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Stephanie Welcomer and Mario Teisl named interim deans

Stephanie Welcomer and Mario Teisl have been named interim deans for the next fiscal year, as reported by UMaine News. Stephanie is professor of management in the Maine Business School and was the team leader for the Mitchell Center’s Cheesemaking in Maine project. She will serve as interim dean for the Honors College next year. […]

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Mitchell Center researchers publish paper on value of reuse in Maine

A paper by Cindy Isenhour and Brie Berry, members of the Mitchell Center’s Materials Management team, was published on April 27 in the journal Economic Anthropology. Cindy is an associate professor of anthropology at UMaine and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow, and Brie is a doctoral student in anthropology and environmental policy. Both work on research […]

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Jean MacRae receives Presidential Public Service Achievement Award

UMaine News reported on May 11 that Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, was one of three UMaine faculty to receive Presidential Awards this spring. Jean is part of the Mitchell Center’s Materials Management Team where she leads a project researching the risk of contaminants when recovering […]

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Mitchell Center seeks graduate student to assist with equity evaluation

The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is seeking a Graduate Research Assistant (RA) to assist with an evaluation of equity issues for the Maine Climate Council. This is a short-term position starting in mid-June and ending in mid-September 2020 with a stipend of $1,917 per month (20 hours/week). The RA will be […]

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New article highlights Mitchell Center’s efforts to align research with societal needs

A recent article by Mitchell Center Director David Hart and Senior Fellow Linda Silka tells the story of the decade-long effort to grow UMaine’s capacities in stakeholder-engaged, solutions-driven, interdisciplinary research. The invited article appears in Issues in Science and Technology, the policy forum of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. “Rebuilding the Ivory […]

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UMaine News reports on publications by Mitchell Center researchers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Alice Kelley, a geoarchaeologist in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and Department of Earth and Climate Sciences, and Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, recently published articles in a special feature of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in collaboration with several other researchers, as reported by UMaine News on April […]

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Students with Mitchell Center connections receive Edith Patch Awards

Sara McBride, a master’s student in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program whose research on tick-borne disease ecology is part of a project led by Sandra De Urioste-Stone and Allison Gardner, has received a 2020 Edith Patch Award. McBride’s research integrates fieldwork, pathogen testing, and spatial analysis and she has created a risk map for […]

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Kudos to Graduate Students Fox, Quiring, and Thakali

For many graduate students, one of the most important milestones in their studies is the presentation of a thesis or dissertation on their research. During the past several weeks, two graduate students working on Mitchell Center projects have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations, and one successfully defended her master’s thesis. On April 1, Emma Fox, […]

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How Do Forest Management Practices Affect Ticks and Disease? Forest Tick Survey Launches Citizen Science Project to Learn More, Inform Landowners

As ticks are on the rise in Maine, a UMaine project is investigating how to better protect Maine’s landowners, forest workers, and recreationists from tick-borne diseases. The Maine Forest Tick Survey is a multi-year, citizen-science project researching how forest management practices, such as if and when timber is harvested, affect the incidence of ticks and […]

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