Dr. Martha McMahon (Sociology) has won two major awards for her work Engendering Motherhood: Identity and Self-Transformation in Women's Lives (Guilford Press, 1995). McMahon received the book award for the sex and gender section of the American Sociological Association at the association's annual meetings in August. Funding from the offices of the Associate Vice-President Research and the Dean of Social Science and the Centre on Aging enabled McMahon to accept the award in person in New York. The association also judged the work to be the most important book published in the last three years and awarded it the 1996 Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Study of Sex and Gender.
Visiting assistant professor Dr. Kate Frieson (Pacific & Asian
Studies) attended the Sixth ASEAN Young Leaders' Forum in Manila, the Philippines,
Oct. 22-26 as the invited Canadian observer. The annual event brings together
young (under 35) foreign affairs, military, and non-governmental representatives
from the seven Association of SouthEast Asian Nations countries to discuss
aspects of foreign policy, develop contacts and deepen their understanding
of the region. Frieson drafted a report on the forum for the Joint Centre
for Asia-Pacific Studies (York University and the University of Toronto),
which funded her travel. The forum itself was funded by CIDA (the Canadian
International Development Agency) and the ASEAN Institute for Strategic
Studies.
UVic electrical and computer engineering graduate Tony Nordstrom
has won the 1996 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Hackbush Award for the best paper by a university student. Nordstrom completed
his BEng earlier this year. He won $250 U.S. along with a chance to present
his paper, "Power Inverter Design for Induction Heating Applications,"
at an IEEE sponsored conference. Nordstrom's award-winning paper was written
as a final project report for the ELEC 499 technical project course under
the supervision of Dr. A.K.S. Bhat.
Dean of Humanities Ian MacPherson(History) is the author of the book Co-operative Principles for the 21st Century, published in April by the International Co-operative Alliance. An internationally respected researcher on-and participant in-the cooperative movement, MacPherson produced this statement on the cooperative identity in consultation with members of the cooperative movement around the world. The statement, including the definition and descriptions of the values and principles of a cooperative, was adopted at the 1995 congress and general assembly of the International Co-operative Alliance. The book will serve as a guide for cooperatives around the world, which serve approximately 750 million members.
Several faculty members in the Life-span Development and Aging Program
in the Department of Psychology have been very active in producing books
resulting from collaborations with scholars at other institutions. Dr.
Roger Dixon and Dr. Lars Backman of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm
collaborated on a book published in 1995 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
The book is titled Compensating for Psychological Deficits and Declines:
Managing Losses and Promoting Gains. Dr. Nancy Galambos is author,
with Dr. John Conger, of the fifth edition of Adolescence and Youth: Psychological
Development in a Changing World, published by Addison Wesley. Dr. Conger
is former Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr.
Bonnie Leadbeater and Dr. Niobe Way recently produced a book titled
Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities, which was published
this year by New York University Press. Dr. Leadbeater is currently at Yale
University and will officially join the life-span program in July 1997.
Dr. David Hultsch and Dr. Roger Dixon are authors of a forthcoming
book titled Memory Change in the Aged, to be published by Cambridge University
Press. Co-authors are Dr. Christopher Hertzog of the Georgia Institute of
Technology and Dr. Brent Small, who is a recent graduate of the life-span
program and is currently at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
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