Nursing's Associate Professor
Anne-Marie Barron and Clinical Assistant Professor
Priscilla Gazarian received funding from the Board of Higher
Education (BHE) and the Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives in partnership with the Brigham and
Women's Hospital to develop a simulated learning experience which will guide nurses in the care of
hospitalized patients experiencing delirium. The program will be published on the BHE website where other
nurse educators will be able to use the program. Barron also presented a poster titled "Integrating Factors
Facilitating Therapeutic Touch on a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit" at the National State of the Science
Conference on Oct. 2. Assistant Professor of Nursing Patricia White
also presented a poster at this conference, titled "Nurse Practitioner Practice with Clients Who are
Grieving."
School of Management Associate Professor
Stacy Blake-Beard facilitated a Women's Network Roundtable on
"Networking for Results" at the UMass Club Sept. 18.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing
Terry Buttaro presented a poster at the National Organization for
Nurse Practitioners in St. Louis in September, titled "Gerontological Nurse Practitioners Providing a
Geriatric Clinical Practicum for Undergraduate Nursing Students."
Tulio Campos, senior lecturer and Spanish coordinator in the
modern languages
department, presented a paper at the Second International Congress of Peruvian Poetry at Tufts University
Oct. 12-13 about Peruvian poet César Vallejo, titled "Trilce y la humanización de la vanguardia
poética en España."
In late August, School of Management Professor and Center for Gender
in Organizations Director Patricia Deyton co-presented "Bystander
Awareness Training: Lesson in Civil Courage" to 180 residence assistants from four Colleges of the Fenway
educational institutions. The training, developed by the Center for Gender in Organizations, provided the RAs
tools to address issues arising from tension around cultural and racial discrimination that they encounter in
their work with students.
Chris Evans and Jane Hardin,
assistant professors in education, gave a keynote
speech on "Stress in the Classroom, Theirs and Yours" at the Network of Extended Day Directors Conference
Oct. 18, in Wayland, Mass. They also presented the workshop "You Don't Say," about improving communication
with parents and caregivers on sensitive topics.
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Clara Gona presented her dissertation work on Zimbabwean Women
with HIV/AIDS at the International Council of Nursing/Advanced Practice Nursing Conference in Toronto
on Sept. 19.
Lyndy Johnson, clinical professor in
education, has been appointed to the Working
Group for Educator Excellence, which is advising the Massachusetts government on new legislative initiatives.
The group was formed four years ago with representatives from 17 educational organizations.
Deborah Kolb, the School of
Management's Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women & Leadership, will serve as keynote speaker
during an Equality Commission conference titled "Gender Equality in Times of Economic Stress" Nov. 20, at
Suffolk Law School. During the conference, Kolb also will receive an award in recognition of her work on
gender issues. The Equality Commission consists of representatives of the Boston Bar Association, the
Massachusetts Bar Association, and the Women's Bar Association. Kolb also is the coauthor of the article
"When Your Colleague Is a Saboteur," published in the November issue of
Harvard Business Review.
Shirong Luo, assistant professor of
philosophy, has been invited to
referee a recent submission to the peer-reviewed journal of comparative philosophy,
Dao.
Len Mailloux, lecturer in the
communications
department, presented three seminars Oct. 25 at the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) Midwest
Regional Conference at Columbia College in Chicago: "The Radio Station, The Administration and Your
Community: Building Better Relations"; "Getting Started: Building a Radio Station on Your Campus"; and
"Internet Radio & Its Future."
Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing Susan
Neary presented a poster on "Getting Along: Elders' Adjustment to Nursing Home Placement" at the National
Conference of Geriatric Nurse Practitioners in St. Louis in September.
Edward T. Vieira, Jr., associate professor of
communications,
coauthored a research project that was recently accepted for publication in
Corporate Communications: an International Journal, a peer-review
academic journal. The project is titled "Communicating CSR via Pharmaceutical Company Web Sites: Evaluating
Message Frameworks for External and Internal Stakeholders."
In early October, School of Management Professor Nataliya Zaiats
presented the co-authored paper "Does Shareholder Approval of Equity Compensation Plans Matter?" at the
Financial Management Association Conference in Texas, where it was selected as one of the top papers at the
event.
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