Steve Barkan, professor and interim chair of the Department of Sociology, will serve on the Advisory Board of the American Sociological Association Honors Program, which accepts outstanding students nationwide to participate in several activities at the ASA national conference in August.
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Karyn Sporer, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine, had a book chapter published in the Criminalization of Mental Illness Reader (K. Frailing and R. Slate, Eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2018, pp. 85–106). Her chapter is titled “Family Violence and Mental Illness.” The chapter’s focus is the experiences of families in getting […]
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Pankaj Agrrawal, an associate professor of finance at the University of Maine, was a co-author on the paper “Is the ‘sell in May and go away’ adage the result of an election-year effect?” published in Managerial Finance, 44 (9): May 2018. The paper shows there is a certain repetition of the effect of summer doldrums […]
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Kevin Birch, an organ player and instructor of organ and harpsichord at the University of Maine, will perform in an organ recital titled “The George Stevens Organ (1848) at The First Church in Belfast, A Guided Tour and Demonstration Recital.” The recital, part of the church’s continuing celebration of its 200th anniversary, will be held […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Tori Jackson recently received the 2018 Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents at its annual meeting and conference held July 29–Aug. 2 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The award is given to Extension educators with more than 10 years of service in Extension who have exhibited […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Lakesh Sharma received the 2018 Achievement Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents at its annual meeting and conference held July 29–Aug. 2 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The award is given to Extension educators with fewer than 10 years of service who have exhibited excellence in the field […]
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Professor of English and poet Jennifer Moxley has been named the fall 2018 Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Richmond.
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Daniel H. Sandweiss, a professor of anthropology and climate studies at the University of Maine, was tapped to be president-elect of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society at its biennial convention. In 2020, he will be president for two years. Phi Kappa Phi was founded at UMaine in 1897 and Sandweiss is the first national […]
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University of Maine faculty members Kevin Birch, organ player and instructor of organ and harpsichord, and Anatole Wieck, violin player and professor of music, violin/viola and orchestra, will perform as part of the group Opus 288 & Friends in a season finale concert for St. John’s Organ Society’s 26th season. The group will perform Josef […]
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University of Maine faculty members Sandra De Urioste-Stone, an assistant professor of nature-based tourism, John Daigle, an associate professor of forest recreation management, and Linda Silka, a senior fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, were co-investigators on the study, “Understanding the Perceived Effectiveness of Applying the Visitor Experience and Resource […]
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