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Activities and Achievements
March 2, 1998
March 2, 1998


Entries Welcome

The Advance invites faculty, staff and graduate students to submit entries for this section, under the headings articles and chapters, awards, books, grants (other than those received through the Research Foundation, which are published elsewhere in the paper), journals, presentations, and professional societies.

Entries typed in Advance style are welcome and will be published as space permits, in the order in which they are received. Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu, editor, compiles this section and questions may be directed to her at (860) 486-353.

Articles & Chapters
Richard Bohannon, "Gait Performance with Wheeled and Standard Walkers," Perceptual and Motor Skills, Vol. 85, 1997, pp. 736-.

Richard Bohannon, "Measurement and Nature of Muscle Strength in Patients with Stroke," Journal of Neurological Rehabilitation, Vol. 11, No. 2, 199.

Scott Hasson, Allied Health, with C. Jannen and S. Olson, "The Effect of Use of a Wrist Orthosis During Functional Activities on Surface EMG of the Wrist Extensors in Normal Subjects," Journal of Hand Therapy, Vol. 10, 1997, pp. 283-.

Mark O'Reilly, Political Science, graduate student, "Omanibalancing: Oman Confronts an Uncertain Future," Middle East Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1, Winter 1998, pp. 70-8.

Joseph Renzulli, Educational Psychology and Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, "The Total Talent Portfolio: Looking at the Best in Every Student," Gifted Education International, Vol. 12, 1997, pp. 58-63.

Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis, Educational Psychology and Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, "Talent Development Through Curricular Differentiation," Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, Vol. 82, No. 595, 1998, pp. 61-7.

Joseph Renzulli, Educational Psychology and Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, with Karen Kettle and Mary Rizza, graduates of the Ph.D. program in gifted education, "Exploring Student Preferences for Product Development: My Way ... An Expression Style Instrument," Gifted Child Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1998, pp. 49-60.

Richard Vengroff, Political Science, "Two Years After the Referendum: Whither Quebec," in Quebec Studies, Vol. 24, 1997, pp. 1-5. Vengroff also was the editor for this symposium edition of the journal exploring the separatist movement in Quebec and is on the journal's editorial board.

Books
Ronald Taylor, Sociology and Institute for African-American Studies, Minority Families in the United States: A Multicultural Perspective, 2nd edition (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.

Allen Ward, History, emeritus, with Stanley M. Burstein, Ramsay MacMullen, and Kurt A. Raaflaub, Ancient History: Recent Work and New Directions, Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians, Vol. 5 (Claremont, Calif.: Regina Books, 1997). Ward contributed the section on the Roman Republic.

Journals
Pouran Faghri, Allied Health, was appointed associate editor of the IEEE Transaction in Rehabilitation Engineering, in October 1997.

Presentations
Cynthia Adams, Allied Health, presented "Survival of the Fittest: Surviving Stress in Today's Cytology Laboratory," at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cytopathology, in Boston, Mass., November 5, 1997.

Donald Tepas, Psychology, presented an invited lecture on "Grooming Work Schedules to Improve Safety, Health and Productivity," at the 85th National Congress, National Safety Council, in Chicago, on October 28, 1997.

Donald Tepas, Psychology, presented an invited lecture on "The Truths and Myths Surrounding Shiftwork," at the annual conference of the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Massachusetts Association of Occupational Health Nurses, in Boston, on December 5, 1997.

Imanuel Wexler, Economics, emeritus, presented "The Marshall Plan in Economic Perspective: Goals and Accomplishments," at a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, co-sponsored by New York University and Columbia University, in New York, in February 1997.

Ronald Taylor, Sociology and Institute for African-American Studies, was moderator and participant in a forum organized by the Hartford Advocate on how racism afflicts modern society. The forum is featured in an article "Brutal Honesty" in the February 19-26 issue of the paper.

Other Activities
Tom Terry, Molecular and Cell Biology, had his microbiology website favorably reviewed in the ASM News of the American Society for Microbiology, January 1998.