and Social Change and the Culture of Cause Lawyers at the most recent Law & Society conference in Baltimore.
This Fall Tim has been consulting for Northeastern University in creating the nation's first Law & Society Executive Doctorate Program. Starting early next year he will be Directing this program along with teaching as faculty for the program. The first class of students will begin in August of 2007.
In his applied Law, Policy & Society work, in the Spring of 2006 through to mid-November, Tim has filed actions in Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, Kansas, Washington, D.C., and California against national soft drink manufacturers to remove the carcinogen benzene from their beverages. Recent settlements with Kraft, Coke and several small manufacturers have included refunds for consumers and a reformulation of their products to ensure that benzene does not form in their products. Tim has appeared in numerous state and national papers, and local television stations, from the Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate television station, and Tallahassee, Florida CBS affiliate television station, to the A.P. wire, and Tampa Tribune, Lakeland Ledger, Boston Herald, and the Tallahassee Democrat newspapers concerning these ground breaking le gal actions.
LPS Candidate Trish Kiladis was selected as a participant for the Massachusetts Policy Forum at the State House in January.
LPS Alum Susan Ventura PhD (LPS 2005), has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at Northeastern University. In addition to teaching courses in Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities and Psychosocial Aspects of Health Care, Dr. Ventura will be conducting research designed to improve the psychosocial apsects of health care services, especially for people who have serious illnesses and disabilities.
LPS Faculty Judith Boardman presented a paper entitled "Health Access and Integration: Correcting HealthcareDisparities Through Evidence-Based Practice" at the XVI International Sociological Association World Congress in Durban, South Africa on 7/6/06
LPS Faculty Susan T. Krumholz led more than a dozen University of Massachusetts students into prison for their graduation ceremony Monday night.They and about a dozen Dartmouth House of Correction inmates completed the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, a criminal justice course held inside jail. Prof. Susan T. Krumholz instructed the program and nearly every participant said it "changed their life forever."
LPS Alum David Carlson, Ph.D., (LPS, '97) elected Chair, Faculty Assembly, Lasell College, Newton, MA, 2006 - 2007 academic year. Promoted to Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Department of Justice Studies, September, 2006. Principal photographer, Lasell College Annual Reports, 2002 - 2006.
LPS Faculty Robert L. Hall , Associate Professor of African-American Studies and History (jointly appointed) and acting chair of the Department of African-American Studies has just completed a book chapter and a journal article on related subjects. The book chapter, "Food Crops, Medicinal Plants, and the Atlantic Slave Trade," is scheduled to be published by the University of Illinois Press in the spring of 2007 in African American Foodways: History and Culture, edited by Anne Bower. His article, "Africa and the American South: A Culinary Connection," based on an address he gave in February of 2006 at the seventeenth annual Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration in Mississippi, will appear in the Winter 2007 special issue of the Southern Quarterly devoted to the theme of food and drink in southern culture. Professor Hall's latest project is "Immigration and Ethnicity Among 'Blacks' in Massachusetts, 1990-2000: Demographic Profile and Policy Implications." This builds upon his earlier work which includes an anthology (prepared with the assistance of Northeastern University history graduate student Michael Harvey), Making a Living: The Work Experience of African Americans in New England: From Colonial Times to 1945 (Boston: New England Foundation for the Humanities, 1995, 609 pp.) and his role as co-editor of the "Ethnic and Racial Identity" section of the Encyclopedia of New England edited by Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters and published by Yale University Press (2005). He is scheduled to give a presentation on the topic "Blacks and U.S. Higher Education: Past, Present, and Future" in the faculty colloquium series of the recently launched School of Social Science, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs.
LPS Dawna Thomas has co-edited a book with Professor William Sanchez - The book will be available in fall 2007. This book includes a collection of scholars who provide an interdisciplinary view of the Cape Verdean community's racial and cultural history. The book invites an innovative examination of the theoretical framework(s) of race, culture, and ethnicity. It provides an in-depth analysis of theories, intervention models, and information that promotes culturally relevant service delivery for culturally diverse communities and particularly Cape Verdeans. This book is necessary guide for anyone working in the helping professions in the 21st century. .
LPS student Ermelinda Elizabeth Qarri has just concluded a fellowship at UCLA Down Town Labor Center in Collabortaion with American Rights at Work, a non-profit organization where she researched the influence of recent National Labor Relation Board's decisions influencing the right to unionize for particular employees.
LPS Alum Dawn Golub (2005)has just published an article entitled "A Model of Successful Work Experience for Employees Who Are Visually Impaired: The Results of a Study," in the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (100)12 (December 2006).
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW & CULTURE FELLOWSHIP
The Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University invites applications for residential fellowships for the 2007-2008 academic year to undertake research, writing and discussion in ways that span traditional academic disciplines. The CSLC welcomes scholars from any field who are interested in spending the academic year in residence at Columbia Law School working on scholarly projects relating to the CSLC's 2007-2008 theme: Executive Power.
We aim to appoint fellows whose scholarship addresses the critical and legal implications of expanding executive power not merely from the perspective of the state?such as the Bush administration's celebrated attempt to expand executive privilege vis-୶is the other branches of US government?but from the perspective of power more generally. Since the post-structural assault on theories of power that posited it as emanating from a concentrated source, critical theory has conceptualized power as dispersed, capillary, and simultaneously productive and repressive. What might be the ramifications on legal and critical thought and practice at the intersection of new attempts to concentrate institutionally various forms and careers of power? We invite in particular scholarship whose focus is outside the US and lies at the critical conjuncture of law and culture. Fellows will be required to present an original paper from their research and to participate in a year long colloquium on the same topic. The Law & Culture Fellowship is available to senior graduate students and post-doctoral candidates, including untenured faculty.
Founded in the fall of 2000, the Center for the Study of Law and Culture is an initiative at Columbia Law School designed to facilitate interdisciplinary study, research and scholarship on the intersections of law and culture. Our goal is to make the CSLC an institutional site for coordinating and coalescing the important, yet dispersed, interrogations of the relationship between law and culture that are already being undertaken across disciplines at Columbia University. By promoting and providing a home for cross-disciplinary engagement and collaboration, the CSLC will enrich each of our individual projects in law and culture studies.
Fellows will receive a stipend of $30,000, an office, computer, eligibility for university housing, and full access to university libraries, computer systems and recreational facilities. Fellows will be expected to participate in CSLC activities including presentation of a paper at the Center's Colloquium Series, and assistance in organizing Center events.
Applicants should submit: 1- a curriculum vitae 2- a writing sample (in the English language, about 25 pages in length) 3- a research statement (of approximately 1,000 words) that: - describes the proposed work during the fellowship period - explains the project's significance to the topic of Executive Power - sets forth its interdisciplinary nature 4- TWO letters of recommendation (if sent with application, letter should be sealed in letterhead envelope and signed over the flap by referee). If more than two are sent, it is not guaranteed that all letters will be read. Applications must be received at our office no later than February 15, 2007. E-mail applications will be accepted.Letters of recommendation may be sent under separate cover.Incomplete applications will be immediately disqualified. Direct questions and application materials to: Center for the Study of Law and Culture Columbia University 435 W. 116th Street New York, N.Y. 10027 USA culture@law.columbia.edu Women, people of color, non-US and independent scholars are particularly invited to apply.
President - Prema Popat
Treasurer - Anne-Marie Hakstian
VP of Programming and Academic Affairs - Liana Scrimgeour
VP of Programming and Student Affairs - Ryan Clement
LPS alum (04) Mike Antonio published three articles on his research on juries in capital cases last year. Two were in Judicature and one in "Behavioral Sciences and the Law"
LPS Ph.D candidate Neenah Estrella-Luna recently joined the Board of Directors of the Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH), an East Boston based community development corporation.
LPS alum John D. Sullivan has been promoted to associate professor at Boston University's Metropolitan College
Professor and Director Joan Fitzgerald presented a paper, "Downward Mobility in the Labor Market: The Politics of Causes and Cures" at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held in Philadelphia from August 31-September 3.
Check out the new links section of the LPS website. There are links to registration, class schedules, classrooms and more.....
The website for the new school of Social Science, Urban Affairs and Public Policy is now up and running. Check it out
School of Social Science, Urban Affairs and Public Policy website. LPS alum (04) Mike Antonio published three articles on his research on juries in capital cases last year. Two were in Judicature and one in "Behavioral Sciences and the Law"
1) Antonio, Michael E. (March/April 2006). "I didn't know it'd be so hard: Jurors' Emotional Reactions to Serving on Capital Trials." Judicature 89 (5): 1-9. 2) Antonio, Michael E. (2006). " Arbitrariness and the Death Penalty: How the Defendant's Appearance During Trial Influences Capital Jurors' Punishment Decision." 24(3) Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 215-234. 3) Antonio, Michael E. and Nicole E. Arone (2005). "Damned if they do, Damned if they don't: Jurors' Reaction to Defendant Testimony or Silence during a Capital Trial." Judicature 89 (2) : 60-68. Philosophy and LPS Professor Stephen Nathanson gave a presentation at Harvard University on "Power and Justice." The talk was given to participants in the American Comenius Course, a program for Dutch business and government officials run by the University of Groningen. In August, Professor Nathanson participated as an invited speaker at a two-day conference on patriotism in Melbourne, Australia sponsored by the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. His paper was entitled, "Is Cosmopolitan Anti-Patriotism a Virtue?"
Political Science and LPS Professor Christopher Bosso was co-winner of the 2006 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize for the best book on environmental politics and policy for his recent book, Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (University Press of Kansas, 2005). The Caldwell Award is offered each year by the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.
CURP Director and LPS Professor Barry Bluestone and Associate Director David Soule (LPS, 2003) published "Creating a Business-Savvy Inner City" in the July Issue of the Inner City Economic Forum Newsletter.
LPS alum Dale Nesbary (95) has been named Vice President of Academic Affairs at Adrian College in Michigan. He is an associate profesor of political science.
LPS Ph.D. candidate Patricia Kiladis was awarded a fellowship with the Policy Research
Mentorship Program of the Washington Health Policy Institute for the 2006-07 academic year.
The fellowship includes a $2,500 award.
LPS Ph.D. candidate Gladys McKie published an op-ed, "New online rating site could put lawyers on hot seat" in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and the Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly on July 24. It has been picked up by several bloggers and is available on LexisNexis.
LPS Ph.D. candidate Rich Maloney lectured in Toronto and London over the summer (and performed as well). Rich also organized an Arts Research Symposium at Boston University at which LPS professor Greg Wassall presented a paper.
LPS was well represented at the annual Law and Society Association conference in Baltimore. Professor Joan Fitzgerald presented a paper as did two Ph.D. students Ana Ilha and Serap Kantarci Sanlikol. Professors Leonard Buckle and Suzann Thomas-Buckle participated in a roundtable discussion. Recent graduate Michael Antonio (year) published three articles since graduating: (March/April 2006). "I didn't know it'd be so hard: Jurors' Emotional Reactions to Serving on Capital Trials." Judicature 89 (5): 1-9; (2006). " Arbitrariness and the Death Penalty: How the Defendant's Appearance During Trial Influences Capital Jurors' Punishment Decision." 24(3) Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 215-234; and Michael E. Antonio and Nicole E. Arone (2005). "Damned if they do, Damned if they don't: Jurors' Reaction to Defendant Testimony or Silence during a Capital Trial." Judicature 89 (2): 60-68.
Another article he co-authored is coming out in December in Wash & Lee Law Rev.:
Bowers, William J., Wanda D. Foglia, Jean Giles, and Michael E. Antonio. (forthcoming, December 2006). "Judge Override Undermines Capital Sentencing: An Empirical Demonstration that Jurors Deny Responsibility, Fail to Understand the Law, and Rush to Judgment and that Judges are Compromised by Electoral Politics in States with Hybrid Statutes." 63 (3) Washington and Lee Law Review. LPS PhD student Rosann M. Ippolito is the recipient of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, PA Foundation, Breitman-Dorn Research Fellowship Award. Congratulations Rosann!!!!! LPS Ph.D. candidate Sebastian Albuja recently submitted a petition, acting as pro bono legal counsel,
for precautionary measures to the Inter-American Commision on Human Rights aimed at protecting two indigenous groups in Ecuador. The petition was accepted and the measures granted. The Commission has ordered the State of Ecuador to take protective measures and to report in ten days. Those ten days are running now. LPS PhD student Rosann M. Ippolito has been appointed the new Program Director and Chair of the Physician Assistant Program at Northeastern University. Congratulations Rosann!!!!! LPS PhD student Cheryl Hayne has been chosen to receive the "Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award" for 2005-2006 in the Instructor of Record catorgory. Congratulations Cheryl!!! LPS Director Joan Fitzgerald published an op-ed in the Boston Globe, The Missing Link in Economic Development on March 7th.It is available on the CURP website: http://www.curp.neu.edu LPS Professor Ballad Campbell has been appointed as a Lecturer to the Organization of
the American Historians Distinquished Lectureship Program. The OAH is
the primary professional societies for historians of the United States.
http://www.oah.org/
LPS director Joan Fitzgerald was the keynote speaker at the Commonwealth Workforce Coalition's Third Annual Conference in Worcester, Ma. on March 8th. Professor Thomas Koenig published "Competing Visions of Angst Among Elite Lawyers," in the Winter 2006 issue of University of Illinois Law Review He also published "The Tort of Negligent Enablement of Cybercrime," in the Fall 2005 issue of Berkeley Technology Law Journal . Both articles are co-authored with Professor Michael Rustad of Suffolk University Law School.
LPS Director Joan Fitzgerald's new book "Moving Up in the New Economy."(Cornell University Press)has been released and is available for purchase." LPS Director Joan Fitzgerald presented a paper at the annual meetings of the Labor and Employment Relations Association in Boston on January 5th. Her paper was titled, "Unions and Career Advancement in Health Care and Child Care Occupations." LPS Joan Fitzgerald LPS Director, presented a paper at the annual meetings of the Labor and Employment Relations Association in Boston on January 5th. Her paper was titled, "Unions and Career Advancement in Health Care and Child Care Occupations". PhD candidate Joseph Perry has been appointed to the IBM Software Group Worldwide Technical Leadership Council. It is a forum for key IBM technical leaders and the IBM Software Group executive team to work together, Participation in the council will provide leadership and guidance to the worldwide Software Group technical community, and is intended to enhance the exchange between the IBM Software Group's top technical professionals and senior management. It is two to three year assignment. PhD candidate Najim Animashaun was a panelist on a recent workshop to eradicate child and forced marriages in Afganistan, November 25, 2005, Kabul, The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women was present. PhD candidate Jennifer Balboni Presented a paper entitled "The meaning and consequence of settlement," at the Justice Studies Association Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT, June 2005,
. PhD candidate Mary Ellen Mastrotilli Presented a paper entitled "Bender Responsive Intermediate Sanctions: Do They Work?", presented at the 11th National Workshop on Adult and Juvenile Female Offenders, October 2005,
. LPS Director Joan Fitzgerald gave an invited plenary address, "Shortages in health care occupations in acute care settings and barriers to addressing them" at the annual conference of the National Network of Sector Partners on November 1st in Chicago.
Law and LPS Professor Dick Daynard was featured in a Boston Globe Magazine cover story on " The legal movement to make soft drinks the next tobacco." The story discusses the broader issue and focuses on a lawsuit, coordinated by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, that Daynard is working on. You can find the article online or in the LPS showcase located outside 205 Holmes Hall on the Boston Main Campus. PhD candidate David Whelpley Presented a paper entitled "Boston Harbor and Secondary Treatment: A Legislative History of Section 301(h) of the Clean Water Act", at the Massachusetts Historical Society, December 6, 2005,. Joan Fitzgerald
gave an invited plenary address, "Shortages in health care occupations in acute care settings and barriers to addressing them" at the annual conference of the National Network of Sector Partners on November 1st in Chicago.
Law and LPS Professor Dick Daynard
was featured in a Boston Globe Magazine cover story on " The legal movement to make soft drinks the next tobacco." The story discusses the broader issue and focuses on a lawsuit, coordinated by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, that Daynard is working on. You can find the article online or in the LPS showcase located outside 205 Holmes Hall on the Boston Main Campus. LPS Director Joan Fitzgerald
presented an invited paper, " Socio-economic models under stress, European and American responses to the challenges of globalization." at an International Conference on Relations between Europe and the USA sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, October 14, in Lisbon, Portugal.
. LPS Director Joan Fitzgerald
gave an invited presentation, The Poverty of Caring Work, at a conference in Cambridge, England on Poverty and Place in the US and UK: Comparisons of Experiences and Policy. The conference was sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK. LPS director Joan Fitzgerald and Ph.D. candidate Marya Dantzer-Rosenthal presented papers at the 8th International Women's Policy Research Conference in Washington, D.C., which was held 20-21 June, 2005. Joan's paper was on career advancement for direct care workers. Marya's was on her dissertation research, which is an ethnographic study of how women on welfare or transitioning off welfare piece together income. Recent graduate Kimberly Hall also presented a paper.
LPS Ph.D. candidate Rich Maloney was quoted in an article in the Boston Globe on the financial troubles of small museums (May 29th).
LPS Professor Thomas Koenig recently co-authored two articles with Michael Rustad of Suffolk University Law School. Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, "Rebooting Cybertort Law," Washington Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 335-416. and Michael Rustad and Thomas Koenig, "Harmonizing Cybertort Law for Europe and America," Journal of High Technology Law, Vol. 5 No. 1, May 2005..
>LPS Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Balboni presented a paper on her dissertation research on clergy sexual abuse at the Justice Studies Association Annual Meeting in Hartford on June 4th. Her presentation was entitled, "The meaning and consequence of settlement."
LPS M.S. student Gissell Abreau who works for the Gaston Institute at UMassBoston, along with two LPS Ph.D Students, Evette Cortes and Maria Gracia Andia presented papers at a session Immigration Law and Policy Implications to Latino Immigrants at UMass Amherst's First Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Our Research Matters: New Dialogues on Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies. Gissell Abreau also gave a special presentation Building Leadership Development, to board members of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research at the Siglo XXI: Latino Research into the 21st Century conference in January.
Recent LPS alumna Sybil Martin Has been appointed as the first Manager of the Office of Court Recording and Transcription Service. This office has been created as a result of the Supreme Judicial Court's Report of the Study Committee on Trial Transcripts in an effort to improve the quality and timeliness of transcriptions of proceedings conducted in the Trial Court departments. This office will focus on implementing the numerous recommendations of the Study Committee, including the deployment of digital audio equipment and the tracking and monitoring of the preparation of transcripts.
Ph.D. candidate Rich Maloney presented a paper at the Association for Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) national conference in Pittsburgh on Arpil 8th. The paper was on best practices in career services for arts administration programs. Rich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Arts Administration Department at Boston University.
LPS Ph.D. student Tom Winston recently presented a paper at the annual convention of the International Studies Association. The paper, entitled: "The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes: A Discussion of the Intelligence Challenges in Tracking, Tracing and Investigating Terrorist Fund-Raising and Fund Transfer Activities via the Internet" has been submitted for publication in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
LPS faculty member Mary Balllou co-edited a special issue of Women and Therapy entittled Foundations and Future of Feminist Therapy (with Marcia Hill and also wrote three articles for it. The issue will also be published by Harrington Park Press. Professor Ballouw also co-authored with Karen Suyemoto a chapter, New Models of Feminist Leadership for Feminist Leadership (edited by Jean Chin), a text that will be published by the American Psychological Association Press in the summer of 2005. She also organized and chaired a conference on Feminist Therapy Expanded Practices and Social Change in the Fall of 2004 for the Advanced Feminist Therapy Institute.
LPS Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Balboni presented a paper, Litigation as a Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse: Truth and Consequences, at the American Society of Criminology meetings on November 17th in Nashville.
LPS Ph.D. candidate Francis M. Williams accepted a tenure-track appointment a t Bridgewater State College in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice that started in September, 2004.
LPS faculty member Judith Boardman presented four papers at professional conferences this fall. The Journal of Collaborative Family Health Care has requested submission of one of them, Health Access and Integration for Seriously and Persistently Mentally Ill: A Study for Living Healthier and Longer, for publication in Summer 2005.
LPS director Joan Fitzgerald signed a contract with Cornell University Press for her book, Moving Up in the New Economy, which will be published in the Fall of this year.
LPS student Mary Ellen Mastrorilli, Superintendent of Community Corrections at the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department received a $1 million grant from U.S. Department of Education (Life Skills for Prisoners Program). Her program, Community Reentry for Women (CREW) will develop and deliver a collaborative program for reentry services for female offenders. Project partners include Project Place and South End Community Health Center.
Alum Andy Kline, a faculty member at U-Mass Lowell, just published The Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Violence with Wadsworth Publishers.
Rich Maloney, LPS Ph.D. candidate, was the focus of a faculty profile in an article in the alumni newsletter of the newsletter of the Metropolitan College of Boston University. The profile pointed out his accomplishments in the performing arts. Did everyone know Rich is a guitarist and lutenist specializing in Renaissance and Baroque music?
Law and LPS professor Richard Daynard was featured in a cover article of the Boston Globe Magazine, "Fat: The Blame Game."
Interim Director Joan Fitzgerald received a grant from the Ms. Foundation for Women to conduct research on a project entitled, "Can Women Achieve Self Sufficiency and Professionalization in the Care Giving Occupations?" LPS graduate student Leah Wentworth will be a research assistant on the project.
Governor Mitt Romney appointed LPS alum Steven L. Antonakes as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Banks.
Kevin Clark, LPS Ph.D. candidate and Director of the English Language Center on campus, had an article published on the web site of the Consortium of University and College Intensive English Programs. It can be accessed at www.udel.edu/iepmedia/economic_impact.html.
Jill Weiss, a Ph.D. candidate about to finish her dissertation, was appointed as an assistant professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
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