Amy Blackstone will be part of the Women Who Empower Our World event March 1 at Northeastern University in Boston. The University of Maine sociology professor will be a member of a panel that will discuss “How Policy Impacts Women’s Careers and What Still Needs to Change.” For two decades, Blackstone has examined multiple facets […]
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Olivia Bogucki, a fifth-year University of Maine clinical psychology doctoral candidate, has accepted a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Health Psychology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, with a major emphasis in integrated behavioral health. At the Mayo Clinic, she plans to conduct clinical research on the bidirectional relationship between depression and cardiovascular disease, as […]
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Francine Sulinski, assistant director of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, participated in a national Innovation Facilitator Training through the eXtension Impact Collaborative. This training, which was held in Atlanta, brought together Cooperative Extension professionals from 28 institutions around the country, and it was featured on the eXtension blog and in a bulletin of the National […]
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Doug Allen, professor of philosophy, is the author of “Gandhi after 9/11: Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability,” published by Oxford University Press in India in January. The book will be published in the U.S. in February. This is Allen’s 15th book. Allen also spoke at Dirigo Pines in Orono on Jan. 31 on topics relevant to […]
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Dan Sandweiss, professor of anthropology and climate studies, co-wrote a short monograph on the analysis of animal remains and climate change from Siches, an early-to-middle Holocene fishing site he excavated in northern Peru. “Fishing on the Frontier: Vertebrate Remains from Amotape, Siches, and Honda Phase Occupations at Sitio Siches (Pv 7-19), Perú,” is in the […]
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The Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce (BRCC) presented Renee Kelly, University of Maine assistant vice president for innovation and economic development, with the Arthur A. Comstock Professional Service Award on Jan. 25 at its Annual Awards Dinner. The award embodies Comstock’s generous spirit for donating expertise over an extended period of time to the chamber […]
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Rebecca MacAulay, assistant professor of psychology, recently received the National Academy of Neuropsychology Clinical Research Trial Grant Award, as well as the 2019–2020 CLAS Pre-Tenure Faculty Research and Creative Activity Fellowship Award.
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Rebecca Schwartz-Mette, assistant professor of psychology, has been elected vice chair of the American Psychological Association Ethics Committee for the 2019 term. She will serve as chair in 2020.
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Elizabeth Allan, professor of higher education, spoke at Summit Internacional de Educación held in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 7–11. Allan discussed building community and dialogue in universities at the conference, held at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
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“Viscous Flow Environments in Oceans and Inland Waters,” a textbook by Professor Emeritus Pete Jumars, has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Jumars says understanding how water moves is fundamental to the biology, chemistry and geology of oceans and inland waters. And while small-scale fluid dynamics is taught primarily in graduate engineering programs, Jumars says […]
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