Associate professor of educational leadership Catharine Biddle and lecturer in educational leadership Maria Frankland received the National Rural Education Association’s 2021 Best Research Award for the Beyond Crisis Schooling project. Since COVID-19 caused schools across the country to go remote in spring 2020, Biddle and Frankland have led the project, in which they examine how […]
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Pankaj Agrrawal, professor of finance in the Maine Business School, has been named the University of Maine’s fifth Nicolas Salgo Professor of Business Administration. A Maine Business School story about the announcement is online.
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Ivan Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and forest resources, is the recipient of a 2021 Conservation Leadership Award from the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Learn more about it from the council’s website.
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Norm O’Reilly, dean of the Graduate School of Business, has co-authored a new book titled “Sport Sponsorship Insights.” Sponsorship is a vital area of sport business and this book is an introduction for practitioners who seek to better understand and use sponsorship. It includes insights into real-world practices from the authors, who have extensive industry […]
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Sandra Caron, professor of family studies and human sexuality in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, has published the third edition of her book, “The Sex Lives of College Students: Three Decades of Attitudes and Behaviors.” The book presents the results of a sexuality survey Caron has administered over the past […]
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Emily Spaulding, 2019 Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE) Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, has published the culmination of her dissertation work in two papers in the Sept. 3 issue of Science. Emily’s work showed that mutations that cause a form of inherited peripheral neuropathy (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2D) lead to defects in proteins […]
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Norm O’Reilly, dean of the Graduate School of Business, has co-authored a new book, published by World Scientific. “Social Media in Sport: Theory and Practice” enables students to grasp the holistic enterprise of social media as it pertains to social, legal marketing, and management issues. “With so many factors pushing us more and more to […]
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Stefano Tijerina, Maine Business School lecturer in management and Chris Kobrak Research Fellow in Canadian Business History, is featured as a co-author in a recent report from the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. “Border Barometer” measures the impacts of Canada-U.S. border restrictions. The Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI) at Western Washington University […]
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Former University of Maine graduate students Steven Spreitzer (M.S. 2017) and Jesse Walters (Ph.D. 2020) have published their research findings on the Larsemann Hills, done in collaboration with UMaine professor Edward Grew. Grew has had a long interest in supercontinent reconstructions involving India and Antarctica, and has collaborated with Australian Antarctic geologists since 1977. Grew […]
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Norm O’Reilly, dean of the Graduate School of Business, co-authored a second edition of the book “20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes.” The premier NCAA student-athlete handbook includes a new chapter on name, image and likeness (NIL) rights. From publisher Ohio University Press: The book’s authors draw on personal experience, interviews, expert opinion, and […]
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