Simmons College

Judy Beal, associate dean of the School of Health Sciences and chair of nursing, recently was elected to the board of directors of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The 11-member board is the national voice for America's baccalaureate and higher-degree nursing education programs. Her term expires in March 2011. Beal also was appointed to the board of the Boston Visiting Nurse Association Hospice.

Graduate School of Library and Information Science Professor Ching-chih Chen has received two supplemental National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling $42,000 in support of her World Heritage Memory Net activities in partnership with UNESCO World Heritage Center. A $12,000 NSF/REU (Research of Excellence for Undergraduates) grant will enable Chen to utilize the various language capabilities of numerous international students lacking financial support. A $29,997 grant provides continued support of Chen's project "IDLP: International Collaboration to Advance User-oriented Technologies for Managing and Distributing Images in Digital Libraries."

Nursing Instructor LaDonna Christian gave a poster presentation on "Collaborating to Develop a Pediatric Asthma Education Program for the Greater New Bedford Community Health Center," at the University of the Virgin Islands Health Disparities Conference, Oct. 15-16, in St. John, V.I.

Communications Lecturer Dan Connell is featured in the newly published Global Issues: Selections From CQ Researcher (2009, Pine Forge Press), a collection of 12 contemporary articles covering core debates within the broad topic globalization, published by Congressional Quarterly. Connell is referenced several times in the chapter "The Troubled Horn of Africa: Can the War-Torn Region be Stabilized?"

An article by Nursing Associate Professor Rebecca Koeniger Donohue, and Assistant Professor Julie Vosit-Steller, titled "Postoperative Pain: Acupuncture versus Percutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation," has been accepted for publication in Pain Management Nursing.

Susan Duty, associate professor of nursing, Elizabeth Scott, assistant professor of biology and co-director of the Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community, published "A Critical Evaluation of MRSA and Other Target Bacteria on Commonly Touched Household Surfaces in Relation to Household Demographics" in the American Journal of Infection Control, vol. 37(6).

Associate Professor of Nutrition Teresa Fung gave a presentation on "Mediterranean diet and risk of cardiovascular disease" Sept. 24 at the 16th Annual Nutrition and Aging Conference held by the University of Arkansas School of Medicine in Little Rock, AR.

Freeman Professor of Chinese Language and Literature Alister Inglis recently published his second book, Selections from "Record of the Listener", with the Foreign Language Press in Beijing. This is the first time that more than 100 folktales from the famous 12th-century work, Record of the Listener, have been translated and published in monograph form.

School of Social Work Associate Professor Michael Melendez will present "Acceptability and Cultural Fit of Spiritual Self-Schema Therapy for Puerto Rican Women with Addiction Disorders: Qualitative Findings" to at the 22nd Annual National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS, organized by Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, May 27-29, 2010.

Elizabeth Metallinos-Katsaras, associate professor of nutrition, co-published the article "Food Insecurity is Associated with Overweight in Children Younger Than 5 Years of Age" in the October issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Volume 109, Issue 10). The findings of the study suggest that being food-insecure may be an underlying contributor to overweight in low-income ethnically and racially diverse girls. Household food insecurity is defined as the lack of access to enough food for an active, healthy life, due to limited or uncertain access to nutritionally adequate and safe foods.

Vaughn Sills, associate professor of photography, Department of Art and Music, was granted an Artist Fellowship in Photography by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her photographs of African American gardens. Selections from this work were on exhibit at the Gamill Gallery in Oxford, MS, Aug. 17-Oct. 16.

Graduate School of Library and Information Science Lecturer Anita Silvey has published Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book (Roaring Brook Press, 2009). The book contains essays from 100 leaders from the arts, sciences, business, and politics who discuss a beloved children's book and its impact on their lives. Each essay is accompanied by a book excerpt and illustrations and a background essay by Silvey.

Nursing Professor Sarah Volkman presented at the 2009 Malaria Conference at the University of Oxford's Magdalen College in September.

School of Management Professor Fiona Wilson and Associate Dean Deborah Marlino's co-authored paper, "An Analysis of the Role of Gender and Self-Efficacy in Developing Female Entrepreneurial Interest and Behavior," appeared the September issue of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship.