Brian McGill, a professor of biological science at the University of Maine, was named a lifetime honorary fellow of the Ecological Society of America. The society established its fellowship program in 2012 with the goal of honoring its members and supporting their competitiveness and advancement to leadership positions in the society, at their institutions, and […]
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University of Maine graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19, capping a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
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John Bear Mitchell presented “Notes From Home: A Penobscot Journey Through Maine History” on March 15 at Colby College. Mitchell, a citizen of Penobscot Nation from Indian Island, is a lecturer of Wabanaki studies and multicultural studies at the University of Maine and coordinator of the University of Maine System Office Native American Waiver and […]
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A presentation on the roots of statehood in advance of Maine’s bicentennial in 2020 by Liam Riordan, a professor of history at the University of Maine, will air on Harpswell TV at 7 p.m. March 15. Riordan gave the talk, “Bicentennial Beginnings: Setting the Stage for Statehood,” Feb. 8 in Brunswick. The broadcast also is […]
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Daniel Sandweiss, professor of anthropology and climate studies, served as Society for American Archaeology board liaison to the SAA Task Force on Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure for Archaeologists in Diverse Academic Roles. A news release about the guidelines is online.
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Paul Mayewski, Distinguished Maine Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was a speaker in a panel discussion at the National Geographic Explorers Festival in London 2019 on Feb. 12. The panel focused on high mountain research in the face of […]
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Bob Steneck will discuss “Flips, locks and feedbacks: The lasting effects of fisheries on Maine’s kelp forest ecosystem” at 7 p.m. April 16 in the F.W. Olin Science Center at Colby College in Waterville. Steneck is a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, based at the Darling Marine Center. His talk […]
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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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