Colin Bosma has been awarded a $1,000 Psychological Science Research Grant by the Committee of the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). The doctoral candidate in clinical psychology is eligible to present his research at a poster session in August at the American Psychological Association Convention in Washington, D.C. Bosma’s adviser is Emily Haigh, […]
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Ryan Dippre, assistant professor in the Department of English, has published a new book, “Talk, Tools, and Texts: A Logic-in-Use for Studying Lifespan Literate Action Development,” as part of the Practices and Possibilities Series at the WAC Clearinghouse/University Press of Colorado. Dippre’s book traces the literate action of eleven writers from ages twelve to eighty to establish a […]
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Professor of higher education Elizabeth Allan and several higher education graduate students helped lead a full-day pre-conference institute at the NASPA Strategies Conference in January in New Orleans. The institute was titled “Building Capacity and Engagement for Evidence-based Hazing Prevention,” and featured contributions from student affairs professionals at Cornell University, Princeton University and the University […]
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Sarah Howorth and Deborah Rooks-Ellis, assistant professors of special education, attended the Council for Exceptional Children — Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities conference in January in Sarasota, Florida. Howorth took part in a pre-conference training institute, “Using Current and Emerging Technologies to Enhance Outcomes for Students with ASD and/or Intellectual Disability.” Howorth and Rooks-Ellis […]
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Monique LaRocque, associate provost of the Division of Lifelong Learning at the University of Maine, has been elected to a two-year term on the Board of Directors for the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). LaRocque will be installed March 20 at the Annual Conference in Boston. LaRocque has served as associate provost of […]
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Denise Skonberg will participate in a media briefing about emerging research driving the development of consumable algae, insects and cultured meat — and how factors such as taste, nutrition, public perception, and environmental impact may influence their acceptance as foods. The American Association for the Advancement of Science briefing, titled “Fit to Eat? Algae, Insects, […]
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Natascia La Verde of Belfast, Maine has received a 2020 University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) New England Region Outstanding Student Award. The award honors an undergraduate enrolled in a program offered through a division of professional, continuing or online education who has demonstrated outstanding achievement and an unusual will to learn — not […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H youth development program staff were recently honored by the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents (NAE4-HA) as Northeast regional and national winners of the Diversity & Inclusion: Expanding the 4-H Audience Award and the Excellence in After School Programming Award. UMaine Extension staff honored at the NAE4-HA conference, held […]
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Jasmine Saros has been named a Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography (ASLO). ASLO Fellows are recognized as having achieved excellence in their contributions to the association and to aquatic sciences. Saros is a professor of paleolimnology and lake ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology […]
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At the 38th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (NCAAE) at Brown University, the first Dan Sandweiss NCAAE Founder’s Award was presented to Richard Daggett of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in recognition of long-term and active support of the Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory and “Andean Past,” founded by Dan Sandweiss […]
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