Lee Vorderer – Some Links

The following data is from:

http://www.umassmed.edu/shriver/faculty/vorderer.cfm?start=0&

Lee Vorderer, M.Ed.

Academic Role: Instructor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
Psychiatry

Other Affiliation(s):
Shriver Center

Research Interests
Undergraduate teaching and masters level teaching.
Needs assessment Program planning and development.

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Enid Zafran – Some Links

Here are some links on Enid’s work:

Three books published so far. You can learn about them at amazon.com.

Enid runs:

Since 1989, Indexing Partners has been meeting the information needs of publishers, authors, and organizations. In 2005, we met more than 240 deadlines.

Indexing Partners LLC is operated by Enid L. Zafran. Enid graduated from Mount Holyoke College, and has a J.D. from Cleveland Marshall College of Law, a Masters of Library Science from the University of Kentucky, and a LL.M. in Labor Law from Georgetown Law Center. She worked in legal publishing for over twenty-five years, starting at Banks-Baldwin Law Publishing Co. in Cleveland, Ohio, where she held the positions of Vice President/Editorial and Vice President/New Product Development. Subsequently, she worked at Prentice Hall Information Service as Editorial Director of Non-Tax Services, and from January 1990-January 2002, she was the Director of Indexing Services at The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA), Washington, DC. She is a past president of the American Society of Indexers (ASI) as well as a former chair of the local DC Chapter of the Society.

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Steve Burgard – More Burgard Bits

Listen to Steve’s latest podcast brodcast on WBUR:

http://www.here-now.org/shows/2006/05/20060522_9.asp

A law that has never been used to prosecute journalists might become a new weapon for the Bush administration in what it says is its struggle to protect national security.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez suggested Sunday on ABC TV’s “This Week,” that a close reading of U.S. law shows reporters could be prosecuted for simply publishing classified information. But, journalism advocacy groups are already crying foul.

Guests:
Professor Stephen Burgard, director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern University.

Here are links to Several articles written by Steve:

A link to an article Steve wrote for the Christian Science Monitor on the press and religion:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0821/p09s02-coop.htm

A link to something Steve wrote on Otis Chandler, the legendary publisher of the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2006/03/chandlers_lat_versus_toda.html

A piece Steve wrote on the press and faith-based politics for UC Irvine’s Center for the Study of Democracy:
http://repositories.cdlib.org/csd/05-05/

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Message from Joan Slavin Rice regarding Clarissa Gwaltney

Dear Friends…

I too was so sad to hear of Clarissa’s much-too-early passing.  Reading her obituary, I was pleased to see that both of her sisters live right near me.  I thought I would pass on their information for those of you who might want to write a note:

Elizabeth Gwaltney
245 Middle Street, Portsmouth NH  03801

Her other sister, Gail Ring, lives in Hampton, but an address was not listed in the telephone book.  Does anyone know if one of these sisters is also known as Suki, or has she passed away too?  I know they are older than Clarissa was.

Thanks for passing on the news, Fran.
Best, Joan Slavin Rice

Ben Bradlee – Bio #2

ABOUT BEN BRADLEE JR.

Ben Bradlee Jr. is currently at work on a biography of Ted Williams, to be published by Little, Brown.

He spent 25 years, from 1979 to 2004, with The Boston Globe — 10 years as a reporter and 15 as an editor.

As a deputy managing editor, Bradlee oversaw the Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church from July 2001 to August 2002, and also supervised the production of a book on the subject, “Betrayal,” which Little, Brown published to critical acclaim in June, 2002.

His first editing assignment was as Political Editor, supervising the paper’s State House and City Hall bureaus in 1989 and 1990. He then served as Assistant Managing Editor for local news from January of 1991, to November of 1993, when he was named Assistant Managing Editor for Projects and Investigations. He was later promoted to Deputy Managing Editor, while retaining the same position. In that capacity, Bradlee oversaw the Spotlight Team (the Globe’s investigative unit) and several other reporters who produced long-term projects or series. He also worked on an ad-hoc basis with reporters on the metropolitan, business, national and foreign staffs in producing special projects, and occasionally, wrote major pieces himself.

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Larry Schell – Some links

Extract:

Research Statement

My research concerns the interrelationship between biology and culture and focuses on biological responses to contemporary urban environments. The urban environment may be the new frontier for human adaptation because more and more people are living in urban environments and these environments are becoming less and less like the environments of our forebearers, i.e., more challenging. I have been researching this topic by looking at the health of people exposed to different features of the urban environment. I began with a study of how noise, as a type of urban stress, affected human development, both prenatal and post-natal. I have since branched out to consider other pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and lead.

I have two current research projects. One looks at the effect of lead on child physical and cognitive development in Albany, NY. It also examines the influence of nutrition and other maternal characteristics on the transfer of lead from mother to fetus and on child development itself. The second project seeks to address the growing concern about the effect of certain pollutants on sexual and physical development. It is a study of how PCBs may affect physical and sexual development during adolescence. This study is conducted in partnership with the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne in upstate New York.

Graduate students working with me generally attack problems of interest to anthropologists using research methods common in epidemology and public health.

See full bio at:

http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/schell.htm

more at:

http://www.science-spirit.org/article_detail.php?article_id=216
http://www.asph.org

Photo of Larry at the top Mt Alyeska in Girdwood Alaska in March 2006

Alex Field – Some Links

Alexander J. Field is the Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma, his research and teaching interests include American and European economic history, macroeconomics, and the economics of technological and institutional change. His latest article, “The Most Technologically Progressive Decade of the Century,” appeared in the September 2003 American Economic Review. Professor Field’s administrative positions at Santa Clara University have included chair of the economics department, associate dean and acting dean of the Business School, acting Academic Vice President, and member of the school’s Board of Trustees. Professor Field received his A.B. from Harvard University (1970), his Master of Science from the London School of Economics (1971) and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1974). He taught previously at Stanford University. Link to really nice article where this came from

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