Kyriacos Markides, professor emeritus of sociology, has written his 10th book: “The Accidental Immigrant: A Quest for Spirit in a Skeptical Age.” The capstone work is published by Rowan & Littlefield (Hamilton Imprint).
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Harley Rogers, a library specialist in the Circulation Department at Raymond H. Fogler Library, has been awarded the 2021 Phyllis E. Ainsworth scholarship from the Maine Library Association. The scholarship is given annually to a Maine resident currently enrolled in a master’s or doctoral degree program in library or information science. Rogers received a B.A. […]
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The Maine Education Policy Research Institute (MEPRI) published three reports this spring, all of which are now available on the MEPRI website. The publications include “How Students with IEPs and Their Teachers Are Faring in Maine Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” by research associate Patricia Lech and MEPRI co-director Amy Johnson; “School-Community Partnerships in Maine,” […]
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Matthew Revitt, an archivist at the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine, participated in a panel titled “Documenting a Pandemic in Real Time: New England Colleges Archiving COVID-19” at the New England Historical Association’s spring conference. Revitt discussed his work building the University of Maine COVID-19 Community Archive, an online archive that […]
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An article from Frank Wertheim, University of Maine Cooperative Extension associate professor of agriculture and horticulture, and his colleagues from Husson University and Maine Campus Compact was published in the latest issue of Maine Policy Review. Their article, “Food Insecurity in Maine Higher Education,” can be found online.
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University of Maine assistant professor of curriculum, assessment and instruction Tammy Mills is co-editor of a new two-volume special issue of the journal Professional Development in Education on the theme, “Non-linear perspectives on teacher development: complexity in professional learning and practice.” Mills and co-editors Kathryn Strom of California State University, East Bay and independent researcher […]
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Stefano Tijerina, lecturer in management, Maine Business School, has published his first book, “Opportunism and Goodwill: Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867–1979,” University of Toronto Press. Tijerina serves on the Canadian-American Center Executive Committee.
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Jon Ippolito, professor of new media, and new media alumnus John P. Bell presented a talk on how museums can engage a remote audience with crowdsourcing. Their talk, “The Post-Pandemic Makeover of Museums,” was part of the virtual international conference, Art, Museums and Digital Cultures, April 22–23, 2021, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, museumdigitalcultures.weebly.com.
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As part of the National Academy of Neuropsychology clinical research trial grant, the Cognition Aging Resiliency and Enhancement (CARE) Lab directed by University of Maine assistant professor Rebecca MacAulay recently published its findings on the psychometric properties of the NIH Toolbox in comparison to gold-standard cognitive measures in socioeconomically diverse older adults in the Archives […]
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Valerie Herbert, DNP, RN, assistant professor in the UMaine School of Nursing, published an article, “Developing a Smart Phone App with Augmented Reality to Support Virtual Learning of Nursing Students on Heart Failure,” in the Journal of Clinical Simulation in Nursing. Herbert is a leader and champion of innovative simulation education.
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