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Professor Robert Shea Presents at Conference
Dr. Robert Shea, Director of Faculty Development and Leadership Curriculim for PMC's Center for Inclusive Leadership and Social Responsibility, presented a paper at a conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in November. Working with a colleague, Dr. Donna Killian Duffy from Middlesex Community College, Shea presented some of his work resulting from a three-year collaborative relationship with faculty and administrators on a number of other campuses. The project has been jointly supproted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Association of Higher Education. Shea and his colleagues have been working to expand and deepen the scholarship of teaching and learning on and across member campuses. His presentation, "Keeping the Momentum Going: Ideas for Sustaining Communities of Practice to Support the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," shared insights gathered over three-years of evaluative research on the project.
Michelle Cromwell Teaches Violence Prevention and Attends Conference
Assistant Professor of Social and Political Systems and Center Associate for Multicultural Curriculum Michelle Cromwell taught Violence Prevention and Communication and Conflict at the University of Calgary's Department of Sociology in June as a visiting scholar. She also attended the International Peace Research Association’s conference in Calgary in July.
Adjunct Professor Emma Dassori Publishes Article
Theatre Adjunct Emma Dassori published an article dealing with the emergence of anti-sufferage drama in the American Transcendental Quarterly in December 2005.
Richard McGirr Provides Original Music for Festival
In June, Communication Adjunct Richard McGirr provided music for an original works festival of short plays and poems, grouped loosely according to Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man, produced by his wife and staged at the Center for the Arts in Natick, Mass.
Jennifer Mintzer Awarded Lindsey Professorship
Assistant Communication Professor Jennifer Mintzer was awarded the Lindsey Professorship sabbatical leave for the spring 2007 semester. During her leave, she will be a visiting professor on Semester at Sea Voyage, visiting the following ports: San Juan, Puerto Rico; Salvador, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; Port Louis, Mauritius; Chennai, India; Penang, Malaysia; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Hong Kong; Qingdao, China; and Kobe, Japan. During the 14-week voyage, she will be teaching courses in Cinema and National Identity, Mass Media Systems Around the World, and Intercultural Communication. She will also shoot a short documentary and conduct research on students’ perceptions regarding international cultures and experiential learning while on the voyage.
In November, she will be one of 20 participants attending the Annual Faculty Seminar of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles. The seminar is a five-day series of discussions, presentations and interactions with major studios, production companies, networks, and top production and programming people.
Sharon Montella Dances in Benefit Concert
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance Sharon Montella danced in a benefit jazz concert in May at the Emerson Majestic Theatre with Boston Dance Company. She also studied dance in New York City over the summer.
PMC Team Presents Insights on Enhancing First-Year Experiences
On June 2, 2006, Assistant Dean for the First Year Experience and Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert E. Shea, Jr., along with several members of the first year team, presented some of their work at a scholarship of teaching and learning conference, which was jointly sponsored by the New England Faculty Development Consortium and the Middlesex Carnegie Summer Institute. The talk was called “Creating a Seamless Learning Community: An Inclusive Approach to Fostering a Successful First Year Experience.” Presenters included Shea, Whitney Retallic, Director of Youth and Student Programs, Center for Inclusive Leadership and Social Responsibility, Kimberley D. Small, Assistant Professor of Communications, Sarah Woolf, Head of Reference and Instructional Services, Annenberg Library and Communications Center, and Melissa Yoffe, Assistant Dean of Student Life.
Mass. and Maine Shows Display Rabe’s Work
Two shows honor Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Carole Rabe this spring and summer. Mid-May through mid-June, 2006, Rabe showed 12 of her paintings at Artana Gallery in Brookline. In July, her work will be on display in York, Maine, at the George Marshall Store Gallery.
Aguero Reads in Boston Area, Teaches in New York State
Professor of English Kathleen Aguero has participated in local readings from her essay “Marriage Koan” (edited by Jean Trounstine and Karen Propp, Hudson St. Press, Feb. 2006) at Middlesex Lowell Community College, the Andover, Book Shop, and the Reading Public Library. She has read her poetry at the Brockton Public Library, the Moore Bookstore in Somerville, Mass., at Borders in downtown Boston, and at the Saratoga Springs, New York, Public Library. Aguero will be poet in residence at New York State Young Writers Institute in July, and at Writers Institute at Chautauqua, New York, in August.
Ponder Visits Egypt to Research Book; Chairs at Conference in England
Professor of English Melinda Ponder traveled to Egypt from May 1 to May 14, 2006, to research her biography of Katharine Lee Bates. In July, she will attend a conference at Oxford University, England, titled “Trans-Atlantic Connections” and sponsored by the Emerson, Poe, and Hawthorne Societies. Ponder will chair two sessions there.
Miller Speaks Locally and Abroad
The 2006 Fellow of the Boston Historical Society is Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology Cynthia J. Miller, who is researching the women of Boston’s settlement houses. Miller was a roundtable speaker this spring at the American Society for Environmental History meetings in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in May, trained at Grateford Prison to participate in Temple University’s Inside/Out Prison Education Program. In July, she will speak at the fifth Auto/Biography Conference in Mainz, Germany.
Owczarek Judges High and Middle School Drama Finals
Professor of Drama Bob Owczarek was one of three judges in the state finals of the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild on March 30 and April 1, 2006, in Boston. He also served as a judge for the Massachusetts Middle School Drama Festival on April 29 in Weston, Mass.
Robert Dumas' "American Dream" wins the Murrow Award
April 2006
Adjunct Communication Lecturer Robert Dumas received an Edward R. Murrow Award from the National Radio and Television News Directors Association for best feature report in the Northeast district for a piece that he produced for WBZ-TV—Channel 4 (Boston’s CBS affiliate). The piece was entitled “American Dream” and was prepared as part of the station’s 2005 Fourth of July coverage of the Boston Pops Concert on the Charles River Esplanade. It featured Dorota Poplowska of Worcester who came to the United States from Poland when she was a seventh grader unable to speak English. She graduated last May from her local high school and was accepted by Yale University where she is currently studying pre-law. The piece now has been advanced to the Association’s national competition.
Aguero Co-teaching in Roxbury and Publishing Again in the New Year
Fall 2005-February 2006
During the fall of 2005, Professor of English and Director of PMC’s College Composition Program, Kathleen Aguero co-taught a Changing Lives Through Literature course at the Roxbury District Court, as part of an alternative sentencing program. In the new year, Aguero, will have her poem “Stillness” published in the Cincinnati Review and an essay titled “Marriage Koan” published in Why I’m Still Married, ed. Karen Propp and Jean Trounstine (Hudson Street Press).
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