USM Public Affairs

Check out the MaineToday.com slide show of the February 11 USM event, “The Beloved Community: Nurturing the Dream for Portland’s Communities.”

On February 9, WCSH-TV Channel 6 interviewed Professor of Social Work Dave Wagner about the release of the report, “Behind the Kitchen Door,” by the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Maine (ROC-Me). (No link available.)

Contact: Jennifer Hutchins, USM Muskie School, 207-780-4150

Portland, ME—In conjunction with Women’s History Month, Family Crisis Services and the USM Muskie School of Public Service will co-host a free photo exhibit, “More than a rap sheet: The real stories of incarcerated women,” from Monday, March 1 – Wednesday, March 31 in the forum of USM’s Wishcamper Center, 34 Bedford Street, Portland. The exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, and from 5-8 p.m. on March 5, in conjunction with Portland’s First Friday Art Walk.

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ELIZABETH FISHER TURESKY, assistant professor of leadership and organizational studies, Lewiston-Auburn College, presented “Women and Transformative Leadership Perceptions” at the International Leadership Association Conference last November, in Prague.

DANIEL PHILBRICK, director of marketing, information and Web services, Lewiston Auburn College, will be hosting a public-access television program called “All Things College.” For more information, visit www.allthingscollege.net.

NANCY RICHESON, associate professor of recreation and leisure studies, and her Dementia Day Camp colleagues have been nominated for the British Medical Journal’s interdisciplinary research group award.

IRWIN NOVAK, professor of geology, Geosciences, gave a lecture at the annual meeting of the Maine Classical Association on the “Geology of Greece.” He also gave a lecture at Colby College’s GeoSeminar entitled “Digital Atlas of Greece, the Aegean Sea, and Western Turkey.”

LISA MORRIS, assistant research professor, Muskie School, had her article “Quits and Job Change Among Home Care Workers in Maine: The Role of Wages, Hours and Benefits” published in The Gerontologist (Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 635-650).

LIN LISBERGER, art lecturer, had two sculptures in the juried Maine Wood Biennial held in the Messler Gallery at The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport from December 4 through February 12.

MICHAEL HILLARD, professor of economics, had his co-edited book, “Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and Globalization,” published by Routledge Press in 2009. He also co-authored the chapter, “A Radical Critique and Alternative to U.S. Industrial Relations Theory and Practices” in “Radical Economics and Labor: Essays Inspired by the IWW Centennial” (Routledge Press, 2009). Hillard co-authored “IR Experts and the New Deal State: The Diary of a Defeated Subsumed Class,” which appeared in Critical Sociology (Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 417-430). He will have his entry, “Marxian and Institutional Industrial Relations in the United States,” published in the forthcoming “21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook” (Sage Press). Hillard’s co-authored chapter, “The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy,” will appear in the forthcoming book “Home Front: Work, Conflict, and Exploitation in the Contemporary Household!” (Palgrave-MacMillan).