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Volin to receive AERA award for co-led education research project

The American Educational Research Association will present its 2023 Outstanding Conference Submission Award for the project, “Interrogating consequential education research: Exploring social networks connecting communities with a university environmental service-learning program.” Team members on the project from the University of Connecticut include John Volin, now University of Maine executive vice president for academic affairs and […]

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UMaine researchers and students share their science at the Maine Fishermen’s Forum

University of Maine students, researchers, Marine Extension Team members and alumni were among the more than 2,000 participants in the 48th Maine Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport, March 2–4. The annual three-day event brings together fishermen, gear suppliers, scientists, government officials and others to share information and collaborate on all things fishing: markets, resource status, regulations, […]

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PREP honors late Betsy Webb at regional professional development conference

The annual Penobscot River Educational Partnership (PREP) virtual conference this year is dedicated to the late Betsy Webb, longtime Bangor School Department superintendent and Libra Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. Webb was executive director of PREP from 2020 until she passed away last November. UMaine is a higher […]

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Wujcik to present at 94th New England Complex Fluids Workshop

Evan Wujcik, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will deliver a keynote presentation at the 94th New England Complex Fluids (NECF) Workshop, hosted at the University of Rhode Island on March 17, 2023. His talk: “Investigation of Polymer Systems and their Composites for Advanced Functional […]

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Silvers to perform at Ukrainian-American Archives Museum

Noreen and Phillip Silver, faculty in the University of Maine School of Performing Arts, will perform a concert entitled “The Music of Resistance” at the Ukrainian-American Archives Museum in Hamtramck, Michigan, on Saturday, March 18, at 6 p.m. This recital presents works by Jewish and Ukrainian composers, including James Simon, Leone Sinigaglia, Paul Ben-Haim, Mykola […]

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UMaine researchers present at Aquaculture America conference

Deborah Bouchard and Meggan Dwyer from the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) chaired a session about Maine’s aquaculture sector at Aquaculture America, the largest national aquaculture conference, Feb. 23–26 in New Orleans. Speakers from the University of Maine, Educate Maine, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Long Cove Sea Farms, Colby College, and […]

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Ortega-Jimenez presented at APS March Meeting in Las Vegas

Victor Ortega-Jimenez, assistant professor of integrative avian biology and biomechanics, presented at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Las Vegas, Nev., on March 6. Ortega-Jimenez’s presentation, “Fatal attraction: Electrostatic forces pull jumping nematodes directly to their charged prey,” was with former colleagues at Georgia Tech, Sunny Kumar and Saad Bhamla.

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Moeykens to serve on EPSCOR/IDeA Foundation Board of Directors

Shane Moeykens has been nominated and accepted to serve on the EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation Board of Directors. The national nonprofit strives to increase the quality of research and research capacity within EPSCoR/IDeA jurisdictions like Maine. Moeykens will help grow science and technology enterprises across the United States through improvements to university research infrastructure and jurisdictions’ research […]

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Parsons to present at Gold Humanism Honor Society Well-Being Workshop Series April 10

Kayla Parsons, registered dietitian nutritionist, a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, and Graduate Assistant on UMaine School of Nursing’s WellNurse research study, was invited to participate in the national Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) Well-Being Workshop Series on April 10 at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. Parson’s workshop, […]

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