Having examined issues such as cloning and stem cell research as a member of President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Prof. Diane Scott-Jones (Psychology) is helping turn the focus on another controversial area: the ethical questions surrounding children's participation in clinical research.
Scott-Jones is a member of the Committee on Research Involving Children, created last fall by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. The 14-member committee, which held its second meeting earlier this month, will review federal regulations and then recommend best practices related to the use and role of children in research.
Some of the issues the committee will address include: parental consent for children's participation in clinical research; whether adolescents should be treated differently from younger children when they participate in research; and the difficulties created when medical research is parents' only option for getting treatment for serious illnesses in children.
At the recent meeting, Scott-Jones, one of two developmental psychologists on the committee, gave a presentation on children's development and the process of seeking children's assent for participation in research, as well as a summary of findings by the bioethics commission which might have implication for the committee's work.
The committee is scheduled to meet throughout this year and will produce a book-length report on the ethics of clinical research involving children.
Assoc. Prof. Katherine (Kay) Lemon, a member of the CSOM Marketing Department, is a co-winner of the 2003 Robert D. Buzzell Best Paper Award presented by the Marketing Science Institute.
"Driving Customer Equity: Linking Customer Lifetime Value to Strategic Marketing Decisions," authored by Lemon, Roland Rust and Valerie Zeithaml, shared top honors with another paper, "Valuing Customers."
The award recognizes papers that make the most significant contribution to marketing practice and thought. An advisory panel consisting of academic trustees and marketing executives on MSI's Research Policy Committee nominated four papers for the award, and a ballot sent to all MSI trustees was used to determine the winner.
Last year, Lemon and her co-authors received an award from the American Marketing Association for their book, Driving Customer Equity: How Customer Lifetime Value is Reshaping Corporate Strategy.
Another Marketing Department faculty member, Prof. Arch Woodside, was recently elected to the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, a 75-member group that seeks to further scholarly research and professional investigation of tourism.
Election to the academy is based on evaluation of scholarship impact to the field of tourism research and requires at least two-thirds approval from the membership.
Woodside's recent co-authored publications include "A General Theory of Tourism Consumption Systems: Conceptual Framework and an Empirical Exploration," which was accepted by the Journal of Travel Research, and Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure.
Two GSSW faculty members and a recent alumnus have earned honors for professional excellence and outreach efforts.
The National Association of Social Workers Massachusetts Chapter cited part-time faculty member Linda Sanford and Jason Summerfield MSW'00 for their contributions to the field of social work.
Sanford is a national expert on abuse and trauma issues who was chosen by GSSW students as last year's faculty speaker for graduation. Summerfield is a member of the GSSW Alumni Association and participates on the committee running the Social Work Image Campaign.
Assoc. Prof. Hugo Kamya has been chosen to receive the 2003 Cultural and Economic Diversity Award of the American Family Therapy Academy in recognition of his work related to settlement of Sudanese refugees.
It's not the kind of competition you'll see on ESPN, but the Law School's two moot court teams have enjoyed a successful season.
The Braxton Craven Constitutional Law Moot Court Team placed second in a 29-team national match organized by the University of North Carolina Law School at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Supreme Court Justice I. Beverly Lake Jr. presided over the final round, which took place in the Supreme Court Building in Raleigh, and singled out the BC debaters for praise.
Kristy Avino, Tara Blackman, Beth Nuzzo, team manager Jenna Barrows and coach Thomas Barnico also took home the "Best Brief" award.
Meanwhile, the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Team reached the semifinals of the New England Regional competition, earning the Best Memorial Award in the process. The Jessup team - Melinda Garvey, Heather Harrington, Raquel Ruano and Reinaldo Valenzuela, team manager Georgia Asimakopoulos and coaches Thomas Carey and Alvaro Santos - lost a close match to eventual winners Harvard.
As winners of the award for Best Memorial, or Brief, the BC Law team has been invited to enter the Hardy Dillard Competition, which brings together the top Memorials from all the regional and national rounds of the Jessup Competition.
Monan Professor of Law Daniel R. Coquillette has made another major contribution to the archive that bears his name.
The former law dean recently donated a collection of rare 17th and 18th-century law books to the Law Library, the third in a series of annual gifts that are housed in the library's Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room.
Many of the works are classics in international and comparative law, including a large group of works by Hugo Grotius. Another hallmark of the gift is a remarkably complete collection of early printings of the civilian jurists of Doctors' Commons, who were early experts on comparative legal studies and pioneers of international law.
"Faculty and librarians who teach international and comparative law are very excited about these works," says Curator of Rare Books Karen Beck. "Some have already brought early international law books to their classes. Dan Coquillette's generous gift enhances the experience of today's students while forging a link with the past."